29-7-2009 Game News : Dawntide Beta Test: Different Kinds of Challenges

Dawntide is an innovative new freeform MMOG being developed by Working as Intended, an independent studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dawntide is designed with one main thought in mind: People play games with different motivations, and want different things out of the games they play. As a consequence, the market for games has developed in a very modularized way: there are games that let you turn your mind off and relax, games that provide different kinds of challenges, games that focus on socialization. Dawntide incorporates all these elements into a game focused around a world in which the players are the driving element and the builders of a new civilization. Dawntide is in the Beta phase of development and the developer is accepting tester applications at the official site.

Key Features

- Open ended character development.
- Completely player driven economy.
- Complex crafting and resource system.
- Territorial ownership and warfare.
- Epic end goals for every type of player.
- Innovative research/technology mechanics.

The game world in which Dawntide takes place functions much like a real, living world - and there's only one world/server. It's an island world based on rules, rather than a collection of scenes. It's also a world that changes according to the players' actions, because the players will be responsible for a large part of what exists and happens in the world, from exploring and settling new territories to mass warfare on sea and land.

The planned world is very large and will require considerable exploration and discovery, full of resources and unclaimed land for factions to control, harvest and use. Using these resources, players can invent and construct new useful items and buildings for themselves, for their faction or for sale.

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