Indie MMO Spotlight: Goodbye Gloria Victis, Hello The Day Before
Each week, we scour the internet for all things indie MMO-related, so you don’t have to. This week, Gloria Victis waves goodbye, The Day Before returns to Steam, and Book of Travels (image above) celebrates two years in Early Access. Plenty of other stuff is also going on, so let’s quit wasting time and get started with this week’s Indie MMO Spotlight.
BitCraft is starting to pump out developer interviews and blogs. Along with their regular weekly tweet showing a couple of characters sitting next to a campfire , they posted BitCraft Design Blog #3 as well as a “What is BitCraft ” conversation between Carter Minshull, Game Director of BitCraft , and Tyler Cloutier, CEO of Clockwork Labs.
Might and Delight gave everyone a Halloween treat by dropping their biggest BoT content update ( 0.44.5 ) on Tuesday, including a new area, 15 new achievements, and the reintroduction of character death. The update marks the two-year anniversary of Book of Travels going into Early Access.
The Dark is the Night update went live on Monday. The update adds new nocturnal variants of many creatures, new lamps to light up your town, and a new end-game level gear, the Moonhunter armor set.
What a week for The Day Before . Fantastic actually hit a release date by dropping their ‘Final Trailer’ on Thursday, and in doing so also slipped in that Early Access would now be delayed until December 7th. Fantastic also announced that they had won back their name , and The Day Before is back on Steam . The drama still isn’t over, though, as it has been confirmed that the previously announced Beta Test will only be open to volunteers who work on the game.
Fractured Online’s Steam Patch has been deployed. Character creation is open for everyone in
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