Editor's note: Alex needs your help selecting a game for the latest edition of Bitmob Game Club. He's looking for a multiplayer game that's free. Any ideas? Leave your suggestions in the comments and follow his instructions for a chance to become an official contributor! -Brett
Bitmob Game Club: Sonny Edition, hosted by the inestimable James DeRosa, may be winding down, but the next edition is just getting started!
I'll be taking the reins for James this time, and I want to tweak the formula a bit by bringing Game Club into the multiplayer realm. I think it'd be interesting to hear stories about Game Club contributors teaming up and griefing other players, or about them going toe to toe with each other.
Unfortunately, I'm not a huge indie/freeware/Flash game aficionado, so if you have any suggestions I would be glad to investigate them. I want something that is free, online, and multiplayer. But I don't want it to be just four weeks of "and then I won a match, and then I lost a match," so there should be a big enough experience in the game to also make for four weeks of interesting articles.
I am going to offer up on the table Love, the MMO that Eskil Steenberg has poured his life into making. It has gone into an open alpha and can be found here. What do you think?
If you'd like to be a contributor, these are the rules you must abide by:
1. The second Game Club will wrap up this Sunday. On that day, I will email the participants for the third and announce the game. From then on, we work on a weekly basis. The following Friday will be the due date for your first week's draft, and I will post them all on Sunday. This will give me Saturday to curse you out if you didn't get something in and find a replacement if need be.
2. If you cannot commit to four straight weeks of playing through a section of a game and writing briefly about it, then please do not enter. I've got a kid, two jobs, a wife, and several other projects to concern myself with. I don't want to be bothered with having to send you countless email reminders. It's not too hard to get a submission in, but it's even easier to not sign up if you can't keep up.
3. We used to say that if you couldn't cut it, you'd get the Darnell Boot-O-Doom, but Lance couldn't exactly give it to himself last time (The Internet misses you, Lance. Quit your day job!). So now, if you miss two submissions, you get the DeRosa Fist-O-Steel. Trust me, you do not want this.
So there you go. Sign yourselves up and suggest/vote on the game in the comments below. Emails will be sent on Sunday.
Comments (38)
I think I may be in for this one, depending on the platform/game.
I still like the idea of Love a lot, but I'm also very excited about this SMT Imagine idea. Anyone have any thoughts on which of those two would be better?
http://www.instantaction.com/
One of them is a spiritual successor of tribes.
My vote is for Lore: Aftermath.
Hmm since the games are multiplayer maybe pick three and spend two days on each...or something like that.
Nonetheless, I've been playing this game for quite a while and it's pretty easy to get into. Since the writing is often pretty humorous and there are multiple ways to play the game, there might be a bit to talk about. It's also simple to hop in and try out pretty quickly, so I guess I'll leave the rest to you:
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Savage 2 - http://www.savage2.com/en/main.php - (MMO/RTS Hybrid)
Dungeon Runners - http://www.dungeonrunners.com/ - Diablo style MMO, but comedic and a parody of other MMOs
Runes of Magic - http://us.runesofmagic.com/us/index.html - Certainly a WoW clone, but probably the most polished free fantasy MMO
Free Realms - http://www.freerealms.com/ - Cartoony, and geared towards a younger audience, but full of crazy mini games and backed by Sony Online Entertainment, makers of Everquest and a whole bunch of other MMOs
Hope this helps.
I generally don't like the idea of MMOs due to time investment and leveling. Not only does it take a lot of time to get to a high level and see all the content, but the range of levels can get out of hand with some people playing a lot/little.
Also, very few people have signed up for participation as of right now. I think more then 4 have, but it's close. No one else wants to contribute? I guess that means I don't have to put any names in hats.
Battlefield Heroes is not supported for Mac either, so it looks like some people are short of luck. It certainly has enough depth to be Game Club'd, the game style changes as you play with higher leveled players with all sorts of abilities and strategies from experience.
Currently, I can't play any non-Mac MMOs, because I have a Mac now, like Cosmo.