Hi. I remember a while ago earlier this year someone on this list mentioned the browser game Drakor. I have now been playing and the game has also got one or two miner access fixes (noteably for elements that were previously hidden), and I can highly recommend it.
If you just want to dive in here is the link, (and yes it is my donater link). http://www.drakor.com/register/11254-1239 It's a usual fantasy rpg, do quests, wander around, slay monsters, join guildes with other players etc, however there are some really interesting differences. first is the battle system. Instead of just minimaxing your gear to hell and then just hammering the attack button as in most browser games, you actually have techniques you use. It's almost like a card game,each technique such as a buff, a damaging attack, poison or healing is a card and takes up one slot, and you can have a total of ten cards active. In addition, you have equipment slots for things like shield, armor, weapon, helmet and the like. You can also get into dungeons and have boss fights, or have a random monster from the arena challenge you, and you earn items of different quality and gold which of course you can use to improve your stratogy. The major thing about the game however is that it has a huge! focus on resources and crafting. Where battles take your active participation, there are lots of activities like fishing, mining and gathering that your character will do automatically, assuming that she/he has the required level, what you find is dictated by the area you work in and your skill at the given activity. One particularly cool thing about these automatic activities however, is that what you do with what you find is quite different. You can just sell stuff, but you can also buy patants to create items, so if you want to be a weapon smith you need to buy a patant for making a sword, then get the materials and make it. There is of course lots of player trading and the like too. Description wise, while the battles are not overly descriptive, the areas you go through are, and all the quests and dungeons involve locating a given npc and talking to them, then doing tasks, there isn't a generic quests board. I also like the fact that this is a game where you can either play very actively, or just leave your character to work on his/her own. Access wise, the game is interesting because it doesn't work by usual text methods like links and what not, but by on page hotspots, so for example to see the area your character is in you just click on the "xplore the world" text near the top of the screen, it's not a link but it'll work. Same goes for the inventory, particularly note that when you view an item a little box will pop up with it's stats and buttons for things like equipping it or selling it, (in supernova this is at the top but it might be elsewhere with other screen readers). I admit the game layout does take a bit of learning, but sinse everything is there are labeled and it's mostly a case of just clicking text and finding what is what it should work. Also, I did originally experience a degree of slow down with the game, but once I ran a malware scan and got Ie working in optimum this no longer became an issue. So, hope people will give this one a try particualrly because the dev has been very nice about the one or two access points (like showing the durability of items), that have occurred thus far. All the best, Dark. There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even the archmaesters of the citadel can dream. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
