But What Does This Have To Do With Shadowbane?

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Scott Jennings| 24 Comments

Todd Coleman’s new project at King’s Isle decloaks: A don’t mention H***y P****r tween-friendly title called Wizard 101.

Which is a key to Wizard 101: It’s pitched as the game for players between Club Penguin and World of Warcraft.

This may be the first hardcore MMOG aimed at the “tween” demographic. Coleman admits, “It’s not what people expect from the Shadowbane team,” but adds that the game does feature PVP, a trademark of the pioneering work the same team did at Wolfpack Studios.

(Edit: story’s gone from Warcry. My guess is, given the lack of coverage elsewhere, someone jumped the gun on posting the announcement! I’m leaving this note up because, well, um, being a competitor and all no one sends me anything.)

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  • mystery

    This may be the first hardcore MMOG aimed at the “tween” demographic.

    Bzzzt. I’d point out Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online, with its ship-to-ship combat and PvP, and then I’d point and laugh.

  • daslog

    404 Error: File Not Found

    fix linkorz

  • hsinclair

    Looks like it may not have been ready to decloak after all, and warcry posted too soon.

  • dartwick

    It would be funny if it was a smashing success with all ages because by streamling the game concept they left ot the boring crap so many of us long time MMO players are sick of.

    I can dream.

  • Wanderer

    Will they remember to release the sockets from dropped/failed logins this time?

  • Please

    I thought WoW was the first “hardcore” MMOG aimed at the tween demographic

  • dartwick

    In that case, try thinking harder.

  • Jessica Mulligan

    And Runescape, of course, was the first hardcore MMOG aimed at tweens.

  • Larry Lard

    I’m clearly slightly out of the loop – what’s the H***y P****r that we’re not to mention?

  • Dren

    Don’t ever try out for Wheel of Fortune.

  • Anomynous

    Hoary Pewter fits.

  • http://bdadv.blogspot.com Bonedead

    As does Hairy Pooper

  • Anomynous

    Horny Panter?

  • Anomynous

    Holly Parker?

  • yunk

    You’re out of it? I had to look up “tween”.

  • http://wowpanda.blogspot.com wowpanda

    I like Club Penguin, it is like pot, give you a 10 minute high

  • http://hgamer.blogspot.com heartless_

    I had to Google tween not to long ago, and I’m still in my 20′s.

    It is kind of funny to see all these developers that failed at traditional MMOs bum-rushing towards teen/tween games in a futile attempt to cash in. SOE has Free Realms, now this. I fear for the MMO genre as a whole, not because I believe these games aimed at younger players are bad, but because bigger developers would rather piss around with 50 cent micro-transactions than earn an honest dollar making a full-featured product that works on my favorite payment method: monthly subscription.

    Oh well.

  • http://ambernight.org amber

    You know, I think there used to be a game called Shadowbane. Ring a bell to anyone else?

  • Tet

    Shadowbane? Nope, doesn’t ring a bell. Now sb.exe error, THAT brings up memories.

  • http://hgamer.blogspot.com heartless_

    Tet, that was Shadowbane. Unfortunately, sb.exe errors may have prevented you from finding that out.

  • =j

    I thought myspace was the first MMORPG for tweens.

  • =j

    oh, and Heavy Powder fits as well. It’s a revolutionary war simulator!

  • Njal

    I was in Shadowclan for Shadowbane … we used to shout curse you sbexe to sortof remain in character.

  • http://www.damnedvulpine.com/ J.