It shouldn’t come as a surprise by now that I am a Jane Austen fan as well as being into video games. And it turns out there two are increasingly less mutually exclusive than I thought. After logging out of “Jane Austen Unbound” (the Facebook game in which I am inching towards level 28), I saw a post about “Ever, Jane”: A MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) that is in the works.
Like many potentially future games, it’s being funded through a kickstarter campaign. I wouldn’t have written about it, but a very limited prototype was available to play. Basically, the premise is: you’re a Regency era man or woman who is trying to gossip/network your way to the top of the social food chain. Essentially go from a Lizzie Bennet to an Emma Woodhouse.