Shards Online

[Ninja Chicken]

Hi Guys,
For the last 6 or so months I've been buried in a new development project which we've finally taken to the public view with our KS launch. It is a sandbox MORPG. We are really excited, and proud not just of the game but also the inherent modding capability we are building in.

(In my opinion it is awesome, but I'm probably pretty biased.) So rather than hype here's what our gameplay looks like so far.


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2GD1x5LZ0c"](Pre-Alpha gameplay footage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2GD1x5LZ0c[/ame]


http://shardsonline.com


Thanks for checking it out.
-Chicken

 

[Zelda]

if you guys like, I can talk to you as a game desginer my self and explane some good and bad so far i see

 

[Bobbum Man]

I wants to play nows!!!! lol. Really tho this looks great!

 

[Ninja Chicken]

Sure shoot me a pm with comments questions or criticisms. It is all welcome and helpful.

 

[Bobbum Man]

Let me know when this is out to play, or closed beta to try for or something.

 

[Ninja Chicken]

Will do. Currently its pre alpha and we are on kickstarter. The only player access for now will be donation rewards on the alpha access tiers.

But we did a gameplay event on twitch.tv which went really well too.
http://www.twitch.tv/shardsonline/


a direct link to the recording of the live stream.
http://www.twitch.tv/shardsonline/c/4256536

 

[Ninja Chicken]

We did/are doing a developer goof jam to showcase the game moddability.
Live on Twitch.Tv
http://www.twitch.tv/shardsonline/
So far we have knockback effects, and heat seeking rabbit rocket fireballs, Giant Deer, and Fire Bears.

 

[Shark]

I could see this being a game I could get into. I'll be waiting for the release ^_^

 

[Ninja Chicken]

Yesterday was hilarious and there was complete and utter chaos.

At the end of the day we had random knockback, giant deer, fire breathing bears, rabbit chucking hippies, gore explosions, and lightning storms. All in a dynamically shifting ruleset.

Not bad for a days work.

 

[Bobbum Man]

How are you going to work the game as far as playing? is it pay per month, one time payment or F2P

 

[Ninja Chicken]

There are a few things going. The game itself is a one time payment. That basically gets you the client/server and all updates that go out. This will allow you to play on player run servers/shards and clusters. The only main official servers run by citadel (including ongoing content and live events) will be on a small subscription basis.

That subscription is there to cover maintenance and development costs. we aren't trying to create a profit machine, and we want to continue to build the game world for years to come.

 

[Ninja Chicken]

We are having a battle of the backers coming up. Where a number of backers will be randomly chosen to participate in a free for all-, last man standing battle in a crazy rule set mod.

 

[Narh]

Keeping my eyes on the game... all 7 of them...

 

[Ninja Chicken]

BotB was awesome. We had a tonne of backers show up, and much chaos ensued.

twitch.tv/shardsonline
Then we threw a bit of Madness Mod up and increased it exponentially.

 

[Ninja Chicken]

We are having an open event this weekend so anyone curios and up for a bit of fun. All the information will be in the Thursday(Jun 5) press release.