Next, they decided to build a virtual world with built-in games for young kids. First, they tried an online math website. They hired some contract programmers and decided to build a site focused on online education. This was Hwang’s third startup and Bae’s second. They started their company in January 2007 in Palisades Park, N.J. Disney bought Club Penguin for $700 million in 2007, and soon enough, there were 200 kid-centric virtual worlds in development.Ĭofounders Peter Bae and David Hwang studied Korean online games, and they experimented with what to do in the U.S. “There is also a private server of the game being made, similar to how fans managed to recreate Club Penguin and Toontown Online with private servers after they were shut down.”įantage was born in March 2008 in the middle of a boom for kid-focused virtual worlds. “There has already been a petition to try to save the site, and fans have been trying to send enough mail to the company that the company started giving out automatic e-mails,” she said.
She said it had changed a lot over the years. That’s not to say that it was unexpected though,” said Faria Jewel, a former Fantage fan, in an email.
“While Fantage was not as popular as Club Penguin, it was loved enough that its large user base was in sadness over the news.
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