Traveller's Tales' LEGO games have been the most heartwarming success story of this last generation of consoles, triumphs of good-humoured, family-oriented game design. It's no secret, though, that the last LEGO MMO didn't exactly go brilliantly. LEGO Universe, NetDevil's online LEGO game, took years and years to develop and was only online for just over a year before it was shut down due to "unsatisfactory revenue". Nobody minded too much; it wasn't very good.
Funcom now has the challenge of making the next online LEGO game: LEGO Minifigures Online, due out on PC and mobiles next year. It's free to play, and also aims at LEGO's young core market, with gameplay features that are familiar from TT's take on the series. "The focus is on the minifigures and their adventures through fantastical worlds," says Executive Producer Lawrence Poe. "The key aspect of the game is finding minifigures, learning to use their abilities in the best possible way, training your minifigures to become more powerful, and going through these cool worlds completing quests, defeating cool dungeon bosses and really just exploring and having fun. Building is also an important part of the game, and its primary function is to support the adventuring experience. You'll come across piles of LEGO bricks that can be assembled into contraptions that can help you defeat a boss, a bridge that allows you to cross a river, a jump pad that allows you to reach a specific location and so on."
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