I was doing some research on current multiplayer Flash games, and I must say I’m impressed with what you can actually do with it. There’s amazing examples like Arthic and Music Is Your Weapon (which is not impressive as a game, but the graphics are pretty nice).
Seems that some of the best multiplayer browser games are built on SmartFoxServer, so we definitely need to take a closer look at the product. This was also the case with Arthic (Browser Game of Year 2007) and actually the Dev team shares some insight on the tools and principles they were using during the development. That’s good reading for our team!
But I guess one of the best examples must be Club Penguin from Disney with more than 12 million registered users in less than 2 years. That’s pretty amazing, considering the registration process was absolutely frustrating. The game is for the kids and could be maybe compared to Habbo Hotel.
The cost of SmartFoxServer Pro edition license is 2000€, which I guess is manageable if the product saves effort in the development phase.
Tommi.
Tags: arthic, browser, flash, game, online, penguin, smartfoxserver
March 10, 2008 at 10:12 pm
With the lite version an aspiring game studio (such as ours) could actually get started without too much hassle I’d reckon! It seems to be free but can provide simultaneously only to 20 players… (We want more, we want more!)