Ashes of Creation ~ New MMORPG by Intrepid Studios

Fall Update
over 8 years ago – Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:03:56 AM

Glorious Ashes of Creation Backers,

We have been hard at work building Ashes of Creation into the best MMORPG possible, and we have a lot of news to fill you in on!

Last month we went to PAX West to show off our Pre-Alpha build, and the reception was AMAZING!  We also had a PACKED panel at the event, and we did some recap videos of PAX as well as a recording of the panel that you can find below :)

PAX Day 1 Recap

PAX Day 2 Recap

 PAX Day 3 Recap

 PAX Panel

A few announcements made last month at PAX West;

• We have announced our invitation only Alpha Zero date of December 15th, 2017
• The musical composer for Ashes of Creation will be Bear McCreary, known for his amazing work on; The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Black Sails, Outlander, Agents of Shield, 10 Cloverfield Lane, God of War
• The world in Ashes of Creation is named Verra
• There are currently over 60 developers working on Ashes of Creation

On October 16th, we announced some Halloween Themed Events for our community, for a chance to win an invitation to the Alpha Zero Closed Testing.

Take part in our Costume Contest, Short Story Contest, Pumpkin Carving Contest, or Fan Art Contest and find more info on these by visiting our forums here. Submissions must be made by October 30th, 12pm PDT

If you have not had an opportunity to subscribe or register to our social media, I highly advise you do so, in order to stay in touch with all of our updates and announcements!

Ashes of Creation Website

Ashes of Creation YouTube

Ashes of Creation Twitter

Ashes of Creation Discord

Ashes of Creation Facebook

Ashes of Creation Twitch

Finally, everyone here at Intrepid is hard at work to create a masterpiece that will make all of our backers proud.  As we approach our Alpha Zero, the team is filled with excitement and gratitude for the amazing show of support that you have all shown.  We love our community, and we encourage you to join the discussion and start to form the bonds of friendship that make the MMORPG genre so rewarding.

With love and appreciation,

Steven

PS Check our some works in progress below <3

Expansions, Backer's Accounts and More!
almost 9 years ago – Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:23:47 AM

Glorious Ashes Community!

Happy Monday!

You will be happy to hear that we are currently in the processes of integrating the information from Kickstarter into our Account database and will be sending out emails to your Kickstarter registered emails by Tuesday of next week (June 20th).  June 20th will also be the launch of our store at www.AshesofCreation.com where members who were unable to participate in the Kickstarter, due to limited payment processing, will have an opportunity to back Ashes.

You may have seen the first week of June we announced some new additions to our team;

Rocco has almost 20 years experience in the video game Industry, owns a Ph.D. in Economics, and MBA in Marketing and a BA in Economics. Prior to joining Psyop Games as managing director, Rocco spent more than ten years working in positions of new business, strategy, and marketing. Formerly an Agent at CAA, Partner at ISM, Director of Franchise and License Development at Activision, Director of Strategic Growth at Vivendi Games, and previously at THQ and Atari.

Akil Hooper has a long and storied history in the game industry. He's been a designer, a lead, a producer, and a creative director, on games such as EverQuest, EverQuest II, and Fallout: New Vegas, and companies like Sony Online Entertainment, Obsidian Entertainment, and Disney Interactive. Akil is a master at his craft, and is able to find the fun in any system he's involved with, and he'll be bringing those skills to his position at Intrepid Studios.

Kevin has had the opportunity to work on many MMO's over the past 20 years, including EverQuest 1 & 2, Planetside 1 & 2, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, and Shadowbane. Intrepid is excited to have Kevin's experience and passion contributing to making Ashes of Creation the penultimate fantasy MMORPG experience.

Mat Broome is an experienced game developer and professional illustrator with over 15 years on multiple AAA MMO games. Mat has shipped seven cross-platform game titles including the hits H1Z1, Planetside 2, and DC Universe Online and lent his skill to hit titles such as Everquest.

Graduate from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2012. Soon after, began working for Amazon as a software developer for the past 5 years. Alex is an experienced programmer, having released multiple products such as AWS Mobile Analytics and AWS Pinpoint.

Intrepid will be continually hiring and expanding as we began to ramp up production on Ashes of Creation! As you can see by our office today :)

We have some exciting announcements to make this month, during our live streams on June 16th (3pm PDT) and June 30th (Noon PDT), so make sure to tune in!

The road ahead is an exciting one, and one that we could not be more grateful to share with all of you.

With love,

Steven

The Journey Ahead...
almost 9 years ago – Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 12:19:04 AM

WAY TO GO EVERYONE! We smashed records and unlocked all stretch goals!!!

Along with many of you, I watched as the project on Kickstarter counted down in seconds to end a history making month. Because of your support and dedication to Ashes, we have achieved the highest funding on Kickstarter that an MMO has ever achieved, and landed 7th of all video games. That is AMAZING!

Because of the high amount of our members requesting alternate payment methods that Kickstarter did not offer, I have decided that during the month of June I will extend our crowdsourcing through our website for those of you who were unable to purchase packages through Kickstarter.  I felt it was unfair to deny our communities in Europe and abroad, the ability to participate in this amazing kickstarter, simply because Kickstarter does not support Paypal.

All backers from Kickstarter will benefit from this additional month of funding with some pretty awesome backer goals and rewards, which we will be releasing today. We will have the ability for Kickstarter pledges to be upgraded as well, if you wish.  Once June is complete, the Kickstarter packages and unique rewards will not be available again.

All backers of Kickstarter will achieve the additional backer goals that are reached in the June funding on our website. 

A few important notes;

-Backer Goal Rewards achieved in Kickstarter, will only be given to Kickstarter specific backers.

-Backer Goal Rewards achieved on our website during June will be given to both Kickstarter backers as well as June website backers.

-No Early bird pricing will be available on the website during June.

-There are no stretch goals (avoiding scope creep)

This June funding was decided on because it only helps to further include our members who could not participate in Kickstarter, and a Massive Community is what we want.  I know many of you can appreciate that fact.  More funding also helps.   

Below are the June Backer Rewards that all Kickstarter Backers will enjoy if achieved by our June Crowdsourcing extension. (Graphics for these will come shortly after, including further description)

1000 June Backers -Founder's Dance- Dance with your fellow backers to celebrate!

2500 June Backers -Freehold Furniture Set

4000 June Backers -Portable Party - Permanent Firework / Celebration item

5500 June Backers -UI Theme 

7000 June Backers -Backer Unique Parlor Game

8500 June Backers -Backer only ship skin "The Intrepid" 

10,000 June Backers -Freehold Personal statue

12,000 June Backers -Wand of Many Things

Below are some videos that we released this week!!! Including a Studio Tour!!

I cannot adequately express my personal gratitude that your support means. The past 17 months have been a lot of hard work for everyone on my team. And to see the validation of our effort emboldens us to get Ashes done right. Ashes is my baby, and I pledge to you, that this project will make each of you proud.

This community has our undying love and respect.

<3 - Steven

$2,500,000 New Player Race Achieved!!! Freeholds Video Released :)
almost 9 years ago – Wed, May 31, 2017 at 03:26:09 PM

Congratulations to everyone!!!

The team is beyond excited to begin work on the 9th Player race that was unlocked! We will be showing some concept pieces on this race, as well as reveal their name and origin story on our live stream Tuesday.

If you missed it, we have released some in-game footage of the Empyrean and Kaelar Freeholds and housing designs.

Check it out here;

Enjoy some in-game screenshots as well

We continue to be amazed at the unbelievable support and enthusiasm from everyone.  It means so much to us to see your excitement and dedication to spreading the word about Ashes of Creation, and helping to breathe life into this world. 

From everyone at Intrepid,

Thank you.

Much love.

New Backer Goal!! + Monster Coins (>'.')>
almost 9 years ago – Wed, May 31, 2017 at 03:24:36 PM

Hey everyone!

We have added a new Backer Goal for our last week on Kickstarter!!

As we near the 13,500 Backer Goal of our unique mount barding that will make any mount stand out with this emissive and epic armor set, we have added a new backer goal at the 16,000 back number!

The new backer goal will give all backers a set of Kickstarter Exclusive Skill FX, this set will apply to certain skills and include unique colors and additional fx for the skill it is applied to.  Meaning a mage with her fireball skill may fire off a ball of searing white flames as opposed to the traditional colors of that skill.

We have also published an in-game video showcasing how our monster coin system will look and feel.  As events spawn within the world, with monsters attacking civilization, players will have the opportunity to play as these creatures with unique objectives and access to a wide diversity of monsters.  Watch this Pre-Alpha footage below, to get an idea of what this will look like!

Thank you everyone for your continued support and helping us to spread the word.  We are grateful beyond words. <3