surprised noones posted this yet.

 

Hi all! As you might have guessed from our low profile recently, there's lots brewing here in the FunOrb team and it's good to be able to give you an update.

 

First of all, we're glad to see that so many of you are enjoying Arcanists in high-resolution fullscreen mode and with resizable windows. Arcanists isn't the only game planned to receive the high-resolution treatment, though: Armies of Gielinor and Zombie Dawn updates are in the pipeline for the coming months, and we know you're going to love them.

Sneak preview of our upcoming tomb racing game.

Sneak preview of our upcoming tomb racing game.

 

But updates aren't all we're working on. Mod Crispy has recently been working with Mod Ken and Mod Thaddeus to put the finishing touches to a game that's rather close to my heart, because it's the first game I worked on after joining the team in February. If you like the idea of racing through macabre temples to collect coins and valuable idols - and who wouldn't? - then keep your eyes peeled for a release in the very near future. Says Mod Crispy:

 

It will be to my great joy to see Tom Bracer take his final steps to stardom. I penned his story a good 2 years ago. Finally we'll share with you the madness that's been kept under lock and key for so long. Over a year ago, Mod Cloud and myself started this project. After only a month or so, I moved on to other projects including the Armies of Gielinor campaigns. Since coming back to Tom Bracer, Mod Sporx, Mod Shade, Mod Thomas and Mod Iain have all worked on it too. Starting with Mod Cloud, allow me to bad mouth the lot of them [cut! - Ed.]

 

On a sad note, we've had to make a tough choice about Pirate Empires, which turned out to be a far larger project than we have the resources for at the moment. It was a hard decision to cease development of the game, but we realised we were essentially trying to produce a mini MMORPG, and we would have had to devote almost the entire development team to it in order to finish it. This would have meant putting all other projects on hold. The good news is that by cancelling Pirate Empires, we can bring you great new content for the games you already love, as well as bringing you new games on a more regular basis.

Sneak preview of Mod Dunk's new game

Sneak preview of Mod Dunk's new game

 

Speaking of new games, Mod Dunk has been working on a highly novel sci-fi shooter that sees you customising your own spacecraft before venturing forth to blow your opponent to smithereens. It's rather unlike anything else you've played on FunOrb, and we're really looking forward to seeing your reactions. Says Mod Dunk:

 

These last few weeks, the game has been going through early QA testing, with the finishing touches being added for a summer members' beta release of this real-time, multiplayer spaceship building and combat game. Right now, you can fly around, bolt a ship together (attaching hull pieces, weapons, defences and more), and fight your friends. And last week I added the ability to save your favourite ship as a blueprint. Once you have a blueprint, you have the option to rebuild it using nearby debris during a match, or spawn it in special "blueprint combat" missions.

 

Expect to see the fruit of Mod Dunk's hard work in a few weeks' time.

 

There's more - much more - in the pipeline (including Mod Wars), but I don't want to give away all our secrets just yet. Stay tuned, and you'll hear more later. ;-)

 

Until then, happy FunOrbing - and come and talk to us on the forums!

 

Mod Gabriel

FunOrb Editor

 

Too lazy to copy the pictures and the links, but good to see a status update after so long.

Im a little excited about Tomb Racer. :P

Not sure about the space game though, FunOrb has way too many space-themed games as it is imo.

 

Too bad about Pirate Empire's as well, though I do see how they could have created a mini mmorpg out of it, still would be nice if they picked it up and finished it in the future.

Too bad about Pirate Empire's as well, though I do see how they could have created a mini mmorpg out of it, still would be nice if they picked it up and finished it in the future.

 

This, sure they could've realised what they were doing was too big and downsized it a little?

I really want to know what's going on with 'FunOrb Central' that would've brought a lot more activity to some of the games it's almost impossible to find someone in.

Glad to see that jagex has primed the defibrillators.

 

However, it's a bit co-incidental that BTS and this are re-released around the same time... maybe some more monthly ones are due in the future (or even 'coming weeks' means this June. Or maybe not).

 

It's a shame to see the time invested into Pirate Empires go, but good to see unique content coming soon.

Too bad about Pirate Empire's as well, though I do see how they could have created a mini mmorpg out of it, still would be nice if they picked it up and finished it in the future.

 

This, sure they could've realised what they were doing was too big and downsized it a little?

I really want to know what's going on with 'FunOrb Central' that would've brought a lot more activity to some of the games it's almost impossible to find someone in.

 

they said that the project died, and the things that they were going to do with it were chopped up and released/will be released as separate updates.

Customizable spaceships?

 

*cough* EVE *cough*