AHAH Ooops, hadnt noticed that the email was sent april 1st, none the less,
I am actually currently in negotiations to do such a thing. God I feel like
a dope now heh.
Ryan Le Gros
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Le Gros" <malevolent@mindinfo.com>
To: "Circle Discussion List" <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [CIRCLE] [ADMIN] Important Announcement
> Actually I find this quite interesting, I am currently in negotiations
with
> a company whos name I cannot disclose for an 8 million dollar investment
to
> begin a gaming company that will revolve around games of a similar manner.
I
> look forward to seeing what both of our groups have to offer.
>
> Ryan Le Gros
> Founder of Abyssal Interactive
> malevolent@mindinfo.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex" <furry@CIRCLEMUD.ORG>
> To: <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 12:27 PM
> Subject: [CIRCLE] [ADMIN] Important Announcement
>
>
> > We (the CircleMUD Development team, comprised of Jeremy Elson, George
> > Greer, Daniel Koepke, and Alex Fletcher) have been in discussions with
the
> > Electronic Arts gaming company for the last several weeks, and have
> > concluded talks late last night (Friday March 31, 2000). We will be
> > signing a contract in San Diego this coming Friday (April 7, 2000) to
> > begin work on an online graphical game designed to compete with such
other
> > games as EverQuest (tm), Ultima Online (tm), and Asheron's Call (tm).
> >
> > The CircleMUD team was contacted just under two months ago after the
body
> > of work came to the attention of an EA project Manager after being
> > featured in a New York Times article on online gaming. The CircleMUD
> > project is an open source, not for profit game derived from DikuMud, and
> > currently is considered one of the most bug free game source projects
> > available.
> >
> > After six weeks of discussion, the two groups have finally come to an
> > agreement for the new game project. Unfortunately, this will mean that
> > the CircleMUD project will soon be coming to an end, and we will be
> > looking for members of the CircleMUD community who are interested and
> > willing to take over the plethora of code and support needs of the
system.
> >
> > The expected release date for the new game project, currently titled
Gates
> > of Hadron, is Spring 2001.
> >
> >
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