A Visit to Simutronics
Jun 05, 2007
Staff Writer Adele Caelia recently visited the Simutronics offices where they are making the MMORPG Hero's Journey. Today, she files her report.
Envisioned by the original masters of the Massively Multiplayer genre, Hero's Journey is an online persistent world where players will experience a lush 3D graphical gaming environment. You can expect that danger lurks around every corner of Elanthia, threatening to destroy everything in its path. But even if you've visited Elanthia before, you've never seen it like this!
Simutronics' design motto is "More Fun. Less Tedium." and Hero's Journey shows it. The game elements focus on fun, action-packed, adventure-style roleplay. With less waiting and more playing, Hero's Journey provides an innovative mix of familiar game play elements and some fresh new ones.
A special emphasis is placed on Character creation tools that provide an extensive amount of flexibility, both in terms of character appearance as well as character abilities. This attention to detail is also reflected in beautiful environments, and compelling, dynamic mini-quests.
It's not too early to begin participating in Hero's Journey! The Hero's Journey Hero Council invites gaming community leaders to come together and act as representatives of their player communities and express their desires, thoughts and ideas for game design. In this manner, Hero's Journey will continue to be developed with a broadened range of input and more accurately depict what the player population wants. Ideally, it is a mechanism by which ideas can flow from the community to the community leadership to the Hero's Journey developers, eventually reaching a stage where these ideas can be considered for inclusion into the game. Application forms to join the Hero Council are available on the Hero's Journey website (http://www.play.net/hj/info/apply/hcapp.asp).
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- 12/2/08 @ 6:53AM by Amathe
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- 11/29/08 @ 11:56AM by skeaser
- General Discussion
- Signs of Life
- 10/30/08 @ 8:33PM by senadin
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- 9/18/08 @ 2:21PM by Valendros
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- Hero's Journey? /moved
- 9/6/08 @ 9:55PM by Valendros
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- Release Date Poll
- 8/22/08 @ 10:20PM by Draq
- General Discussion
- Why has Heroe's Journey dropped off the 'Development' list?
- 7/26/08 @ 2:24PM by Kane
- General Discussion
- New Screenshots 2008-05-07
- 6/8/08 @ 8:46PM by Isane
- General Discussion
- Multiple character accounts
- 5/12/08 @ 8:03PM by mrdoublerr
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- New HE Features Added
- 5/8/08 @ 4:45PM by chryses
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Hero's Journey
- Developer: Simutronics
- Genre: Fantasy
- Status: Development (est. release N/A)
- Platforms:
- Website: http://www.play.net/hj
- Retail Price: n/a
- Monthly Fee: n/a
Latest Hero's Journey News
Content Writers Wanted
May 14, 2007
The folks over at Hero's Journey have posted a want ad on their official site sending out the call for content writers. If you're tired of the same old quests in MMOs, here's your chance to make a difference.
Ranged Classes Revealed
Apr 20, 2007
Hero's Journey has updated its official site with information about 3 of the games classes, : Necromancer, Ranger, and Wizard.
GDC Progress Report
Mar 14, 2007
MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood had the opportunity to talk to Eric Slick, the Technology Director for Simutronics, about the progress of their upcoming MMORPG, Hero's Journey.
Other Hero's Journey News
Hero's Journey Interview
WarCry recently conducted an interview with Stephanie Shaver, the Lead Designer for Hero's Journey. In this interview they discuss a variety of topics, including volunteer GMs, mould breaking classes, and other features unique to Hero's Journey.
