Doctor Who inspires another game, this time MMOG The Doctor will return later this year in the form of a free-to-play MMO game, announced by the BBC today. Doctor Who: Worlds in Time invites players to save the universe by solving puzzles and completing "pulse-pounding" challenges. Game developer Three Rings, famed for its MMOG Puzzle Pirates, says the game will "capture …
Might I respectfully suggest that someone is paying for it, and it is likely the license-paying public.
Unless this is a BBC worldwide venture, in which case where is the money coming from?
It sound great and everything, but is this not really stepping a little outside the BBC's core remit?
Doctor Who? is one of those BBC ventures which is pretty much self funding. There are some programmes like DW and Top Gear from which the BBC make a fortune on international sales and licensing as well as merchandising sales and licensing. It pleases the commercial channels (particularly Sky) to complain about this state of affairs. For some reason they seem to think that anything successful developed by the BBC should be handed over to the commercial channels for them to make money out of. The fact remains, however, that those programmes from which the BBC manage to make a profit go to funding other less profitable ventures. If they happen to also fund a few nice freebies like this game and some web content then all the better for the licence fee payer.
I'm also generally sceptical of any TV tie-in game, especially MMOs, but for Three Rings to be involved does give me hope. Puzzle Pirates is a beautifully executed (f2p) game, and Three Rings seem to be a cool set of people overall. If the BBC execs can keep their hands out of the cake mix, it could turn out to be a nice little game.
And it might even work under Linux. :)
The first free Doctor Who game was great, even if it was (understandably) targetted at kids. Worked well on a 3D monitor too..
This just makes the whole Who universe considerably more fun - the animated adventures and games were decent additions.
(can't comment about the novels and audio plays - never bothered with those)
Perhaps they've gone over the top with the toys, but I'm not complaining at this - provided they keep some of the nastier Internet elements under control..
Hopefully not. That way it will keep you lot happy in having something to whinge about. If everything worked on Linux you'd be part of the mainstream and have to find something even more niche to use.
BTW now that Firefox is the most popular browser have you moved onto something more obscure?
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