Soulbound Studios ran out of money in 2020, lay off the workforce, and put the game on hold, only to pivot a month later and claim the game was continuing in progress with volunteer personnel. The Blizzard drama and the Richard Garriott drama would want to take part of your focus away from the Chronicles of Elyria drama! The game will be available on PC, Mac, and Linux. The game is set to release on Kickstarter this spring and will go into the alpha test phase by the end of the year. The game’s launch date hasn’t yet been revealed, but you can read more about it on our website.”Ĭhronicles of Elyria is a game that has been in development for over 10 years.
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That phase is open to alpha 2 backers “in addition to the alpha 1 backers were able to provide feedback previously.” The next quarterly update itself is slated for July 12th.“Elyria has been in development for the past six years, and we’re ready to start testing what is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious MMOs ever created. The Kickstarter update concludes with a plan for a mid-alpha test weekends that are expected at some point in Q2, so in the next few months Walsh says to expect an updated launcher, new game systems, bug fixes, faster load times, optimization, and access to new biomes. Given the large volume of assets, and the small size of our team, it’s simply impossible for us to deliver the game we want to deliver, in the time we’d like to deliver it in, without resorting to purchasing assets from a marketplace whenever the quality meets our standards, and those assets are unlikely to pull people out of the world we’re trying to create for them.” There’s a massive number of things to make. As you saw earlier, CoE has thousands of different items that are used as crafting resources, tools, weapons, armor, furniture, cookware, and more. These days, we buy store-bought assets for an entirely different reason. But we’d occasionally see a high-quality asset we’d need to make anyways, and in that case, it just made more sense to pick it up in a store than make it from scratch. Early on, our purchased assets were largely WIP pieces, designed as placeholder or stand-in assets. In our case, we’ve used store-bought assets from the beginning of CoE’s development and continue to do so today, though for different reasons. In all cases, a studio is purchasing assets. It doesn’t matter whether you’re buying assets from an asset marketplace like the Unity Asset store, paying employee-artists to create custom assets for you, or splitting the difference and having outsourcing agencies create custom assets for you from base templates. Readers will recall that Elyria has been accused of passing off bought assets as custom in the past Walsh actually addresses this, arguing it’s unfair to criticize developers for using stock assets: Walsh includes a list of ported gameplay functionality as well – it’s everything from characters and death to aging and movement to gear and consumables. Studio head Jeromy “Caspian” Walsh recaps a February early alpha test says the team is working on engineering, design, and art making “huge advances” with the core game engine porting the backend to a new framework working out biomes, environmental data, and crafting resources streamlining engineering data and prototyping art. That brings us to this week, when Soulbound Studios has released a state-of-the-game update for Q1 2022.
The sub is safe again, the lawsuit is still underway, and Elyria was supposedly on track for a late 2024 release.
Last year, Soulbound began testing spinoff Kingdoms of Elyria under NDA, locked down the game’s subreddit over death threats, and proposed crypto land trades. Backers hit Soulbound and Xsolla with a class-action lawsuit. The Chronicles of Elyria drama would like to reclaim some of your attention from the Blizzard drama and the Richard Garriott drama!īack in 2020, Soulbound Studios ran out of cash, laid off the team, and ended development, only to pivot a month later and insist the game was still in production with volunteer staff.
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