Hello everyone. We have been pretty heads-down the last few weeks and I wanted to fill you all in on what we have been up to. As most of you know, we previously refocused our goals and tightened up our plan for alpha. Since then, our team’s focus has shifted towards future alpha versions and finding means to fund the project.
Our current funding plan is to launch a crowdfunding campaign in the very near future with a modest funding goal. We have been fine-tuning our reward levels and incentives and look forward to showing you all what we have to offer. We are also planning some great events during the campaign.
Although our development team is focused on upcoming alpha versions, we have managed to squeeze some great changes into the current pre-alpha 1 build, including camera rotation, UI enhancements, pvp incentives, new weapons, and even a playable female character. We will be showing all of these new features off in our weekly playtest streams during the campaign.
updated November 6
Just want to say I wish you all the very best with this project. I think it is a fantastic idea. It will allow those that are constantly switching between games due to some level of disappointment to develop their own shards based on their own rules. That should translate into a longer term experience, rather than chopping and changing. It should also allow for a closer relationship between developer and gamer. So I can imagine those shards with quality, committed admins will be able to maintain a good core group of supporters due to that relationship.
So looking forward to this guys, wish you all the best
Thanks for the updates! Can’t wait to play. 🙂
This is excellent news! Can’t wait to get back into Shards Online!
I agree totally!!
This time, make a no-credit-card option available. As I have mentioned before (and I also wrote you guys an email about it) – credit cards are not so popular in europe and many don’t even have one. I would have been so happy to contribute to your last funding but there was no way. Same for a lot of my friends.