Indie Browser MMO City of Steam

Let’s take a new glance at the Steam-o-Meter after one week of its release. The great thing is that really awesome stuff like “Powered Gauntlets” and “Challenge Dungeons” have already been unlocked and pushed to be ready for Closed Beta… and now we’re getting so close to the first Dev Humiliation ever. So everyone, keep pushing up the points and unlocking more early content (wouldn't you like to see that cute Marshpuggle?)

 

Gotten an beta key from http://www.sggaminginfo.com/2012/11/city-of-steam-beta-key-giveaway/ (there are still keys available!)
I can't wait to try this out. Only 3 days left!

 

Hi everyone, just wanted to drop by and give you a final reminder for City of Steam Beta: the first Beta Weekend will launch in around 15 hours! If you are interested in joining in, sign up for our newsletter for a chance to receive a key (and regular development updates as well); also, check out our partners, they might still have a few keys left to give out. If you grabbed one already, great! Free your schedule and get ready to swarm into The Refuge tonight!

 

To be honest, I'm pretty overwhelmed and excited. Everything works fine.. Okay, here and there are some little bugs, but overall it's really work well.

 

Great to hear some feedback here, don't hesitate to post up your input, I'd really want to know what you think.

 

Just wondering, my wife got into your beta, but apparently I didn't, was wondering if you can manualy send invites? you can pm me the response, thank you

 

Have fun with the game!

 

Springtide finally closed its gates... A million thanks to all who joined in and helped us test the game. As always, you can rest assured that we'll work on those bugs, and keep polishing up the game. We all look forward to seeing you back on Nov. 30 again to play DWARVES! Also, keep up your outstanding support for the Steam-o-Meter, we're getting closer to 3M points.

 

Hello everyone, just try to remind you that we'll start Summercrest (CBT2) very soon! If interested, make sure to sign up for our newsletters on the website for Beta key priority; also, keep an eye on our partners, they might still have some loaded keys left. For those who received a key already, keep it safe and start a new round of adventure in just hours!

 

Anyone interesting in this game should go to Alienware arena giveaway http://www.alienwarearena.com/giveaway/city-of-steam-closed-beta-key-giveaway/ 1400 and falling free beta keys are been giving way. Alienware is free to sign up to to the the key so just sign up and click grab key if there are any left by the time you see this. Got mine

 

Great game! To bad i don't have the time to play much this weekend : /
Seems hard to get hold of a new staff for my char, still running around with my starter one : p

 

Hey, no worries, CBT3 will come out on Dec. 14, you still have time to keep your adventures.

 

Hi everyone, we've got some great updates to share this week, so forgive me if this seems a bit spammy:

First! Autumnwane (CBT3) is around the corner, so be sure to free you schedule on December 14th if you’re interested in joining in.

Second! City of Steam is coming on Steam's Greenlight project (see more details here), so please vote for us;

Third! We just got a new Closed Beta Trailer up and running, so please share the video with your friends and help spread the word out;

Alright, enough of that before this gets too long, sorry for dropping so much on your guys at once… I’m glad to hear you thoughts on this though, please let me know what you think if any question is crossing your mind!

 

Love the trailer layout and it makes the game look interesting. Well done.

 

Hey, thanks for the compliment, make sure to stay tuned if interested, we've been adding some really exciting features this week.

 

Still looking for a perfect Holiday Gift? Our Toiler might have something you might like. Also, we've prepared all Beta testers some awesome game stuff in Winter Festival. Happy holidays and enjoy the final Closed Beta Test on 23rd!

 

I would love to participate if you have any keys to hand out.

 

Check out our announcement for Winter Festival here: http://forum.cityofsteam.com/index.php?topic=3735.0, some of our partners might still have some loadout keys left.

 

Still remember our Steam-o-Meter dev humiliation extras promise? Well, we just rolled out a video about it, ENJOY!

 

Gates of CBT finally closed, but don't slacken off guys, Beta will be coming up soon, along with more new features and content, so stay tuned!

 

Looks impressive... I really hope this is led to a positive destination, cause the aesthetics and the overall feeling of the work done is screaming "Buy me!".

 

I cannot wait for this game

 

Thanks, and be sure to stay tuned for updates for the upcoming Beta.

 

Looks great! how long have you been working on this?

 

We've been woking on this project for over 3 years since it went publich, now we're heading for Open Beta Test of the game.

 

Keep up the votes for our Greenlight project everyone, we've got a good chance to get greenlit next month.

 

City of Steam is one of my favorite mmo game. Here is my review.
City Of Steam is a steampunk MMORPG developed by China-based Mechanist Games. Set in the industrial age, the game features fast-paced hack n slash actions, 3D graphics for web browsers, as well as dungeon-based raids. In the game, players are able to choose one of four classes and nine races to slay monsters, perform quests, and join a team or guild to engage in a series of activities.

City of Steam brings people to the most dangerous adventures into tens of forgotten regions around the central city. With the same rusty colors prevailing in the game, each region has its unique monsters that generate a unique atmosphere. These regions may have many gates, but you wont get out without collecting keys through a correct means. If you dont accept quests in an expected sequence, you will break into these hells unknowingly and lose yourself therein until an open door is found among its numerous gates. And this blind intrusion is not related to any XP or level enhancement, only costing all of your potions.

This is a 3D game running on browsers, so inevitably there are some disconnected moments. But generally, the game runs pretty steadily, leaving you no time to scan the explanation texts at the entrance of a dungeon. The whole gaming world is a grand system of brickwork, woodwork and stonework, but most of the objects are air-slake in a comfortable way. Besides tigers, bears, apes and wild dogs, some of the monsters are both dirty and mysterious, like rats, ash worms, water worms, potato ladybird. As a contrast, bad humans among these evil creatures are sensuously beautiful; the tiny amount of shillings earned is a pile of happily shinning colors, even the battling noise rings pleasantly to the ear.

Click here to read all review, http://www.dotmmo.com/city-of-steam-3527.html

 

Well, Beta Collaborator Packs are nearing the end... Don't miss your chance to get one before they disappear forever, this Friday, February 1st!

 

I really enjoy City of Steam. Congratulations on having a publisher.
Just being a curious, how long were you making your game without investours? (or selling acces into game). Of course if it's public information.

 

Hi Jog, sorry for the late reply. Actually we spent more than one year developing this game before an investor found us. You can find the story of us through the comment on this Gamasutra article.

 

Hey guys, we're heading to PAX East and GDC 2013, feel free to drop by and play our game at booth 582!

 

We have put up a new Dev Journal. We’re talking about the forum avatars made for the Top-tier Paragon supporters. If you are interested in how steampunky avatars should look like, feel free to head over to: (http://www.cityofsteam.com/art-dev-journal-quest-for-the-alpha-avatars).

 

Hi everyone, check out our latest dev journal for PAX preparations and more.

 

We’ve just published a dev journal about a new feature, the Wilderness, which is a public instance where many players can be in at once. Please check more details through the following link if interested: http://cos.r2games.com/news/view/?id=1588

 

I really like your trailer, the style is unique and has a nice feel to it. I also am a huge fan of your particle effects , they were very nicely made.

Jin76

 

very nice job Ethan,

quick questions:
1.- how many team members are in this project?

2.- is this project commercially funded by third party or just volunteers indie devs for the love of game making?

3.- what are you guys using for backend server?
is it one of the existing commercial plugins like:; photon, smartfox,ulink etc....
or is a custom made inhouse server?

 

Hi, as for your questions:

12. The project has been years in development, starting with David Lindsay, our co-founder and Creative Lead, and his dream of making this game, just 3 other people, back in 2008. Very small, crappy apartment as an office, a true indie tale. People have joined the team since, then the company got proper investment, and now we have a decent-sized development team (for being indie) working in a proper office. A huge majority of the game was worked on by a team of just 11 but due to the expanding scope of the game and the complete re-writes we’ve been making as result have pushed the team to about 30 developers.

3. Not sure about this one, I'll ask and get back to you.asap

 

Can't wait to get a chance to play this. It looks like a very fun game!

 

Here you go:

No we wrote it ourselves. We started with Sun microsystem's Dark Star server but when Oracle bought the company, that project folded and then we were stuck with an interesting predicament... do we continue developing a dead project that can't really fit the angle we were moving in (more action) or ... back peddle and write our own. We decided on the latter and everything went as well as expected

 

Thanks to brilliant support from the players, City of Steam finally achieved its greenlight success, check the full announcement we just released for more details.

 

Many updates for City of Steam recently! But here we got a big one - we announced the release date for Beta "early admission". The full announcement can be found here: http://cos.r2games.com/news/view/?id=1835 Feel free to share this around!

 

Looks great so far! I also love that you started off as a small 4 man team. Very cool!

 

City of Steam Beta is now open and ready to play! All of you can join the game just by registering. Hit the following link and start your journey into Nexus right now!
http://cos.r2games.com/signup

 

OMG OMG!

I remember maybe 1 year ago, when I read here about your development and saw first artwork - what a cool style. Bored some hours ago, I was browsing mmohut.com and stumbeld over City of Steam in a ready version. I just loged in here after more than one year to tell you:

1) You guys did really really great work!

2) Many trys in Unity3D I saw since I found the engine are not smooth all in all - CoS is totally smooth in gameplay effects

3) 1st thing I do playing a new mmorpg is to turn off the music sound - CoS will always run WITH music sound. No effect goes on my nerves.

4) The loot picking is the best I saw for now as long as I have no chance to test Kyrill. It never miss and also pick move works.

5) I'm not confused like in many other mmorpgs. Normally I think: What the hell they want from me? Where is this, where is that. Your enbedded tutorials are great.

6) No grey loot. I really hate that overloaded looting in other games, just crap nobody needs and npc it. Here again you did a great job.

7) You also did one of the best pathfinding of avatar, additionally the autoroute to quest nps places is great.

8 ) The balance is good enough for what I played right now. I did 4 bosses without party/group and just lost 5% health in fights. I don't know if you adjust the bosses health defense when system recognizes that so have to fight it alone, but it works. I didn't felt frustrated dieing 100 times.

9) The music is really good and never annoying in my eyes.

10) All fx effects look great, the teleport works without lag - all in all there was never kinda smallest lag. The data syncronisation is just great for now.

11) All loadingscreens, items look really cool.

12) The equipment window is really good. I missed that overview in other mmorpgs.

13) The quest system is awsome.

Ok, that's the positive part for now. Sure I'll add some minus

1) You keep me in game for more than 3 hours now. I just wanted to look in for some minutes: Bad guys!

2) I feel a bit like in diabolo view (sure I know about the different ingame cameramodes). I really don't know atm what's my personal problem, but I don't get that ~normal~ 3d mmorpg feeling.

3) I can't pick up loot that is behind transparent windows like the chat window. Would be cool to be able to pick. In some situations it saves life.

4) The maps are good, but the picker to move them has a big distance to map. I would fix that and place the picker next to map.

5) I would leave a little space between acdcept and decline quest conversation. Some people like me really don't like conversation parts. I know it's part of concept.

6) It would be great to have a target cache. Sorry, but at this point my english suck. What I mean is: When I shoot a box and shoot another the actions should be stored and done one after the other.

7) I don't know if I'm the only one, but I would love to have a turning view in mouseclicking move mode. When you click left the view should adjust. It's much more comfortable.

8 ) I don't remember what info window it was, but the top of text was truncated. It was kind of description window.

9) The map is over the inventory. Should be behind the inventory in my eyes.

10) The equipment window graphics (health etc.) looks kinda inactive.

11) Turning the avatar (equipment window and creation window) just works over the arrows. I would like a left-click-hold move left right.

12) I would fade out the glowing key over opend chests. I always think ther's something more to get.

13) You can't close opend doors. I would like to be able to close a door for emergency on low health.

14) When I turn around with right-click hold mouse, I see the hand picking icon. Kinda confusing. I always think there is something to get.

15) Right now I found out I could pick up items while waling over them, but it doesn't work for trade goods materials.

16) I would like to have an adjusted view(forward) when autorouting to npc.

Maybe you have kinda questions, feel free to contact me: 6thousend@hushmail.com. Please don't write pm, maybe I check this page next years again.

Go on with the good work. It's impressive and you did one of the best Unity 3D titles and also mmorpg titles I saw right now.

Sorry, no more time to write... I've to play some City of Steam... You know that game?