Tags: Minions of Mirth; Prairie Games
There's a rather ambitious independent CRPG in the words from <A href="http://www.prairiegames.com/">Prairie Games</a>, showing a few screenshots of <A href="http://www.prairiegames.com/momtemp/">Minions of Mirth</a>, a <b>massively <i>single</i> player CRPG</b>. Here's the list of features ripped from there:
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<ul><li>Massively Single Player gameplay!!!</li><li>15 character careers from 3 character archetypes. Multiclass characters with primary, secondary, and tertiary class</li><li>8 playable character races</li><li>16 incredible zones to explore</li><li>A persistent world where your actions have lasting effects</li><li>Over 10,000 frames of rendered game graphics!!!</li><li>Alignment system for playing either a good or evil character ...</li><li>Epic battles rage across the land... you can fight for either side and the outcome of the battle can affect quests, etc</li><li>Immersive first person gameplay!</li><li>Slick game GUI that never gets in your way</li><li>Quest system supporting multiple quest and reward items as well as triggered events</li><li>Bounty system dynamically generates bounties for you to hunt ... bounty rewards can be money and items!</li><li>Vendors across the land selling many assorted goodies</li><li>Track monsters from great distances</li><li>Melee and ranged combat</li><li>Vast outdoors (oceans, mountains, jungle, forests), sprawling dungeons, and zones that mix the two!</li><li>Various modes of transport including boats and airships.</li><li>Full blown weather system with climates, seasons, cloud cover and varying precipitation!</li><li>Day and night cycles, with monster spawns and world events tied to time of day. Beautiful star gazing at night!</li><li>Many types of flora and fauna</li><li>Players have many wearable inventory slots, quick slots, carry slots, and a vault to store game items</li><li>Phat Lewt! Robust game items with stats, spell effects, procs, special flags like artifact/indestructible,
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usage requirements/recommendations, and a nifty bonus/penalty system...</li><li>Game items may also have quality associated with them from Crappy, Shoddy, Normal, Superior, Exceptional.</li><li>Hundreds of spells... including combat, pet/monster/item summoning, etc .. spell effects include levitation, blindness, paralysis, charming, etc</li><li>Level cap of 100 with over 80 character skills!</li><li>Full engine + game source code available for modding</li><li>Compatible with Windows + MacOSX</li><li>Cooperative (and PVP) multiplayer coming in 2005</li></ul>
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There's also an <A href="http://www.prairiegames.com/mom_preview1.mov">8 minute video</a> in Quicktime format that's <b>60MB</b>. Of course, they offer a <A href="http://www.prairiegames.com/mom_preview1_lowres.mov">smaller version of the same video</a> for the bandwidth challenged.
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Sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it?
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.diygames.com/">DIY Games</A>
There's a rather ambitious independent CRPG in the words from <A href="http://www.prairiegames.com/">Prairie Games</a>, showing a few screenshots of <A href="http://www.prairiegames.com/momtemp/">Minions of Mirth</a>, a <b>massively <i>single</i> player CRPG</b>. Here's the list of features ripped from there:
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<ul><li>Massively Single Player gameplay!!!</li><li>15 character careers from 3 character archetypes. Multiclass characters with primary, secondary, and tertiary class</li><li>8 playable character races</li><li>16 incredible zones to explore</li><li>A persistent world where your actions have lasting effects</li><li>Over 10,000 frames of rendered game graphics!!!</li><li>Alignment system for playing either a good or evil character ...</li><li>Epic battles rage across the land... you can fight for either side and the outcome of the battle can affect quests, etc</li><li>Immersive first person gameplay!</li><li>Slick game GUI that never gets in your way</li><li>Quest system supporting multiple quest and reward items as well as triggered events</li><li>Bounty system dynamically generates bounties for you to hunt ... bounty rewards can be money and items!</li><li>Vendors across the land selling many assorted goodies</li><li>Track monsters from great distances</li><li>Melee and ranged combat</li><li>Vast outdoors (oceans, mountains, jungle, forests), sprawling dungeons, and zones that mix the two!</li><li>Various modes of transport including boats and airships.</li><li>Full blown weather system with climates, seasons, cloud cover and varying precipitation!</li><li>Day and night cycles, with monster spawns and world events tied to time of day. Beautiful star gazing at night!</li><li>Many types of flora and fauna</li><li>Players have many wearable inventory slots, quick slots, carry slots, and a vault to store game items</li><li>Phat Lewt! Robust game items with stats, spell effects, procs, special flags like artifact/indestructible,
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usage requirements/recommendations, and a nifty bonus/penalty system...</li><li>Game items may also have quality associated with them from Crappy, Shoddy, Normal, Superior, Exceptional.</li><li>Hundreds of spells... including combat, pet/monster/item summoning, etc .. spell effects include levitation, blindness, paralysis, charming, etc</li><li>Level cap of 100 with over 80 character skills!</li><li>Full engine + game source code available for modding</li><li>Compatible with Windows + MacOSX</li><li>Cooperative (and PVP) multiplayer coming in 2005</li></ul>
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There's also an <A href="http://www.prairiegames.com/mom_preview1.mov">8 minute video</a> in Quicktime format that's <b>60MB</b>. Of course, they offer a <A href="http://www.prairiegames.com/mom_preview1_lowres.mov">smaller version of the same video</a> for the bandwidth challenged.
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<br>
Sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it?
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<br>
Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.diygames.com/">DIY Games</A>
