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VISIONS
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We will be at the 2nd annual CGDC Winter Retreat coming up February 25-27 in Oregon.
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Visions is a 1st person 3D graphics family friendly game with a quest based and skill based gameplay in a persistent online world. Come experience history!
The Christian Game Developers Conference 2009 was an amazing experience as usual! You can read my review of it over here. But what you might be more interested in is one of the CGDC 2009 Special Edition numbered-lot autographed CD's of Chariots! You can get a copy from the Chariots game website over at www.chariotsgame.com if you want to play today. But we know the main reason you're here is to learn more about Visions!
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Visions is a 3d graphics Historical MMORPG set in the 2nd century holy land currently in development. It is a quest and skill based game with three different quest types: History, Professions and Scriptures. Visions gets it's name from the Scripture quests where play-characters can "go back in time" through visions and dreams to experience Biblical history.
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The History quests are intended to follow a linear timeline. Players who join the game earlier will be able to experience the early history that players who join later may not get to experience, such as the reign of Emperor Trajan. Once the timeline progresses to the rise of Hadrian to power, the game will not go back to the time of Trajan. History quests will include such events as historical battles, creation of monuments, and political intrigue.
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The Profession quests are the core of the daily gameplay. These quests will define the character attributes, whether they pursue a life of combat as a soldier, hunter, mercenary or gladiator, or if they follow a more peaceful career as a carpenter, mason, entertainer, farmer or fisherman. Players will be able to attain skills in all professions but will only be able to attain Grandmaster in one or perhaps a maximum of 2 professions.
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The Scripture quests add a unique twist to Visions that we hope people will really enjoy. Players will be able to speak to NPCs (Non-player-characters) in the game world to instigate a quest experience, and sometimes encounters with particular objects or life forms in the game will also trigger a Scripture quest. The goal is to collect all the verses of the Bible to complete an overarching goal of compiling a complete collection of the holy scriptures. We hope to be able to offer players a special reward for completing this goal, but are not able to guarantee that opportunity at this time.
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Visions is being developed by an entirely volunteer team. Since it's inception in 2003 the team has entertained more than 200 applications, and accepted more than 60 people to join the development team. We maintain a core team of about 10 to 20 developers at any given time with some developers having been on the team for 2 to 3 years; besides the Project Leader, Laurene (AKA: Sparkling) who has of course headed the project from the beginning. While the team does accept donations, this has not been a notable source of revenue. Nearly all of the software and development tools have been paid for by team members out of pocket. Many thousands of hours have been put into this project already, and all of them have been donated without pay. This project has been a remarkable witness to the power of God, and a testament to the work He is doing in our lives.
If you are able to advance the development of Visions through a financial contribution, please Donate via PayPal. THANK YOU!
We have a 4 stage launch planned for Visions, with the first stage beta planned for March 2010. We do plan to implement player housing, avatar customization, various mounts, a variety of clothing choices, and vast expanses of terrain to explore to appease even the most diligent wanderer. Due to the limitations of our small volunteer team however, most of these features will be implemented slowly over the course of time as our time and resources allow. Thank you for understanding!
We are also still looking for more programmers, animators and writers.
Thanks for your interest in Visions!
When will it be done? This is our most frequently asked question, and unforunately is the most difficult to answer. Due to the unpredictability of working with an entirely volunteer team, everything takes longer than we hope it will. And sometimes we have key roles that are understaffed or not filled at all, so we experience delays. However, we have developed a new plan for launch! We will not be releasing Visions in a feature-complete state of gameplay like the AAA companies are able to do with their fully funded staff. We will be using a multi-stage launch where we release 1 game feature playable, and online to the public. Then as we complete new features we will release each one as it becomes available in patches. This will allow us to get the game to players sooner, although with considerably less content at the beginning. As we start generating funding we hope to reach a point where we will be able to actually pay our developers to work full time, and create patches faster, ultimately reaching our fully-featured goal for Visions as outlined by the design documents. In the mean time, our current goal is to release stage 1 Beta of Visions online in 2010. We hope to see you there!
Please consider supporting our game development project through purchases from the Visions Store, many items are available in all sizes, even gifts for pets!
Help us make the dream come true! We especially need C++ Programmers, Torque Scripters, 3D artists, 3D Animators, and Texture Artists. If you have skills and time to help advance the development of Visions, please fill out this form: Volunteer Application. If you have a friend who might be interested in helping point them to this page please!
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We are a registered company in the state of Oregon, volunteering for our team is valid resume experience! If you know anyone who might be interested, please send them our way! Thanks!
If you are interested in helping us with Visions development,
please contact me! tinyzoo@yahoo.com
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