RuneScape creators Andrew and Paul Gower have revealed Brighter Shores, a new point-and-click fantasy adventure MMORPG. And if you're a fan of RuneScape, Brightet Shores looks like a game you'll want to keep your eye on.
After launching Jagex in 1999, the Gower brothers focused their efforts on the studio's first major release: RuneScape. The rest is history. RuneScape is still a very popular game today, both in its modern form and as Old School RuneScape. The Gowers left Jagex in 2010 and little was known about what they were doing until now. It turns out that Andrew Gower was working as lead designer on their new game, while Paul Gower was working as narrative designer.
Check out the Brighter Shores trailer for yourself below:
“Brighter Shores is an all-new adventure from award-winning MMORPG designer Andrew Gower,” the Brighter Shores Steam Page Description lit. “It's an enchanting point-and-click RPG with hundreds of hours of gameplay, set in a land of magic and mysteries, with a huge number of professions to try and something new to find around every corner of street.”
In retrospect, we can learn more about Brighter Shores from some of Andrew Gower's tweets. He wrote the (formerly Twitter) that the team plans to launch “our big game with 4 episodes to start” and that “the first 3 episodes are very playable now and just need a little more testing/tuning”, in November.
In Brighter Shores, players will be the newest recruit to the Hopeport Town Guard, looking to make a name for themselves. However, this proves more difficult than expected as a strange storm rages across the harbor while the local goblins go into a frenzy.
“You'll discover powerful magical sources and become one of the legendary classes of old: Cryoknight, Guardian, or Hammermage,” the game's description reads. “Which is fortunate, because something is corrupting the deepest depths of the Hopefrost neighbor, and only with the strength of your new powers will you be able to face them.”
Professions in the game include fisherman, gatherer, chef, lumberjack, miner, alchemist, stonemason, merchant and blacksmith, but the team promises “much more”.
Developer Fen Research Ltd, led by the Gower brothers, says: “The game will be constantly expanding, with new content released in an episodic format,” noting that “each episode features its own side quests, professions and territories, as well as advance the central story.
There will be a free version of Brighter Shores to play and a Premium Pass version. In the free version, players will only have access to Hopeport and Hopeforest. However, in the Premium Pass version, players will have access to Hopeport, Hopeforest, Mine of Mantuban and Crenopolis, as well as features such as a unique character name, exclusive armor dyes, the ability to change name and from player to player. trade.
As for PC requirements and specs, it looks like this game won't require too much power, like RuneScape. Check Steam page for more details on this.
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