Auraxis: A World at War

[Hyncharas]

So no bites as yet from the PlanetSide 2 Devteam. Well, here's an official request to the studio for permission to start working with them on a machinima, nicknamed Auraxis: A World at War.

When it comes to the marketing of an MMO title, nothing's better than something that helps set the stage for players before it makes its way to retail shelves. The most notable example of this recently has been the Class-gameplay trailers and fully fledged cinematics for Star Wars: The Old Republic, telling the story from all sides before it's unleashed to everyone to play, worldwide. Unfortunately much of these movies take place inside the game architecture itself by the studio but, despite best efforts, there is only so much that can be done in a busy production schedule...

That's where Auraxis: A World at War comes in. From people who love playing MMOs and enjoy making mods for games, in partnership with the original studio that made PlanetSide, these would be cinematic minisodes that takes story material already and as-yet-unreleased, bringing it to life. Whether these are built by an independent game engine or a limited version of Forgelight is still to be determined, but the minisodes produced could form as part of an unparalleled marketing campaign for PlanetSide fans, by PlanetSide fans, in preparation for the retail launch. Anybody who were selected to produce these would also be credited in name and PS2-callsign, and the studio could sell them in HD in a Special Edition of the game when its due for mass publishing.

Since Hamma keeps saying just how expensive it is to run these forums, I also have a solution that I hope should only take a few weeks to sort out. Currently I run a forum of my own for another franchise, but will be planning to retask it for the purpose of setting up my own trading name. While it will involve some subforum shuffling and whatnot, I am prepared to host the machinima's project-site and forums there, so SOE then sponsors it and AGN handles any future Q&As that take place for its development.

If SOE are insterested in this proposal, please contact me via Private Message here on PSU.com in the New Year to begin discussions. Questions and comments are welcome.