There’s a video on the Indiegogo page, which has game footage, and also one of the strangest voiceovers I’ve heard in a while - a sort of computer modulated mid-American accent with odd pauses from time to time.

They’ve now moved to a line of “inspired by” Firefly rather than using the IP directly, which will probably float better, but I’m still very sceptical about it getting anywhere. I am, however, impressed by DarkCryo’s tenacity on this.

So go ahead and have a look, contribute if you reckon it’s worthwhile, and we’ll see what happens. I’ll be tracking this for a while yet before I decide whether or not I want to put some money into it.

DarkCryo themselves are denying this, but my hopes are not particularly high. The screenshot they’ve released looks nice, though, if not particularly Firefly-esque.

Meantime, the Multiverse Foundation is still going along as well. Looking down through the FAQ, though, they seem to be headed in the direction of a generic open-source MMO. I’m not convinced of the likelihood of success there, either, to be honest - what I’m seeing more and more of in successful games is a tight integration of game and setting, and if you’re using a generic engine, that doesn’t work so well. Indeed, that much is clear even in tabletop MMOs - there are very few generic systems in wide use, and a hell of a lot more genre-specific games.

There’s no other motion out there on Firefly, but I’m keeping a close eye. With all the fuss over Kickstarter and similar crowdfunding facilities over the last few months, I think it’s only a matter of time before we see some sort of Firefly game there.

You’d think SOMEONE would take on the licence and make a decent go of it…

Like the Rogue Firefly MMO - which still has a working website, at least - they don’t have rights to the IP, only the code.

I’m no more convinced by this than by the rogue game, to be honest, but at least it’s SOME news. Let’s hope the Multiverse Foundation is a little better at communications than their predecessors.

Now, while I’m delighted to see some movement on this, I will be astonished if it actually gets anywhere. The rights have been sold, and not to these people. Multiverse have to defend those rights, and I suspect there are lawyers in motion right now.

Further, there doesn’t seem to be an actual game there yet. There’s a list of fascinating-sounding mechanics on the Experience page, including things like “role-play xp levelling”, and “butterfly effect gameplay”. But there’re no details available.

I’d love this to be real, but right now it looks like even foggier vapourware than the authorised Firefly MMO. I’ll be keeping a close eyes on it, so watch this space.

In related news, Fox’s plans for the development of the previously announced Firefly MMOG have been delayed, but Fox looks forward to continuing its collaboration with Multiverse on this endeavor.

I’m not impressed. Neither are Joystiq.

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It’s within the realm of possibility that they [Multiverse] might use this event as an opportunity to announce forward progress on the project, but it’s kind of doubtful.