We have been waiting a long time for this: Last Saturday, 16 different players from six nations visited the InnoGames office for an exclusive battle. During the Kartuga Alpha Challenge they fought for valuable prizes in an epic tournament of three rounds. At the end of an exciting fight, Hans was lucky enough to overtake Szymon in the very last minute and won an iPad.
We were already overwhelmed by your interest in this competition. When we announced it here on the blog to a yet small community, we were definitely not thinking that some hundreds of users would be interested in visiting us here in Germany. There were applications even from Chile and New Zealand. Staying in contact with the 16 people who won the lottery and discussing the details of their travel with them was already the first exciting thing about the event. Szymon from Częstochowa (Poland) came with his father in a caravan – a 1,600 km trip! Grega from Ljubljana (Slovenia) rode on night trains for 14 hours. And at the end, they all showed up in time. Thanks a lot for taking part!
For us it was especially interesting to see the players’ reactions to the game. So far, it has only been played internally and at some point, it is very hard to remain neutral and objective about your own game. One could say that there was a lot of positive tension in our office before the event. Thus, we were of course a bit relieved that our visitors agreed with our point of view. Every one of the 16 participants really liked the game; especially the beautiful 3D graphics of the game were praised a lot.
Still, players also gave very valuable feedback – there were some suggestions to improve scoring and balancing of the game, for example. Those areas were part of the reason we wanted to have this event in the alpha stage of the game. Now, we are able to implement valuable feedback into the development process of the game.
We would once again like to thank all participants for joining our Alpha Challenge. We hope to see you all in the game very soon!
Je tiens à feliciter toute l’equipe d’Innogames qui nous a reçu tres chaleuresement. Kartuga est tres facile à prendre en main, le plaisir est immédiat. Les graphisme 3D sont impressionnant sachant que le jeu fonctionne sur navigateur. ( bravo à l’équipe de développement)
J’attend avec impatience de pouvoir joueur en ligne.
Bonne route à tous l’equipe d’Innogames.
(Je laisse le soin à Dennis de traduire ce commentaire !)
Thanks a lot for your warm words, Guillaume. Glad you liked it here
when this game starts ?
We will launch the game early in 2013. As soon as we know an exact date, we will let you know
I can’t wait to play Kartuga!
As I’m 3D artist in video game, I can tell you that I really love your final render!
I would have been lucky to work for you on a such amazing game.
Congratulations to the whole team!
Hi Vincent thanks a lot for your feedback. Actually, we believe that the final graphic quality at the launch of the game will be significantly better than it currently is. We are still working on some improvements here.
Hello. When can we expect the release of the game? You say that at the beginning of the new year, but more or less when, in January, February … maybe later.
Another question. Is in game will be only PvP mode, or we will be able to swim on the maps and fight against various sea monsters?
The Closed Beta will start early in 2013, Open Beta will follow abiut 2 months later. Sorry, we cannot say it more precise at this moment.
Das war so ein geiler Nachmittag!
Ich habe mich gut genug versteckt, dass man mich auf dem Bild nicht sieht – super…
Obwohl ich mich nicht gerade mit Ruhm bekleckert habe, hatte ich viel Spaß und kann es kaum erwarten wieder Kartuga zu spielen, besonders wenn dann auch die Quests online gehen.
Aber die Battles waren schon cool.
Hallo Susan,
freut uns sehr, dass es dir gefallen hat!
quando inizia il gioco?
Dear game developers pozdrovlyayu with successful test!
I have not played in Kortuga, but I envy those who played in the alpha test)) I really am looking forward to when we will all have to play Kortugu! )))
This looks very interesting and can’t wait to play it. I was impressed with the level of workmanship you had with the employees also.
alguem te dia serto pra estriar o jogo ? frota brasil entra em ação
who realy stars this =?
Works on computers with Linux?
As long as the Browser has a Unity Plugin, it should.
I’m brazilian and i know a game called Pirate´s Storm that is very coll and kartuga seems will be like this game.