Worlds Apart Productions, LLC

Based in Denver, Colorado, Worlds Apart Productions has been building and operating multiplayer online games for 10 years. Specializing in online digital property games and role-playing games, Worlds Apart has accomplished a history of steady growth and successful, well-designed game titles that offer deep game play and attract strong player communities.

Along the way, Worlds Apart has become the premier independent developer of online trading card games. The company’s Collect! Trade! Play! (CTP) Platform is a feature-rich, cost-effective and scalable technical infrastructure for the development of online collectible-object based games. It offers a modular, data-driven development and prototyping environment, as well as rapid time-to-market for full commercial releases. Worlds Apart is currently using CTP as the foundation for the translation of paper trading card games to online form (Anachronism Online, in partnership with TriKing Games/The History Channel), as well as for the creation of original properties (the Auto Assault Trading Card Game, currently in development in partnership with NCSoft).

Worlds Apart is also known for its strong online Trading Card Game and RPG design know-how. In December 2005, Worlds Apart launched Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga to glowing reviews. A blend between board game and Trading Card Game, Star Chamber is a sci-fi strategy masterpiece that has attracted critical acclaim (including a perfect 10 for gameplay in Gamespot's review), a finalist position in the 2005 Independent Games Festival Competition, “Best Independent Game of 2005” from Computer Games Magazine, and other honors.

In 2004, Worlds Apart released The Lord Of The Rings Online Trading Card Game. The online version of Decipher's best-selling The Lord of the Rings TCG uses the CTP Platform to provide secure digital property technology and a powerful rules engine so that players from around the world can interact with a virtual game environment that features secure trading and easy-to-use deck-building and collection-management utilities. The LOTR Online TCG features high-level tournaments for top players and tutorials and casual play for novices.

Worlds Apart first made a name for itself with The Eternal City, a critically acclaimed Roman-themed RPG currently published by Skotos. It is one of the very few text-based games to be written up by PC Gamer at the time (December 1998 and July 2001), and it was called the "consummate multi-user dungeon" by Computer Gaming World magazine in August 2001. The Eternal City has been particularly praised for some of its innovative social gameplay features.

Grendel's Revenge is the second RPG by Worlds Apart published by Skotos. Grendel's Revenge is a text-based RPG/RTS hybrid that puts the player in the role of the traditional bad guys of fantasy – the poor misunderstood monster. With both a rich RPG framework and familiar RTS mechanics such as resource gathering and building, it allows the players to form clans, build (and defend) huge lairs, command NPC grunts, and defend their treasures from the depredations of human adventurers. For players who prefer solo game play, Grendel's Revenge allows players to take the role of wandering monsters that prowl the wilderness for glory and loot.