Anyone Want To Sign Up For the Ultimate Collector Beta?
Richard Garriott and Portalarium’s next game, Ultimate Collector, has entered public beta testing.
Here’s a bit of detail about the game:
Ultimate Collector: Garage Sale takes collecting to a whole new level of fun. Start first with a basic home and yard and then begin your journey to collecting and shopping nirvana. Search newspapers for that unique item that will complete your collection. Hold a garage sale at your house to bring in some cash. Add patio furniture, a bird bath and bouncy castle in your yard to add to its curb appeal. Visit other garage sales to complete your collections.
Search for practically anything: teddy bears, tool kits, Barbie dolls, historic sets of armor, weapons, electronics and much, much more. Share you collections with your friends and show them off inside your home.
But Ultimate Collector is about more than just collecting. It’s about decorating and growing your home and impressing your friends. Place your treasured collections in special display cases inside your home. Purchase larger pieces of property to increase the size of your house. Search other garage sales to find that perfect decoration. You’ll be the talk of the neighborhood.
Ultimate Collector is truly a first of its kind experience in social network gaming.
If you’re interested in seeing the next big thing that Lord British himself is working on, sign up on Facebook!
I’m pretty sure that Ultima Online is the Ultimate Collecting Game 🙂
@Deckard Yes it is, and good call, haha.
At first I was thinking this was only some bullshit project to earn money to work on New Britannia, but now I realize it’s an early exercise in New Britannia’s engine (or toolkit framework, at least). As Deckard observed, Ultima Online does much the same thing for collectors. New Britannia won’t be SP, it will be like a web-based UO. How he manages “private” and “public” time in the game, who knows. Also at first I thought Garriott was creating a new eBay but with avatars and gameplay elements between purchases.
I’ll do a beta when I’m done with my alpha, or trade for a mutual doing of the alphas and betas. Otherwise there’s work to be done!
Actually it’s not a “public beta” – it’s a private alpha testing of the game altough they seem to get a lot of people in it. I’ve been selected but can’t comment on it I’m afraid. While there is no NDA per se, they are requesting testers not to make public comments about the content of the game for now. So I guess I’ll have to wait a little while to share my impressions!
@Sanctimonia – I don’t think it’s meant to NB’s engine. Ultima Collector is a Flash game and Garriott has been very adamant about the Portalarium will bring bigger stuff that you usual flash game, so I suspect New Britannia will have its own engine or such rather that just running on flash.
That’s surprising that UC is a Flash game, since Portaliarium talks quite a bit about iPhones/iPads.
If Garriott wants the biggest reach, he’ll skip Flash for New Britannia.