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The Wagadu Chronicles Alpha 1 Begins in February | MMORPG.com

If you've been wondering when The Wagadu Chronicles will finally let people in to test the game, the wait is almost over. According to the office Wagadu Chronicles twitter account, Twin Drums will be releasing their Alpha 1 test in February 2022.

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Slapshot1188

Will be interesting to see the reactions. I always thought their PnP rule/source book looked better than their mmo game components.

We shall see.

Kyleran

Surpringly quick development from announcement to alpha, all at a budget price (regardless of the Riot support) I'm suspicious at this point.

Asm0deus

Interested to see what this will look like, heard about it awhile back but didn't think it went anywhere tbh.

adam_nox

"If you were wondering"

nope

klash2def

I've never heard of this title, but it looks very interesting. Going to dig into this one, looks dope.

MonsutaMan

Looks intresting tbh

achesoma

Slapshot1188 said:

Will be interesting to see the reactions. I always thought their PnP rule/source book looked better than their mmo game components.

We shall see.

Cool, didn't realize this was based a table top RPG.

It's nice to see RPGs not based on the European style of fantasy. Seems interesting.

Ginaz

Interesting. Pretty quick with the Alpha. IF it turns out anywhere close to decent, other devs might want to get some advice from this team on how to release a game in a timely manner. Big IF, though.

Katrisa

I have high hopes for this game. It could (and probably will) fail badly but I am excited for something new in the MMO space. *Fingers crossed*

Astropuyo

Know what really sucks?

An entire genre niche hinges on this projects success.


Like this fails and the whole afrofuture/fantasy thing just mike get derailed. Which would suck.

I'm barely able to cope making a black male in mmo's as is. Women are usually easy but like black guys have two hair choices and both are afro's or maybe some corn rows.


Now what about single player games...haha..oh man...these dudes have no pressure at all. It's super casual haha..(I'd be afraid of the failure).

Scot

achesoma said:

Slapshot1188 said:

Will be interesting to see the reactions. I always thought their PnP rule/source book looked better than their mmo game components.



We shall see.

Cool, didn't realize this was based a table top RPG.

It's nice to see RPGs not based on the European style of fantasy. Seems interesting.

It was not based on a table top RPG, the team decided to create one using 5e DnD rules. You can get a copy of the free book here:

https://mailchi.mp/429f07350770/qfel4fmldn

The fact they decided to do this says a lot, tip my adventurers helm to them. But I always prefer the RPG to come before the MMO. We have seen RPG's based on MMOs like WoW's, they are not that good. Still, we don't get to say "and the MMO team are releasing a RPG during development" a lot do we?

I have been following this one (in my usual 'its not out yet so skim it' approach) for some time, the speed of it getting to alpha does raise a question mark. But these days what does alpha even mean, alpha one might be very basic; some of those roadmaps I have seen for other MMOs might as well have ten alphas.

ZenJelly

Astropuyo said:

Know what really sucks?



An entire genre niche hinges on this projects success.





Like this fails and the whole afrofuture/fantasy thing just mike get derailed. Which would suck.



I'm barely able to cope making a black male in mmo's as is. Women are usually easy but like black guys have two hair choices and both are afro's or maybe some corn rows.





Now what about single player games...haha..oh man...these dudes have no pressure at all. It's super casual haha..(I'd be afraid of the failure).

Not if this fails, it will fail. Much, much, much better games than this have failed, this one isn't just DOA it was dead on concept.

Spiider

Ill give them a chance providing I don't need to buy a ship for 5000$ so that I can maybe play in 10-200 years time.

Myrdynn

sweet cant wait til every guild is named some sort of Wakanadu 4ever

olepi

Scot said:

achesoma said:

Slapshot1188 said:

Will be interesting to see the reactions. I always thought their PnP rule/source book looked better than their mmo game components.





We shall see.

Cool, didn't realize this was based a table top RPG.

It's nice to see RPGs not based on the European style of fantasy. Seems interesting.

It was not based on a table top RPG, the team decided to create one using 5e DnD rules. You can get a copy of the free book here:



https://mailchi.mp/429f07350770/qfel4fmldn



The fact they decided to do this says a lot, tip my adventurers helm to them. But I always prefer the RPG to come before the MMO. We have seen RPG's based on MMOs like WoW's, they are not that good. Still, we don't get to say "and the MMO team are releasing a RPG during development" a lot do we?



I have been following this one (in my usual 'its not out yet so skim it' approach) for some time, the speed of it getting to alpha does raise a question mark. But these days what does alpha even mean, alpha one might be very basic; some of those roadmaps I have seen for other MMOs might as well have ten alphas.

In real software development terms, alpha has a real meaning. It means all the code is done, and they are now testing it all together for the first time. It isn't expected to work very well. Alpha testing is short, and bugs are fixed and beta testing begins. That is also short.

Today's gaming developers have made the term "alpha" meaningless. Some games claim to be in alpha even while the design is being done. If they have anything that wiggles, they call it alpha. Or they claim they are in alpha perpetually, for years.

lordsmok

nobody cares about woke games

olepi

From what I can gather, this game is sort of like Second Life, set in Africa.  No PvP, no dungeons or massive PvE battles. With a hint of survival thrown in.

Quizzical

Kyleran said:

Surpringly quick development from announcement to alpha, all at a budget price (regardless of the Riot support) I'm suspicious at this point.

How long it takes depends heavily on how much they want to have available and working in the alpha, as well as how much of what it's in the alpha is provided by the game engine with little work on their part.

It also depends tremendously on how much work they did before the public announcement.  You can go from announcement to full launch in a few days if you put in several years of work before announcing that your project exists.

Rungar

worldsbestdad said:

I know they're going for the exact opposite of this, but...Why does this feel like this is about to be the most painfully racist game I have ever experienced?

That's how Satanism works. You set out with an ideal and achieve the exact opposite of that while you blame those your attacking of .....being you. 

personally they lost me with D&D rules and no elves, dwarves or gnomes..

its high fantasy for me.. or nothing lol. 

Quizzical

worldsbestdad said:

I know they're going for the exact opposite of this, but...Why does this feel like this is about to be the most painfully racist game I have ever experienced?

From what little they've shown, that looks to me like a case of you projecting your own expectations onto a game.  Neither the web site of the game or the company, nor the kickstarter scream "woke".  They have a single sentence at the bottom of a page mentioning diversity in passing, and that's all that I saw.

A game based in a particular part of the world and in an era before it was common for people to travel thousands of miles could readily have all of the characters in the game of the same race, at least for the big racial buckets that people use today.

That's not a statement about race.  It's just a statement about the setting of the game.  In A Tale in the Desert, all of the characters are nominally Egyptian.  In Tree of Savior, all of the human characters are nominally Lithuanian (or at least Romuva).  In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, they're all Chinese.  That's just the background setting for the game, and the companies managed to make their games just fine without creating a big fuss about race.

That doesn't mean that the game will be good or bad.  At this point, we really don't know.

maskedweasel

Rungar said:

worldsbestdad said:

I know they're going for the exact opposite of this, but...Why does this feel like this is about to be the most painfully racist game I have ever experienced?

That's how Satanism works. You set out with an ideal and achieve the exact opposite of that while you blame those your attacking of .....being you. 

personally they lost me with D&D rules and no elves, dwarves or gnomes..

its high fantasy for me.. or nothing lol. 

I think that's kind of the interesting thing about this game. I don't know anything about African lore at all. 

There could be some awesome stuff there, I've just never had any exposure to it. 

Since I've had tons of exposure to Asian games over the years I know quite a bit about that lore. It doesn't make those games "racist" because it hinges on those cultures.  

I dont know if this game will be for me,  playability wise,  but I'm happy to see a new setting finally. 

Quizzical

To me, the biggest red flag about the game is that they're trying to make it heavily about role-playing with other humans.  This seems likely to end badly.  Have the developers ever met other humans on the Internet?  They'd better have a very robust plan to make the game still work when trolls show up and decide to be a nuisance.

Rungar

maskedweasel said:

Rungar said:

worldsbestdad said:

I know they're going for the exact opposite of this, but...Why does this feel like this is about to be the most painfully racist game I have ever experienced?

That's how Satanism works. You set out with an ideal and achieve the exact opposite of that while you blame those your attacking of .....being you. 

personally they lost me with D&D rules and no elves, dwarves or gnomes..

its high fantasy for me.. or nothing lol. 

I think that's kind of the interesting thing about this game. I don't know anything about African lore at all. 

There could be some awesome stuff there, I've just never had any exposure to it. 

Since I've had tons of exposure to Asian games over the years I know quite a bit about that lore. It doesn't make those games "racist" because it hinges on those cultures.  

I dont know if this game will be for me,  playability wise,  but I'm happy to see a new setting finally. 

oh I wish them well i'm just not interested in this nor an Irish or native american ( like myself) earth culture based mmo.  

this game will likely fail miserably simple because its not high fantasy and when it does then well see whose fault it is. 

i like high fantasy for a reason.  

Quizzical

Rungar said:

maskedweasel said:

Rungar said:

worldsbestdad said:

I know they're going for the exact opposite of this, but...Why does this feel like this is about to be the most painfully racist game I have ever experienced?

That's how Satanism works. You set out with an ideal and achieve the exact opposite of that while you blame those your attacking of .....being you. 

personally they lost me with D&D rules and no elves, dwarves or gnomes..

its high fantasy for me.. or nothing lol. 

I think that's kind of the interesting thing about this game. I don't know anything about African lore at all. 

There could be some awesome stuff there, I've just never had any exposure to it. 

Since I've had tons of exposure to Asian games over the years I know quite a bit about that lore. It doesn't make those games "racist" because it hinges on those cultures.  

I dont know if this game will be for me,  playability wise,  but I'm happy to see a new setting finally. 

oh I wish them well i'm just not interested in this nor an Irish or native american ( like myself) earth culture based mmo.  

this game will likely fail miserably simple because its not high fantasy and when it does then well see whose fault it is. 

i like high fantasy for a reason.  

If you prefer high fantasy over other settings, that's fine.  But that's a long way away from saying that not being high fantasy guarantees that a game will fail.  There have been plenty of successful games that weren't high fantasy.

Rungar

i guess youll get to prove me wrong!