Hacking in Starmourn

By ironrealms | October 26, 2016 |

Having some kind of hacking in Starmourn is important to us, mainly because a lot of people have mentioned wanting something involving it. It is, however, much tougher than it may sound like to pull off well in an open-world multiplayer game. There are a few problems, from my perspective: We need a hacking system…

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The Song Dominion

By ironrealms | October 24, 2016 |

Just finished setting up a page on the Song Dominion, the second of the player-inhabited civilizations we’ve announced! You’re probably wondering what a player-inhabited civilization means in practical terms. If you’ve played our existing MUDs, they all have some version of player civilizations, usually expressed as cities or city-states. These are initially admin-created areas with…

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Race graphics for backgrounds

By ironrealms | October 12, 2016 |

Here’s a composite of our various player races for use as desktop/laptop backgrounds. Enjoy! Just right-click (Windows) or click-and-hold (Mac) then save the image. If you’re not sure which one to use, just try the first one.    

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Meet the Jin

By ironrealms | October 12, 2016 |

Today we announced the Jin, our 12th and final player race in Starmourn. You can read all about them on the Jin page. I think you’re going to enjoy them! I thought I’d share the initial concept art sketches that our artist did for the Jin too. In this case I ended up liking #3…

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Welcome the Krona!

By ironrealms | September 30, 2016 |

We revealed the Krona player race today – a somewhat strange-looking race of belligerent show-offs. A little behind-the-scenes fun fact about them: This isn’t what they originally looked like, at all, and we redid them to be more interesting. Here’s how the player race process typically works, though this process gets broken or things get…

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