eGenesis to Develop New MMO with Orson Scott Card

Johnathon Walls writes "eGenesis, makers of the non-combat, world-building massively multiplayer online (MMO) game "A Tale in the Desert" versions 1 and 2, has signed a deal with Orson Scott Card (author of Ender's game and The Seventh Son) to develop the pre-Civil War American world of "Alvin the Maker" into a new MMO. This is also going to be a non-combat-centered, community-building world. Questions remain as to the amount of interest these non-combat games generate, and concerns about the rapidly dropping population of Tale 2 (a steady decline from 2089 subscribers on Sep 26 to 1582 subscribers on Jan 6) really bring this issue to the forefront."

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I wonder if homosexuality will be against the TOS

[Anonymous Coward]

http://atheism.about.com/b/a/053881.htm Orson Scott Card is a flaming mormon and a huge homophobe.

orson scott cards work is tripe

[category_five]

Please allow me to be the first to say that I don't care for Orson Scott cards work. Enders Game was a great book, simply outstanding in its brevity intensity and pure gung ho military appeal. But it was all downhill from there. I read speaker for the dead and was left wondering what doppelganger had eaten the author of enders game and then pooped out that drivel some call the second novel of the series, Speaker for the Carebears. I also read the second Enders game, Beans Revenge. I rate that one about half the book Enders Game was. I then read the NEXT Beans Revenge book, entitled Montezuma's Revenge, which seemed a flimsy attempt at a contemporary spy novel set in the future. I got about half way through it and threw it down in disgust. And this is a book I paid 8 dollars for NEW (who in their right mind buys new books anyways? Not me ever again!). Anyways to summarize, Orson Scott Card is a mediocre author with one outstanding work that he has been cashing in on for 20 years by selling utter crap sequels. The end. Oh yah to keep this on topic, I would never play an Orson Scott Card based MMO

Re:But will it translate into a worthwhile product

[mcrbids]

Some of his *writing* is downright scary (EG, his infamous homophobic screed).

Despite the "infamous" status, I'd never heard of this screed. So I looked it up.

And you know, it just sounds like a reasonable opinion, and contains much sound advice. Sorry you haven't had the opportunity (yet) to raise children, and watch them blossom with positive role models of father and mother.

It's not homophobic to see that this is so, any more than it's racist to acknowledge that white-skinned people need more sunscreen on the beach. Marriage, as an institution, is an acknowledgement of this fact. As mature adults, we either acknowledge this, or pay the price with dysfunctional families and neurotic offspring.

I'm not advocating that we burn homosexuals. My heart truly goes out to a homosexual partner who is unable to accompany his partner through death, or who loses legal rights to property thereafter. I support efforts to address these wrongs.

But, by definition, a homosexual cannot "marry" a same-sex partner, any more than a bicycle can defecate.

Massively Mormon Online Role Playing Game?

[vjmurphy]

So this would be a Massively Mormon Online Role Playing Game?

It would be sorta cool to play a 100ft tall Joseph Smith in Magical Underoos smiting nonbelievers.