Following the path of the Card hunter Launch

Sure scrum master would kill me if i asked for a date of the launching of the game, but could the team just give us informations about :

What has been already done ?
What's on the board for the next iteration ?
What still needs to be done for the beta ?
and, an idea of the launching month / year ?

Just drooling over this game !!!!

Keep up the good work

 

Quote from Jon in rockpapershotgun interview :

"So we spent the first six months just working on getting the game playable, in a really ugly kind of placeholder way, just to let us see how the game played. And the good thing about that is we actually threw away tons of stuff and iterated, and didn’t feel bad about it, because we hadn’t put a lot of work into polishing anything. So the core part of the game is pretty much 100% done. It’s not graphically polished up yet and it doesn’t have all the sound, but it’s been playable for a long time and we’ve been playing it a lot. It’s in really good shape, I think.
That said, that’s only the core of the game"

There isn't really an official launch date but from the current info early 2012.
The Beta would be aimed around end 2011.

 

I wonder how beta players would be selected?

 

I guess probably a sign up.

 

I'm think we all get locked in a room and the one who comes out gets the job.

 

Sounds like Battle Royal to me

 

Hmm. Does your post count determine your starting hit points? Does the "like" counter give MP or bonus items?

 

Thanks Hopibear !

Telling us the core of the game is finished appease me as for a quick and mastered launch of the Beta.

In fact, it only remains to make the bride a little more beautiful ! Joking. Sure they'll need to forge now the +2000 Mithril Axes, +20 Dextirity bows, and carve all the arrows....

Hope they won't forget to forge me the ring to rule them all !!

Thanks for coming back to this topic and gave us some informations about what has been newly implemented !

 

hehe np i just quoted what Jon said
P.S. just to let u know i am a fan of the game not a dev

 

We'll have a thousand HP by the time the Beta launches!

 

That means technically i have the most HP now ?

 

beware of kobolds....they can be dangerous in large numbers

 

I am excited for this, hope I get in the beta

 

Only people with at least 1,000 HP will be beta tested...

 

You can knock me down in 1 hit

 

I do suspect that forum activity may play a roll in the selection process. That's how a lot of other companies do it (aside from system specs and prior experience). Post count as Hit Points is a terrifying concept, and makes me (as a moderator for a different website) cringe. The horror! The horror~!

 

Sadly, I can see a parallel to real MMORPG behaviour here: "grinding." Put masses of time in an online game to boost your character . . . post masses of comments on an online forum to boost your "character."

Regardless, let us hope that the Beta isn't so long in coming that any of us reach 1,000 HP.

 

We kobolds will rise en masse!!!

 

*sharpens his favourite sword Kolbolds Bane*

 

That would be terrible. It'd lead to ungodly amounts of spamming, unless they created some kind of subforum for that. Also just kind of seems like an all-around bad way to go about it.

Maybe starting HP is determined by your class? And I wouldn't be surprised if beta access (if closed) was given based on forum activity. If it's still a ways away, though, that gives us all plenty of time to build up some rep. I should probably visit here a bit more often, anyway...