Comments - Reedtheman

You gonna make your own Darkfall like MMO with this? It reminds me of older days of Darkfall's development in a way.

Damn a update. Woah that came out of nowhere lol.

Indeed, the forums still have activity but i'll pass the word along that the IndieDB should be updated.

So you ask for Beta Testers then say your in Pre Alpha stages.

I believe the term for that is Quality Assurance aka QA team member. This isn't a good sign of the project if claiming one thing and doing another thing (The beta tester send out, now saying the game isn't near that stage).

It makes me wonder what the future holds for this project if this is happening now.

This game was shut down awhile ago.

Mmohuts.com

Outspark was the publisher. This seems like you trying to get a cash grab for that "any TV" deal promotion where you make money from people clicking this.

LOZ like combat? So no auto attack like other 2D MMO's? Well my interest is peaked.

Keep going, I wanna see this happen. You will be one of the first to successfully do this.

real time hack and slash combat similar to zelda? Or just auto combat?

Another Fan made Pokemon game. What joy, seriously though if you do any research you will see most other Pokemon fan projects get shut down. A lot of persistent people have done the same thing. Not that it is bad, just you will be forced to stop at some point and let everybody down. As mentioned in the comments, Cease and Desist contract will be given.

Now what you could do is twist the game in name and characters slightly, still have the Pokemon experience but with a name and slight graphical change. That way you can move forward and hell make a profit from it if you wish, but make sure you twist it enough to become its own thing.

Meridian 59 dang that's an old reference nice one!

I have played this since it was the pokemon MMORPG version. Good work guys. My only issue I ever had with this game is that it lack some form of an animation for attack. But understandably their were reasons you were unable to do it.

But since you on V2 now perhaps put some form of attack animations some how to give the players a form of feedback and satisfaction instead of text. Granted you may of done this already, its been a couple months since I last played.

Anyhow great job regardless ease of access and solid game.

Well I wish you the best of luck to you and your team, I hope you make a awesome Sword Art Online game.

But like I said I am very skeptical of this project, as you seem lacking like something is missing for this fan project. Probably half a year later I will check back and see an update of progress going slow or you have put the project on hold(going through history on Moddb you will see a lot of these).

But none the less I hope you do well and recruit lots of people to help out with its creation, and that you really push the boundarys of what a MMORPG can be and do. As well as increase the reputation of fan projects everywhere.

Also I may sound like a jerk for asking all these questions and such, but I feel they are needed as it feels the commitment to this project is lacking somewhat and some other things are lacking(cant put my finger on it), I'm kind of like a parent giving tough love to their child.

Also my last question for now is how many pages in your GDD?

Really beta is a little way off. Not bad, if your able to achieve putting majority of the game functionality in already thats great, sooooo who has been alpha testing? I have been unable too find any notes on Alpha testing.

Another question how fun was the paper prototype? Did you do any non video game format for a prototype to see if this would be a fun game worth playing?

Also you say you know of Legal issues that will arise, I don't think you do know, because if you did you would of already made contact with anyone who holds creative rights and licenses for Sword Art Online and informed them of the fan project and asked if this would be ok to go through with. Instead your gonna wait around waste time working on a project that can never fully release or be rebranded and end up getting you the creator in some potentially deep legal troubles.

Like I said very skeptical, your prior experiences are small games that I am assuming had no multiplayer functionality, that never got released even on moddb or some indie site or web games site. You have one programmer who is responsible for coding everything for the most part(this is a huge undertaking).

Anyhow im drilling this questions out as I want you and your team to straighten up and succeed, and make this game the very best it can be. Fan projects usually end up all the same and this is the first SAO fan project I have seen, I don't want it to give a bad name out too all other fan projects, by the way it is handled and the people behind it.

Like I keep mentioning rebranding, I suggest taking all the elements of SAO and renaming them and some of the looks of them, because if you don't, you will for sure hit major legal troubles later down the road. Then when you show people say it is heavily influenced by SAO when in reality it is SAO. On top of that you can even sell the game and make a profit for your efforts.

How do you plan on handling the legal issues that will surely arise, plenty of fan projects are shut down even after rebranding/renaming due to the fact of the inital project was under some name that was controlled by some one else.

As well like I asked before what kind of audience do you plan on having in 6 years? How do you plan to keep them engaged?

What features will you cut to make the deadline for alpha, beta, and even launch? Every game has to have an idea of what it plans to cut out if needed.

Also if you have a 3 man team now, how many are programmers coding this game?

I am very skeptical of this project.

1. Isn't there to be legal issues with the name and elements you are currently refering too?

2. 1 developer who plans to make a MMO that has the depths of a VRMMORPG?

3. You say you will create Nerve Gear, I don't believe you need to strech it that far if your a one man project, otherwise you will never finish the project, if you looked around the occulus rift could be a very nice substitue.

4. How many games have you made prior to this? How many with networking for multiplayer?

5. Whose on the team? Is there one programmer?

6. Do you think you will have a audience say in 6 years when you possible launch with unfinished features?

7. If you think you will have an audience, in 6 years how do you plan on keeping them hooked? As the market is currently trending more and more MMO's are moving towards Sandbox orientated foundations. I.E. Everquest Next, Embers of Caerus, ArcheAge Online, Black Desert Online, and knowing Blizzard their upcoming MMO codename TITAN will probably be a MMO.

Could you post what you have done? Couple of my friends look willing to help me with this, but up to you if you wish to post what you have so far.

Um just a heads up I do not know if you heard of Mortal Online, But this seems very similar, which is fine, but as far as player base, it may become an issue unless it f2p or something similar.

Just giving heads up here there website
Mortalonline.com

If your interested in whole first person MMO check out mortal online.

Darkfall Online, Fallen Earth,Argo Online, That new gamigo space game,Tera, and a whole bunch more games I know but cannot rem. Um C9 also, so ya a whole lot more to come as well a bunch of Korean MMO's that i know are skill based. also Dragons Nest

When's CBT estimated? or maybe i missed. none the less, Why should i pay for this? and not go and play pestilence which is planned for free. Just curious because you both seem like sandbox games.

Multiplayer possible? competeivly or cooperativly if it is. kinda like four swords

Yo asassassin.. Your looking for help. Well in October I am heading off to the Art institute of Vancouver in October. So there I basically have 24/7 access to all the tech I need. As well As i am taking Game Art and design there. So If you need help by then still, Ill help out where I can as well, There is a lot of students there who may help do modelling and animations and such.

So Id love to help now, but my experience in design is fairly little, but I am a marketer, so if you need help promoting the game or anything related, I can probably help.

So i will send you my email in a PM on here.

Thanks for your time to read this and have a good day.

Update?

Alive?

If they just turned the combat around from auto target to hack and slash like a console game. Just putting where I have to aim or even press the block/dodge button would make this game so so so so so much better

So ya If it takes skill to play and not just stats for combat. Than you probably will have me as a player with your somehow F2P model unless you do really well and I have some spare cash laying around.

But ya examples of combat I am think of is like Oblivion,Darkfall Online,ANY FPS now and days, or even like vindictus/ Dungeon and dragons online.

Also For your F2P if you do one Take a Good ol look at DDO and turbine what they have done to that for F2P. But if you don't get many subscribers.

Put a feature in where the players view add for you from affiliates and the such so you make mula off the F2P players

Sorta like what adventure quest worlds does. That way players view an ad there rewarded with maybe a super rare piece of armour that would be hard to find otherwise.

But ya keep up the work. But I have a pretty good Feeling your on the right track to making a GREAT mmo

Also as a side note your gameplay videos resemble minecraft alot just with different models. You may wanna change it a little in looks so you don't end up making people think it is a clone of minecraft.

Also Is there going to Be NPC's with quests?

If no one will pick it up and tweak it and If people are willing to play a tweaked version. I might Be willing to pick this up But granted I will need to learn the engine so unless someone who knows the engine and wants to pick it up please do.

otherwise in the coming months I will probably pick it up since well the game is there after all yes it will take so work with tweaking but I believe I can still make it feel like Zelda while having it tweaked

Um from what i understand you are looking for a realistic type game on the source engine.

have you heard of Insurgency it even on steam for free.

You could just take that and mod it that way you can just have all the realistic parts already in and mod it from there.

Not trying to sound mean or anything like that.

Um you say this MMORPG and it under adventure games category. Just pointing that out.

Also in the coming months if your mod is not dead I will probably help you guys out after I am done one of my own games.(granted i not that great with source engine but theres alotta tutorials and I don't own Garrys mod yet I will after X-mas)