Firefly

Game Info

Developer:

To Be Announced

Genre:

Science Fiction

Release Date:

TBA

Monthly Fee:

TBA

Official Website

Official Forums

The Firefly MMOG (working title) is still in the early stages of pre-production. Multiverse, the company that grabbed the Firefly license, is currently looking for an active developers to create the Firefly game on the Multiverse game engine. Without a developer, the time line for Firefly is still very much up in the air. Bridges has mentioned having a playable Beta by 2008, but all dates are works in progress.

20th Century Fox, the media studio that holds the rights to the Firefly IP, has been working with Multiverse in an effort to compose the necessary elements to create a faithful vision of the Firefly franchise. Multiverse, which was founded by former Netscape employees, has Fox’s confidence in their creation of the game. Since its announcement, the Firefly MMOG has been delayed.

Multiverse shut down on December 7th, 2011 effectively ending the chance of developing the Firefly MMORPG until Multiverse Foundation expressed an interest in possibly continuing the game's development. No news has been released as of yet about the game's future.

Firefly Online May Get A Second Chance

Hope for Firefly Online is still alive as the Multiverse Foundation expresses interest in possibly continuing the game's development.

News, Official Announcements

Thu, Jan 05, 2012

Martuk
Firefly Online and Buffy Developer Multiverse Shuts Down

Firefly Online and Buffy the Vampire Slayer MMOG developer Multiverse closes down citing a lack of funding.

News, Official Announcements

Tue, Jan 03, 2012

Martuk
More Explanation on the Buffy and Firefly MMOs

2D to 3D MMO?

Features, Interviews

Thu, Sep 04, 2008

Morvelaira
Yes to Buffy, No to Firefly

This makes for many a Sad Panda

Official Announcements

Thu, Sep 04, 2008

Morvelaira
Massively Thinks Google Could be Doing Firefly Online

I'm SO going to Jeynestown.

Massively, the new all-things-MMO-related blog, seems to think that Google might be sinking its tendrils into the Firefly MMO.

Google made a deal with Multiverse (the company connected to the possibly problematic Firefly MMO) to sync Multiverse's flexible virtual reality engine with Google's assets and tools. The Reuters blog MediaFile points out that au courant industry figures are taking the existence of a Google virtual world for granted at this point.

Rumors

Tue, Nov 06, 2007

Aelryn
Firefly MMO: Multiverse Client Released

First Multiverse, Next the Firfly 'Verse

Firefly's parent client has been officially released into the hands of developers. According to the official press release, over 11,000 developers were attracted to the beta version of the client and the Multiverse team anticipates more are on the way:

Official Announcements

Mon, Aug 06, 2007

Cody Bye
Firefly: New Comic

Home on the Strange Comic Strip

In this week's edition ofHome on the Strange Comic Strip, the upcoming Firefly MMO is featured. Head over and check it out.

News

Wed, Feb 21, 2007

LadySirse
Firefly: Interview With Corey Bridges

Corey Bridges Interviewed

GamingAngels.com has posted an interview with the co-founder and executive producer, of The Multiverse Network, Corey Bridges.

Firefly is such a beloved tv show, how do you plan to capture that essence in the game?

Joss Whedon created a phenomenal, unique show. The characters were amazing but so was the feel of the show--the sense of adventure, and quirky humor--and that sense of being on the frontier, where there's unknown danger just past the edge of camp. An MMO can do a good job conveying those aspects of the show. You can't play as Captain Mal Reynolds--but you might meet him in the game. And maybe you could accept a smuggling mission from Badger or, if you're kinda nuts, from Niska.

More is just a click away.

Features, Interviews

Thu, Jan 25, 2007

LadySirse
Firefly: Interview With Corey Bridges

Interview with Multiverse Co-founder Corey Bridges

In his blog, The Forge, Matt Mihaly interviews Corey Bridges about the upcoming MMO Firefly.

Me: I know you’re in beta right now. Any estimate for end of beta?

Corey: Well, having been in software development all my career, I can honestly say that beta never ends. ;) But really, we’ll have version 1.0 of the platform out sometime next year.

Get clicking to learn more.

Features, Interviews

Thu, Dec 21, 2006

LadySirse
Firefly: Q & A With Corey Bridges

Multiverse Co-Founder and Executive Producer Shares Information

FireflyMMO.com posted a Q & A on their site this weekend with Corey Bridges who is a Co-founder of Multiverse as well as the Executive Producer of this exciting project. Keep reading to see what they were able to learn...

Did Multiverse approach Fox about the license, or did Fox approach Multiverse?

James Cameron, director of Titanic, the first two Terminator movies, Aliens, and so on, is on the Multiverse board of advisors, along with his producer Jon Landau. They have a great relationship with Twentieth Century Fox, so they introduced Fox and Multiverse. In the first meeting, we were talking with the Fox Licensing and Merchandising folks about virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online games. They said, “Here’s a list of some of our properties. Which of these do you think would make a great MMO?” I didn’t really look at the list, and said, “Is Firefly on the list? Firefly would be perfect!”

Get clicking to read the rest of this answer and more!

Features, Interviews

Mon, Dec 18, 2006

LadySirse