Play in Luxembourg: Authentic 19th Century City Simulation Which Started in SL & Sansar But Moved to ROBLOX

1867 Historical Role Play is a simulation game in ROBLOX with a fascinating virtual world history. It began as a Second Life-based project sponsored by a real life museum, and then expanded to Sansar... but then hit some cost and platform barriers. As Hauptmann "Cyberpiper" Weyder explained to me last year:

[T]he problem lies in the rather volatile nature of the SL community. You do something new, nice, interesting, and folks will come. In order to keep it up though you have to put in a bug work load, mainly organizing one event after another. But despite our best efforts, traffic waned. Gosh we offered free housing to our 1867 community!! Rare in SL! The contract with the [RL] museum came to an end, and frankly we could not afford to pay 7000.-€ tier to Linden Lab a year out of our own pocket!

Sansar has been a disappointment. We managed to do a whole street eventually, but had to start over because of too much lag, trying to figure out ways of more efficient texturing or building. Also Sansar had promised mobile development, which was then taken off the roadmap, a big disappointment for us.  

Cyberpiper just let me know that he and his team have greatly expanded the simulation in ROBLOX, to the point where it's as geographically large as the original SL sim:

'"There are two mini games now... [and] Earning money, spending it on much needed food and drink to survive. The map has doubled so we have what we had in SL now. Added many dangers [and] over 100 badges to be earned." The team also added a skybox. "Next step is to add other game levels, And to add RPG stuff to this one."

Since launching in ROBLOX last year, Luxembourg has seen nearly 11,000 visits, and that's without promotion.

"But we expect the visits in ROBLOX to rise in time as we promote and sponsor the game," Cyberpiper tells me.

More here on its development, and a discussion of ROBLOX as a platform versus SL and Sansar.

Comments

[morphixtv]

I like to play simulation games and this one looks more promising than other games.
Is this game is available for pc?

[Terry]

i played this game, in this game you have to earn for food and drinks to survive. Nice game.