"The avatar builder goes towards that high level of customization you want: you build your character and get to play the game you want to play." " has more of our attention on it, more than any other aspects because it's something we can put out there relatively soon," he added, noting the company hopes to launch the creator by next summer, as well as an app version for mobile devices shortly after. We want to produce our own avatar builder so people can start playing like that again. "The way characters looked rarely if ever had any direct impact on the game, but players wanted to make their characters as super hero-y or villainous as they wanted. "The most popular thing from City of Heroes was the flexible avatar creator," he said.
"You build your character and get to play the game you want to play." What defines The Phoenix Project as a City of Heroes spiritual successor, Johnson believes, is the attention to detail put into the game's character creator. Epic has licensed the engine to Missing Worlds with promise of payment later, once the Kickstarter campaign has closed.
Johnson said Missing Worlds has been using Epic Games' Unreal Engine to build The Phoenix Project, and the company has been willing to cooperate with the indie studio's current lack of funds. The project needs funding, and using Kickstarter will provide the campaign with some reputability, as it is the most popular and trusted crowdfunding platform. Missing Worlds studio director Cameron Johnson said that a handful of Phoenix Project developers are still full-time students, both in college and graduate school, and a few are "one of those house husband thingies," as Downes describes himself. "It's an all-volunteer project of 136 people right now." "This project has grown out of the community that was left behind when City of Heroes closed, so it's really just a lot of passionate people getting together to rebuild that home for themselves," he said. "This project has grown out of the community that was left behind when City of Heroes closed." Downes said that the entire project is currently staffed by volunteers, many of them with other, equally-demanding day jobs.
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Technical director Nate Downes told Polygon The Phoenix Project is already about one quarter to one third complete and 20 percent of the game's code is done - but that's "being optimistic," as he put it. 8, Missing Worlds will launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for The Phoenix Project, its answer to the woe City of Heroes' closing left behind. Missing Worlds, they said, would create the spiritual successor to the game they had lost, one that would capture the spirit and feel of City of Heroes. Players continued to support the MMO and its developers through its final days, and Paragon Studios made a bid to purchase the game outright from NCSoft in a last effort to save it.īut in the new year, a new hope arose: a group of programmers, designers and City of Heroes fans announced a new community-based studio, Missing Worlds Media.
Last fall, Paragon Studios closed its doors and shut down City of Heroes due to a "realignment of company focus and publishing support" at parent company NCSoft. The studio is terribly excited, and maybe a little nervous. Missing Worlds Media will launch its Kickstarter campaign for The Phoenix Project, the spiritual successor to super hero MMO City of Heroes, on Sept.
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