This is not (yet?) in development, but is something I will keep an eye on.

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http://emberthegame.com/

The spiritual successor to Firefall

• Crowdfunded with small step milestones
• Unreal Engine 4
• A shooter first, with great movement, guns and abilities. Skill matters. Progression is horizontal, opening up more options, abilities, and gameplay
• Mining and gathering resources with the aid of huge, autonomous mechs. Resources matter, and finding and gathering them is fun
• Build and customize your own "omniframe" suit and weapons system. Customize them to your unique needs and the role you want to fulfill
• Sandbox world. Terraform the planet over time, create pockets of habitable areas and build refineries, defenses, and bases of operation

• Play a simulated world, with dynamic events. Go anywhere, do anything. Events will unfold around you as you play -- perhaps even war

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• https://www.change.org/p/crixa-labs-make-ember-a-spiritual-successor-to-firefall

• https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ember-forums-website-art-videogames

(HQ poster)

• http://crixa.io/category/ember/
• https://leagueforgamers.com/group/ember

• Discord - https://discord.gg/xwRCmWW

  • While unofficial, it's regularly visited by devs.

• Steam - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/EmbertheGame

  • Unofficial

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• Ember - Q&A with Mark Kern

  • transliterated-transcription
• Interview with Mark Kern, on thegg.net

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• http://www.thmpr02.com/ - Fan site

• https://steamcommunity.com/app/227700/discussions/0/458604254460196794/

Random notes from when it first opened up ∞

Notes from a couple of conversations

• devs > community > forum helper > community

  • post very specific points and ask for opinions
  • have gnomes which curate through the forum for gems, and create compilation ideas
  • devs don't have all the time in the world to read all posts
• very very thorough patch notes
• dev philosophy essays
• http://treatstream.com/ for food
• patreon, but with a limit
• early adopter shiny shiny stuff
• 'apb: reloaded' for character customization
• guild skinning for money
• make a blueprint, 'sell' its use for red beans, devs get 4, seller gets 1
• decals don't always have space, be able to weld on a plate in some appropriate place, changing a place to be flatter and appropriate for one
• weapon customizations
• it's important to have style customizations on as much as possible, and maybe even to have 'loadouts' for them
• player-shared blueprints for styles
• perhaps classes for newbies, but major customizations
• pvp balance need, verses pve being okay for imbalance. Have nobody really be so overpowered because the game is so damned hard that people have to come together in groups.
• individual consequences for failure (gear?), group consequences for failure (failing an encounter), player consequences for a region (loss of a zone)
• plan for addons/plugins right from the start, and when one becomes ubiquitous, bring it into the game and reward that developer (in-game currency?)
• reputation systems
• top-down via recon drones, to turn them into a sort of recon squad
• painting targets for mortars, or rocket launcher locks
• normally a rocket is direct, but with locking you could javelin without line-of-site
• Have multiple refineries able to be created, then competition becomes emergent.

• Have ones personal resource-gathering accomplishments (whatever that is) be publically visible.. that ends up being a sort of competitive scoreboard.```