Lord British returns
to his fantasy RPG roots
with Shroud of the Avatar,
hearkening back to his innovative early work.
The project is currently $23,769 shy of its $1,000,000 kickstarter target.
Make that $23,709 - I just pledged $60.
I found out about this from a post in Raptr Tabula Rasa Community which had a link to an Ogre Jungle Gaming News and Reviews article.
Alongside Garriott is a strong team of veteran game developers with experience in creating games in multiple genres (Tracy Hickman, the author behind Dragonlance and Deathgate, has also joined up). The team members have an average of 10+ years of development experience each and all together have pushed out over 50 games into the market (Wing Commander, Guild Wars, Privateer, and Dragon Age just to name a few). That is quite an A-Team that Garriott has going there, but the situation gets even better when you take a look at what Shroud of the Avatar is all about.
“Yes, you will be able to play with your friends! Multiplayer games encourage social bonds that go far beyond what can be accomplished in a solo player game. I remember the depth of these bonds in players who met in-game only to get married in real life, how people who died in the real world were deeply mourned and celebrated by their online friends whom they may never have met face to face. Though Shroud of the Avatar won’t be a massively multiplayer online role playing game, it will be a multiplayer game. We will be describing this in more detail in our upcoming community blogs…
The game can be played offline, no connection required. The character used for the offline version of the game will not be useable in the online version of the game for obvious exploit/hacking reasons. We are going to investigate ways to export your online character to the single player version of the game but the offline character will not be importable into the online version.”