The MMO market has become increasingly tough arena to fight in for small, independently funded start-ups like Masthead Studios, but these Bulgarian entrepreneurs are undeterred as they develop Earthrise.
"[Earthrise is] a game that is about freedom," said Technical Director George Petrov. "[It is] not the usual fantasy MMO."
Their vision is most definitely a throwback to an era when there were many schools of thought in the MMO genre. Since World of Warcraft, companies have gravitated towards level based games that closely direct the player's experiences and they're almost universally fantasy. Earthrise rewinds the clock and is clearly inspired by Ultima Online, which rose to prominence a decade ago with a completely open skill-based system where players improve through using individual skills, rather than experience earned by killing monsters and completing quests.
Earthrise: First Impact is a revived apocalyptic scifi MMORPG project that SilentFuture picked up after the closure of Earthrise in 2012. The developer has been working hard at the game, with an alpha version of the MMORPG well on its way – much to fans delight.
Earthrise is an upcoming post-apocalyptic sandbox MMORPG that almost didn’t make it, luckily German developer SilentFuture UG revived the highly-anticipated project. Now, the time some fans have been waiting for – Closed Beta sign ups have begun.
The closed alpha stage ONE of Earthrise has officially started. SilentFuture revamped many of the systems used in Earthrise and focused on fundamental factors such as network and server performance. A new network layer was implemented and the Flash based GUI was replaced with a HTML5 one, that enables the players to customize their HUD and implement own functionality.
