Rathguarde is planned to be a Sidescrolling RPG Action Sandbox Hack'n'Slash Adventure Fantasy game, with a cool industrial feel to it, and a rich storyline, with three races: Goblins, Dwarves, and Elves. We hope to make it fully functional in both Single-Player and Multi-Player modes, with Trading, Combat with Monsters and other enemies, magic/skills (both generic and race-specific), machinery and contraptions, a vast array of items, both mundane and magical, including a huge armoury of weapons and armour, a leveling/experience system, so your character almost completely customizable, tailored to suit your play-style, and a new and unqiue "You vs the World" type theme, where the world itself is out to get you... Rathguarde is currently in it's Alpha stages (We're working on Alpha 4 at the moment), so while we get the base engine up and running, it'll be free (although when we start charging, it won't be much) We're completely open to any help/suggestions/hate you may have :)
Just some pics of the Anvil, Ladder, and various tools for Alpha 4. The tool textures aren't confirmed yet, as Leon may be designing some...
Hm, I really like where this is heading, but just something I thought while seeing these: I'd love if there was a focus on less expensive materials as well. These materials you feature here all sound like they'd be worth a lot. It would be cool if people would only occasionally find these and in most cases just use plain old wood and stones for building stuff.
Also, will the materials underground all be visible? How about only being able to see above the surface, and below the surface everything is blackened out, unless you're close to it?
It would make exploring much more interesting...