Illindir update!
Man, I’ve been busy busy busy with my new job, and, you guessed it, Illindir.
So, Ashley and I teamed up and have been knocking out Danzibar with the help of our great builder, Lositho, and the fruits of our labors are FINALLY paying off: Danzibar is getting neat completion. We tackled one of the biggest cities in the game (somewhere around 800 rooms) and are having a decisive victory over the evil empty vnums! While this is all fine and dandy for us, it means that once we get a few more details ironed out (like Myrra moving soon and getting settled into a new house) we should be SUPER close to a testing phase of the game. This is great because not only can players poke around and break things, it means we can set up all the stuff so we can make balanced mobs and get the crafting system set in stone. So, yay, we are getting super close to testing!
Anyway, I should get back to building, only a few sections to go before the city is DONE and we get to see all the players we’ve missed from Cities of Mdhoria and such (and hopefully a few new faces too).
Woohoo doing stuff!
Yay, things are going much better!
Gino and I have started to play Gaunlent: Dark Legacy together and its a ton of fun! We found a mutilplayer game we both like and can play for a couple hours without getting bored or frustrated. Up next for our multiplaying enjoyment will be Secret of Mana for SNES. Yes… I love that game… yussssss….
ANYWAY. Illindir stuff is going AWESOME. Ashley and I are teaming up on Danzibar to knock that sucker out, so hopefully we’ll be able to open up for some testing of skills soon and the players will have somewhere to poke around while DESTROYING EACH OTHER. I know some people are wondering “WTF? Why is it taking that long?!” Well, it’s a couple different reasons, the first mainly being real-life being made of suck. I lost my job back in May and it put me in a depressed funk and a highly stressed mode as I desperately searched for a job to pay the bills. As much as I LOVE Illindir, I like having someplace to live and power on at my apartment more… BUT now I have a job (an awesome one at that) so its all good now. Ashley bought a house *mind-boggle* so thats TONS of stress and work right there, making it a little hard to build.
Also, there is one key thing people are forgeting: Illindir is not your momma’s mud. What does that mean? Think about the common muds played (most people we know are from either Cities of M’dhoria or Advent of the Mists at the moment, so we’ll use those as an example). Think of how big cities like Seria, Thelasia, Cranezmore or Gheldale were… probably somewhere between 100 to 300 rooms, give or take. Were they decent sized? Sure, but you ran into the same people over and over and over again and there weren’t a whole bunch of places to go. Danzibar alone is somewhere in the 700 – 800 room range with each room having its own, unique room description. Puan and Fwi are around 350 rooms EACH, give or take, so needless to say, its a pretty big task taking on something like that. Thankfully we have dedicated staff members who want BADLY to see this game open and thrive, so we aren’t letting the task daunt us. We’re not doing too shabby, especially since the conception of the IDEA of Illindir took place in Feb. 2008. The mud is barely a year and half old and we’ve gotten so far.
Also, I chuckled when I heard the rumors of CoM re-opening, and then promptly heard a rumor that essentially went “WTF? No its not, people are smoking crack.” Yes, I paraphrased, but thats ok. Also, the rumor chain was so long, it it was hilarious. It went something like: I heard from Bob that Sue found out from Ted that Jenny had talked to Joe, who is roomates with Jill and Kyle, who, of course, are related to Helen who said that her boyfriend, Rob, was re-opening the mud. While I liked CoM when I played, I don’t think it was the mud for me.
Hrrrrrrrrmmmmmm what else is going on… I dunno, its late, so my brain is tired. I have work tomorrow which I am looking forward to, because that job is AWESOME. I get paid EVERY Monday, get discounts on games AND I get to SELL FRICKIN GAMES. Video games are made of win.
