Tag: Missing Worlds Media

City of Titans Kickstarter Hits 50% At Day One


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It is nearly 1:30am EST at the time of this writing. After just a day on Kickstarter, Missing Worlds Media’s funding drive for City of Titans has raked in over $150,000 with the money just pouring in. With success seemingly in the bag, Missing Worlds Media has 31 of its 32 days left to make up the remaining 50% of the goal. The team posted an update on the Kickstarter page noting their surprise at the reaction. So far 1,134 backers have pledged to the campaign.

We’ve been working on that teaser video pretty hard. But we’ve been working on all the individual parts in parallel. We’ve got some scenes we didn’t use, and I think you’ll like them. We’ll have another video or two for you, and maybe more and newer things to show you, in a week or two.

You can check out the City of Titans Kickstarter at the link below or follow the campaign on our sidebar all month.

(Source: Kickstarter)

The Phoenix Project Is Now City of Titans


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Missing Worlds Media has made it official: The Phoenix Project, codenamed for the upcoming spiritual sequel to City of Heroes, will be called City of Titans. While originally the Phoenix Project Kickstarter campaign was supposed to begin September 8th, unfinished paperwork and some restructuring of the team caused a few delays. The good news is that everything has been square away, and the Kickstarter is set to launch October 2nd. Speaking to Incgamers, President Sara Quinn thanked the community for their support.

“We are immensely grateful to our community for their continued support and understanding at this somewhat fraught time. They have been amazing, and without the morale boosts they provided, this would have been much harder on all of us.”

You can check out City of Titans at its main page.

(Source: Incgamers)

The Phoenix Project Teases Us


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Missing Worlds Media loves to tease us. If you don’t know, The Phoenix Project is one of several spiritual upcoming super hero MMOs inspired by the shuttering of City of Heroes. This month (September), the team at MWM will be launching a Kickstarter to provide their MMO with some real funding. Until then, enjoy a teaser trailer released this past January.

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Missing Worlds Media Kickstarter Coming September 8th


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City of Heroes is one of those games that the phrase “nothing like it on the market” was designed for. When NCSoft closed down Paragon Studios and shut down City of Heroes, its community was left with essentially two choices of super hero MMOs: Champions Online and DC Universe. While Champions Online has a pretty robust character creator reminiscent of City of Heroes, the two games play differently enough to advertise to separate bases. DC Universe, on the other hand, is first and foremost an action beat-em-up and neither game (naturally) deals with the Champions IP.

One of the spiritual sequels to City of Heroes, known as The Phoenix Project and in development by Missing Worlds Media, is currently about one quarter to one third complete, according to the developers. The game is being developed mainly by volunteers with day jobs and students, a product of love and nostalgia for a time that existed not all that long ago. According to a post on Polygon, Missing Worlds Media even managed to get Epic to license the Unreal engine for free on the grounds that they would be paid at a later date once the money started coming in.

So what brings The Phoenix Project to our headlines once again? As I mentioned in a previous article, Missing Worlds Media is launching a Kickstarter to fund The Phoenix Project, and we now have a date: September 8th. Assuming that the game is properly funded, we can expect to see its release sometime in late 2015. How much will Missing Worlds Media be asking for? This is a comic book story, you’re going to have to wait until at least Issue #5 to find that out.

(Source: Polygon)

MMOrning Shots: Super Speed


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Missing Worlds Media and their Plan Z falls somewhere on MMO Fallout’s list of games we really hope see success. I’m not sure where, it isn’t so much a list as a poorly coordinated jumble of titles and ideas. If you aren’t aware, the Plan Z is one of the larger of multiple community-built MMOs on their way to fill the hole left by City of Heroes. The above image was posted last week on Missing World Media’s Facebook page as a prototype for a particle trail left behind when running at super speed.

There is a Kickstarter going up in September I believe for Plan Z, which we will have covered here.

(Source: Facebook)

MMOrning Shots: The Phoenix Project


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We’re not just building a game; we’re building a world, which we hope will be able to stand on its own merits in an environment fraught with intense competition. It will only be able to do so with the support of its surrounding community.

I love reading up on the two City of Heroes spiritual community sequels, The Phoenix Project (pictured above) and Heroes and Villains. The above is The Phoenix Project being tested on the Unreal Engine with stock assets. You can check out the current status of The Phoenix Project by heading over to the Missing Worlds Media website.

MMOrning Shots is a daily line of screenshots from various MMOs. Most are taken in-house or come to us in press releases, but if you would like your screenshot featured, send it over to contact[at]mmofallout[dot]com with the subject “MMorning Shots.”

MMOrning Shots: A Phoenix Shall Rise


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So today’s MMOrning Shot isn’t from an MMO, at least not yet. What you are looking at is from the upcoming community-sourced MMO: The Phoenix Project. Set in motion by a group of die-hard City of Heroes fans, Phoenix Project looks to rebuild the super hero MMO that thousands enjoyed, even if it isn’t exactly the same product. Phoenix Project is being developed on the CryEngine3 Unreal 3 Engine. If you want to check out the project, hit up this link to Missing Worlds Media.

MMOrning Shots is a (somewhat) daily line of screenshots from various MMOs. Most are taken by our in-house editors, but if you would like your screenshot featured, send it over to contact[at]mmofallout[dot]com with the subject “MMorning Shots.”