Alter Aeon turns thirty years old! We’ve come a long way since our humble start of a smattering of C code that just happened to satisfy the 'senior/graduation project' requirement of a certain electrical engineering student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This student was Dennis Towne, aka Dentin, the creator of Alter Aeon. Dentin has continuously maintained and guided the development of the game over these many years so it could become what it is today.
Alter Aeon is a hack-and-slash game in an original fantasy setting. It is a multi-class MUD with six classes: warrior, thief, cleric, mage, necromancer and druid. The commands and culture are very friendly to new players, and the game is well-suited for the visually impaired. Alter Aeon features thousands of quests and tens of thousands of enemies to defeat. The game world is enormous, with dozens of different planes of existence, hundreds of areas and over 60,000 locations to explore! January 15th 1995 is the day that Alter Aeon first went public, and in honor of this momentous occasion we are celebrating with an anniversary game event. In addition to opening up the 1995 port so players can try out Alter Aeon in its original form, we will be introducing a new feature this year called the Wild Hunt! Players both new and old alike are invited and able to participate in the festivities! Here’s a list of some recent updates to the game: - Improvements the new craft parser, including better support for two-word names like "katana blade" or "work gloves". - Improved armor counter for crafted objects, specifically to fix certain issues with low-AC tower shields. - Some crafted weapons have been rebalanced. Southern-style weapons will typically have higher dierolls, but less hitroll and damroll. You should be able to make heavier two-handed weapons in most cases. - Groundwork has been laid for automating some of the minor repeatable events that happen every year. For example, the game will track how many Cinco de Mayo pi ñ atas you kill for the current year, count how many years you've killed Cinco de Mayo pi ñ atas, and maintain a running total of how many you've killed altogether. As a result of this effort, other events that we’ve run before may become regular annual occurrences. Progress continues with coding the upcoming level 40 thief skill ‘umbral thrall’. Thralls now work properly with bloodletting stab, trip, feint, flourish and flick. We still need program compatibility with backstab, skirmish, crippling strike, shadow strike, dirt throwing and knife throwing before implementing the skill. For more information, please refer to our latest Youtube update here: https://youtu.be/37viekSBcoE -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#127695): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/127695 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110534493/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/21656/1071380848/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
