Thrive Games, an independent game developer based out of Hamilton, Ontario, will be launching a Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday to help fund their first project Dragon of Legends. The game is an action based MMORPG for PC, Mac, and Mobile platforms heavily influenced by the mythic cycle of Gaelic Ireland and Norse mythology, where the lights of faeries border the realms of darkness.
The team has been developing the project for the past year and a half and the game has even been a featured project on the Square Enix Collective last year. The team at Thrive Games are now at the point where they’re looking for the necessary additional financial assistance to finalize an open beta that everyone can start playing.
So what’s the game about?
Two alliances have emerged across the continent, both struggling for supremacy over the land and as these great powers battle one another for control of Hávamál – darker forces gather to destroy them. Players from around the world can assume the roles of customizable heroic fantasy characters, and explore a lush 2D retro-inspired world full of mystery, danger, and countless adventure.
After creating your own custom character and selecting a faction, you will set out on an epic quest to conquer evil and save the lands of Havamal from impending doom, or succumb to the darkness and act as an agent of destruction. You will have your own background, racial history, and character specific storyline that will provide direction, and motivation behind all of your actions.
Along your adventures you will acquire new equipment and learn powerful skills to aid you on your path, and you will be constantly interacting with other players from around the world.
In order to defeat the most complicated and challenging dungeons, you must strategically coordinate your efforts and work effectively as a team to reap the rewards. You can band together with like-minded players in clans and guilds and wage war against other rival factions – or even turn on your own.
The game sounds like a pretty interesting project. The developers even stated on their SEC submission that Dragon of Legends is heavily inspired by Square’s earlier works ranging from Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Breath of Fire.
And it’s a good sign that 86% of visitors at the Square Enix Collective voted that they would you back this project through crowdfunding.
You can find out more about Dragon of Legends at the Thrive Games website. We’ll share the link to their Kickstarter when it goes live on Tursday.
In the meantime check out some Alpha gameplay below.
