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How did you discover UnReal World? -- 10 choice poll
Here's the good old poll reposted here at the new forums. Let us know how you ended up into the UnReal World. Also, feel free to reply here to tell your story. (You may also consider to find and copy&paste your reply from the old forums poll thread.) April 24, 2017, 08:24:58 PM |
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Re: Njeperz, who are they and why?
Quote Didn't know UrW time frame is Corresponding to Medieval Age, Yes, that is because while most of the Europe was living High Middle Ages marked by influence of The Church, cultures in Finland and Scandinavia were still pagan. So, in the history of Finland "Middle Age" only begins after the King of Sweden had converted to Christianity and launched a series of crusades to Finland, eventually conquering the territory. (that happens gradually during 1150 - 1250 AD. UnReal World is not stricty based on exact timeline, we are using some artistic freedom to imagine a world where those crusades either started a bit later, or didn't happen at all.) So, before those events Sweden, Norway and Denmark were living their Viking Era, the rest of the Europe was Middle Ages, and in Finland it was the Viking period of Iron Age. (The philosophical point; History often operates on broad general terms which apply to central areas. When speaking about the history of Europe we conveniently use terms like 'Antiquity', 'Middle Ages' and 'Modern Times', but it should be noted that those broad terms don't apply uniformly to all of what is now Europe. The details and local variations are always a lot more diverse than the convenient simplicity offered by the general broad descriptions.) March 28, 2019, 08:29:50 AM |
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Re: 3.50 villagers dying in wells (again)
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The 30th jubileum, 47th birthday, and sort of a year off
This year, in 2022, we are celebrating the 30th Jubileum of UnReal World. The game was first released in the summer of 1992, so the 30-year milestone will be reached this summer. Now what will this special year of celebration bring upon us, and the game? When it comes to coding and development, I will be taking it real easy. It is likely that we'll see some updates to the game, but mostly I'll be devoting my time for variety of other things. So I'll kind of celebrate the 30 years of development by taking a year off from the usual coding flurry. This also allows me to better contemplate on the future of the game as there some challenging overhauls in our sight. One is moving to higher resolution and modern aspect ratio. The year is early, and these thoughts are scattered, so more news on this front will follow later on. But yes, it is truly so that I will take a year off from the usual, practical, hands-on development. Planning, brainstorming and a little something easy paced remains, though. Nevertheless, during this year of celebration we will be bringing you some recreational content from the North, out and away from the development chambers. What it will be exactly remains to be seen, but I'm sure this year off will bring along many occasions, incidents, experiments or artistic projects to share or publish. There are some ideas bubbling under already. On this thursday, 27th of January, it will be my 47th birthday. I started working on UnReal World at the age of 15 and two years later, at the age of 17, the first version was released to the public. Now the 30th Jubileum, or 47th birthday, may feel like an occasion to offer me a drink or something, and for that purpose I quickly created "buy me a coffee" page. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SamiMaaranen It's a simple support channel I've been asked to allow even earlier. Now it's up and will remain so at least for this year. I'll reserve the right to decide the drink to buy with your support  , but big cheers anyway! (And surely the regular donations page also works for gifting some squirrel hides.) So these are the news to start this year with. Feel free to comment or ask if something comes to your mind. Yours, Sami (UnReal World creator)  The developer is currently out the office ...  He's skiing in the woods following two elks...  He will be back occasionally and eventually. January 24, 2022, 03:01:22 PM |
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Re: Animals drowning when left tied to a tree next to water
Seems all too harsh! The good news is that I managed to reproduce it. I tied one dog to a tree at open mire, with open water next to it. I observed the dog wading in there normally, with no ill effects. Then zoomed-out, waited for some time, and returned - and the dog had drowned. So it seems the idle-time checks, when the player is not on the map, are to blame for the creature drowning. Now this is likely a same mechanic that makes the NPCs still sometimes to drown in village ponds. Chances to fix this for both the dogs and NPCs are now very good. Sorry for your loss, thanks for the report. February 27, 2023, 03:26:02 PM |
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Fen of Seal-Tribe - my most successful character so far
I've gotten back into this game after years of being away, I was on the old forum under the name "Fen of Seal-Tribe" and it felt appropriate to name a character after that once I was back into the Unreal World. It turned out more successfully than I could have ever imagined. This is her story. Fen of Seal-Tribe was rejected by her community; bad luck, they said. Her uncle was the start of it, blaming her for poor fishing harvests. Isolated, alone, she felt like a stranger in her own home, an outcast who never brought anything good to the world. She wanted to be on the waters, and she wanted to be helpful, and she wanted to be accepted, but these things never came. Bad luck, the spirits didn't want her around. Some of the crueler folk even whispered about 'dead weight,' as though a real, living, person was a burden to bear. She was sixteen when she ran away. Stealing some nets, an old rod, she ran. Deep, deep, into the South of the Unreal World, until she couldn't run anymore, until she was almost out of supplies. It was almost spring and there was hope for her yet, but she was cold, and hungry, and scared. She found open water, some rapids, in a coniferous forest to the North of the Driik's lands. This would do, at least for now. She fished every day, and her 'bad luck' seemed to melt away. Salmon and roaches and pike seemed to jump into her rod, and when she lashed together a crude raft of birchbark rope and pine logs, her nets were soon full. The rumors still ate at her, though, and she was diligent, sacrificing the largest fish she caught each day, asking the spirits to forgive her transgressions - whatever they had been so long ago - and allow her to live. With a handaxe, she felled dozens of trees over the course of a few months, and she even managed to build a trap-fence between two narrow passages. A cabin began to form, and then a fenced off area, and she even got elk and reindeer in the fence from time to time, supplementing her diet of fish and foraged berries and leaves. Sometimes, she went down to the Driik lands, and hired people to help with her cabin. A hunter, wounded from an encounter with a bear, begged her to help him find his father's spear. An adventurer, lost in the woods, found safety with her and was brought to the nearby Driik to recover his strength before he went home. Whatever she could do to help, to earn favour, she did. By winter, she had enough food to feel at least...somewhat secure. Enough warm clothing that she wouldn't freeze to death. But winter was still hard. Frostbite ate at her hands, and food was scarce towards the end, but she made it out. Using her leftover furs, her smoked salmon, whatever valuable goods she had found or made, she bought seeds and set to work clearing land, until she had a few plots set up. Broad beans, barley, the basics. She bought a dog, even, a companion for her in this cold world. One day, while she was checking the traps, robbers approached her. She refused to back down. Tipa, her loyal companion, rushed the robbers and took an axe to the neck. Fen rushed, trying to save her animal, but the men overpowered her, stole everything from her, left her dumped alone and cold in the middle of the woods. She crawled, tending her wounds and washing them as best she could, and cried. Her dog was gone, her clothes were stolen off her back. Gathering her things, she went to the Driik village and traded for new linen to wear, but the injuries were intense and the pain made fishing, hunting, everything difficult. The world couldn't let her have too much luck, it seemed, and over a year of successes on her own were too good to be true. But maybe she could recover. A reindeer in the traps was good luck. Salmon in the nets were good food. She started to recover. It was still summer, she had time. She could survive. A few days later, at the end of Seedmonth, a bear and her crossed paths. A bear that was aggressive, and charged her. She had no chance, though she fought, slamming her handaxe into the bear as it descended upon her. But she had no chance. Her last thoughts weren't of home, or of the spirits, or of luck. Her last thoughts were terror, primal human fear of a predator far larger than her, far bigger than her, teeth and claw tearing her flesh like butter. She died alone, far from civilization. The Driik villagers she had befriended would wonder where she went, and maybe went to her cabin, finding only an abandoned place, the nets still in the water, the fields overgrown, projects never to be finished. Fen of Seal-Tribe lived 419 days alone, travelled nearly 4000 kilometers. All in all, she had a life that defied her home's cruelty. She did so much alone, did so much on her own merit, achieved so much. She was not unlucky, nor disdained by the spirits. She was simply a victim of circumstance, and more often than not, made things work for her. If she was truly a source of bad luck, she would have died months ago, alone and starving in the cold. But she didn't. She survived far longer than she should have, alone, with only her own knowledge and her best guesses to guide her. She rests now, and may the world be kinder to the next character brought into the Unreal World. April 23, 2024, 12:20:09 AM |
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