The first panel of this header comic was posted last week, and the third part will be posted next week. They were used in one of my old Daily Blogrolls 🙂
Darkfall was a huge game when I wrote the next three comics. It was developed by Aventurine in collaboration with the government of Greece; I believe that was the first time a state entity was involved in the creation of a MMO. Sometime later, the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (its actual name) would go on to drop 75 million dollars into 38 Studios’ unreleased MMO, Copernicus.
That debacle would be the downfall not only of CEO Curt Schillings but also Rhode Island’s governor, who’d pushed the deal so that RI’s rival state, Massachusetts, wouldn’t have the pleasure of funding their hometown hero.
Anyway, I knew I wanted to make an AIM comic about Darkfall, and so it had to have PvP in it.
