Minions of Mirth - Truly Open Alpha
by Prairie Games · in General Discussion · 07/03/2005 (12:23 am) · 74 replies
Minions of Mirth(tm) - "Truly Open Alpha"
Minions of Mirth(tm) is a massively single player, multiplayer, 3d MUD, Persistent World RPG, by Prairie Games.
We are currently in alpha testing on OSX and Windows and are extending an invitation to be a part of the game's creation.
You can DOWNLOAD the alpha test simply by registering on our forums: REGISTER
Once you've registered, the download information can be obtained in this thread: DOWNLOAD INFORMATION
The Minions of Mirth "Truly Open Alpha" is a work in progress that features:
+ Windows and OSX support!
+ Easy access, only a forum registration is necessary to get in on the fun! REGISTER
+ Massively Single Player Gameplay(tm)!!!
+ Cooperative and Player vs Player Multiplayer
+ No monthly service fees for Multiplayer!
+ Autopatcher delivers immediate content and feature upgrades!!!
+ Host your own persistent worlds with your own original content!
+ Immortal access to your own world where you can control time, weather, spawns, items, etc
+ 10 playable races with distinct look, feel, and SIZE!!! Huge Drakken and tiny little Halflings!!!
+ Beautiful zones with huge playable area and vistas! Dark dungeons and sprawling wilderness!
+ 2 hours of original music!
+ Masterfully animated 3d monster models with stunningly realistic textures
+ Spine-chilling sound effects!
+ Day/Night cycles with gameplay tied to time of day
+ Immersive weather effects based on zone climate
+ Multiclass your characters all the way to level 100 in up to 3 classes!
+ Material based clothing system
+ Over 50 3d weapon models
+ 100's of in game items with high resolution graphics and magical effects!
+ Political Factions
+ Quest Journal
+ Online Help
+ Vendors sell items and restock at regular intervals
+ Trade items and currency with other players!
+ 3d Automap
+ Versatile Spell System (invisibility, wind walking, Teleportation, Healing, Nukes, DoTs, etc)
+ Summon pets, equip them, and order them to destroy your foes!
+ Powerful Skills (Feign Death, Bloodletting, Rage, Volitation, Archery, Grevious Wound, Precise Shot, etc)
+ Form your own party of up to 6 characters
+ Form multiplayer alliances with up to 36 characters
+ Add, remove, or even create new characters at Inns, without ever leaving the game!
+ Powerful modding system including RPG Database (with live recompiles) and Realtime Zone Editing
+ Advanced users can SSH into their world and edit the game while it's running from an interactive Python shell.
+ Global, World, Zone, Area, Alliance, and Private chat channels
+ Global Chat system is hooked up to IRC, so you can chat with people in and out of the game, even spanning worlds!
+ Preorder the game for only $25 USD -> http://www.prairiegames.com/ordering.html
Thanks!,
The Entire Team at Prairie Games
Minions of Mirth(tm) is a massively single player, multiplayer, 3d MUD, Persistent World RPG, by Prairie Games.
We are currently in alpha testing on OSX and Windows and are extending an invitation to be a part of the game's creation.
You can DOWNLOAD the alpha test simply by registering on our forums: REGISTER
Once you've registered, the download information can be obtained in this thread: DOWNLOAD INFORMATION
The Minions of Mirth "Truly Open Alpha" is a work in progress that features:
+ Windows and OSX support!
+ Easy access, only a forum registration is necessary to get in on the fun! REGISTER
+ Massively Single Player Gameplay(tm)!!!
+ Cooperative and Player vs Player Multiplayer
+ No monthly service fees for Multiplayer!
+ Autopatcher delivers immediate content and feature upgrades!!!
+ Host your own persistent worlds with your own original content!
+ Immortal access to your own world where you can control time, weather, spawns, items, etc
+ 10 playable races with distinct look, feel, and SIZE!!! Huge Drakken and tiny little Halflings!!!
+ Beautiful zones with huge playable area and vistas! Dark dungeons and sprawling wilderness!
+ 2 hours of original music!
+ Masterfully animated 3d monster models with stunningly realistic textures
+ Spine-chilling sound effects!
+ Day/Night cycles with gameplay tied to time of day
+ Immersive weather effects based on zone climate
+ Multiclass your characters all the way to level 100 in up to 3 classes!
+ Material based clothing system
+ Over 50 3d weapon models
+ 100's of in game items with high resolution graphics and magical effects!
+ Political Factions
+ Quest Journal
+ Online Help
+ Vendors sell items and restock at regular intervals
+ Trade items and currency with other players!
+ 3d Automap
+ Versatile Spell System (invisibility, wind walking, Teleportation, Healing, Nukes, DoTs, etc)
+ Summon pets, equip them, and order them to destroy your foes!
+ Powerful Skills (Feign Death, Bloodletting, Rage, Volitation, Archery, Grevious Wound, Precise Shot, etc)
+ Form your own party of up to 6 characters
+ Form multiplayer alliances with up to 36 characters
+ Add, remove, or even create new characters at Inns, without ever leaving the game!
+ Powerful modding system including RPG Database (with live recompiles) and Realtime Zone Editing
+ Advanced users can SSH into their world and edit the game while it's running from an interactive Python shell.
+ Global, World, Zone, Area, Alliance, and Private chat channels
+ Global Chat system is hooked up to IRC, so you can chat with people in and out of the game, even spanning worlds!
+ Preorder the game for only $25 USD -> http://www.prairiegames.com/ordering.html
Thanks!,
The Entire Team at Prairie Games
#2
07/03/2005 (2:28 am)
This is the most awesome thing I have ever seen. Thank you Josh and everyone at Prairie Games. I'll be buying more than one copy of this I'm thinking =) 
#4
07/03/2005 (4:30 am)
Definitly going to buy
#5
07/03/2005 (4:52 am)
Ohh.. Getting it now! Cant wait to give it a go!
#6
For that level of dedication I'm gonna check it out. :)
As one who has been watching this game form for the past 2 years, congratulations on your milestone.
07/03/2005 (7:26 am)
3am Alpha announcement post.For that level of dedication I'm gonna check it out. :)
As one who has been watching this game form for the past 2 years, congratulations on your milestone.
#7
07/03/2005 (7:31 am)
3 AM is nothing for Josh. I've been an alpha tester for a couple months now. I usually get up at 4:30 am and play a bit before work... Josh is usually just heading to bed after posting a new build :)
#8
Everyone needs to join us in the alpha!
07/03/2005 (8:57 am)
Ive been in the alpha test for Minions of Mirth for about a month now, and this is simple the best and most impressive game I have seen in a long time. Even though its in alpha, it is more stable and more polished then most betas and finished games I have played. I haven't been this excited for a game in a long, long time. Everyone needs to join us in the alpha!
#9
07/03/2005 (1:38 pm)
I'll check it out now. haven't really seen or heard much about it... but hey, it's torque.
#10
I've been looking forward to this - was about to sign up for the closed alpha, but unfortunately I wasn't 18 x.x Downloading now, looking forward to playing =D
07/04/2005 (9:59 am)
Yet another trophy that shows that Torque can do just about anything (except clean the house).I've been looking forward to this - was about to sign up for the closed alpha, but unfortunately I wasn't 18 x.x Downloading now, looking forward to playing =D
#13
+ Added new quest submitted by Essential. Talk to Ullypho Shadowborn, upper level of the Trinst Gates (use your Map or Tracking)
+ Added new big cat model. Also, tigers in Anidaen Forest and arctic cats in Frostbite! Watch our for Khur in Mount Zharim!
+ New quest entries for Journal
+ Fixed multiple corpse looting bug
+ Increased ambient lighting of terrain
+ Default visibility is now 70%
+ Added special stamina and mana code to spell effects to make "booster" spells work
+ Adjusted World Server announcing code
+ New spell effect for "Harmonic Robe" thanks Rev-O!
+ No more wind walking out of the sewer.
+ Fixed Rogue spawnpoints in Trinst.
+ Added new mob descriptions, submitted by Rev-O.
+ Added healing spells to paladin.
+ Added Trinst tp spells to revealer.
+ Fixed ambient sounds.
+ Added Rev-O's note icon to Harmonic Kimono.
+ Fixed a water issue with the Trinst Moat
+ Fixed scale of giants.
07/05/2005 (12:52 pm)
7-5-05+ Added new quest submitted by Essential. Talk to Ullypho Shadowborn, upper level of the Trinst Gates (use your Map or Tracking)
+ Added new big cat model. Also, tigers in Anidaen Forest and arctic cats in Frostbite! Watch our for Khur in Mount Zharim!
+ New quest entries for Journal
+ Fixed multiple corpse looting bug
+ Increased ambient lighting of terrain
+ Default visibility is now 70%
+ Added special stamina and mana code to spell effects to make "booster" spells work
+ Adjusted World Server announcing code
+ New spell effect for "Harmonic Robe" thanks Rev-O!
+ No more wind walking out of the sewer.
+ Fixed Rogue spawnpoints in Trinst.
+ Added new mob descriptions, submitted by Rev-O.
+ Added healing spells to paladin.
+ Added Trinst tp spells to revealer.
+ Fixed ambient sounds.
+ Added Rev-O's note icon to Harmonic Kimono.
+ Fixed a water issue with the Trinst Moat
+ Fixed scale of giants.
#14
7-6-05
+ You can now chat on the Global Chat Server, from SINGLE PLAYER!!! Use /gconnect nickname and then /g hello!
+ increased drop frequency of many spawns and items
+ added skill raising code to caster skills
+ all spells now have skills attached
+ /camp will now bring up a warning about exiting the game
+ BACKSPACE now clears current target by default (note that you may have to set this in your existing prefs)
+ ESCAPE now brings up game options
+ MOTD support for World Server (thanks John Vanderbeck)
+ 20 new bard spells, including alliance buffs! (thanks John Vanderbeck)
+ Added new fields to World Manager->New World GUI (thanks John Vanderbeck)
07/06/2005 (12:22 pm)
We added a pretty major feature last night, you can chat, from SINGLE PLAYER, on the Global Chat Server!!! Of course it's optional... I really think it'll help get people introduced to the game and make friends faster :)7-6-05
+ You can now chat on the Global Chat Server, from SINGLE PLAYER!!! Use /gconnect nickname and then /g hello!
+ increased drop frequency of many spawns and items
+ added skill raising code to caster skills
+ all spells now have skills attached
+ /camp will now bring up a warning about exiting the game
+ BACKSPACE now clears current target by default (note that you may have to set this in your existing prefs)
+ ESCAPE now brings up game options
+ MOTD support for World Server (thanks John Vanderbeck)
+ 20 new bard spells, including alliance buffs! (thanks John Vanderbeck)
+ Added new fields to World Manager->New World GUI (thanks John Vanderbeck)
#15
+ Ogre Male Model (thanks Magnus Blikstad of Wit Entertainment)
+ 30 new Shaman spells (thanks to J.C. Smith)
+ New Platinum Armor with new textures
+ fixed issue with Single Player Global Char GUI opening when zoning
7-8-05
+ Added Single Player Global Chat login GUI
+ Adjust COMMON loot to be a *little* less common
+ Fixed "monsters" that use NPC races
+ Fixed issue with spell casting canceling when targeting dead mobs
+ Fixed "-1 slot" problem for items sold to vendors
+ Added better error checking to patcher and fixed a couple bugs
+ Fixed vendor selling bug where an item would stay graphically equipped when quick sold from a wearable slot
+ Fixed an issue with default keymapping when in the game proper
+ Changed "Honorforger Greatsword" model to be larger
+ Significantly decreased single player loading time
+ Added patch info window to multiplayer screen
+ Fixed some database errors
07/09/2005 (3:22 pm)
7-9-05+ Ogre Male Model (thanks Magnus Blikstad of Wit Entertainment)
+ 30 new Shaman spells (thanks to J.C. Smith)
+ New Platinum Armor with new textures
+ fixed issue with Single Player Global Char GUI opening when zoning
7-8-05
+ Added Single Player Global Chat login GUI
+ Adjust COMMON loot to be a *little* less common
+ Fixed "monsters" that use NPC races
+ Fixed issue with spell casting canceling when targeting dead mobs
+ Fixed "-1 slot" problem for items sold to vendors
+ Added better error checking to patcher and fixed a couple bugs
+ Fixed vendor selling bug where an item would stay graphically equipped when quick sold from a wearable slot
+ Fixed an issue with default keymapping when in the game proper
+ Changed "Honorforger Greatsword" model to be larger
+ Significantly decreased single player loading time
+ Added patch info window to multiplayer screen
+ Fixed some database errors
#16
07/10/2005 (6:29 pm)
How's the Linux native port of MoM? I'm stuck on an 8Gb drive running Linux right now, as my 200Gb drive is heading back with an RMA. :( And it's been too hot to sit at my PC here, so I've not had the time or the energy to test. :( :(
#17
+ Resistance system for full and partial spell resistances, also damage mitigation based on resistance!
+ Resistances include: Physical, Magical, Poison, Disease, Fire, Cold, Electric, and Acid
+ Spells now increase in potency for 10 levels after getting them, up to a 25% bonus!
+ Damage Shields (check out Druid's Bristle Blanket line of spells)
+ Members of the Magi Archetype (Revealer, Wizard, Necromancer) can now learn the "Spell Critical" skill from Frizzle Fry at level 10. Spell Criticals intensify the effects of harmful spells by 2x - 4x depending on skill level!
+ Revealers now get a "Focus" line of spells, these spells significantly increase Mana regeneration
+ Monks now gain the "Stone Skin" skill at level 5. This skill will give up to +50 physical resistance based on skill
+ Drakken now have a -25 cold resistance penalty
+ Ogres get a +10 racial resistance to Disease
+ Harmonic Kimono now adds +25 to electrical resistance
+ New Revealer Outfit, check out Olamian Crondan
+ Added black panther to Jakreth Jungle.
+ Updated cat animations.
+ Added new mob descriptions, submitted by Rev-O.
+ Added icons to the Flaming Scimitar and Tainted Tickler, submitted by Rev-O.
+ Added undead monsters (ghoul, mummy, zombie). (Thanks to Magnus Blikstad of Wit Entertainment)
+ Added Wizard spells, submitted by Theeris.
+ Added crocodile model to Anidaen Forest. (Thanks to Magnus Blikstad of Wit Entertainment)
+ Added damage/rate/range stats and model to Orb of Abomination and Clashing Sword.
+ Added weapons to undead in sewer. Mo' Money!
+ Fixed Greater Sewer Skeleton's loot to drop.
+ Lowered Prisoner's level in Trinst.
-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games
07/15/2005 (4:56 pm)
7-15-05 (WORLDS MUST BE UPGRADED AFTER THIS PATCH!)+ Resistance system for full and partial spell resistances, also damage mitigation based on resistance!
+ Resistances include: Physical, Magical, Poison, Disease, Fire, Cold, Electric, and Acid
+ Spells now increase in potency for 10 levels after getting them, up to a 25% bonus!
+ Damage Shields (check out Druid's Bristle Blanket line of spells)
+ Members of the Magi Archetype (Revealer, Wizard, Necromancer) can now learn the "Spell Critical" skill from Frizzle Fry at level 10. Spell Criticals intensify the effects of harmful spells by 2x - 4x depending on skill level!
+ Revealers now get a "Focus" line of spells, these spells significantly increase Mana regeneration
+ Monks now gain the "Stone Skin" skill at level 5. This skill will give up to +50 physical resistance based on skill
+ Drakken now have a -25 cold resistance penalty
+ Ogres get a +10 racial resistance to Disease
+ Harmonic Kimono now adds +25 to electrical resistance
+ New Revealer Outfit, check out Olamian Crondan
+ Added black panther to Jakreth Jungle.
+ Updated cat animations.
+ Added new mob descriptions, submitted by Rev-O.
+ Added icons to the Flaming Scimitar and Tainted Tickler, submitted by Rev-O.
+ Added undead monsters (ghoul, mummy, zombie). (Thanks to Magnus Blikstad of Wit Entertainment)
+ Added Wizard spells, submitted by Theeris.
+ Added crocodile model to Anidaen Forest. (Thanks to Magnus Blikstad of Wit Entertainment)
+ Added damage/rate/range stats and model to Orb of Abomination and Clashing Sword.
+ Added weapons to undead in sewer. Mo' Money!
+ Fixed Greater Sewer Skeleton's loot to drop.
+ Lowered Prisoner's level in Trinst.
-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games
#18
07/15/2005 (4:59 pm)
Wow, its looking amazing Josh! Now that I have my computers back up I can finally get my server back up.
#19
07/15/2005 (6:17 pm)
I tried downloading it, but 30/k a sec is terrible, and the download manner isn't particularly suited to manager apps :(
#20
-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games
07/15/2005 (6:19 pm)
It's served via http on a host that has gotten over 3000k/sec transfers.-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games
Craig Wilson
It's pretty hard to add much to the game concept and feature list detailed above. MoM isn't just WoW upside down (hmm...), even in it's current alpha state, it's more stable and playable than many high-budget, commercial MMORPG betas and probably even some final releases.
The game combines all the best features of RPG and MMO gaming and lets you play it your way: online in a massive persistent world, online on your own private server or offline single player. But wait, there's more...The game is also designed to allow extensive user modifications, including the creation of user-made zones, quests and almost anything you can imagine. In a lot of ways, this is the game I've had in the back of my head for a long time, but fully realized.
As far as I know, the combined features of MoM have yet to be seen in any title from a major publisher. Honestly, I think the big guys would probably be afraid of doing something like this and giving their customers so much control over how they play.
As far as gameplay, I'll just say that I'm constantly torn between playing (er..."testing") and working on designing new content. They're both too much fun.
Come join us in the Open Alpha and on the Prairie Games forum and see for yourself.
Finally, if you're an independent developer planning your own MMOG, I think Prairie Games will be making their great framework and tools for a TGE-based MMOG available for licensing.