BigWorld Technology is a middleware platform for the development of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (also known as MMOGs or MMORPG

MMORPG

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....

s) and virtual worlds. It was developed by the Australian game development and technology company, Micro Forté

Micro Forte

Micro Forté now known as Micro Forté Studios, is an Australian electronic entertainment company with development studios in Canberra, Australia and Sydney, Australia...

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After the cancellation of Citizen Zero (Microsoft decided to cancel this and all of the other MMO titles under development for its own strategic reasons), Micro Forté focused on extending the BigWorld Technology and it is now consolidated into the BigWorld company

BigWorld

BigWorld is an Australian company formed in 1999 that develop and license a Massively Multiplayer Online Game and Virtual World engine. In 2007, BigWorld was recognized as the industry leader in UK's Develop magazine-Games:...

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Games

Games that have utilized the platform include:

• Floral Fire Online - TianCheng Interactive
• Grandia Online
  Grandia Online
  is a Japanese free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Game Arts and published by GungHo Online Entertainment for Microsoft Windows as part of their Grandia series...
  
   - GungHo Online Entertainment
• Hokuto no Ken Online - GungHo Online Entertainment
• House of Flying Daggers - T2CN
• Interzone Futebol - Football based MMO
• Kwari - Kwari Ltd
• Stargate Worlds
  Stargate Worlds
  Stargate Worlds was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game video game in-development by Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and published by FireSky for Microsoft Windows. The game's setting was mainly borrowed from military science fiction series...
  
   - Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment
• Storm Hawks MMO - Bitcasters Inc.
• Tian Xia 2 - Netease
  NetEase
  NetEase is a Chinese internet company that operates 163.com, a popular web portal which received over 546 million page views in June of 2005. The company has grown rapidly since its founding in June 1997, thanks in part to its investment in search engine technology and massively multiplayer...
  
  
• Twinity
  Twinity
  Twinity is the first 3D online virtual world to build true-to-scale replicas of large cities from all over the world. Twinity is developed by Metaversum GmbH, a company based in Berlin, Germany. It offers its population, called Twinizens, to navigate around virtual versions of real-world cities,...
  
   - Metaversum
• World of Tanks
  World of Tanks
  World of Tanks is a freemium 3D team-based multiplayer online game featuring historically accurate fighting vehicles from the 1930s to the 1950s. World of Tanks is a PvP-focused project that promises action and strategy based gameplay. In the release version, World of Tanks includes more than 90...
  
   - Wargaming.net
  Wargaming.net
  Wargaming.net is a strategy game developer operating since 1998. The company is based in London with a development center in Belarus. In November 2007 Wargaming.net acquired Arise, an independent PC game studio,and currently consists of nearly 250 employees. The company's motto is "Strategic...
  
  

Undisclosed game titles

• Undisclosed game title - 38 Studios
• Undisclosed game title - Vivendi
  Vivendi
  Vivendi SA is a French international media conglomerate with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications, the Internet, and video games. It is headquartered in Paris.- History :...
  
   / Sierra Online
• Undisclosed game title - Slipgate Ironworks
• Undisclosed game title - UserJoy

External links

• Official BigWorld Technology site
• Micro Forté website