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Piranha Games announce their new MMO: Transverse

The teaser site put up a few days ago has finally revealed its secrets to the Internet. Piranha Games are working on a space MMO in a similar vein to that of EVE or Elite Dangerous, but with one large difference – it will depend largely on procedural and emergent mechanics. In simple terms, they plan to go light on the NPCs and see what happens when a game is mainly populated by only players.

 

It’s a third-person game, in which you are free to pilot your ship and trade, purchase, sell or pirate as much as you’d like. It’s hoped that the players will instinctively seek out roles for themselves in-game, and that the interactions between the groups that form will be the basis on which the game functions. Sounds very similar to EVE. Piranha hope to provide players with all the tools needed to construct their own space stations and ships and start their own faction wars, which sounds very exciting. The ship customisation looks interesting too. This was shown off in an announcement trailer which has since been made private.

 

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To make the game and fund its development, Piranha are running a crowd funding drive which starts at $1 million. That’s enough to get the basic game made, while the functionality to have local space scraps only comes when $2 million is reached as a target. But then an MMO doesn’t come cheaply, the only concern is what is protecting the backers’ money as the funding is not being run through Indiegogo or Kickstarter but through Piranha’s own site.

 

Only time will tell whether Transverse will rise or sink out of sight forever.

 

If you’d like to help fund the game, you can do so here: [x]


September 10th, 2014 by
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