A former producer of the Asheron’s Call series has now launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new MMORPG called Project: Gorgon.
Eric Heimburg was Senior and Lead Engineer, developer, designer, and producer of successful games such as Asheron’s Call 1 and 2 as well as Star Trek Online. Together with his wife Sandra Powers, he is working on a new online role-playing game currently titled Project: Gorgon.
The game emphasizes the sandbox aspect and aims not to lead players through a story on rails. Rather, each hero is responsible for their own story. You will traverse a vast fantasy world, fighting dark monsters and encountering NPCs. These have their own backstories and pursue their own interests.
Fights upon Fights
Fights are the focus in Project: Gorgon. Monsters have special abilities, and you must discover their weaknesses. In the many dungeons, you will encounter not only particularly challenging boss enemies but also many traps and puzzles. How you want to develop your hero is up to you, as you choose the skills you want to learn and thus create your individual character. You can also gain special abilities, for example, by being bitten by a werewolf and succumbing to lycanthropy. This will make you particularly powerful, but there are also downsides to being a werewolf. Because during a full moon, you can no longer transform back into a human.
As another example, it is mentioned that you can become a very powerful druid, but if, for example, your forest catches fire, you must drop everything to help nature. Generally, action and reaction play an important role. If your hero is hit by a fireball and subsequently catches fire, you can extinguish yourself by jumping into a river.
Interesting Mechanics
Players will be able to write their own books, housing plays an important role, and it is possible to leave an inscription on items, as you can drop all items anywhere for other players to pick up. Merchants have a proper inventory, so you can buy the items that other players have sold to those merchants.
Players can host their own quests and events, as well as run their own stores. Nothing is known about PvP so far, except that the developers are collecting ideas for interesting PvP modes. Project Gorgon is set to launch as a buy-to-play game with an optional VIP subscription at the end of next year. Those who wish to participate in the funding of the project have until August 24 via the Kickstarter website. The developers hope to raise at least $20,000 by this date. So far, nearly $10,000 has been raised.
Anyone who wants to get a picture of the game can already test it! On the official website, you can download the client and play. However, it is still very early in alpha version.
