Our latest coverage of chronicles of elyria.
Following its combat demo at PAX and our first look at its aging mechanics, the extremely ambitious sandbox MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria has taken to Kickstarter with a $900,000 goal, as was previously announced. Impressively, the game has raised $145,000 within its first three hours and that number continues to climb as I write this. Rewards include the full game [...]
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Soulbound Studios has unveiled aging and body mechanics in a new video for their upcoming MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria. Aging is one of the game's core mechanics: as character's age their physical attributes decline while mental and social skills become easier to develop. I'm already in the aging stage of my life now. The video below demonstrates a character aging from 25 [...]
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Soulbound Studios took a combat prototype for their upcoming title Chronicles of Elyria to PAX East this year. Today, the studio tweeted some footage of a match that was played at the convention, which you can find below. In the video they tweeted, combat looks a bit like an awkward series of dodges and slashes. A Reddit user picked out [...]
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I've been fairly skeptical of Chronicles of Elyria for some time now. While the game sounds great on paper, very little evidence of steady progress has been revealed over time. The team at Soulbound Studios is aware of this, though, stating "we made it clear from the beginning that we wouldn't launch a Kickstarter campaign until we'd not only consumed [...]
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Chronicles of Elyria's first developer journal of 2016—ironically the 16th—is here and with it comes more details about the average lifespan of a character. As you may know by now, characters in Chronicles of Elyria age and die permanently. When your character reaches the end of its lifespan and dies, you must purchase a new Spark of Life in order [...]
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