Casual head to head games, also known as synchronous or real-time games, are becoming increasingly popular on the web. Geewa, Zynga, and Playfish all offer real-time synchronous social games where you can play against another player live, not against the computer.
Resistor Productions has merged a synchronous game with role-playing, blood, guts and gore aimed at adults called Disciple. Known as a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), Disciple is delivered entirely over the web browser (no separate download is required).
Disciple’s fantasy world, Aphelion, is pretty brutal and violent with bloody battles between you and other users that last sometimes to death. Players and opponents fight against each other in real-time to gain points, weapons and armor to increase in player ranking. All players compete for “geldors,” the virtual world’s money, based on battle wins and losses. There is also the option to create or join a clan of disciples to determine allies and enemies within the world. Free-to-play, Disciple also gives users the ability to purchase enhanced play content and options within the game via microtransactions and subscription fees.
Resistor also brought us the dumb iGirl iPhone app.
I like the bloody screenshot !
Great. Now I have another thing to keep me from doing my work. Thanks TC.
This shit is absolutely terrible
Let me get some heads down.
what a BLOODY scene!!! hot – checking the web site already
the screenshot looks great
Ok, I’ll bite…
How is this news, exactly? There are loads of MMO’s, both free and paid that are exe’s. There are loads of browser-based MMO’s if you include the likes of Gaia Online, Habbo, and Runescape. If you include the likes of plug-in based browser MMO’s, then throw in the likes of WildTangent, which has been doing this for a decade!
Can’t seem to find the social-network component of this.
WTF is this doing on TechCrunch???
Techcrunch’s coverage of similar games:
http://www.tech...s-try-duelscom/
http://www.tech...s-club-penguin/
well done! i bet it will integrate well with facebook also
WOW a browser-based game…
Is it the 1001-st that was launched this year?
This game looks like a 2D version of mortal combat. This news belongs on an MMORP News site not on TechCrunch unless TC plans on having a whole new section dedicated to gaming news and startups that have raised money for them. There is nothing innovative about this game. I should know because i work for one of the leading free-2-play game publishers in Silicon Valley. This is definitely the year of MMORPG and social gaming.
“There is nothing innovative about this game”
Name one flash based game with no client that does PvP in realtime that is not Disciple.
Actually, at Geewa we develop games that differ from the Disciple a lot – we make casual games for wide audience which are non-violent and usually non-strategy. Think Tetris, not World of Warcraft.
Nevertheless, it is interesting to see that even the larger “guy games” are going browser-based and how much can already be done in terms of graphics and game-play within the browser these days. This trend away from installed games and towards the browser is there both in casual games as well as the large ones.
Interesting for a 2D application.
“…Resistor also brought us the dumb iGirl iPhone app”
ummm you mean the guys who were the first to market and had the top Entertainment App for months… making a lot of $$$ is dumb… the only dumb part is that statement and the peeps who spent money on it… making em rich
as for not innovative… they just paved the way for all other multi player apps … if my research serves me right … FLASH has had an enormous issue with multi threading that these cats seemed to figure out…. do your homework they did and are going to profit from it…. if Henri works for a leading platform in ‘S-Valley… he should know that…