The Coarse Lands Preview
It seems that my pester skills are starting to pay off. I was recently invited to take a peek at The Course Lands PHPMORPG. The game is still in the pre-production phase and it would be unfair to offer a complete review of the game at this point but I’ll offer a glimpse of my experience. Essentially, the game features those common elements that we have come to enjoy in a good PBRPG, but still lacks features that warrant beta testing. The game developer (Grofit) stated it best when he said:
“I know the game [is] only a shell and isnt really much to write home about atm, but as you have seen we can manipulate the games environment really quickly and easily as well as implement features extremely fast.”
In fact, even as I played and offered comments, I was able to see how quickly Grofit could respond to my critiques with instant improvements to the GUI. A game that can be manipulated this easily has a lot of potential and I’m looking forward to learning more about the features that are planned for this game.
Though the game is essentially a shell at this stage of development, the navigation was intuitive and I saw elements not often available in completed PBBG’s.
My only real critique at this stage was that the primary navigation screen seemed a little too small on my 1280/800 laptop display. But in hindsight, one of the advantages of PBBG’s is that they can be played from any location and many public PC’s use screen resolutions that are a little behind everyone else.
Grofits response to my critique:
“We originally designed it for 1024/768 so it takes up most of the screen but over 3 years it seems that its a bit too small now. We will have to look at that then, as we were planning on expanding some things to make more room.”
With well over 400+ PBBG’s available to the public today, this market is exploding. But few games rise to the top. Where on this list phpmorpg ends up is still unknown. Time will tell.
For more information visit the official community forum for this up and coming PBBG.
- Game: PHPMORPG – The Course Lands. (Note that a future name change is planned)
- Genre: Classic Fantasy
- Interface: Mixed elements including html, php, javascript, and flash.
- Graphics: 2D. Animated flash combat.
- Type: PBRPG
- Developer: Team Camel Productions (TCP)
Author: 
Whane The Whip
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