14 DAY TRIAL // An artist that has worked at Realtime Worlds has confirmed that the MMO project MyWorld is now the property of Kimble Operations and Ian Hetherington, who has worked on it when he was chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at Realtime Worlds.
Tahir Rashid, who is now the head of the art department and the co director of Electric TopHat, has told Gamasutra that, “MyWorld was bought a few weeks back by Kimble Operations which is basically Ian Hetherington as he wanted the project to get to market.”
He added, “There are 20 people left from the original MyWorld team that decided to stay with it. We are very pleased the project is not dead and look forward to them getting it out the door.”
MyWorld is set to have complex social features and was slated for launch in 2011.
Realtime Worlds was founded in 2002 and was the biggest video game developer set in Scotland.
The company was led by David Jones, the man that put together the Gran Theft Auto series, and its first project for Microsoft and the Xbox platform was Crackdown, well received by critics and by gamers.
Then the company moved on to create a MMO called All Points Bulletin, which could offer a wide range of customization options for characters and an exciting mix of shooting and chasing around an open city as either Enforcers of Criminals.
Unfortunately APB has taken longer to develop than initially thought and cost more as well.
When the game was launched in late June it had a rough reception, with the public claiming that it was not a true MMO and that the in game action was not engaging enough.
Despite the fact that Realtime Worlds announced that it was going into administration and that resources will be dedicated to making APB better the game announced the closure of all its servers in the middle of September.