at WisCon reading GameSetWatch...

I am at WisCon and unfortunately starting to get spacey and coming down with a cold.

Taking a break in my room I checked out my Google Reader which is of course seeded with gaming blogs.

So I see a post about this Flash-based side-scrolling WoW-like RPG called "WTF?!".

Apparently this is by Robert Nideffer and Alex Szeto. Nideffer, googling him quickly, is apparently a professor at the UC-Irvine Game Lab.
He worked on a game called DinoQuest Online, which according to the pdfs I looked at, seems pretty boring. Szeto worked on this too.

For the WTF?! game - it's only in demo version now but they are releasing their engine for free...
let me go play it...
The gameplay is pretty boring so far - I killed 8 pigs and then didn't really get a new quest but i see some Karl Marx converts down the road.

It's a pretty good proof of concept of being able to do WoW quality graphics in Flash. But it's not multiplayer and not that fun right now...
And it's also pretty much anti-feminist since you are killing followers of Mary Daly, who actually looks quite cool. And the people you attack say things like "I smell testicles!"

So, huh, actually not that interesting in content, but as a technical proof of concept, maybe. Let's see them do this as a true multiplayer game though.
Also ForumWarz is a lot more fun...