Rock! Got my #KickStarter #IndieComics last night!

This is #WorldsAway issues #1 and #2 with a sweet trading card of Serenity as well

Haven't cracked 'em open yet (almost to nicely packaged to do that to!), but the original listing and art have a solid #RadiantBlack vibe and I am here for it!

The next KS will be live on March 1st, 2023 and you can sign up here to be reminded.

https://worldsawaycomic.com

Let him know you found him on #Mastodon!

#Comics #ComicBooks #IndieComic #WorldsAwayComic

Back in the western market, in 1996 Fujitsu licensed the WorldsAway technology to a company that built a world catered to the LGBT community. That world was called Pride.

Avatars lived on a spaceship that was really vibrant and full of fun characters and like minded people. Whilst it was a quieter service, it maintained a loyal following until its closure in 2000.

#Pride #WorldsAway #CompuServe #VirtualWorlds #LGBTQIA

The Habitat II codebase was used as a base to localise the service for the Korea market and was launched in 1997 as Glass City, named after The Glass Menagerie, a memory play by Tennessee Williams.

#GlassCity #WorldsAway #Fujitsu #VirtualWorlds #유리도시

Fujitsu liked the concept so much, im 1993 they contacted the original Habitat developers to help broker a deal to purchase the Habitat IP entirely.

The goal was to port Fujitsu Habitat to the west. 2 original Habitat devs lead the proejct but soon realised the original code wasn't any good, so they started from scratch and WorldsAway was born.

Released on CompuServe in 1995 and wider web access in 1997, it was the best most cohesive version of the Habitat formula.

#WorldsAway #Fujitsu

If anyones interested in the history of virtual worlds, I run a website documenting and archiving stuff about a particular subset of them.

If anyone's familiar with Lucasfilm's Habitat, it's a site about that service and its successor services created by some of the same people from 1985 up till the 2000's.

I'll write a little toot about each service below.

Check it out over at https://renoproject.org

#LucasfilmHabitat #C64 #Fujitsu #FMTowns #WorldsAway #HabitatII #GlassCity #JChat

Anyone supporting an interesting #ComicBook #KickStarter?

I recently supported #SpellBound #Comics DeMultiverse and it looks amazing! JM DeMatteis released 5 new comics, and they all look great! The #crowdfunding phase is continuing on their website for a bit longer

https://spellboundcomics.com/

Also excited to get about a couple more I backed recently - #LuchaForever and #WorldsAway - any other awesome #comicbooks I need to be supporting out there?!

RT @frandallfarmer@twitter.com

I'm so very happy that our restoration effort of Lucasfilm's Habitat/Q-Link's Club Caribe lead by @TheMADE@twitter.com is getting some press love during this age, when so many pioneering projects are being forgotten.

If we can get the decedents opened...
#WorldsAway #communitiesdotcom https://twitter.com/epopt/status/1516519612443086848

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/frandallfarmer/status/1516552693203947521

For anyone who hasn't already joined, Reno Project has a Discord server where we discuss Habitat and all of it's descendant world technologies such as Fujitsu Habitat in Japan, WorldsAway in the USA/Europe and EC Habitats (never made it out of beta).

We also discuss other virtual worlds and do work to try and restore them/get them up and running again.

If any of this interests you, please come and join us!

https://discord.gg/S2VkerY

#RenoProject #Fujitsu #LucasfilmGames #Habitat #WorldsAway