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Team Comments 3:
Darkfall Development Status
Darkfall entered Pre-Alpha in December 2001.
At the start of Pre-Alpha we had some serious crash bugs, but 99% of all those
bugs have been found and fixed. The game has now been up and running for about
3 months without any server crashes, and we have had about 20 testers helping
us out (thanks a lot guys!).
Basically, the Pre-Alpha was a small world (took about 30 mins to see all of
it), with a small village and a castle. The gameplay was extremely limited.
In fact, all you could do, was run around and shoot at other players with a
lightning bolt spell, and taunt them in the ingame chat. Quite fun for a while,
but not exactly enough to call it a game.
We are now getting ready to leave the Pre-Alpha stage, and enter Darkfall Alpha
1. This should happen within the next 3-4 weeks, but it could take a few weeks
longer.
Darkfall Alpha 1 will feature an updated engine (its gonna look alot better
than what you see on our current screenshots), new character models, a new and
improved interface, more spells, an autopatcher, and support for starting and
operating Clans. We are also going to have a few monsters and animals in the
Alpha 1.
All the current testers will get Darkfall Alpha 1, and we are also going to
invite more people into it. We will be hand-picking a few testers from our boards
(and it wont help to ask us for it, or email us about it. In fact: emailing
us about it is a bad idea - you have been warned ).
We will probably also invite a few magazines into it, so they can have a look.
Unfortunately we are still desperately understaffed here at Razorwax, so everyone
is working 14 hour shifts, 7 days a week, and trying to make up for the lack
of staff. That is basically the biggest reason why we can not give any guarantees
in regards to when the Alpha 1 is ready. This will not change until we have
secured a publisher contract for Darkfall (or we get some funky new investors),
so dont hold it against us if we miss a milestone :)
Darkfall Alpha 1 is planned to last about 2 months.
The Darkfall Team
Razorwax AS
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