Ilysia - World of Warcraft like VRMMORPG

SolKutTeR · 4. September 2020

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Ilysia von Team 21 Studio, LLC

Ilysia, coming soon, is a Room-scale Multiplayer Online VR RPG. Set in the world of Ilysia, players will travel along side one another as they quest and explore a multitude of unique areas. Each area contains area bosses, dungeons, caves, and large outdoor cities, all waiting to be explored.

Ilysia allows players to explore each area without limits, player will be able to climb rocks and trees, as well as explore caves systems through free-climbing and spelunking. While exploring, players will discover secrets and treasures distinctive to each area, these treasures will include unique armors, weapons, and items that the player can then use or sell.

The world of Ilysia can be both beautiful and dangerous, luscious scenery and beautiful vistas are inhabited by the creatures and titans that roam the land as protectors of an ancient source of energy and power called Thulin.

Ilysia also features a Caravan System, each player will be given a personal space called a caravan that each player can customize and decorate with the many treasures found in Ilysia. The caravan will be used for player resting as well as a means of fast travel throughout the world of Ilysia and its many Kingdoms. Other players will also be able to visit your caravan to view the changes you have made, and maybe help to inspire them in customizing their own.
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Story
In Ilysia, players will travel alongside one another as they quest and explore a multitude of unique areas, each area contains area bosses, dungeons, caves, and large outdoor cities, all waiting to be explored. Ilysia allows players to explore each area without limits, as they will be able to climb rocks and trees, as well as explore caves systems through free-climbing and spelunking. While exploring, players will discover secrets and treasures, which will include unique armors, weapons, and items that the player can then use, trade, or sell.
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The World of Ilysia
Ages ago, the Lagenans corrupted their world, causing a great rift that split the very planet itself. Fearing their own destruction, they created great portals powered by the blood of their gods, seeking to inhabit another nearby planet: Ilysia. Using their portals, the Lagenans entered Ilysia looking to establish a new home for their people where they could continue to practice their dark arts and thrive.

However, they were not welcome. The many races of Ilysia pushed back against the invading force and a great war that claimed the lives of many across Va’Karuhm was waged. After many years of fighting, the Lagenans were pushed back to their world and their portals were destroyed.

Though not all made it back... Many of the lesser folk; crafters, workers, and tradesmen were brought through to aid in the war effort and were left when the mages and armies of Lagena abandoned their fortresses in retreat.

After 300 years, the barrier has been lifted and the people are finally free to explore past the borders of Va'Karuhm and discover the greater world of Ilysia and all that it has to offer.

The world of Ilysia can be both beautiful and dangerous. Luscious scenery and beautiful vistas are inhabited by the Guardians and Titans that roam the land as protectors of an ancient source of energy and power that comes from mana pools found throughout the land, which we call Thulin. In Ilysia, Thulin is gathered from these pools and used to power devices and machinery all across the world.

In Ilysia, players will traverse a massive world, whose current size is 16 km x 18 km (a whopping 288 km^2). As we continue development, we plan to double that size! Our current images are from our starting island, Va’Taukaya, which measures 3 km x 3 km and features open plains, deep valleys, oceans, rivers, lakes, caves, and mountains.

On Va’Taukaya, players will get the chance to experience everything they can expect to encounter in the greater world of Ilysia, as well as fighting a massive 15 story tall Titan named Zou’Vaos!

Ilysia will feature the traditional MMORPG elements such as questing, crafting, dungeons, and raids. Players will discover ruins and caverns across the many regions of Ilysia. These areas will contain great opportunities to discover hidden gear and treasures.

Each square in the map below is 250m.

As the production of Ilysia continues and updates are rolled out, the overall size of the world of Ilysia will continue to grow and expand, even including non-terrestrial regions and zones.
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Exploration
With this massive of a world, Ilysia will focus a lot on exploration. Players will be able to traverse the world in a lot of different ways such as free-climbing, traveling on various airships, or riding their own terrestrial and flying mounts. While exploring, players will discover from ruins to caverns, temples to cities, underwater coral reefs to submerged cave systems, and many others! These areas will contain great opportunities to discover hidden gear and treasures. These locations will not appear on any map until the player finishes their challenges and unlocks the location.
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Combat
Ilysia will feature melee and ranged combat, using both weapons and spells. Melee weapons are velocity based, which means you can't just flick your wrist around to deal damage and you need to actually swing your arm in order to fight effectively. As such, the swinging force will determine the damage for each attack.

As for magic, players will encounter many different options to cast spells through either a gesture-based system, button presses with assigned abilities, or a mixture of both. Regarding ranged combat, players will have access to a multitude of weapons such as bows, crossbows, blowguns, and thrown darts.
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PVP
PvP combat in Ilysia will be entirely optional for players. Any player at any moment can flag themselves for PvP, but be prepared to fight when you do! We are also including PvP zones, these will be large areas that will include inside them towns, ruins, and other structures. The layout and presentation of these areas will be familiar to anyone that has played any of the recent battle royale games. These PvP zones will function very similar to a traditional battle royale game, players will enter the zone through several different points of interest. Players will be able to win armor, weapons, and charms that carry stats geared towards PvP combat. (This feature will be listed as a stretch goal for release at launch, otherwise it will be released through future updates.)
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Regions & Zones
Ilysia features very diverse and distinctive regions, each with its own background and culture. As players level and explore, they will discover new challenges along the way, such as bosses, dungeons, and raids.

Taking to the skies in an airship with your crew can be fraught with danger, giant creatures patrol the skies of Ilysia offering an airborne hunting challenge.

Deep in the forests all around Ilysia, players will encounter Guardians of varying sizes and degrees of challenge.

Due to underground volcanic vents, the deserts of Ilysia act as if they were made of water. This allows the people that live there to glide across the sands in boats powered by the magical Thulin essence. These deserts themselves are home to great Sand Wyverns that can swallow smaller boats whole.
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World Bosses
Ilysia contains many world bosses for players to hunt and fight. The bosses in Ilysia are known as Guardians and Titans. These world bosses will offer very difficult, yet rewarding, experiences for players to encounter. Some can be defeated by a small group, others will require dozens coordinating a strategic attack plan.
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Guardians & Titans
The known terms for the world bosses in Ilysia are Guardians and Titans.

Guardians are more naturally occurring creatures, they typically take the form of one of the many beasts of Ilysia but have the appearance of being made of the very planet itself, and sometimes contain a temple or fortress as part of their design.

Titans, however, were created by the Lagenans when they crossed over into Ilysia, seeking to conquer its people and enslave its gods. Titans typically have the look of being the embodiment of the very god whose essence was used to create them. Titans will either be encountered as a boss fight or contain in them a complex climbing and exploration puzzle.

Both Guardians and Titans introduce a dangerous and exhilarating experience for players traveling throughout Ilysia. Once a Guardian or Titan is defeated, there is a chance that it will drop a summoner item, allowing it or a version of itself, to be called into battle.
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Dungeons
Dungeons in Ilysia are unique in that each dungeon has up to three different modes. The first would be what most players are used to - you will fight through hordes of enemies utilizing various mechanics and eventually end at a dungeon boss that rewards high-quality gear.

The second would be a form of a beast/monster/titan hunt where the area has been saved from the dungeon boss but there is now a Guardian or Titan hunt that players can take part in. There would be included activities to do for players throughout the dungeon that would have players gathering clues or hints as to how to draw said enemy out for fighting. There would be smaller enemies to fight along the way. And the scenery for the dungeon would have slight changes to keep the players on their toes.

The third would be a handful of mini-bosses alongside smaller enemies that are attacking small fortified areas that players must help defend.
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Classes & Skills
Something we are very excited about is our FreeForge Class System! We have spent a lot of time trying to figure out a great way to let players choose how to play. With our FreeForge Class System players will be able to use any weapon or gear that they come across while questing and exploring, it is part of our attempt to make Ilysia feel as open as it can.

With the FreeForge Class System, all players will have 24 skill trees to choose from at launch (the number of skill trees will increase over time as development continues), each tree focuses on abilities for either weapon, armor, magic, or professions.

Players will be able to pick and choose from most of the available abilities in each tree, allowing them to craft their own player class. Naturally, players that choose to focus on a specific tree will be stronger in that area. A player who spreads their abilities around to be able to wear plate, and leather, as well as the use of magic and a one-handed sword, would not be as proficient in any one of those skills as someone who were to main in plate or leather, magic or one-handed swords. Another example would be a player who wants to focus on magic, they could either focus primarily on DPS magic or healing magic, or they could spread their points throughout the magic sections of the skill trees.

This system will require tweaking over time through rigorous testing, which will be balanced during our alpha and beta testing.
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Professions
We have given great thought towards professions in Ilysia. We will offer players the opportunity to play as not only blacksmiths, leatherworkers, tailors, engineers, and enchanter, but we will also give players the opportunity to play as inn-keepers, bar-keeps, traveling merchants, and tradesmen. With the FreeForge Class System, players will be able to level up in these professions as well, unlocking the ability to craft and sell better items.

When a player wants to take up a profession, there will be a quest they can start from any location they would like to inhabit, a bar, an inn, a blacksmith, or a tavern, etc. They simply go up to the NPC and select the option to run that spot, after the quest has been completed, the player will be given a deed that can be then transferred to any shop of the same type. If a player decides they no longer want to run the shop at that location, they can simply leave and an NPC will take their place to sell items to other players in the world. Once a player has been away from their shop for greater than two game days, the location will become available to other players with the same deed type. If a player wants to set up shop again, they will need to find a new location that is currently available in the world. We will make sure there are plenty of shop locations scattered throughout the world of Ilysia. This is another mechanic that will be tested thoroughly throughout development to balance properly.

For professions like Inn-Keepers, Bar-Keeps, and Blacksmiths that run their own stores, they will not only supply other players with goods and services, but there will also be mechanics that require them to keep their shop clean and maintain the outside of the buildings they currently inhabit.

Some professions allow players to set up shops within their caravans.
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Caravans
All players in Ilysia will be given a caravan at some point or another throughout their journey. Players will be able to decorate and customize their caravan as time goes on, and they will use their caravan to aid in traveling to distant locations across the world. Players that choose specific professions will also be able to turn their caravan into a traveling merchant shop, blacksmith shop, and even a traveling tavern.

As well as decorating and customizing caravans, players will be able to unlock different creatures and animals to pull their caravan.
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Pets
While traveling throughout Ilysia, players will encounter small animals that they will be able to capture as pets, or even bought from pet vendors. These pets can fight alongside the player. Players can also take place in pet battles known in Ilysia as Tera'Machi Battles.

There will be special arenas for ranked pet battles but players can also battle each other out in the world.

(This feature will be listed as stretch goal for release at launch, otherwise it will be released through future updates.)
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Player Characters
Ilysia is home to many different humanoid and non-humanoid races. Starting out players will be able to choose from Humans, Elves, and Dwarves along with plans for other races. These are the three we are preparing for launch. As we continue development, more player races will be added to Ilysia.

Humans are known as Lagenans and were left behind on Ilysia after the mages and armies of Lagena retreated through their portals after failing their invasion of Ilysia.

The Elves were nearly wiped out when the Lagenans invaded Ilysia and started enslaving its people and gods. The Elves have a very strong connection to Ilysia and the essence that runs through it.

The Dwarves retreated deep into their mines and keeps during the Lagenan invasion, to protect themselves from the Lagenans the Dwarves infused themselves with the very stone that surrounded them, giving them the look of living stone. Over time, the Dwarves' spell began to fade and they began to look once again they way they had before the invasion, but still retain some of their stone and earthen tones.
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A Brief History
We started working on Ilysia, when it was known as Tales of Aetheria, back in mid to late-2016. Back then, it was just a smaller RPG, supporting 8 people with gameplay mechanics closer to a dungeon crawler resembling Diablo or Torchlight. As we went on, we started playing with a style where a small group of people had to transport a crystal or mana filled vial to the end dungeon in something that would have played similar to Crystal Chronicles. We soon found, by experimenting with different networking options, that we would support almost as many people in one area that we wanted, and decided that we wanted to make something bigger than what we were currently working on.

We began building a large area 1 km by 1 km, and building a huge town, from which players would leave, quest, and return to turn in said quests. Below is an early rough video of the aforementioned town.

This idea quickly changed and we decided to go with a more traditional RPG approach in which the player enters the world at a starting location, learns the mechanics of the game in said location, and then travels deeper into the greater world. This area was 1 km by 1km as well and was situated in a large valley with a central town located on top of a hill.

As we continued to build the game, we added a new massive region that would be the eventual game world, carving out the mountains, valleys, rivers, and lakes this area was around 12 km by 14 km. We were loving the region and what we were building. We were about a year and a half into the project at this point, we were learning everything we needed to get our game to where we wanted it.

But sadly, in July of 2018, our father passed away, and it completely floored our progress. We weren't sure what to do with ourselves as every time we went back to the project, our hearts just weren't in it. It took about a year for us to really get back to work and at this point, we knew what we wanted to do. With a background in history and writing, our Mom stepped in to help us with writing the back story and making it all fit together. She even took up an interest in Unity and learned enough to help us place assets in the world, laying out the skeleton of towns for us to decorate later. Later, this would be the same thing that our business director, Tyler, would take up as well to help move along the development of Ilysia.

We started working on the game, we changed the name to Tales of Ilysia as thought of by Geoff, and we started working harder than ever. We started a game design document that helped us figure out what we wanted in this iteration and we got to work. Our world was once again overhauled, we decided to bring players into a starting island at first that would introduce them to the gameplay mechanics and start introducing the lore and races in Ilysia. We first started on the mainland itself though, we created one massive continent that was 16 km by 18 km and had three smaller islands off its coasts. We created the caravans and buildings, we started populating areas with towns and small villages, it was looking great! We were loving where we were going.

Sometimes when you lose a family member that you were incredibly close to, it can hit you in the strangest times. Our father is the person who taught us modeling in 3D Studio Max, he worked at NASA and Boeing-McDonnell Douglas in the 90s and would take us to all the shuttle and rocket launches. If we showed interest in a new hobby, he would help to spur us on, he was always our biggest "cheerleader", and now he was gone. This began to take a toll on us, other VRMMOs were beginning to go after funding or had already come out, so we assumed no one would care about what we were doing. Of course, we were not sharing our work with anyone, we hid everything and didn't speak to anyone about it, trying to keep it secret. Around October of 2019, we were fed up, no one knew about us, and we thought no one care about us or Tales of Ilysia. So one Friday night, I posted an image to Reddit, it was my first time.

I woke up Saturday morning to this image being at the top of three separate subs, it was crazy, people loved our work! It wasn't long until people started asking us for a Discord server, so we put one together, the first three people - Bubba, Ace, and Cow (their Discord handles) we made our Admins because we didn't know what we were doing. By the end of October, we have a few hundred people in our server, and thanks to the concern of some people on Reddit, the game itself was now knows as Ilysia. Around November, our Discord users were asking us to start a Patreon so that they could start backing us, we weren't really sure about this because we felt like we didn't have anything to offer up so early in, but we decided on transmog backer items, which we have been doing since then. Around December or January, we hired on Justin to be our lead composer and held our first Tavern Talk, it was interesting, to say the least.

We had been receiving a lot of feedback that our graphics looked like "PS1 era" games, so Xander decided to throw together a completely hand-drawn world that looked like crayon scribbles, as you can see in the video above, you can see a representation of it. We were able to cross-play at the time, but it was very unstable, no one crashed, but we could only see each other for about 10 minutes before everyone disappeared.

The second Tavern Talk (in-game Q&As) followed a few months later and featured a singleplayer experience that focused on the actual game world and our climbing mechanics, this was also the first time players would get to see the caravans in person.

It was a great success! And our community was starting to get a good idea about what we were capable of. It was around this time that Tyler came on as our business manager, and he really helped us get our act together and get focused. Around March, we went to our discord fans and tried to raise some money to hire an established VR developer, which was a great success thanks to our community! We were able to hire Joe Strout to the team as our lead programmer in April.

This now brings us closer to the present. Up until this point, our performance on the Oculus Quest was an afterthought, we were very much "PCVR first, and Quest if we can". However, when Joe came on, he made us work with the Oculus Quest in mind first, stating, "if you can make it run on the Oculus Quest first, then you know you can run on anything else". That has been our mindset ever since. Shortly after we brought Joe on, we held the third Tavern Talk.

This time around, everything was going great, Oculus Quest performance was great, we even tested our Titan with a Giant crash test dummy. At this point, we knew we had something people would love, our community believed in us and loved what we were putting out.
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Pre-Alpha
After we ended the Tavern Talks, we went straight into our Pre-Alpha which we opened to our discord users for a few months. We did this to both hone our understanding of the challenges ahead of us as well as show our community and future players that we are serious about this project and that we have the tenacity to see it to fruition. For the Pre-Alpha, we switched to a format where we would put out weekly updates for our backers to download Oculus Quest and PCVR builds and jump in with each other to check out what is new and provide critical feedback to gameplay, mechanics, and methodology. Armed with the experience, and feedback after months of pre-Alpha, we feel like we are finally ready to come to Kickstarter to make this vision a reality which has been a long time coming; not only Team 21 Studio, but our community as well, and we are so happy that we are finally here!

To not only our community but our families and friends as well, we could not have gotten this far without you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
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Platforms
Ilysia is currently cross-platform between Oculus Quest and PCVR, and we are currently working with a publisher to get on PSVR sometime around the beginning of 2021. After launching Ilysia and having it to a place where we are comfortable doing so, we would like to look at creating a version for PC and consoles. We are currently in talks with a well-known publisher for getting onto PSVR.
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Features

Room-scale Multiplayer Online VR RPG.

Full Index controller support.

Hundreds of hours of questing, exploring, and hunting. Ilysia features massive environments, known as Kingdoms. Each new update to Ilysia will bring a new Kingdom for the players to explore.

Navigate the environment with complete freedom, climb trees, rocks, and buildings.

Explore hidden caves and hunt for treasures through unique climbing experiences. Players will find themselves dangling from cliff edges, jumping from ledge to ledge, and leaping into deep lagoons.

Each Kingdom in Ilysia contains world bosses, known as Guardians. These Guardians stand hundreds of stories tall, they contain dungeons and exploration zones. Players can climb and explore these massive Guardians while questing in Ilysia, or choose to avoid them and quest at their own pace.

Each player will have a personal caravan that can be decorate and customized to suit each individuals taste and needs. Caravans can be used as a means of fast travel between Kingdoms if the player so chooses to do so.

Planned PVP

Daily quests as well as holiday themed quests.

Discover a traveling festival where players can play mini games to win unique gear, weapons, pets, and mounts.

Control airships

Collect pets

Collect and ride Mounts

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maxxs · 4. September 2020

Grafik direkt aus der Hölle

SolKutTeR · 4. September 2020

Zitat von maxxs: ↑

Grafik direkt aus der Hölle
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Noch ist es ja ein früher Pre-Alpha Status und das meiste Videomaterial stammt von der Quest Kompilierung.
Abschreiben würde ich das ganze noch nicht, dann lieber auf den regulären Release warten und entsprechend urteilen.

maxxs · 4. September 2020

die bewegungen der charaktere ist auch nicht sonderlich gut bislang.

nee nee. abschreiben würde ich da vorerst auch nix. das ist klar.

ABER:
wäre ich developer, würde ich sowas (denke ich) nicht veröffentlichen. man könnte einem ahnungslosen wie mir damit suggerieren, da kommt nix weiteres, wenn sowas unschönes schon publiziert wird. schließlich soll das ja ein "aushängeschild" darstellen

Lasagnetier · 7. September 2020

Ich hab's gestern aus Zufall auf Kickstartet entdeckt, bin am überlegen das zu unterstützen, für knapp 30€ kommt man so gar in die erste Alphaphase rein.
sieht jetzt natürlich noch nicht so hübsch aus, aber wenn man bedenkt dass es noch Pre Alpha ist kann da schon noch was passieren.
Die Kampange hat auch schon recht gut angezogen, ist seit dem 4.9. Online und hat jetzt schon über die Hälfte

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