Author Darren Reid and NextGenBooks.com have sent word that the best selling author’s upcoming novel The Half Broken Crown will be made into a massively multiplayer online game. It will be a point and click style adventure which incorporates MMO elements that allow all online players to communicate and solve puzzles through collaboration and cooperation.
Darren Reid said, “Of all my upcoming projects this is perhaps the one I am most thrilled about. It is an exceptional opportunity for me to expand upon the forthcoming book and to tell new stories.”
Broken Kingdoms is expected to release in June 2007 for the PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, Wii, PC and Mac. The game is being co-developed by James O’Hara and will have 100 unique screens. It will be free, but there are optional micro-transactions available. Broken Kingdoms will also have episodic content in the price range of $2.50-$5.00.
Though all console and computer versions of Broken Kingdoms will have multiplayer components of the game, the DS and PSP editions will get it later.