This week Toronto's GS New Media announced that it will be using Sun Microsystems' Project Darkstar to develop a virtual world based around the (apparently quite popular) children's TV series "The Saddle Club". Contrary to the name, Project Darkstar is not a moon-size space station part of Sun's plans for world domination, but an open source software framework for creating massive online games and virtual worlds. Building a virtual world supporting thousands of users operating simultaneously in the same space raises difficulties beyond simple hardware and bandwidth demands; Darkstar is designed to address these.
The executive team of GS New Media is a well picked mix of tech and children's media, sporting experience with Orange, blogTV, Webkinz, Disney, and Scholastic. The Saddle Club Virtual World is slated to launch in 2009.
Greg Andrews
Greg Andrews is a Writer and Web Developer and for Techvibes. Born and raised in Edmonton, Greg was blogging about his high school drama long before it was fashionable. In the Spring of 2007, half a year out of school, Greg moved to Vancouver in search of interesting technology and the Canadian dream. His personal sites are gregcorp.com and miscellani.ca.
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