
In Release 1, players will also be able to converse with non-player characters (NPCs) and try out the game’s dialog system.

But this is important because player feedback at this stage will be utilized in helping us understand any changes we need to make and to possibly reaffirm that we are on the right track.” Since the game is crowd funded and crowd sourced, we feel it’s important to give our community an early glimpse of the game’s progress…earlier than what you’d normally see in traditional game development. It’s still very early in development, and this is not your traditional development model. “We are pleased with our progress and we are excited to show our fans what we’ve created in the short amount of time we’ve been working on the game.

The release comes only nine months since the project was announced by Portalarium in early March.

Backers of the crowd funded project today can log in to their accounts, download the client, create a character and begin to wander and explore the streets of Owl’s Head, the game’s first town open for business. Portalarium has announced the first release of Garriott’s Shroud of the Avatar fantasy role-playing game.
