Latest Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult News
The Loracle, an AI chat bot intimately acquainted with the Runiverse's lore, has been released for public beta testing.
The Deets
- The Loracle functions as a librarian, maintaining and sharing the extensive lore of the Runiverse.
- It serves as a creative partner, providing initial drafts for narratives, screenplays, songs, recipes, and more.
- The Loracle promotes creative freedom, offering guidance for content creation, such as D&D campaigns, analogies, character templates, etc.
The Bulk
The Runiverse unveiled a new assistant to guide users through its rich lore, The Loracle. This AI chat bot has been programmed with comprehensive knowledge of the Runiverse's extensive lore, functioning as a digital archivist and librarian.
It also acts as a creative partner, offering assistance in drafting creative pieces from narratives and screenplays to songs and recipes.
The Loracle is also designed to stimulate creativity. It guides users in crafting compelling content, whether they're designing D&D campaigns, creating analogies, or crafting character templates.
🎬 Take Action
To interact with The Loracle, visit its dedicated webpage: loracle.forgottenrunes.com
🧠 Learn More
Forgotten Rune Wizard's Cult dropped a massive update on the development of the Forgotten Runiverse and an update on the global distribution deal for its upcoming comic book series.
The Deets
- Unique city architecture and expandable neighborhoods
- Diverse battle scenes for landmarks, dungeons, and regions
- Varied enemies, skills, and status effects in battles
- Rewards include customizable decorations for player houses
- Economy design and whitepaper still in progress
The Details
Cities in the game have received a refreshing update, with each one now boasting unique architecture and a variety of explorable neighborhoods. Neighborhoods act as self-contained instances within larger cities, allowing for continuous growth and expansion as new content is released, keeping cities relevant to gameplay experiences.
The team has also made impressive progress on the game's battle scenes, with unique visuals for every landmark, dungeon, and region. Alongside these scenes, new enemy types have been introduced, each belonging to a "family" with aligned traits across basic, elite, and boss enemies. Skills used in battles now feature unique artwork and can inflict status effects depending on their type and strength.
As players achieve victories in battles, they can earn rewards that allow them to craft and customize their house decorations. To obtain the most impressive rewards, players need to delve deep into the game's dungeons.
Behind the scenes, the level design and programming team have been testing and defining collision for objects and environments, while the design team is refining the game's economy in preparation for the release of a whitepaper.
❗Why It Matters
Despite building since early 2021, Forgotten Runes has been overshadowed by many other "more shiny" projects in the NFT space. This update provides a glimpse of the major ambitions of the project as well as the potential its IP and lore hold. While many may be aware of the sums thrown at Yuga Labs, it's easy to forget that Forgotten Runes has also raised a massive warchest to tackle its roadmap.
📊 By the Numbers
The Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult holds a floor price of 0.8 ETH and has been pretty stable in that range, though down 13 percent over the past 30 days.
🧠 Learn More
Forgotten Runes Wizards Cult secured a global distribution deal for a comic book series, according to a tweet from co-founder bearsnake.
The Deets
- Comic book series illustrated by Reilly Brown
- Written by Joe Rechtman
- Official announcement coming next week
The Details:
Forgotten Runes Wizards Cult secured a global distribution deal for their upcoming comic book series. The series is illustrated by renowned artist Reilly Brown, known for his work on Deadpool and Spider-Man, and written by Joe Rechtman.
The official announcement for this deal will be made next week, with further information expected to be shared at that time.
🎤 Founder Feedback
❗️Why It Matters
A global distribution deal offers a huge opportunity to showcase the Forgotten Runes IP to a broader audience. The project has been overlooked during the last few months as it builds out its ecosystem, but some may recall it has a major backing and committment from notable players.
📊 By the Numbers
Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult, the original 10,000 piece collection is down 69 percent on the year to 0.82 ETH.
🎬 Take Action
Stay tuned for the official announcement next week for more information about the global distribution deal and the upcoming comic book series.
🧠 Learn More
In a Twitter thread this afternoon, Forgotten Runes founder Dotta (@dotta) outlined several new details for their upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game ("MMORPG"). The thread is mostly focused on the combat mechanics of the game, which Dotta describes as "dynamic, strategic, and rewarding."
Highlights from the update include:
- Memory Crystals will be earned to customize character abilities, which build on each other
- Each player will have to eventually choose a Color Path, defining different factions with different specialties
- Specialization will unlock the ability to gather High Crystals, which unlock higher abilities
- There will be three tiers of enemies, including Minions, Elites, and Bosses
- Dungeons and enemies will scale with character levels, and Dungeons will involve progressively harder fights and will provide rewards
- There will be active PVP areas of the world, and the player initiating combat has an advantage
- Victory: defeating an enemy yields XP and resources to upgrade your character
Beyond those details, Dotta shared that the team of 35 full-time resources (35!) is making great progress and expects a fully playable game in Q1 2023.
Dotta also throws shade at other play-to-earn crypto games, calling them "yield farms with pretty pictures," and goes on to describe the Forgotten Runiverse game as a "full World-of-Warcraft style MMO built by industry veterans who know how to build a *fun* game, grounded in crypto-ownership."
Many crypto-games are just yield farms with pretty pictures.
— dotta (@dotta) October 10, 2022
The Forgotten Runiverse game is a full World-of-Warcraft style MMO built by industry veterans who know how to build a *fun* game, grounded in crypto-ownershiphttps://t.co/k3vLnR8rJr
Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult is partnering with Coinbase NFT to offer free mints of its inaugural comic book.
The comic book has five different cover variants, which can all be minted for free at the project's website here.
Minters do not need to choose a single cover variant. More than one cover can be minted for free.
"Magic Machine and Coinbase NFT present to you the inaugural Forgotten Runes comic," the website reads. "You can mint comic covers as NFTs for free."
The collection can then be viewed on Coinbase NFT here.
Forgotten Runes announced that a snapshot was taken on Friday afternoon. The snapshot included all beast, spawn, wizard, warrior, soul, and pony owners as well as NFTX vault holders. The announcement included a video showing the Magic Machine Comic in which the snapshot was taken for.
Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult holders will be receiving an airdropped comic after a Friday at noon ET snapshot, the project tweeted Wednesday.
The airdrop, which will be limited to one per wallet, will take place this weekend. The comic can be read June 20.
The floor price on the collection is 1.11 ETH — down 11 percent in the last week.
Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult tweeted that its Ruinverse project may be coming soon.
The project has been incredibly busy over the last few months.
In May, the project launched the Forgotten Runes Warriors collection and a month prior announced a funding round headlined by Alexis Ohanian's 776.
The Ruinverse is said to be a fantasy-based MMO metaverse with "create-to-earn" mechanics. You can learn more about the project and the world it is building at runiverse.world.
The results of the mintlist and free mint raffles for Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult's Warriors collection have been posted and users can check their eligibility on the project's website.
There were more than 50,000 entries for 6,300 spots, according to the project.
Warriors is a 16,000-edition companion collection to the Wizards and will be playable in the project’s planned MMORPG, according to the project. There are three minting phases for Warriors, starting with a last-price Dutch auction on May 11.
