Darkfall Online Updates and YOU!!!!

[SnallTrippin]

GameBiz

I now understand how hard it is to make money off a video game...and to spell things in English.

[Judas Deceit]

Darkfall update from Tasos: Some news is better than none I guess.



August 22, 2008
Hello,

I thought to quickly check in before too much more time passes. As we step up publishing activities, the updates should increase in frequency and quality, which should make up for the ones we’ve been missing the last months. We take for granted sometimes that the Darkfall community is savvy enough to understand the limitations of independent game development and make allowances, however we’re also keeping track of what we need to give you in order for you to know exactly what you’re getting into with Darkfall.

On progress, there are no major problems to report, some minor delays maybe here and there which don’t affect our timeline. Most of us had a short break, the last for a long time. Everyone is back and we officially entered into our crunch period on Monday. We’ve had several new people join the company the past month, and more on the way.

There's a video coming out, most probably next week, or shortly after. We’re talking about a long 100% in-game pure gameplay trailer with no scripting, no simulation, no post-processing. It’s us play-testing while fraps is running on free cameras and playercams and all the footage was collected and edited. The scenarios for it had to be run as part of our testing and development schedule as they came up. Nothing is scripted. We wanted to give you something that can put you in the true spirit of the game and this requires us to be actually playing the game like you would be, and not just taking you on a sightseeing tour or have a company make a marketing cinematic trailer for us.

If you're experiencing problems with the website and the forums it's because these days we're upgrading our webservers and this should be going on most of next week as well. Thank you for your patience.

Our next update would be the video, so until then, thanks for reading

[Rabid]

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

It's pretty simple... I'll believe it when I see it and not one moment before.

I'm in 100% agreement. Darkfall sounds great compared to the vast majority of crap on market and in production right now, but unless it can deliver it to the market before someone else who cares because we certainly aren't going to wait till 2050 to finally play Darkfall at least I'm not.

[Judas Deceit]

Tasos, Darkfall Developer:

First, we have a few new screenshots up in the gallery.
Several people found them already, there's a thread in the forum about them and a lot of comments on the nice graphics. We've said this before, and for what it's worth... Darkfall in-game graphics look considerably better than the screenshots and much better than the video. We're also not using a screenshot setting, you're looking at the setting we play on. We just happen to lose a lot in the image and video capture and compression.
It was in our plans to make a followup update to the Darkfall Trailer, but a few sites asked us for the same thing, so we'll wait to do it that way.

There's also an announcement out about an ESWC international event we're organizing in Athens in October. We're partners with the ESWC and we've been promoting e-sports and hosting events in Greece for a few years. There will also be other tournaments, like the ESL Pro Series, a lot of gaming, and a Greek game developer conference. All this is happening during the Athens Digital Week. We're using this opportunity to host a Darkfall event and it's the reason we're taking the time to arrange all this. Details on this event will be posted when they become available.

Have a nice weekend.

[SnallTrippin]

If the graphics on an all right computer look that good I'll be much happier.

[Judas Deceit]

Darkfall Update 09-24-08

Tasos:
Unauthorized Darkfall Pre-order
It has come to our attention that there are some sites out there offering a Darkfall pre-order.

We have not authorized this, and we are not associated with it in any way. When and if there's a Darkfall Preorder it will be clearly announced on this site.


God damn it how do I get my fucking money back for 4 copies!!!

[Hytek]

Originally Posted by Judas Deceit

Darkfall Update 09-24-08

Tasos:
Unauthorized Darkfall Pre-order
It has come to our attention that there are some sites out there offering a Darkfall pre-order.

We have not authorized this, and we are not associated with it in any way. When and if there's a Darkfall Preorder it will be clearly announced on this site.


God damn it how do I get my fucking money back for 4 copies!!!

lol fucking pwned.

[Judas Deceit]

oops forgot /joke tag!

Whos the pwned now!!!!

[Hytek]

Clearly

[Judas Deceit]

Friday 26th
Tasos:


Hardware Configuration Test

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Hello, this is a small update on our current activities:

Since September the 22nd we've been running tests to make sure that Darkfall runs properly on a variety of hardware configurations. Any external people are being selected strictly by their hardware configuration and are selected and let in gradually. Absolutely no other criteria come into play other than hardware. Also, we are not playtesting. If you are selected for this hardware test you will be notified by email to the address associated with your Darkfall community forum account.

Once we've concluded this phase, we will gradually allow more people in based on various other criteria associated with the testing needs. We may not announce the start of every phase. All the testing up to the open beta phase is protected by NDA.

About the Athens Digital Week event, there will be a Darkfall presentation and possibly announcements based on our progress by then. Any information on the ADW site concerning Darfall is currently inaccurate and a placeholder. We're not directly responsible for this content but we've asked for the information to be corrected.

We'll keep you updated on any significant developments.

Thanks for reading.


HURRY UP AND ENJOY WarHO WHILE YOU CAN ITS FUCKING COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !111!11!