Philosophy of this game project

Socialization 

We want to make a game where socialization is a norm. We believe that in MMORPG genre, players are the ones who are socializing, and characters only serve as an avatar of the players, where game situations trigger communication. Untamed Ehizia is similar to SNS, that helps finding new friendships, and expand your relationships outside of the game. It can be even a dating service, where instead of dating in a cafe, you are dating in a virtual world full of adventures. Our goal is to provide triggers, both for verbal and non-verbal cooperation, to make sure that regardless if you are a team of complete strangers or close friends, you will always find an adventure that would suit you.

Experimental 

Since we are working on our dream project, we are ready to take a risk and invest our efforts in unusual concepts. It's a chance for us to play with fundamental ideas of the MMO, to reevaluate and bring novelty to every aspect of this genre. We are leveraging the flexibility of the small team and the absence of external control over the project to be able to travel in an open ocean of possibilities to create unique experiences.

Monetization comes last

We aim to pioneer an innovative Social x MMO gaming experience, prioritizing development of captivating gameplay mechanics over financial gain. Our focus remains solely on enriching the gaming experience and ensuring that each feature contributes to the overall enjoyment of the game. We believe that profitability will naturally follow as players derive value from our game. Needless to say that we oppose any practices that would compromise game integrity like the form of pay to win or selling any in-game advantages that may undermine fairness.

Project progress 

To give an idea on how much we have already done, we want to share some technical information regarding our progress. 

Content-wise:

We created 20 game areas. Each area has a unique biome (biome variation). For these areas, 1000+ 3D environment assets and almost 100 various creatures were created.

For player characters, we already prepared 200+ models for clothes, and weapons.

Software-wise:

Some features below are just written in high-level. There will be following posts that will contain more details on each individual feature.

• Creating users and characters. Character selection screen. New character customization for appearance, initial stats, class, and backgrounds.

• Character movement. Character transition between areas (between different servers).

• Skill system with a high degree of customization. Skills applied to a target and without a target, circular and conical AOE, skills launched towards direction. A skill constructor that allows flexible control of preparation time, cooldown, resulting effects, and enable condition. Supports visual effects, projectiles, ground effects. Support for multiple projectiles, projectiles that can trigger further effects (e.g. splitting into small projectiles), customizable projectile piercing, and many other skill-related mechanics. Support for “movement” skills (dash, push/repel), item/craft related skills, applying statuses (buffs, debuffs) etc.

• Combat system - primary and secondary stats, calculation, and support of combat characteristics (attack, accuracy, dodges, critical attacks, elemental attacks and resists, magical and physical attacks, defense, and “defense penetration”). Respawn points. Status (changes stats, speed, stun, poison, etc.).

• Experience, leveling, changing primary character stats, choosing new skills. Player character leveling tree with auto-generation support from clusters, flexible system of requirements to advance through the tree, skill tree reset support.

• Inventory - items, consumable and interactable items, clothing, and weapons. Character slots for clothes and weapons equipment, and update visuals based on equipment. Custom rules and requirements for equipment slots. Support for individual item modifications (e.g. enchantments). Equipment durability. Weapon mastery.

• Mobs with a flexible system for customizing behavior and reactions to the player. Loot from mobs. Mob spawners. Support neutral and friendly mobs (including those who fight on the player's side). Zones designated for mobs. The ability to give orders to friendly pets.

• NPC, scriptable conversations (text + choice of answer options + support for arbitrary keyboard input). An NPC can influence a character's state or the state of the world. Generic interactive objects with a shared state - button, lever, trigger, door, spawn point saver, indicators, traps, etc. State persistence of interactive objects and NPC. Possibility to customize interaction process. Mineable deposits, chests, barrels, plants, bushes.

• Updating the character model depending on the weapon and current status. Supports different animations for different skills and different current weapons.

• Trade (buy/sell) with limited and unlimited stock. Trade with NPC characters. Player to player trade. 

• Craft items and equipment. Available craft list. Craft depending on NPC status. Craft enhancements. Craft catalysts. Recycling. Craft with a chance of the coutcome.

• Party (creating a party, inviting, leaving, transferring a party leadership, kicking from party, setting various party settings, showing the online status of players in a party). 

• Chat (general, party, private, log), mini-map, customization of hotkeys for skills and items on a special panel.

• Implemented game mechanics for 60+ skills and 150+ passive nodes. Class-related game mechanics.