Forge

ScudzAlmighty

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nniki1_DAdY&feature=player_embedded"]Forge - Game Teaser - YouTube[/ame]

www.playforgewar.com

An amazing blend of MMO PvP and FPS gameplay. MMO style abilities, fluid combat, instanced PvP. No groups required.

been working on this for a couple months now, going to be AWEsome :poly121:

ScudzAlmighty

couple screenie's

Der Hollander

Glad you posted this, I'm on the environment asset team for the project, been loving it so far.

bounchfx

Sweet! Thanks for sharing dude, I really dig those characters.

Ace-Angel

ETA on gameplay trailer? Artwork looks dandy.

ScudzAlmighty

dunno about a gameplay trailer just yet but there's a couple new interview/articles that explain things a bit more:
http://www.mpogd.com/news/?ID=10558
http://www.incgamers.com/2012/06/forge-promises-pure-pvp/
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/forge/1225097p1.html

Fwap

I'm intrigued.

Snefer

Man, really digging the look of that guy.

ScudzAlmighty

Massive info-dump/blogpost by SuperGenius on art directing the game. It's a pretty big post but definitely worth the read.

http://www.supergenius-studio.com/2012/06/forge-developer-diary-art-direction/

Forge is about conflict, first and foremost. It is the heart of the game design. We decided from the very beginning, everything we built was going to have its purpose in battle. This would help us define everything man-made in the game, from costuming to architecture. Any decorative architecture would be driven by either the need to frighten enemies, protect the occupants, or bolster the occupants with ferocity. The rest is functional. Structures need to look built to withstand the ultimate stress test; war. Walls, pillars, and statues would be huge and reinforced with metal. Stone blocks would appear as if they were laid by giants. Wooden gates and doors would be built out of the entire tree for extra girth and protection. If it didn’t hurt, frighten, or protect, it had no place in the game world.

As far as I know, no native tribes rode panthers into battle. That might have changed the outcome of the taking of the New World. Take that guns, germs and steel! I ride a F***ing panther!

One of the calls the team made early on was to shake loose from two clichés many modern games have fallen into. Strong characters are almost always many men, and female characters almost always wear ridiculous armor that is built more to flaunt fleshy bits than to protect from a swinging weapon. It was strongly felt amongst the team that we could make a kick-ass female Warden and Assassin that were both fun to play and functionally clothed.

iniside

Hm. I have almost exactly same idea for game (with exception I want it to made without classes).

So definitely fallowing this,

ScudzAlmighty

slightly different versions of the two character shots above, but still worth posting;

ScudzAlmighty

So Dark Vale has announced a kickstarter for Forge and it comes with some new gameplay video`s and the full character/companion roster.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlZUDte1AB0&feature=player_embedded"]Forge Gameplay - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bin5LmJ4tw&feature=player_embedded"]Forest Ambush - YouTube[/ame]

characters:


and this last one`s mine:) her sculpt shows up a few times in the kickstarter vid as well

ScudzAlmighty

Companion`s:

JasonLavoie

Those characters look faannnntastic! Will keep an eye out on Forge

erroldynamic

Sick f***in' characters and beasts! Definitely interested in giving this game a whirl.

ScudzAlmighty

Thanks guys

also just noticed that they updated the Assassin and Pathfinder portraits

blankslatejoe

Huh...looks cool!

ScudzAlmighty

Huh...Thanks;)!

just found this live-stream (through RockPaperShotgun!) of the alpha gameplay.
I don't know if it's the same actual game as the above video, but it lets you see all the arts better. Also it's 6-freaking-hours long!

Sculptaur

Whoa, That character art is SO RAD! Looking forward to seeing more!

Eric Chadwick

Looks great! Love the feel of the environments, nice work!

ScudzAlmighty

New gameplay from Endor... I mean Forest Ambush and a screen from Capital Siege
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKYFo9Arrv0&feature=player_embedded"]Forge - Preview of Forest Ambush Gameplay - YouTube[/ame]

ScudzAlmighty

Really nice quickplay video courtesy of GamesRadar, focuses mostly on Pyromancer and Assassin gameplay along with a lot of game info as well.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdtVDw7aSU0"]FORGE QuickPlay - YouTube[/ame]

original article

p.s. there should be some art dumpage soon-ish;)

FullSynch

Some great coverage from TotalBiscuit.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAYvIeFR5ek&feature=g-u-u"]? WTF Is... - FORGE (Alpha) ( Hyper WTF Edition ) - YouTube[/ame]

ScudzAlmighty

I was just gonna post that

There's been some nice (if brief) preview articles as well
IGN
MMORPG
Digital Noob
MASSIVELY

ScudzAlmighty

Just a little Heads-up here, Forge is going to be releasing a playable Alpha version of the game sometime in the next couple days for Kickstarter backers to check out as well as some daily forum draws,

Here's the post from Dark Vale's forum http://www.playforgewar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1052-forge-alpha-preview/

you can always pledge, try it, and cancel the pledge if you don't like it ;(

ScudzAlmighty

FYI, the alpha is now live for backers
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/166522941/forge

Lamont

Awesome stuff!!

Bigjohn

Man this thing looks fantastic. The PvP part is my favorite aspect of MMOs, and why I even subscribe to them in the first place. This thing looks like it's giving me just that one good piece.

Edit:
I can't seem to be able to register for the forums. It said it sent an e-mail verification, but I never got it. I can't even see any way to contact the forum admin through e-mail. Anyone knows what's up with that?

ScudzAlmighty

Forge is now on steam's Greenlight, git yer asses over there and support it people!

BigJohn: I seem to remember having forum issue's when I initially signed up, it registered fine but wouldn't let me do anything at first and unfortunately I can't for the life of me remember what I did Have you tried just re-registering?

Bigjohn

Yeah actually I got it sorted out. I just e-mailed the main e-mail address on the site, even though it didn't say it was for support, and they helped me out.

ScudzAlmighty

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgmayUxbH0U"]Forge - Launch Trailer - YouTube[/ame]

Forge comes out today with a "buy one get one free" two-pack for $20 deal.
http://www.playforgewar.com/

ScudzAlmighty

currently number 2 on steam's top sellers list:)

Ged

this looks pretty good, although I dont really play mmos so I dont really understand whats going on in that video haha, looks like choas!

ScudzAlmighty

It's really not an mmo at all, that was an unfortunate comparison early on when explaining it that just ended up confusing people. If anything it's a fantasy-third-person-shooter with spells instead of guns. The mmo part was just in reference to the skillset.

Ace-Angel

It's more like a persistent MOBA type game from what I saw, in a MMO kinda world but more like TF2 if all of that makes sense?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAYvIeFR5ek"]? WTF Is... - FORGE (Alpha) ( Hyper WTF Edition ) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQiu2voHlwo"]TotalBiscuit vs. Athene in FORGE Beta for Charity & Prizes - YouTube[/ame]

reverendK

yeah..i'll be buying it. awesome work, scudz.

KarlWrang

Ged wrote: »

this looks pretty good, although I dont really play mmos so I dont really understand whats going on in that video haha, looks like choas!

I can very much relate to this, feels like that if you didn't start playing them when it all began, then you're kind of lost..

... Maybe. Or maybe it's just me using procrastination as a excuse for not getting heavily addicted to awesome games

ScudzAlmighty

Totally valid concern and has kept me from even looking at more than a few mp games where I know I just don't have the time to keep the playing field even (ie Fun). Forge is pretty much skill based and the progression system doesn't (currently) equal unlocks, so it should be a fair bit easier to jump into the game later on.

also, steam just updated and gave me this swanky screencap: