Hi all! I’m the developer of Harling, a fantasy MMORPG I’ve been building on my own. It runs natively on Linux: the launcher comes as a .deb for Ubuntu and Debian and as an AppImage for every other distro, and once installed it keeps the game updated by itself.
The world is Orand, a continent of 58 regions (these tests will focus on just one of them) where four ancient Labyrinths are starting to give way. There are six classes (Knight, Mage, Archer, Barbarian, Monk, Assassin), group dungeons and voice chat with the players around you.
Harling is in an early stage of development and still in testing, so not everything works well yet: expect bugs, balance that needs adjusting, graphics to improve and more. I’m looking for testers who enjoy playing and telling me what works and what doesn’t. Spots are limited and invites go out in small waves. The server is in Europe, so the ping is best from here.
Sign up here: https://playharling.com/#partecipa
I’ll be in the comments for any question, Linux ones especially. Thanks for reading!
Launcher in Italian only. Release notes, etc in Italian. Installs game in ~/.config/… Was not confident in continuing. No opion for account removal, so does not comply with gdpr, or local Italian privacy laws (AGID).
The appimage (was really not gonna use a .deb for this) immediately makes many connections to sus domains.
As someone who plays a lot of MMOs and in very early devolpment states, this looks extremely suspicious. How are you ready for a playtest without a single real screenshot? Your site and post basically says nothing. It seriously looks like this was thrown up in an hour tops, very likely ai. Very likely a scam or malware. No responses in thread fron dev.
Do not download.
Passing off AI-generated images as concept art is certainly a choice.
Lets see… no privacy policy, no TOS, no legal info, no replies to anyone in 3 hours since posting this. Pass.
Not to mention brand new account. Yeah, nah.
Idk man, this whole thing looks sus to me. Ai-text and pics, no contact info, no terms of use or privacy policy. I remember a while ago there was a person promoting their (non-disclosed ai-vibecoded and pay-to-win) browser game, posing as a young dev that wants community feedback. I hope this is not the same but for now it doesn’t look trustworthy.
Yeah, agree with this. We’ve already seen a handful of scam-MMOs.
Not trying to accuse them, but I do think it’s a valid point to bring up, and it’s valid to ask them for more information and for them to show off more of what they’ve prepared.
Interested for your responses to the valid concerns other commenters have brought up.
I’m not, I’ve seen enough
To what extent was AI used to make this game?
What do you mean? I don’t think a human was involved at all
Hey, if you could make a 5-30 minute video of just gameplay showing off some systems, going through a few levels to see what the gameplay is like, that would really help.
I’m excited for innovation in the genre but I’d like to see some “real substance” before signing up for a test.
So much this. There’s only concept art on the website. If this is ready to playtest then there really should be a video and screenshots of the current state of the game.
Otherwise it gives bad vibes like those weird NFT “MMOs” that never showed what the game actually liked like on their website. Like one wants to trick players into downloading rather than enticing them to by showing off the possible experiences.
This just reminded me, what ever happened to Earth 2? I couldn’t believe people were getting sucked into this one in particular
EDIT: Did a quick search and seems like not much has changed. Still nothing that resembles an actual game, and still people can’t get their money back out.
Will it run on a stream deck?
Domain registered 2 weeks ago. Hm.
Well… Yeah? Doesn’t say anything about how long this has been in development for, could’ve just waited until they were ready before buying a domain.
Lemmy user, 1h ago. Hm.
Username is for the project, so again, just waited until they were ready.
Fam why you excusing them. Let them answer.
Im not the biggest MMO fan, but I’ll give it a shot when im back home from my trip :3
