Castle Infinity

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A screenshot of the Central Fountain

Castle Infinity is a freeware MMOG developed by Castle Infinity, Inc., an American non-profit organization. It works on almost any Microsoft Windows-based computer. It also runs on Macintosh under Virtual PC, and Linux under Wine.

Castle Infinity was first released in 1996, making it the first fully released MMOG designed for children. It was originally designed by Russell Ginns and developed by Starwave, but the company was bought three times and eventually acquired by Disney. The game itself changed owners several times, from Digital Evolution to US Interactive. Soon after, the game servers were rescued from a dumpster by Kevin Quitt, a C programmer, who happened to be one of the game's lead players, and improvements on the game started up. From this group, Castle Infinity, Inc. a non-profit organization was born. Player population has dwindled in the years since, leaving only a few die-hard fans. Nonetheless, in 2005 there was fresh media coverage of the game by way of Slashdot and BoingBoing.

The official language of the characters in Castle Infinity is a modification of Esperanto.

Currently, in 2007 Castle Infinity is leting anyone create artwork so if you would like to get a job programing or creating body pieces please contact Kevin D.Quit. Also there are no longer a huge amout of players, in fact there are only about 16-24. Since the 3/5/07 Several changes have occurred within Castle Infinity itself. Greg Kumparak has left as lead designer of Infinity, and Michael Casadevall has been reinstated as Project Manager.

As such, Castle Infinity is actively seeking new staff. they realize the recent changes have caused many of the players to lose faith in them but they are working hard to try and change that. As such, a new position has been formally created: The Infinity Organizer. Infinity Organizers (IO for short) manage things such as races, promotion of the game, and day to day issues such as handling bug reports. The new IOs are:

Doog, Atomic Knight, laurenone.

Now what will happen?

Castle Infinity will remain quite small for now, but if you would like to help the last group of players there,(its not dead yet!) please feel free to download it for free at:

http://www.castleinfinity.org

once you've downloaded it, register and then read the forums to see who your playing with!

Thanks so much!