New Halo Project to Reach Beyond Console to the Web and Mobile Devices
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A job posting by Microsoft on careerbuilder.com hints at the future Halo encompassing a broader content delivery system then just the console. According to the listing, they plan to blend the Halo world with the console, web and mobile devices to deliver an immersive experience that follows dedicated users wherever they happen to be.
“Do you love Halo? Do online social communities and console video games excite you? Do you love building scalable online infrastructure & websites for large and passionate audiences? The Halo franchise studio is looking for a strong software development engineer with a passion for video games and online services. We have an ambitious task ahead, taking the current Halo community and online gaming support system and bringing it to the next level.We’re looking to blend console, web, and mobile to create an immersive Halo world that follows the dedicated Halo fan wherever they go. We need engineers that can build connected technology while working in a startup environment.
As an engineer on this team, your responsibility will be to deliver a great out-of-game interactive experience that takes the next step beyond the systems found in Halo 3. You will work with artists, designers, developers and testers to finalize design plans, implement those plans, and help coordinate large-scale testing of the out of game Live experience by gamers across the world. Your work also will involve several external teams-including other MGS studios and the Xbox Live team-coordinating development dependencies and design considerations of experience as a whole.”
Rockstar Games recently debuted a cross platform system with the release of their “Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars” title for the Nintendo DS which makes it possible for users to generate in-game cash by “money laundering” in a computer based Flash game. With smart phones becoming faster and more popular, and most households having some form of broadband Internet, it was only a matter of time before games began migrating to multiple platforms.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can offer users an actual enriched experience with this aggregation of platform controls and not just throw us a gimmick for the sake of proving they can. I fear that until APC systems (aggregated platform control systems) mature, that is exactly what they will be (i.e. a gimmick), but with every failure it is a step in the right direction.
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