{"id":957,"date":"2008-08-26T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T11:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2008-08-27T21:57:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:57:31","slug":"mmorpg-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"MMORPG on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bluemarsfalls.jpg\" alt=\"Waterfall\" title=\"Waterfall\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Virtual-world builder <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.avatar-reality.com\/\">Avatar Reality<\/A> is working on a Second Life-esque environment set on a Terraformed Mars in the year 2177 AD.  The product is targeted at a more adult market, and their emphasis is on realism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s somewhat futuristic, somewhat environmental,&#8221; said Chen. &#8220;We won\u2019t have gasoline on Blue Mars. Things will be solar-powered or hydrogen-powered. The look of the environment is sci-fi, in the year 2177. It&#8217;s totally alien to what we know. We give creative freedom to developers like us to create cities that blend the familiar and the futuristic.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A beta is due later this year.  Who knows?  Maybe playing on a virtual Mars will convince more people to fund a colony on the real one.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thestandard.com\/news\/2008\/08\/05\/will-martian-water-discovery-fuel-interest-sci-fi-blue-mars-world\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theendoftheuniverse.ca\/node\/1135\">Website at the End of the Universe<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual-world builder Avatar Reality is working on a Second Life-esque environment set on a Terraformed Mars in the year 2177 AD. The product is targeted at a more adult market, and their emphasis is on realism. &#8220;It&#8217;s somewhat futuristic, somewhat environmental,&#8221; said Chen. &#8220;We won\u2019t have gasoline on Blue Mars. Things will be solar-powered or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}