A lot of people over at Digg are getting excited about Genesis, "the world's first dynamic MMORPG"... whatever the hell that means.

Why so excited? This MMORPG, put together by a sole programmer, will supposedly feature:

• The ability to reproduce. Great, just what cybersex needed — +2 prophylactics and the risk of getting that fairy broad knocked up.
• Permanent death. Flush all invested time down the toilet through the vagaries of chance!
• Dynamically created storylines and quests. This appears to just mean that fellow users will script your standard array of go-fetch-em quests instead of the designer.

And a lot more. The FAQ is longer than Anna Karenina, but features a lot more information. It's really just a gameless engine right now, though.

As the kind of gamer who thinks "open ended" is pretty much synonymous with "boring gameplay" and who gets a big rubbery one accompanied by a glassy look in his eye anytime anyone talks about Second Life, I'm not terribly impressed. Of course, the FAQ doesn't explain whether or not I can impregnate my own offspring. That feature could turn my contemptuous yawn into a sale, right there. Florian Eckhardt

Genesis [Official Site]

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