General Discussion

Runes of Magic is a recently announced MMO project to be published by Frogster Interactive. Recently, Frogster released a design document outlining the game's starting area, which we are pleased to publish here along with a few screenshots of the described zones.

The gloomy word howling in the name of the Howling Mountains does not correspond to the mellow landscape. In earnest though there was a meeting place of lower daemons here and especially the Barrow was a venue for the wild hordes. In certain nights they performed bizarre sacrificial rituals in the Barrow’s monumental stone formation. Due to the accompanying screams the area was later called the Howling Mountains. Some years ago the Council of Varanas and the Eye of Wisdom repeatedly cleansed the region with great wraith expulsions and the force of arms.

At the time the first humans settled there, no howling could be heard, which has once reverberated through the valley. Since then travellers and adventures experience the Howling Mountains as an open ley, which can be perceived at a glance. The surrounding mountains and spiky stone formations can nonetheless instil a slightly eerie feeling of discomfort.

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WOOT!!! First!!!! hehe.... thx for the info, hope they release this game soon...

"WOOT!!! First!!!! hehe.... "

Hey if getting in the first post means that much to you, there are always a bunch of unreplied posts in this area, have at it.

Sorry im really bored......  

looks promising.

 It looks poorily designed in my opinion but I could be wrong as I often am. What I noticed was a simplicity to the graphics engine. Which isnt necessarily bad. The models actually remind me of the models in Spore.

MmMmmm Spore

yet another MMORPG joins, that no one really cares about

Makes me think of Warcraft... O.o Just less cartoony. Or maybe Perfect World, one of the two.

Ah,yes but it did get it back on topic.

Well its vibrant and colorful. I'll give it that. The textures are all stretched out and nasty though and its got a hefty case of the "Bloom", aka post processing effects, going on. Imo, Bloom can be used to make atmospheres look fantasy-like...or it can be used to hide poorly made models/textures. You decide how its used.