Tatsumaki: Land at War

Check out my post over 1 year ago...

mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/176/view/forums/thread/136929/page/1

This website for this game hasn't had but maybe a couple of things added in over the last year. It would suck to be someone who pre-ordered this game, because it's not even close to a beta at all. It would be nice, but they just don't have the development team needed for this kind of project. I hope that someone picks them up and this game can be a success but for now it seems like it is on hold or was a college project turned bad and they actually had to get a real job because there dream isn't paying. As long as SOE doesn't pick this up I am fine with anyone else taking this and running with it.

  I am actually one of the people working on this game, and it is going a bit slow.  Right now we have 4 people actively working on it, which is not alot.  However, we do have a really talented Programer who has all but completed the Alpha engine and is a good deal into completing the beta engine.  I am right about to finish all the modeling and texturing going into the female models of this game at the end of this week, maybe even the male models too.

  Activity is definetly a problem since all of us do work full-time on other jobs.  I really hope we can plop up a beta engine soon, impress some publishers, and get picked up so I can start getting paid and pickup some more workers who can commit to a full-time schedule.  However, there is still some angst against doing it since this game will go severely against gameplay in popular mmos today.  Which means they may want us to change it and thats a dilemma on this project.

wow, 4 people working on an mmo? Doesn't that sound...like, a bit understaffed?

I hope not there are more than 4 people playing it online at any one time... I like the concept so I thought about downloading the game... the download link didn't have any, uhmmmm..... download link.  What gives?

This game will be a good game.

This game will finnish.

There are many games that have less than 4 devs, that even are in alpha testing now.

This game will be so good, it will blow your mind away!

Just read about all the features!

Amen

sure. i'll wait...

Developed by 4 people in their spare time?

I checked on your website to see if there were any other screenshots besides the ones here and I saw people can pre-order to get into the beta.  I am all in favor of programmers making games in their spare time etc.  One of my best friends is a Comp Sci major who now works on Guitar Hero games etc.  He and I always threw around the idea of working on a game for fun.  But posting your game on the MMORPG list and offering it for pre-order this early in the development stage and that understaffed seems very deceptive.

Is that even legal for you to sell people a copy of your game promising beta testing when the game might not even make it to that stage?  That sounds more like people purchasing stock in the developing company rather than pre-ordering.

Originally posted by stormseekaz

Developed by 4 people in their spare time?

I checked on your website to see if there were any other screenshots besides the ones here and I saw people can pre-order to get into the beta.  I am all in favor of programmers making games in their spare time etc.  One of my best friends is a Comp Sci major who now works on Guitar Hero games etc.  He and I always threw around the idea of working on a game for fun.  But posting your game on the MMORPG list and offering it for pre-order this early in the development stage and that understaffed seems very deceptive.

Is that even legal for you to sell people a copy of your game promising beta testing when the game might not even make it to that stage?  That sounds more like people purchasing stock in the developing company rather than pre-ordering.

It's legal in the sense that mmorpgs are the most unregulated business model around. Look at all the games that have come and gone after scamming people out of money ( DnL, Mourning, Phylon, etc. ). Most of us with any sense at all don't buy pre-orders anymore, not even from established companies much less unknown indy devs. I would have thought Cleffy, who has been here a long time and seen this type of activity, would not go the route of "pre-order for a game that might come out".
 

I am against it.  From my understanding not many people have pre-ordered and its advised you don't.  But I am not really in control about whats on the website.