Greetings Fellow Avatars!
Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:
- Underworld Gets Tracy Hickman and Steam Greenlight
- Single Player Offline Features
- Abe Weighs in on Crafting the Novia Overworld
- Let’s Talk About the Economy!
- SotA On The Road Again!
- Massively Kickstarter Success
- In-game Community Weekend Events
- Sir Frank’s Writing Contest (with Prizes!)
- Last Chance Exclusives
- Gem Treasure Designs: Silver Serpent Pendant
- Receiving Pledge Rewards and Add-On Items in Release 14
- Changes to Store Credit Conversions
- Steam Access Keys Available for All Backers
- How to Cancel Monthly Layaway Payment Plans
- Upcoming Events
Underworld Gets Tracy Hickman and Steam Greenlight
As previously reported, our long-time friend and former Origin protégé, Paul Neurath, is rebooting the legendary Ultima Underworld games with the Underworld Ascendant Kickstarter campaign! It has been more than a decade long wait, but the stars have aligned and Paul has at long last freed the rights to move forward with the franchise. We’re especially excited that, just as the original Ultima and Underworld shared a connection on backstory and fictional elements, so too will Shroud of the Avatar and Underworld Ascendant.
We’re excited to announce that SotA Lead Story Designer and co-author of SotA’s Blade of the Avatar novel, Tracy Hickman, has signed up to pen an Underworld Ascendant novel as part of their $750k Stretch Goal:
Tracy’s talents as a fantasy author, together with his deep experience with gaming and close collaboration on Shroud of the Avatar, a world connected to ours, make him ideally suited to write the Underworld Ascendant novel. The novel is going to be set several generations before the game takes place, and tell the story of how a band of Dark Elves from the land of the Shroud of the Avatar passed through a magic portal to make an exodus into the Stygian Abyss. It will tell of their trials in this harsh and dangerous underworld, and of how they carved out a place for themselves. – Underworld Ascendant Update #15
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