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| ?fans who contribute to Crowfall on Kickstarter can be involved in the Runescape games pre-release testing, purchase the Runescape game at a discount, and secure castles and fortifications for their personal kingdoms.“We are floored and humbled by the response from our community,” explained Gordon Walton, ArtCraft president and executive producer. “We hoped that the vision behind Crowfall would help it find an audience, but we didn’t expect to exceed our target so quickly.”“Crowfall is a completely Runescape player-driven universe,” explains J. Todd Coleman, CEO and game director. ”Instead of creating thousands of hours of content, we give the Runescape players the tools they need to create their own experiences. Crowfall is an economic, RS 07 Gold political and military simulator. We expect thousands —or hundreds of thousands—of Runescape players to join guilds and noble houses and to compete for control of the virtual universe.”Walton adds, “Prior to launching our Kickstarter campaign, we spent about two months teasing out information about the Runescape game we were making…what it is, how it works and what kind of Runescape players we thought it might appeal to. Our strategy was to build our community first. Given that we hit our funding target so quickly, that was obviously the right approach.”Stretch Goal 1 is called "Upgrade FX, Hire Another Eric, Add Female Centaurs!" We aren't happy with our combat, spell and environmental FX. The current FX in the Runescape game are placeholders... not ideal, but it was the only option available, because we didn't have a full time FX artist. Usually Runescape games have at least one artist who specializes in making amazing visual FX (explosions, fire, smoke, lightning -- you name it.)Since we don't have a dedicated FX Artist, we handed that task to one of our other artists (Eric) and made him do it. The result are FX that look good, but not amazing (no offense, Eric!). So, the "Hire Another Eric" stretch goal really does a few things for us: First: Spell FX! We will use the funds of the stretch goal to hire an FX artist and to secure an FX technology library for creating amazing spell FX in Crowfall. With this extra capacity, we're going to add another gender option for one of our previous-locked raced: the Centaur Legionnaire archetype. That means we'll have male/female variants on: Druid, Ranger, Champion, Confessor, Knight, Templar, Frostweaver... and Legionnaire! Stretch Goal 2: Mounts and Caravans!A major emphasis of Crowfall is transporting goods and materials. When you raid a quarry and secure a palette of Stone, getting that material back to your stronghold to it -- or to scavenge it for your Eternal Kingdom -- will be a major strategic challenge!The core module assumes that Runescape players will be schlepping these items back and forth in their inventory. That's workable, sure, but it's not nearly as cool as using MOUNTS and CARTS to move those items! |
emphasis of Crowfall is transporting
