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I do love that this encourages players to develop a certain playstyle as they level the specific skills in the tasks they enjoy doing. The website also mentions a skill system that allows players to ‘master their skills as they practice them.’ This reminds me of Runescape’s skill system but I hope it does not require the same time investment as 99 did.

However, there is little focus on the combat system meaning that instead of factions coming together to gain power it may be more about interests, friendliness, and personality, yanno, those human emotions that seem to have little play in modern politics. This brings in an interesting political aspect to the game that reminds me of the old factions in WoW. Speaking of social interaction, the website mentions some sort of city interaction in which players can create villages, towns, and even empires to interact with others. The developer’s website also mentions that they are more focused on the social interaction rather than combat, so having everyone in a single server seems to be the most practical way to promote interaction amongst players. As to how that would exactly work if the game were to blow up and have millions upon millions of players, I’m unsure. More interestingly, the game’s website mentions that the land will be procedurally generated into a single server. There are a ton of different NPC’s located around the land that players are able to walk up to and interact with, presumably to receive some sort of quest or lore related information. It seems to be an MMORPG from the third person perspective (like WoW). Now onto the more important part, what’s BitCraft going to play like? While there has not been any gameplay released to reference, the trailer provides some useful insight into the game's mechanics. Outside of being an MMORPG with elements of survival games, not much else is known about how exactly the in-game mechanics will function! Image courtesy of This gives some sense of ethos to Clockwork Labs as they have managed to convince so many powerhouse names.

Finally, they have David Helgason, the founder of Unity Technologies. In the realm of MMORPG’s, they are also backed by Hilmar Petursson who is the CEO of CCP Games that created EVE Online. For starters, they are backed by Supercell which has a massive history in the mobile game industry (Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, etc.). Moreover, they have some notable investors with genuine credit in the gaming industry. However, I would not knock them too much for that as everyone has to start somewhere. Unfortunately, there is not very much to go off of in terms of past creations as BitCraft will be their first game. Whether that will be a positive or negative, only time will tell! Image courtesy of īitCraft is being developed by Clockwork Labs, a venture game studio based in California. Specifically, I’ll be discussing:īased in San Fran, Clockwork Labs' first major project is BitCraft itself. I’ve gathered as much of that information as I could and threw it into this article to try and give all of you the best idea of what BitCraft will be like in the future.

The website is also full of wonderful tidbits of lore that give players a bit of background information on the game/characters motives and personality. There is a community discord server with direct access to some of the developers that give wonderful insight as to how the game will turn out. That being said, there is still plenty to go off of to speculate how the game will play, look, and feel. If you want to get a chance at access to the pre-alpha, just head over to their website and sign up. As of now, the pre-alpha has been restricted to players that have received an email and signed an NDA, thus I haven’t heard of anything about it yet. Its art style reminded me of Sky: Children of Light with gameplay similar to that of Valheim, which, if combined correctly, could result in something truly beautiful. This is no different for the eventual release of BitCraft, a “massively multiplayer community sandbox game ( from their website).” I have had my eye on BitCraft ever since I saw the announcement trailer in late 2021. It's always exciting having an upcoming game set to be released with promising developers, an interesting art style, and an interesting concept.

#Bitcraft alpha sign up full#