Rathguarde is planned to be a Sidescrolling RPG Action Sandbox Hack'n'Slash Adventure Fantasy game, with a cool industrial feel to it, and a rich storyline, with three races: Goblins, Dwarves, and Elves. We hope to make it fully functional in both Single-Player and Multi-Player modes, with Trading, Combat with Monsters and other enemies, magic/skills (both generic and race-specific), machinery and contraptions, a vast array of items, both mundane and magical, including a huge armoury of weapons and armour, a leveling/experience system, so your character almost completely customizable, tailored to suit your play-style, and a new and unqiue "You vs the World" type theme, where the world itself is out to get you... Rathguarde is currently in it's Alpha stages (We're working on Alpha 4 at the moment), so while we get the base engine up and running, it'll be free (although when we start charging, it won't be much) We're completely open to any help/suggestions/hate you may have :)
We've added a new title screen, with a nice big menu! Notice anything else different about Alpha 5?
Do you guys plan on implementing some kind background in the scene for aesthetics?
Well, the background for the title is actually a fully generated world itself, and when you click "New World" it will actually just use that world. Although, later we may implement some kind of fully moving action scene, where the character actually runs around and does stuff, while you're in the menu. But for now, He just looks in the direction of the mouse :)
Sorry, I didn't specify.
I was thinking about the orange sky area, perhaps it could use some kind of artistic background, like clouds, or some kind of horizon?
Oh, We're thinking of putting in lighting and day/night cycles in Alpha 7 or so, and we've been thinking about weather or not to make actual cloud blocks, or just a backdrop. We may have to take the storyline into account aswell ,when we decide on that.
how do you save? just ctrl+s?
Pressing Esc will take you to a puase menu now, where there is a "Save and Exit" option