Oh yeah I forgot to blog about this last week… its a piece of sad news. Its the end of an era…[read it and weep]…

Yeah, its true. Mehul sold Utopia and Earth 2025. 12 years of beautiful prose gaming, two-time winner of the Webby Award for best online game…50,000 players and a cult following…but more than all that, Utopia was my first inspiration toward designing a web game. Its what inspired me to pick up PHP/MySQL and take my first step into the world of web application development. Its what has given me the skillset I have today, unforgettable friends (Jocke, Alex, Miex, MJ…). It even inspired me to learn some regex (molesquirrel!) Granted, I’ve come a long way since then, but its still what I consider the pinnacle of prose gaming. 5 years I’ve played? Yeah. 5 years. And now, it will never be the same. We can’t even call it getting “mehul’ed” anymore because he isn’t even there. Its…saddening.

Life goes on…time waits for noone…

Tags: Sad, Thoughts

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