Welcome to Dimensional Ink! Don’t mind the wet paint – we’re still a little under construction (I kid, of course). Let me tell you how all this came to be…. A few years ago, I left Cryptic Studios (which I co-founded in 2000) to join Daybreak here in Austin (which also formed back in 2000). My mandate was pretty simple: run DC Universe Online and eventually get a new game under development. The Austin studio had been part of SOE with a long legacy; it had launched Star Wars Galaxies before it turned to work on DC Universe Online. But it started to become pretty darn obvious that the Austin studio had its own vibe and culture. DCUO was dramatically different than the other games in Daybreak’s portfolio. Our workflow was completely unique. We still used Daybreak for a lot of supporting resources (like Legal, Finance, and CS), but these were basically the same publisher roles that Perfect World and NCSoft had served for Cryptic back in the day. We felt that the future of Daybreak Austin lay within the developers: so we decided to carve ourselves out officially as our own studio. Ultimately, as a team we felt that the future of Daybreak Austin lay within the developers: so we decided to carve ourselves out officially as our own studio. We still publish with Daybreak, but the future is ours to forge. Admittedly, the name was really hard to carve out. We went through weeks of voting on options, finding out they were already taken, going back to come up with new names. Finally, the studio leadership locked itself in a conference room and I refused to let people leave until a name we could use came up. And out of this arose Dimensional Ink. The Ink part is pretty darn obvious. My career started with comic books. City of Heroes was my first game and DC Universe Online is a clear successor. But if you dig a little deeper, Star Wars Galaxies itself has its origins in four color comics too. George Lucas’ inspiration for Star Wars came from Flash Gordon, which originated in the Sunday color comics section. So comic ink has literally moved this studio forward for nearly twenty years! Dimensional is probably not so obvious. We tried a lot of more common adjectives (like Comic, Digital, etc.) but they were all taken. In our discussions, we realized that the games we’ve made, operate, and will make all have one thing in common: they take people to iconic worlds. We take players on adventures beyond imagination. In other words, we travel to different dimensions! We realized that the games we’ve made, operate, and will make all have one thing in common: they take people to iconic worlds. And voila Dimensional Ink was born! What does this mean to all our great fans? You’ll know that it’s the devs who are guiding every game decision. There’s no corporate overlord to blame; every forum, facebook, and twitter post are being read and absorbed by yours truly and the team here. We are utterly focused on making great games that last for years and years. Nothing is changing at all with DC Universe Online. In fact, we’re cooking up lots of neat stuff for the coming year (including some oft requested characters…). What about our new game? Well, I can’t say much right now, other than it’s a next gen MMORPG. It’s an action MMORPG, so no old fashioned click “A” and pray. And we’re hiring like crazy! We totally need YOU to make this game! Check out our openings and apply now! You can probably find me in DCUO playing away – and I promise I’ll be posting more. So expect to hear from me again soon! Jack Emmert Dimensional Ink CEO Learn more at dimensionalink.com.
Could this be dcuo 2 ? This new mmo. It has to be dcuo 2 for next gen it's what everyone is asking for
Thanks for giving me a good chuckle. Oh yeah? Did you get that Neon Chroma feat? How many casino boxes did you have to open? I'd guess less than most. The odds are probably in your favour. Well I guess it's good the slot machine gambling is being funneled into...something.
These sound like great news, good luck to the devs with the new studio Can't wait to see what the future holds.
We still get to keep in contact with our lovely Devs right? Or will there be new green names that we have to get to know? Mepps, Batuba, Charon, MEGZILLA Also, now that we have this new developer, that probably doesnt open up the availability of adding powers / updating the powers through the current engine? I dont know exactly how to perceive all this info, but any insight to this would be great.
In years past we would get what is upcoming in the game for the coming year. Now we sit in the dark, is there a reason we don’t get this anymore? While it’s nice to read we are getting new content in this year, I’m scared that this game is on its last leg and I hope I’m wrong.
It sounds promising, but I hope what's said in that letter is truly delivered. DEVS, 2020 has to be THE year for great change in DCUO. We're nowhere near its fullest potential.
Hello dcuo peoples, Congrats on this recent news, but I have a few questions for the dev team and ceo for what we can look forward to since the new change. Question 1 when you speak on new content will we see new things like new characters ( like non dc ) and new concepts such as story? Question 2 will we be heading into a new direction graphics so this is up to date and stay relevant? Question 3 will we get new non dc comics related content like city of hero witch wasn’t based strictly on comics just pure creative mind making a game for fans to enjoy about superheroes? Question 4 will never power concept be talked about ? Lastly, question 5 will new concept of in game items be talked upon like customization of sidekicks or league hall and base being brought up to what it is and what it was suppose to be or even new player items like non power specific pets (don’t get me started on a new UI)?
I'm not one myself, but does this change affect the lifetime members? I know for now Dimensional is just doing the dev work, but moves like this are often the first step in a process that ends with a transfer of ownership. Assuming there is a transfer of ownership, will current memberships be honored (I just re-upped a year...and there is the lifetime people who are just starting year 2 of a 3.5 year bet)? Reinheld
So Daybreak is being broken up into 3 divisions? To me this screams of at least one division being primed for selling (full disclosure: this is pure speculation on my part as I am not, nor do I personally know, any Daybreak employees). *IF* a division is sold off, what sort of impact would that have on my lifetime Daybreak membership in relations to the game(s) in that division? On the topic of the next game, I doubt it's a DCUO 2 since DCUO's population doesn't seem to warrant it. If it's another super-hero genre game, I hope the world is built with voxels (like EQN/Landmark).
