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Warframe publisher’s new game Wayfinder announced at The Game Awards
WARFRAME publisher Digital Extremes previously teased a new game, Project Skylight. As announced at The Game Awards, we now know it’s called Wayfinder.
If you’re into Warframe, then Wayfinder will interest you. It’s a new character-based online action RPG led by the creative director of Darksiders, and Ruined King: A League of Legends Story.
First look at Wayfinder.[/caption]
We had a chance to sit down with a number of the team and talk about Wayfinder, and what new things it will bring to the gaming space.
Game director Ryan Stefanelli explained: “We’ve always wanted to make an online game – one that had a world we could build the game around, one that could grow.
“Even though the game is really a character-based free-to-play online action game, we definitely have MMO-like aspirations for it.
“[Wayfinder is a] culmination of our past experiences on working on action games like the Darksiders franchise which was our first multiplayer game, but then also some of the RPGs we worked on, Battle Chasers and Ruined King, and bringing it all together in an online world.
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“That is really what Wayfinder is all about. All of our games have had adventure as a common element, and Wayfinder takes that to the next level for us by letting people do it online.”
It seems the team is sticking to what it knows best, free-to-play live service games, with plenty of updates to keep its players coming back for more.
But how does Wayfinder stand out against Warframe, one of the most popular online games.
Creative Director Joe Madureira says: “As far as how it’s different, when we started this, there was a lot of synergy or similarities with some of the concepts games like Warframe.
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“And I think Digital Extremes was initially very excited about that, but we have also been very careful not to retread the same ground.
“It is a very different game. Obviously, it looks completely different. The world is a synth fantasy, arcane pumped world.
“The art style is completely different. We have a lot of touchpoints, and a lot of learning we can do from Digital Extremes’ experience with Warframe, and why we were so excited to have them as a partner.”
So what makes the art style different from Digital Extremes’ other games?
He continues: “We’re definitely pushing it in a different direction, and as far as Soulframe, we know as little about that as anyone else.
“We’re relying on Digital Extremes to make sure there’s no overlap there. The artstyle of the game is pretty much an evolution of everything we have ever done before.
“We’ve done handpainted games. We’ve done games in Unreal [Engine]. This merges the two. We try to get very illustrated concept art-ish.
“When someone says, ‘That screenshot looks like concept art,’ we get excited by that. Hopefully, we can keep pushing that and, as the years go, make it look better and better.”
According to the developers, anyone who’s played the Darksiders series “are going to feel at home playing Wayfinder”.
There’s a focus on fighting groups over massive battles with enemies who have large health bars, and you’re able to use speedy dagger strikes or big hammer blows, depending on your playstyle.
Wayfinder will have a Closed Playtest beginning on December 13, and the game will be set to release Early Access in Spring 2023 on PlayStation and PC.
Written by Veerender Singh Jubbal and Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.
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Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow And Other Authors Publish Open Letter Protesting Publishers’ Lawsuit Against Internet Archive Library
“Libraries are a fundamental collective good. We, the undersigned authors, are disheartened by the recent attacks against libraries being made in our name by trade associations such as the American Association of Publishers and the Publishers Association: undermining the traditional rights of libraries to own and preserve books, intimidating libraries with lawsuits, and smearing librarians,” the letter states. The letter also calls for enshrining “the right of libraries to permanently own and preserve books, and to purchase these permanent copies on reasonable terms, regardless of format,” and condemns the characterization of library advocates as “mouthpieces” for big tech. “We fear a future where libraries are reduced to a sort of Netflix or Spotify for books, from which publishers demand exorbitant licensing fees in perpetuity while unaccountable vendors force the spread of disinformation and hate for profit,” the letter states.
The American Association of Publishers’ general counsel Terrence Hart issued a statement responding to the claim that the lawsuit is an attack on libraries. He said, “That authors and publishers support libraries is not in dispute and most certainly not at issue in the infringement case against the Internet Archive, which is not a library. “On the contrary, the Internet Archive operates an unlicensed digital copying and distribution business that copies millions of literary works without permission and gives them away for free. This activity is unprecedented and outside any reasonable interpretation of the copyright law that grants to authors the decision as to whether, when, through whom, and on what terms to distribute their works to the public.” He added, “If the rights holder chooses to permit the copying of print books into e-books, that is a choice they are empowered to make as to their own works. The Internet Archive robs authors and publishers of that choice.”
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