Rainfall generally decreases as one moves eastward in Essos. Essos climate is temperate in the northern and western portions, and subtropical in the southern & eastern portions. I don't know what Vulcan would think of that, but Prometheus would surely approve. The continent extends far to the east, around the Jade Sea, to the distant and fabled lands of Asshai and the Shadow. Is the CEO of Vulcan Forge also called Jamie Thomson, or is that a typo by the. They are (as I tried explaining to the Eidos execs in the original Mean Genes overview doc back in 1997) the equivalent of a playing field and a ball - and lots of other things besides - and you can use them to create games or theatre or tourist spots or sports or political rallies or discussion groups or whatever you like, just the way you can in the real world. On the fabled lands blog and among the comments section in one post. That's the beauty of these virtual environments. Of course, in a freely configurable virtual world I could put Mean Genes together myself. Ian Livingstone, who was chairman of Eidos back then, is also involved in Vulcanverse so I'm keeping my fingers (and claws, and mandibles, and tentacles) crossed that we'll see a lot of gaming there. Now that e-sports are big business and Minecraft has shown the value of user-created content in virtual "playground worlds", maybe these guys will make it happen.
(In a nutshell: players can breed and train a stable of nonhuman gladiators who then compete online, and others can watch the gladiatorial battles as a virtual sport whether or not they actually compete themselves.) I thought that one up at Eidos over twenty years ago but couldn't get anyone then to understand it.
As this article explains, there are in-world creatures called vulcanites, virtual pets that I'm hoping could mean that something like my Mean Genes idea could finally get developed. In strictly game-terms it's a Second Life type virtual world in which players can own land and construct and trade their own assets. The books will be a prequel to the virtual game, documenting the journey from technology and atheism taking over to the point when the old gods must choose either to fade into memory or to take things into their own hands."
"The world itself is based on the premise that the god Vulcan is tired of mankind embracing virtual worlds and pushing the gods out of their lives, so instead of fading into the sunset, he embraces it by creating these four quadrants of land. If you listened to Jamie's interview on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, you might have been intrigued by the glancing reference to a project called Vulcanverse.
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