A new game is being developed by Felstone studio the game is called Skyelv and the developers wont your thoughts on the game.
The in development trailer has been uploaded to Youtube. Please like subscribe and leave your thoughts in the comment section.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1BmOXTDbR4
Sorry, I'm not clicking a blind link without more information. Is this a tabletop RPG or a computer game? Theme? Setting? System?
You've got to give a better elevator pitch than this.
It's a cRPG or MMO.
Quote from: nathan;1022835A new game is being developed by Felstone studio the game is called Skyelv and the developers wont your thoughts on the game.
It's Sky fantasy with the Rim jobs?
Welcome to theRPGsite Nathan! Please tell us more, especially as we are traditional paper tabletop RPG and how our perspective would be useful to your team.
Skyelv is a open world role playing game.
In the game you come across one of the last dragon eggs and there your story begins.
It's just a Youtube link, Gronan. :rolleyes:
That said, . . . it's bad, guys. It's like a super generic low budget shovelware single-player MMO. There is no polish to it whatsoever, and even the menus are ugly as sin. I get that it's still "in development," but it's still a ways from being not embarrassing to share with the general public. Sketchy link spam ad campaign, utterly uninspired and unpolished trailer showing gameplay reminiscent of the late 90s/early 00s MMOs, yeah . . . not holding my breath.
Sorry/not sorry, new guy.
"Just a Youtube link," indeed. Looks like my instincts are still good.
After 47 years of wargaming, I know an ambush when I see one.
What's "shovelware?" I've not heard that term before. And what's a "single player MMO?" I thought the second M stood for "Multiplayer?"
Quote from: nathan;1022932Skyelv is a open world role playing game.
In the game you come across one of the last dragon eggs and there your story begins.
I sell the dragon egg to a wizard and buy an inn.
Yeah, it was just a Youtube link. I thought you were afraid of it being a malware link or something like that. Sorry if I misunderstood.
Shovelware is a catch-all term for usually(but not always) cheaply produced software meant to capitalize on gimmicks and/or piggyback on someone else's success. The mobile games market is currently mostly(I'd wager over 99%) this. I used this term because the game looks like a cheap knock-off of those late 90s/early 00s MMOs. You'll never catch me calling EverQuest a good game, but even at its worst it blows what I saw in the linked video out of the water.
And I said single player MMO because from the video it looks like the graphics, combat, and other play elements were ripped right out of an MMO, though I saw no evidence of this being a multiplayer game itself. It's shorthand.
As a playtester for a few massivly single player games now Id say at the moment your graphics need some work to be competitive. Or at least interesting enough to keep a potential buyers attention. The graphics and interface at the moment look to be about GameMaker or Flash level.
Think about how you can improve the look without a total overhaul. Though if this is early demoing then its understandable it looks as it does. For example compare the early Blockade Runner to the current version before they closed it down.
Quote from: GeekEclectic;1023128Yeah, it was just a Youtube link. I thought you were afraid of it being a malware link or something like that. Sorry if I misunderstood.
It was shorthand for "Your pitch here isn't even good enough to make me spend five minutes watching a video." If the written pitch is as bad as this one, I dread the video.
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1023676It was shorthand for "Your pitch here isn't even good enough to make me spend five minutes watching a video." If the written pitch is as bad as this one, I dread the video.
Oh, yeah, the pitch was dreadful. Like the dude wasn't even trying. The additional info - and I do use that term loosely - in post #5 was just sad.
Quote from: nathan;1022932Skyelv is a open world role playing game.
In the game you come across one of the last dragon eggs and there your story begins.
You never answered my question.
I want to sell the dragon egg to a wizard and buy an inn. Or build a palace.
What happens?
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1024007You never answered my question.
I want to sell the dragon egg to a wizard and buy an inn. Or build a palace.
What happens?
You can't because the game dies.
Quote from: Ulairi;1024033You can't because the game dies.
Is that a guess, or did you watch the video?
The reason I ask is that Sparky called it an "open world." If you're following a story, it ain't an open world.
Like the term RPG, Open world and even sandbox have been appropriated for PC games and have taken on different meanings.
Open World tends to mean a game where you can roam wherever. There are no barriers really so if you go over there you might get your head handed to you, but over here its manageable. Id guess its use is closer to a wilderness or hex crawl campaign for tabletop.
Sandbox in PCs seems to still have no real definithion. One guy uses it for an open world game, another uses it for a fixed but destructable map, another uses it to describe any given builder game like Minecraft. And someone else uses it to describe some sort of rail shooter, but you can custom your gear. Oh and its an RPG too. No really! It is!
It does look like the OPs game is of the open world sort. Free roaming. That is the impression I got from the vid.
Looks like actually asking questions killed this thread, and possibly the OP.
Hopefully to think on how to improve things and assess the feasibility factor.
Playtesting is where the real fun begins.