Shards is crowd funded.
For those that want to see the game made, they can contribute, and part take of the game at the during development.
For those that have supported the development effort, the least we as developers should do is all…
rawfox said:
We had that hope with Will there be a ingame shop ?
Ofcause, and it will only have things to improve "quality of life" in the game.
Sure, i belive in the sacred yellow strawberry ...
Players can run their o…
Wizardry said:
The concept is good but as i was watching i remembered why this just won't work.
The first thing every gamer looks for is heavily populated servers.This concept will have all the gamer's off making and designing their own server…
In some cases it is complete BS, in other cases its completely justified.
In general development a game isn't ready to be played until Alpha. That's when you have the core in place and running. By Beta the game is essentially in the f…
Well our budget was basically kickstarter + a bit from personal finances, friends, family, and team contributions etc.
There's a very good chance we'll go to steam, though that would probably be late in alpha. We want as much polish on the game pl…
rodarin said:
Logrus_CS said:
Many of the recent successful campaigns spent close to our entire development budget on marketing alone.
A few hundred thousand to spend on advertising would probably take that slow and steady to fast …
I think that people have been burned many of the crowdfunded titles that have sought to develop over the last 2 years, and so there is much more frequency of the wait and see mind-set rather than the pre-development investment.
There are a few titl…
$40 is the instant in. Just to clarify.
In terms of game longevity, we have a multi-pronged approach.
VIABLE - Sandbox style gameplay. - A lot of our design effort is going into creating effective sandbox gameplay with as much character freedom a…
flizzer said:
Not sure if I want to play on player created servers. I don't trust some random guy to efficiently run a server and just get kicked if I do something he decides he doesn't like. I would prefer to play on an official PvE serve…
Unfortunately the game development environment has some hurdles which can cripple successful releases.
One of those hurdles is initial impressions. Until the players get their hands on the game, and start playing the game is essentially an ex…
Slapshot1188 said:
Really good to see you ad WASD movement!!
On a side note, how can I check what my current pledge level is? I log into my account (which I only seem to be able to do on the forum) and I can go to the pledge area, but it does…
Wizbuiz said:
so when is this getting released? Why would ppl play these games if theres already a alpha playerbase who knows every bit and tit of this game to compete with.
The content development is on going, we consider the compl…