Classic MMOG Raised From the Dead by Past Players

Chromain writes "Back in 1996, the Seattle-based company Starwave created one of the first graphical MMOGs: Castle Infinity. Though it was well received by all who tried it, it quickly sank under bad marketing, extended downtime, and sloppy leadership. Now, nearly 8 years since disappearing off the map, the game has been (quite literally) rescued from a dumpster by a group of past players. It's available for free at their new website."

Comments

Dumpster

[Anonymous Coward]

If only someone would rescue their webserver from the dumpster, so I could see what this is all about.

Nuked already

[Migraineman]

Zero comments and the linked site is toast. Perhaps "Castle Not-Quite-Infinity ..."

..Wow

[Chromain]

As you can tell, that went ..not so well. Not only did our server just eat itself in less than 2 minutes, but I managed to forget all about line breaks. *Laugh*

Re:..Wow

[KingEomer]

Well, at least you have another good stress test. :P Just fix the problem and post a dupe in a couple of days(don't worry; it'll get posted), to make sure everything's working fine under high load.

Re:..Wow

[Chromain]

Thanks a ton for the light hearted message, managed to make me smile after about 10 minutes of not being able to think anything outside of "Crap. Crap. Crap."

Re:A note from one of the Architects.

[naesung]

A little cold water over here, Greg, please....

Looks like...

[futuresheep]

It's time for MORE extended downtime!

Someone call the fire department

[darkonc]

We're up, we're running, and we're ready to dump as much cold water on our server as it takes to keep it from melting.

I figure that a fire hose is the only thing that's gonna keep that server from melting down now that it's on Slashdot's front page.

Re:Classic games that you can never find again

[bowloframen]

Hey! Anybody remember that thing? You know, it came with that something, and then you'd press that button, and then it would do that thing? And it came in this package with the squiggly in the back? I don't quite remember the name... something with an S or a T or a C maybe... or maybe not. I remember I bought it at this store... you remember that store? It was off the freeway on the number 3, next to that furniture place? Yeah, so if anybody remembers, please enlighten me.

Re:Parent ... but a bit easier to read

[Chromain]

Many thanks IamLarryBoy. As i mentioned a bit further down, I managed to forget line breaks under the stress of "AHHHHH THE SERVER JUST LIT THE CAT ON FIRE."

wow

[Anonymous Coward]

hacked together
slashed,

a true hack and slash rpg

typical...

[Anonymous Coward]

>>You have encountered a Slashdotting!
>evade
>>You cannot evade.
>evade!!!
>>You cannot evade.
>exit

geek@computer> nethack

Title should be changed to...

[ImaLamer]

Classic MMOG Server Razed From Slashdot by Future Players

Re:since the article is still unavailable...

[Roland Piguepaille]

. . .does throwing it in the trash forfeit those rights?

Yes.

Roland Piguepaill

Re:Recommended minimum hardware requirement.

[patio11]

Serve your website from a Windows machine. 80% of slashdot will refuse to read it out of spite. Presto, Slashdot effect averted. As an alternate to the Windows machine, post something supportive of the RIAA -- then you won't even need a server to handle all the people who won't be visiting the page you don't really have.

Re:0 Comments

[m50d]

It appears to be a game targeted to children ages 8 to 14, so... slashdot probably isn't the best audience

You're new here, aren't you?

Re:A note from one of the Architects.

[gstoddart]

Greg Kumparak Architect of Infinity

Oh, man. That's gotta be the coolest title ever. :-P