Paper #4!

Posted on May 6, 2008 by zhugeliang.
Categories: Uncategorized.

Alright! Welcome to Mytopia, an online service wherein you can play games and chat with your friends and other users online! Not so unique in the online world, but there’s something about it that’s not quite like the others:

You can play with other people who aren’t even using the game from the same site you are!

You can log onto Mytopia through the main website, but you can also add it as an application, much like a widget, to a variety of social networking websites (such as facebook and myspace). Through these applications, you can log on and play with others on the service, much as if you had logged on to the main gateway itself!

This kind of multi-entryway service is really unique in the gaming world, as well – most every video game on the market makes you go through a certain portal, be it Xbox Live, the game’s own application (i.e. World of Warcraft) or even just the website itself. Everquest tried doing this years ago with a dual release on the PS2 and the PC, but it didn’t really pan out as there wasn’t much of a Console market for the MMO scene. This perspective has obviously changed, as the popularity of both World of Warcraft and Xbox Live show.

What excites me about Mytopia is the potential for its service. You could log onto your Xbox Live account and start playing with a friend using a different service! Could you imagine a friend of yours playing on the PC while you’re on the PS3? Crazy, I know! Or what if you both want to play your favorite PC game but neither of you are at a PC?

It gets even better if you consider the gameplay mechanics you could throw in there. What if you changed how the game works depending on what platform you’re playing on? So imagine, for example, if your friend on the PC plays as the theif working on a big heist, and if you’re playing on your Nintendo DS or the PSP you get to play his eyes and ears as lookout – two very different games working towards the same goal.

So much promise! So much potential! And all this from a simple gameplay and chat service named Mytopia. Check it out!