The post got already deleted in the official forums, this was the original:
Hello Darkfall community,
My name is Andrew Ballinger and I'm from near Toronto, Ontario Canada. Many of you know me as Kimoshu Grakenshalmn from in game or just Kimoshu; many don't but from my join date and posts you can see I've been around here from the beginning when the game launched. I've barely played DFUW as I don't enjoy it but I kept an active subscription going simply due to my nostalgia for the original Darkfall. Waiting and popping in every few months to see if the game heads back to a direction I enjoy. This hasn't happened so I left for almost 6 months recently until a month ago. I came back when I got word about DFO possibly returning from another player. I was disappointed when Zad shot that hope down with his announcement recently. However that announcement contained a silver lining that they might consider licensing the game out to a group who can financially back the development to relaunch the game.
I'm currently seeking out people to work on the game to possibly relaunch it. I'm reaching out to the original devs to work on the game or to at least be a consultant to get other programmers up to speed on the client. I'm waiting to hear back from AV about licensing details and I'm preparing a list of changes and additions to the game as well as a direction of where to take the game in the future if we are successful.
Now I'm not going to sit here and say the game's coming back go tell your friends they'll be playing it in a month. There are a ton of variables and this project is in it's infancy. The reason I am posting this now is for two reasons:
1) To make it public that a serious effort to see a relaunch of DFO is happening, so as to combine efforts into one project.
2) To give contact details for the community to reach the project and where to get information about its status.
This is going to take a group effort to get done and anyone who wants to help out on the project can email
dforeturn@gmail.com. please include the following if you are seriously wanting to help on the project:
Name:
Location:
Timezone:
Email:
Skype ID(recommended):
Skills and how you can help:
Misc/comments:
You don't need to fill out everything like a resume these are just a few useful details so we can organize. We could use help in some form from anyone who knows how to turn on a computer but specifically these are the skills and roles we could use:
-C++/Java Programmers
-3d Modelers
-Artists
-Database developers
-Network security specialist
-Server programmers
-Web designers
-Marketing (Video makers, people to spread the word, help design an advertising campaign for launch.)
-Game design committee members (basically a group of volunteer players from the community who bring forth ideas and requests from the community) -Hype team, for creating awareness and spreading word around gaming forums and groups all over the web.
There's a lot of overhead involved in getting a project of this kind off the ground and I have a few people helping so far. Anyone else wanting to assist me in organizing and coordinating I could always use more help even if it is just to bounce ideas off of or to help me track down information and people.
Like I said, anyone wanting to seriously help is welcome we will have some way for you to help. For right now we'll be creating a list of names willing to help and will keep everyone on the list up to date on our progress through email.
Programmers, web design, database creation and server development will be the first thing needed before we get into everything else. Without developers to work on the back end systems and get the pieces filled in that AV is missing we are dead in the water!
We can get this done guys, if there is any way it can happen we will seek it out and find a way! Darkfall still today is superior to so many games on the market and I feel with the right attention and direction/content it could be a success. In the hands of the community's choosing with a clear voice on development we can hopefully bring Darkfall to the whole gaming world. To this day there are millions of gamers who haven't even heard of this amazing gem. Our goal is to bring this game to the world and make it the success that was envisioned over 10 years ago by a handful of brilliant gamers.
For information about the project and to reach us see the following:
Email: dforeturn@gmail Twitter: @dforeturn
To reach me personally: Email: bowseristheman@gmail Skype: Kimoshu Twitter:
kimoshuThanks for reading!
-Andrew
