Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues (abbreviated SotA) is an upcoming fantasy role-playing video game. Described as being a spiritual successor to the Ultima series, Shroud of the Avatar is primarily developed by Richard Garriott as creative director, Starr Long as executive producer, Chris Spears as lead technical designer, and Tracy Hickman as lead story designer.
Shroud of the Avatar is currently estimated for release in Q4 of 2014.
(excerpt from Wikipedia)
This project was successfully Kickstarted last year.
$1,919,275 pledged ($1,000,000 goal)
$1,467,780 raised additionally via the website, a total of $3,387,055 raised so far.
The game is still in development (pre-alpha), so we really can't call it a game yet, but it's getting there.
If you make a pledge please enter my user id 955 in the referrer box: [Referring SotA friend's user ID: ___ ]
Very much appreciative of that!
Check out the different pledge tiers here:
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=35139
I pledged last year at a considerable level which give me some extra perks, one of which is to teach unique emotes to other players in game. I'll gladly share those with everyone from the community. Also I've pre-purchased a couple homes and would like to make one a Guild hangout, all are welcome!
Once you've created the account and pledged, head over to Alienware, they will up your pledge another $20 for free, it's a limited time sponsorship, not sure how long this will last. http://na.alienwarearena.com/news/ge...pledge-upgrade
There have been a few releases already, not much to do in game at this point, but the next few releases should get real interesting, here's the release schedule:
Release 4: March 27 30, 2014
Release 5, April 24 27, 2014
Release 6, May 22 25, 2014
Release 7, June 26 29, 2014
Their website has a nice chat system that ties into a weekly "Pen of the Avatar", which is a 1-hour google hangout hosted by Stephen Daniele; Concept Art Lead. He discusses the game, and shows his art work as hes creates it, very cool stuff! The google hangouts are usually hosted with a Community Manager, the gracious FireLotus whom "Lord British" Richard Garriott discovered back in the Tabula Rasa days . We sometimes see an appearance from Tracy Hickman known for his Dragonlance books among other notable titles. Hickman works with Lord British to make all the lore, story-lines and even books for the upcoming game.
Now is a good time to get involved, I sense great things are to come. Personally looking forward to the game for awhile now, can't wait to see you all in-game... again appreciate anyone using me as their referrer (user id 955).
/Krullen
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