Dear Traveller,
As our teams head out for summer vacations, we’ve decided to give them a break from preparing and sharing artworks from Book of Travels. Instead, we’re sharing some of our favourite articles about the game.
It’s quite incredible to me to think that not so long ago, when the name for the game wasn’t even set in stone, we’d search up ‘Book of Travels’ to find only references to an ancient Ottoman literary tradition. Today a quick internet search throws up a wealth of images and articles: some are ours, but many are the work of others, and today we want to saythanks to anyone and everyone who has ever written about or shared any news about our Online RPG.
The articles and features shared here express so well what Book of Travels is about and the ambitions we have for your Braided Shore experience. We very much value words like these - they are our sounding board, our mirror, our friend along the way, letting us know who we are, where we are, and that we’re heading in a direction that’s right and true.
Words about the date reveal trailer
Here’s what Screenrant’s Coleman Gailloreto had to say about our Date Reveal Trailer…
A close look at first gameplay
Rachel Watts at PC Gamer put excellent words to how Book of Travels differs from classic MMOs and shared our first ever gameplay video in her feature last November...
An appreciation of detailed character creation
Loren Morten at Rock Paper Shotgun took a look at the same video and enjoyed the game’s detailed character creation process...
An interview with our Creative Director
In ‘old’ media form only (we do love analogue press here at M&D) Creative Director Jakob Tuchten talked with Edge's Chris Kerr about the studio’s "punk" ethos.
Regular and expert angles on these Steam posts
For anyone who hasn't come across Massively Overpowered yet, we'd like to shine a light their way – Bree and Justin's synthesise of our sometimes vague and often slippery reveals have been a great read and always reassure me that we're saying what we mean to! Each fortnight they comment on our Steam post with the insight of true RPG aficionados – so get the kettle on, get cosy and catch up on their backlog of short reads right here...
We hope you enjoy reading this selection - as always, we'd love to read your words right here… Share anything you like about the game, about these articles, or about your own experience on sharing a project with the world… We’d love to hear them!
Best Wishes,
Helen & the Dev Team x
P.S It's been a long time since we posted anything on Reddit, but we finally made it happen and you can now connect with MMORPG fans and take a look at our developer spotlight post right here, and if you're a Reddit user, we look forward to seeing you there more often in the future!
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Revealing the Early Access World
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