BigWorld

Infobox_Company
company_name = BigWorld
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = Sydney, Australia (1999)
location = Sydney, Australia
key_people = John De Margheriti (CEO), Simon Hayes (CTO), Stephen Harris (CFO), Steve Wang (COO)
num_employees = ~45(2008)
industry = Interactive entertainment
homepage = [http://www.bigworldtech.com/ www.bigworldtech.com]

BigWorld is an Australian company formed in 1999 that develop and license a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMO) and Virtual World engine. This engine provides an underlying software architecture needed for game developers to build an MMO. There are only a handful of shipped titles to date due to the length of time it takes for the creation of large-scale online worlds. Upcoming US titles built on the technology include Stargate Worlds (jointly developed on the Unreal Engine), and unannounced titles from 38 Studios and John Romero's company Slipg8. The client technology is Windows PC only and the back-end server solution is implemented under Linux, with a Python API scripting environment. On the 6.6.08 Netease, a licensee of BigWorld released it's Tianxia 2 MMO in China. In an independent review of MMO Engines by UK's Develop magazine, BigWorld was acknowledged as the Industry Leader cite web|url=http://www.developmag.com/tutorials/33/MMO-Engine-Round-Up
title=MMO Engine Round-Up|publisher=Develop Magazine]

cite web|url=http://tx2.163.com/]

Awards

BigWorld Technology has received a number of business and technology innovation related awards:
* Winner 2007 ACT Chief Minister's Export Award (Arts, Entertainment and Design Award)cite web|url=http://www.exportawards.gov.au/2007-ACT-winners/default.aspx|title=2007 Australian Export Awards|publisher=Austrade]
* Winner 2006 Cool Company Awards [cite web|url=http://www.anthillonline.com/article_detail.php?id=141|title=Cool Company Awards 2006|publisher=Australian Anthill Magazine|date=Aug-Sept 2006]
* 2005 Red Herring's Top 100 Private Firms in Asia [cite web|url=http://www.redherring.com/Home/13566|title=Red Herring's Top 100 Private Firms in Asia|publisher=Red Herring Magazine|date=Sept 2005]
* Winner 2005 Sumea Award for Best Engine Technology cite web|url=http://www.sumea.com.au/sumeaawards.asp?year=2005|title=2005 Sumea Award Winners|publisher=Sumea website]
* 2nd Prize winner 2005 Secrets of Australian IT Innovation Competition (Entertainment Applications) [cite web|url=http://www.dbcde.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/50718/IT_Secrets_winners_2002_to_2005.pdf|title=IT Secrets Competition Winners 2002-2005|publisher=Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy|date=2005]
* 2005 Australian Game Developer Conference Award for Outstanding Innovation [cite web|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=7467|title=Australian Game Developers Award Winners Announced|publisher=Gamasutra|date=9 Dec 2005] [cite web|url=http://www.agdc.com.au/awards/awards_winner05.php|title=Australian Game Developers Conference 2005 Award winners|publisher=AGDC|date=2005]

Recent Games using BigWorld Technology

* Tian Xia 2 - Netease cite web|url=http://tx2.163.com/|title=Tian Xia 2|language=chinese|publisher=Netease]
* Interzone Futebol - Football based MMO cite web|url=http://www.interzoneentertainment.com/games/|title=Interzone Futebol|publisher=Interzone]
* Hokuto no ken ONLINE - GungHo Online Entertainment
* Stargate Worlds - Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment
* Twinity - Metaversum
* Storm Hawks MMO - Bitcaster
* Twin Skies - Meteor Games cite web|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19384|title=Meteor Games Licenses BigWorld Technology Suite For MMOG]
* Undisclosed game title - 38 Studios cite web|url=http://au.games.ign.com/articles/855/855112p1.html?RSSwhen2008-02-26_133100&RSSid=855112|title=38 Studios choose BigWorld Technology|lpublisher=ign website]
* Undisclosed game title - Vivendi / Sierra Online
* Undisclosed game title - Slipgate Ironworks
* House of Flying Daggers - T2CN
* Undisclosed game title - UserJoy
* Floral Fire Online - TianCheng Interactive
* Kwari - Kwari Ltd

References

External links

* [http://www.bigworldtech.com/index/ BigWorld Technology]
* [http://www.bigworlddistribution.com/ BigWorld Distribution]
* [http://www.corp.bigworldtech.com/ BigWorld]