Uncharted Waters New Horizons

Hello all,

My name is Mike and I've been developing an MMO largely inspired by Uncharted Waters over the past year while I work on my Master's degree. I'm calling the game Merchant Seas:
http://merchantseas.com/

It's currently functional and stable, and I'm continuing to update artwork and music before I make an initial version publicly available. I plan to limit the initial version to the Mediterranean Sea and without combat, but can add and expand as needed from that point on. I suspect my current server setup will support between 50-100 simultaneous users, though I haven't been able to test it with that many.

I've been working on things pretty much on my own up to this point, but it would be nice to work with a couple people who have a similar love and nostalgia for the old Uncharted Waters games. If anyone is willing to help out, I can always use additional artwork and music, or even just someone willing to create new towns for me using my existing artwork components. All you'd need is a basic understanding of working with layers in a graphics program such as Paint Shop or Photoshop. If someone has experience with MySQL and XML, I'm getting ready to create NPC ships and would certainly appreciate assistance with that.

If you'd like to contribute to my project in any way, you can reach me at [email protected].

Some screens from the website (click for full size):

Some example portraits:

Some of the ships:

Resources:
Many of the icons I'm currently using are from RPG Maker XP, as well as the placeholder towns that you can see in the screenshots on the website. The world graphics are from RPG Palace [www.rpg-palace.com]. I am using XNA (C#) for development.

If you have any questions or comments about the game, feel free to ask or contact me at [email protected].

Post edited by: Zelek, at: 2009/06/15 15:35

I recently sent emails to everyone who had created an account at the website. Here's the info if anyone else would like to try out the current testing version:

You can create a new account here:
http://merchantseas.com/createaccount.php

And then download the client here (just unzip the files and run setup.exe):
http://codecommode.com/release/MerchantSeas_10137.zip

There's a quick-and-dirty introduction here:
http://merchantseas.com/introduction.php?section=install

Post edited by: Zelek, at: 2009/07/04 12:18

I created an account and will be giving it a spin up when I get home in a couple weeks. The internet runs like garbage here in Iraq, so I'm not even going to bother yet. 😛