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Crowfall is testing out its item imports and exports between worlds
The many worlds of Crowfall are built on a premise of risk and reward. The best materials are found in the most dangerous kill-or-be-killed worlds, and all items are crafted. To get the best...
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The Game Archaeologist: Wing Commander Online and Privateer Online
In late 2012, former Wing Commander developer-slash-movie director Chris Roberts emerged from a decade of obscurity to ask for help to fund his vision of a massive, engaging space sim for a modern...
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Crowfall team says 2017 is 'gonna be our year,' shows off the Templar
Crowfall isn't wasting any time in claiming dominance over 2017. ArtCraft's J. Todd Coleman said that, "2017 is going to be our year, I feel it!" in the team's January Kickstarter update. ArtCraft...
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Crowfall answers player questions on server size and QA work
What ever happened to Crowfall's stretch goal for a QA lead? The answer is nothing happened to it; it's still a goal for the future, but at the moment the studio's finances are just such that the...
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Crowfall reaches a funding stretch goal and aims for one last target
Back in November, Crowfall studio ArtCraft joined Indiegogo's fledgling equity crowdfunding platform, which makes use of brand-new laws that allow non-accredited investors to invest in start-ups...
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MMOs Chronicles of Elyria, Dual Universe, and AQ3D were among top crowdfunded...
Fig, the gaming crowdfunding platform that surged in popularity in 2016 thanks to successful Wasteland 3 and Psychonauts 2 campaigns, has released a list of the top 10 biggest gaming crowdfunds of...
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Recapping Crowfall's equity investment Q&A
Early this afternoon, ArtCraft Entertainment's J. Todd Coleman and Gordon Walton answered investor questions about Crowfall's equity crowdfunding venture, which closes out on Monday. We've collected...
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Here's how Crowfall is tweaking resource harvesting for Big World
Crowfall Design Lead Thomas "Blixtev" Blair has a new dev blog out this afternoon on the resource harvesting slice of the big world testing going on right now. To understand how it's changing, you...
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Leaderboard: Did you participate in Crowfall's equity crowdfunding raise?
Finishing up today is Crowfall's Indiegogo-based equity crowdfunding campaign, one of the first games and MMORPGs to take advantage of new 2016 laws that allow regular people to invest in small indie...
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Stitch together your own playable bodies in Crowfall
Do you have any qualms about playing with dead things in video games? How about playing a dead thing itself? Crowfall will offer both opportunities with its necromancy crafting profession. "Crowfall's...
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Crowfall details the mechanics of death, resurrection, and swapping characters
You will die while playing Crowfall. That's pretty much inevitable. But you will also never die in Crowfall, because you are not your character; you are the spirit that animates that character. The...
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Massively Overthinking: Death and dying in MMORPGs
In March of last year, MOP's Justin wrote a detailed guide to the most common death penalties in MMORPGs. Last September, Gamasutra pulled seven game developers together to discuss the most effective...
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MMORPG developers, GDC organizers speak out against US 'Muslim ban'
You might want to keep politics out of gaming, but politics has a way of forcing itself in the door no matter what. Multiple MMO developers and video game convention organizers have now spoken out...
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Crowfall shows the making of your spirit crow
In Crowfall, every player will be exactly the same race, as their true form will be an etheral crow spirit that can inhabit "vessels" (read: set archetypes) for combat campaigns. While the crows won't...
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Crowfall's 'development velocity to increase'
Now that it has the foundations of its systems in place, Crowfall has a lot more stuff to add into the game in a relatively short order. You can see that in the game's most recent update for testers,...
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Crowfall gives the old Knight archetype some new love
It must be hard to be the first class put out for an MMO. You end up getting shoved into the shadows while the newer and shinier professions come along. For one eldest child, there's hope this week:...
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Crowfall examines the ins and outs of crafting in its latest Q&A video
The latest community Q&A video for Crowfall is out, and it covers a lot of the details for the game's crafting mechanics. For example, despite appearances and the current test version, the game's...
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Crowfall demonstrates the animations of the Templar
Crowfall's Templar is going to smash in your face if you cross her. She's got divine power, she's got a two-handed sword, and she's not about to allow anyone to stop her. But why take our word for it?...
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Five reasons behind the failure of Hero's Song
In July of 2015, MMORPG fans were stunned to hear that John Smedley was stepping down from his post as president of Daybreak. After all, he had been in the captain's chair at Verant, SOE, and now...
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The Daily Grind: Do you ever play MMORPGs against 'type'?
Perhaps owing at least in part to the charisma of its chief executive, Camelot Unchained is one of those rare in-production MMORPGs that seems to attract people who would normally flee from it in...
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