Castle Infinity

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Castle Infinity is a freeware MMOG developed by Castle Infinity, Inc., an American non-profit organization. It works on almost any Microsoft Windows-based computer. It also runs on Macintosh under Virtual PC, and Linux under WINE.

Castle Infinity was first released in 1996, making it the first fully released MMOG designed for children. It was originally developed by Starwave, but the company was bought three times and eventually acquired by Disney. The game itself changed owners several times, from Digital Evolution to US Interactive. Soon after, the game servers were rescued from a dumpster by Kevin Quitt, a C programmer, who happened to be one of the game's lead players, and improvements on the game started up. From this group, Castle Infinity, Inc. a non-profit organization was born. Player population has dwindled in the years since, leaving only a few die-hard fans. Nonetheless, in 2005 there was fresh media coverage of the game by way of Slashdot and BoingBoing.

The official language of the characters in Castle Infinity is a modification of Esperanto.

[edit] Backstory

65,000,000 years ago, there were three dominant groups on planet Earth: Mammals, Dinosaurs... and monsters.

There was a natural empathy between dinosaurs and mammals (if they were still around today, mammal kids would be riding dinosaurs to school.) The monsters became jealous of this, and they decided to wipe out the dinosaurs.

They diverted a comet from its orbit around the Sun and sent it crashing toward the Earth to crush the dinosaurs. When dinosaurs saw it coming, they knew that doom was upon them. In a last ditch effort to survive, they built Castle Infinity. It was a place where they would be safe from the cataclysm.

Of course, the comet that came to smash the dinosaurs, nearly wiped out the monsters, too. (A big part of being a monster is that you don't think about the consequences of your actions.) At the last minute, just before the dinosaurs sealed the gates to Castle Infinity, a few monsters got in. And monsters are like a little bit of mould that gets between tiles in your bathroom. Left unchecked for long periods of time, they spread all over the place!

[edit] External links

• Castle Infinity Headquarters
• Excerpt from Attack of the Show featuring Castle Infinity at Google Video
• Slashdot thread about the return of Castle Infinity