Gatheryn

[Morreion]

Gatheryn - a massive multi-player steampunk world of adventure, mystery and romance. Make your way through an ever expanding world, making new friends and enemies as you work through interactive games and puzzles, new adventures appearing with each successful solution. You can hop aboard the nearest air ship to reach a myriad of destinations or just to satisfy the explorer inside you. Planned for release in 2009.

Gatheryn official site

Gatheryn- an introduction

Gatheryn articles at IGN.com

Gatheryn articles at Ten Ton Hammer

[Morreion]

Gatheryn has gone into open beta- you can download it for free:

Gatheryn official site

I've tried it, and it's a social / minigame experience- actually, some of the minigames are nicely challenging. You lose health the more games you play, and you can restore health by buying food and drink that you earn with silver (only if you do well in the games).

[Morreion]

What happened to Gatheryn? (Massively)

We've recently received a tip-off to a lack of communication from the developers of the social steampunk MMO, Gatheryn, in recent months, signaling what could be the collapse of the game.

The website is still up and running, but the closed beta signup page has vanished, the download game link is broken, and the game's servers are down for the count. Players are asking for assistance or information on what's going on with the game on the beta forums, but things are very, very silent.

That's too bad- I liked the concept, and a couple of the mini-games were fun, though it wasn't a traditional 'game'. I'm sure we will see more of this casual/social type of approach, however.

[Regolyth]

So is the way of many games. I don't think I even heard anything about it, other than what you've posted here.