Enchanted Realms MMORPG Project Site

[LordRathgil]

UPDATE

We have added many spells, and items to the game working on factioning its there but is a little buggy, added some tradeskill recipes as well

[trevius]

I checked this game out last night. It looks pretty nice so far. There are definitely quite a few things that could use work, but nothing that looks to be impossible to get resolved.

If you can get a good team of coders to help develop the game mechanics and UI stuff, and also get the database to work with MySQL, I think this project could potentially turn out really nice. It looks to be at the point that EQEmu was a few years ago. I am sure that if it had the community that EQEmu does to help develop it, that it could be just as good or better than EQEmu.

I think hard work and patience will be the key to getting this game up to speed. The more things that get fixed/developed for it, the more interest you will peak. Eventually if you keep at it, I imagine that people will be flocking to help you out.

The engine looks really nice and seems to be very versatile. I checked on the page for the engine and it looks like quite a variety of games have been created with it. The graphics don't seem to be mindblowing, but I am sure they could easily be on par with what WoW currently has or maybe better. Seeing the examples of what other people have done with it, I can tell that it could certain by made into a really nice looking game all around.

I think an important part will be getting good development tools that your team can use that are preferably free. Once the tools are worked out, it will be a matter of filling up the database and developers working out issues or developing new features to improve gameplay.

As long as you stay dedicated to making this project a success, it looks like there is real potential with it.

[LordRathgil]

Well i took a couple of days off from it, Ive had a project handed to me related to it for creating content quickly and easiily so ive been getting myself up to speed on that and tweaking it here and there, migrating it to mysql shouldnt be TOO difficult it uses sqllite for python currently so it shouldnt be too difficult.

Now that I am back ontop of it there SHOULD be a new playable demo with several new populated zones available tomorrow barring any unforseen issues that is.

The Way that I have this setup with this content editor anyone can now help create the content even without access tot he sqllite db files so that will be a big improvement.

One thing I didnt mention is that KOTOR Is a big influence in this game, not the story of it obviously but the mechanics of how you play the game will be similar it will be very storyline driven, not just a mindless constant grind.

The gui will be getting a major makover in due time, I wanted to make some decent content for a demo together first and get some of the internal things that i wanted to change changed before i tackled the gui. One thing I feel I should mention in terms of the community I havent considered making this an opensource project due to licensing issues, So giving the source out to people not activly on a "development team" really cant happen. Now that isnt to say that the development team couldnt be huge lol.

the graphics engine acutally supports far better graphics then those I am using and that is something that will be worked on over the course of development.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, like I said there should hopefully be a new playable demo up and running soon with all the added content ive been working on Ill post here when its ready

[trevius]

Just a couple small notes I forgot to mention before from my experience in the game last night:

1. I wasn't able to connect to a server so, I had to play it in single player mode. I don't know if that is just the way it is meant to be used for now or not. Just thought I would mention that incase I was actually supposed to be able to get to a server.

2. I tried fighting a mob and actually won the fight, but it had to take at least 10 or 15 minutes lol. After that point, I ran away from anything that agroed me! I realize this is still in early development, so that is probably why the fight was so long, but thought it was worth mentioning. As it is now, I don't think people can really "play" the game until the fight time length is reduced considerably. It took so long that I just tabbed out and did a few other things while waiting for the outcome and checked back every few minutes lol.

I was amazed that the client was only like 30ish MBs lol. I guess that is because there isn't much content yet (zones etc) to make the numbers huge. The with a small download like this and an easy install/setup, I think it is worthwhile for people to at least check it out.

[LordRathgil]

oh yeah sorry the multiplayer server is closed for development single player still has all the content multiplayer does but multiplayer has other features that im working on and till they are done its more trouble then its worth to have it up live for people to play on yet other then devs doing testing and so forth

yeah im not quite sure about the fight times Ive made paladin ranger barb and warr toons for testing and it didnt take quite that long so it might be class dependant but ill look into it

The demp game tomorr will be a bit larger lol added a ton of graphics to it for the new zones and so forth

EDIT:

Oh and jsut so everyone knows ive been working on adding some better gear to the game icons are a bit lacking for them but the ingame graphics otherwise are there and they are usable, ill take a look at the combat functions now to see what takes so long it would help if i knew what class you made

[trevius]

I wanted to make a rogue, but saw that it wasn't available and picked another class (pretty sure it was a paladin) and was fighting a raptor looking thing called a "Grisu".

[LordRathgil]

oh yeah those lol a bit above level one that was it lol ingame they are a subspecies of dragon hence tough to kill wait till you go up against one of their big cousins hehe yes therewill be real dragons in this game good and bad rogues will be added in the first expansion we release