I’ve been following Mortal Online for a while now and was tempted to purchase the game to join the beta, but when I saw the price of 69 EUR I decided to wait and see for a while before diving in.

Looks like I made a wise decision as by all accounts the beta isn’t going well, infact it is barely going at all. I don’t know what the… Continue reading

There are a few ways that you can handle skill advancement in your game:

• Increase over time
• Increase through use (either success, failure or both)
• Purchased with gold, experience or some other token
• Increase with character level

In the next couple of posts I am going to examine a few of these methods, starting with the skill advancement system used in Maiden Desmodus.

With Maiden Desmodus I chose a time based method of skill advancement where… Continue reading