City State Entertainment

Camelot Unchained Successfully Funded

Camelot Unchained is the newest MMO from Mark Jacobs, who fans will be familiar with from his work at Mythic Entertainment and on MMO Fallout’s quote board. Camelot Unchained will feature three factions going at it in the massive realm vs realm battles introduced way back with Dark Age of Camelot. Players will be able to take part in battles with hundreds of other players, create dynamic buildings, and even choose a life of nonviolence crafting weapons for your fellow allies to use in battle.

With just over an hour to go, Kickstarter is well past its goal of $2 million, bringing in $2.2 million and counting.

(Source: Kickstarter)

Camelot Unchained Is All RvR, All The Time

City State Entertainment continues to pump out new information regarding Camelot Unchained, Mark Jacobs’ next MMO. Camelot Unchained may not be coming out for quite a long time yet, but City State Entertainment has been hot on track releasing new information regarding the upcoming title. In the latest developer blog, CSE wants us to be clear: Camelot Unchained isn’t an MMO with RvR tagged on. Instead, RvR IS the game. As the blog post points out, let’s just say there are no drops at all and damn few NPCs. Players will have to rely on other players to craft the best gear in the game, and rely on bashing in the skulls of opposing factions to get some decent loot.

CU is a TriRealm™, RvR-focused game. It is not an RvR-centric game like Dark Age of Camelot and it is certainly not a “just bolt on the RvR; that will work!” game like so many others. It is as pure an RvR game that I have ever worked on, plain and simple. Everything in this game is geared to the TriRealm concept, whether it is the crafting system, housing, skill progression, etc. You will explore, fight, capture, level, etc. all within a competitive RvR world that was crafted with this FP in mind.

The blog post doesn’t go into detail on the leveling system, however it does point out that players will be sufficiently rewarded, even if they aren’t particularly good at RvR. There will also be things to do for players who aren’t so privvy to fighting other players will have activities to keep them busy, from crafting to the game’s housing system.

(Source: City State Entertainment)

Mark Jacobs Announces Camelot Unchained

It feels like ages since we last spoke of Mark Jacobs and City State Entertainment, the end of September in 2011 if you’re keeping track. Since then, the team has been hard at work on what many of us have hoped would be the spiritual sequel to Dark Age of Camelot. Today, Jacobs has graced us with the announcement of Camelot Unchained, an upcoming MMORPG. Why don’t I let Mark Jacobs tell you more about it?

The core concept for the new MMORPG focuses tightly on three key elements, RvR, housing and a true player-owned economy. The central conflict encompasses a trio of diverse, competing realms – Arthurian, Tuatha Dé Danann and Viking – each seeking to assert its dominance over an open and persistent world reflecting the universally familiar but greatly re-imagined Camelot and European mythos. All aspects of this RvR-focused MMORPG are tied into and support the three realms’ ongoing battle for superiority and control. The player housing and crafting systems will also be very significant components and both key closely into the RvR theme.

Three faction, RvR focused, with housing and a player-driven economy? Someone cancel my happy pills, I shan’t be needing them anymore. For more details, Massively.com has a fantastic interview with Mark Jacobs about the concepts and ideas behind Camelot Unchained. City State Entertainment will be launching a Kickstarter campaign soon to raise funding for the MMO.

(Source: City State Entertainment)

Mark Jacobs Back From The Dead

Mark Jacobs made a name for himself here at MMO Fallout, particularly his quote regarding the launch of an MMO and its success being determined by whether or not the developer could be seen adding servers post-launch. Jacobs famously departed from Mythic Entertainment, and much like Richard Garriot following his departure from NCSoft, fell off the face of the earth in terms of future projects or developments.

Well Jacobs is back and, like countless before him, has formed his own company to divert from the standard corporate environment. Jacobs has formed City State Entertainment, with the goal of creating games for tablets, social media, and mobile demographics. Or as hardcore gamers will call it, Jacobs recognized the market potential in churning out FarmVille clones, games that require little effort to churn out a large profit via microtransactions. Or as a business major would call it, Jacobs will roll in cash for a fraction of the effort put into his previous projects. Jacobs says not to worry, however, as the company has no plans on becoming the next Zynga, and instead will form their own IP that they hope to translate to other medium.

City State Entertainment’s first title is set to release in Q4 2011. The company formed back in March and constitutes a number of ex-Mythic employees. MMO Fallout will be continuing coverage as more information on the first title is revealed.