This Month's Most Viewed Games Tagged 'Windows, multiplayer, in-development, mmorpg, free2play' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us Granado Espada, also known as Sword of the New World, is an Age of Exploration fantasy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) developed by IMC Entertainment. Set in a detailed fictional gameworld that mirrors the 17th century and the European colonists' forays into the New World, the game allows players to explore the newfound continent of Granado Espada in a hunt for treasure, adventure, and fame.

]]> 15 Feb 2007 05:52:25 From their website:

"For Wurm Online (henceforth called Wurm) to be something special and not just another 3D fantasy massively multiplayer game, we realized that we had to actually implement the features that players have demanded since the dawn of these types of games. Other 3D games have promised these features and still have them on their 'upcoming features' list unless they dropped them when they realized they'd never make it. Why? Because Wurm is built on technology that can make it happen and other games are not.

The first technological advantage of Wurm: it is done in Java. This means that we can reach gamers on operating systems that usually have few if any of these types of games to play. We also consider Wurm to be the first 3D java game that actually looks better graphically than most PC games while still being playable.

The second advantage: Wurm is tile-based. This means first and foremost three things:

We have more manageable data structures

We may stream terrain

Line of sight in the client may be outrageous

Now, none of these possibilities are easy to implement but we have succeeded. This is the glory of Wurm and the foundation that the game rests upon.

An example of the technological advantage:
Because we have such manageable data structures, we may have millions of individual trees on one map.
For example, streaming the terrain gives us the opportunity compared to other games:

trees and plants grow

you can cut down trees

and you can plant trees

Other effects are for instance:

you can terraform by digging and dropping dirt.

you can pave roads

grass and other types of vegetation compete to be predominant

you can dig out caves in the mountains

* some terrain can be converted to farmland where you grow crops of various kinds"

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