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The Blackblood Alliance Online Game

April 23rd, 2008 by Kay Fedewa

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Ok, soooo we’ve been working on something over the past year. I was trying to keep this under wraps until Beta but, I need some help. :)

Well, the BBA has teamed up with some professional programmers, licensed a game engine, and designed an Online game.

In my (humble) opinion, this game is majorly awesome. It embodies everything I was looking for in an online game! I just need help paying the programmers some money up front for all the work they have already done and have yet to do. A lot of the money I make off of figurine sales is going toward paying for the game… but I was wondering, if any of you were interested in helping me out.

Here’s how it works. This site (click here) has a thing where you can pledge via paypal X dollars. You check out through paypal but you don’t end up getting charged X until the fundraiser goal of $1,000 is met. If i dont end up getting 1,000 in pledges in 24 days then, you don’t end up paying anything.

Here is the writeup from the site, to give you more info :)

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Working title: The Blackblood Alliance Online Game.

Our Goal: Create and release a BBA-based video game to the online public with the help of your donations!

About the Game: The game downloads to your Windows PC and can connect via the internet to other online players. It will be the first online game to blend text-based role-playing with a unique combat system (and many other features) involving your own customizable interactive characters.

What will make our game cool: You and your friends can each take on the role of a direwolf, blackblood, fox, or sabre that you completely design. You choose a class and can interact with others as you fight, hunt, explore, roleplay, level up and socialize! In future updates, you’ll be able to stake your own territory, have your own den and host private RP sessions, decorate it with unique items - maybe even breed! The only limits are what we can afford to accomplish with the programmers’ time and resources!

Progess so far: We have licensed an engine from Valen Games and have integrated it with other code - we’re just working on adding different functionality for our purposes. We need to still make sure the game plays online, allows people to design and create their own unique looking characters, integrate item support, and track statistics, combat and leveling up. This is not a simple game! Our programmers have many hours of work on their plate and we need help paying them for their time and effort!

How you can help: Donate to the project to help pay for costs associated with licensing tools and paying for programming time! Each of 10 $100 increments will be used to pay programmers to help accomplish very specific milestones (aka progress points) in the development cycle of the game. This may not pay for all their time and effort, but they will be valuable incentives to show that we care and we will support and appreciate their help!

Benefits for donating:
All contributors will receive access to the game developer’s blog, which will begin soon.
All Contributors will get access to a high resolution download of exclusive Blackblood Alliance desktop Wallpaper!
Contributors who donate $20 or more will receive a coupon on their In-Game account, redeemable toward anything the Game store!
Our top sponsors will get first “dibs” on beta tester positions!
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So, if you’re interested in helping out, or at least want to check out the donation page, it’s right here (click).

I appreciate even the time you took to read this entry so, thank you so much!!

Take care guys!

~Kay

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