A Land Far Away

http://www.playtr.com/index.html

You can check out this sci fi MMO/FPS and sign up for the beta. Its from Richard Garrott of Ultima Online fame.

Here is a link to the beta:

http://www.playtr.com/beta/index.html

and check out Richard

http://www.playtr.com/news/genbritish.html


Seems cool, but you never know with sci fi MMOs. Havent seen a decent one yet.

what the heck is up with the name?

I had heard what the name means in an interview...means "blank slate" in Latin.

Already signed up. Scifi MMOs always catch my interest.

paazin wrote:what the heck is up with the name?

tabula = table
rasa = clean, clear, etc.

Hm, don't you guys have the saying "Let's make tabula rasa now.", before discussing a point in an open and honest fashion?

Alara wrote:

paazin wrote:what the heck is up with the name?

tabula = table
rasa = clean, clear, etc.

Hm, don't you guys have the saying "Let's make tabula rasa now.", before discussing a point in an open and honest fashion?

My question was more along the lines of 'why name your game that'

Maybe because the ships look like clean flying tables from the Roman era?

Tabula Rasa. Clean slate.

The world, as you knew it, has ended.

The Battle for Control of the Universe Begins Now.

Apparently.



Another sci-fi MMO is closing up shop soon. Auto Assault. Apparently it didn't make enough money to keep itself going. I downloaded the demo before it came out. And then my computer wouldn't start up again after I rebooted. I blame Auto Assault to this day.

As I was saying in chat they named it Tabula Rasa because the game was in development for 2 years and they decided they didnt like the design concept and scrapped it completely and went back to the drawing board. So, they made a clean slate to start over from in development. Thats how the name got to be what it is.

That's just stupid.

Plenty of IT projects scrap what they've done and start from scratch (generally a very bad sign - shows poor planning), very few are called Tabula Rasa.

well Sir Richard Garrott has the money and time to do whatever we wants He even has made his own mansion into a huge replica castle circa dark ages times. With moats and everything. I guess they just took a look at what was working in current MMOs and what wasnt and saw they needed to rethink development. No idea, but I hope the game is good. I want a serious Sci-fi MMO.

NickD wrote:That's just stupid.

Plenty of IT projects scrap what they've done and start from scratch (generally a very bad sign - shows poor planning), very few are called Tabula Rasa.

Blizzard did that with D3... and I wouldn't think it was due to bad planning, but top notch quality control.

<3

*awards Blizzard honourary ISO:9001 certification*

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the philosophical connections of the term "Tabula Rasa." It does mean clean slate but it is most commonly used by philosophers as a way of describing a human being when they are first born.

The idea with tabula rasa is that someone is born and then the person they become is entirely dependant on the build up of experiences over time -- that is that people are merely products of their past experiences.

I think that having a MMORPG called that is actually fairly clever, especially if the game is designed without a strict class based system (I don't know if Tabula Rasa is, but I would think so based on the title).

http://mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/gameId/1 ... ature/1334

check out the new article from E3 about TBR.

Tabula Rasa looks amazing. The fact that the world will be totally defined by control points, thus changing available quests in each zone, is enough to get my attention. I'll drop DAoC for Tabula Rasa if it continues to look awesome.