About Elflight
Technology
Elflight is a 3D MMO built using the Elflight streaming game engine. It has been designed by Coded Edge to give players a slightly different experience to other MMO's. We are a small company and the emphasis is on gameplay rather than extensive graphical content. Elflight will be playable on Mac, Linux, Windows and Solaris from your web browser.
World
The first Chronicle of Elflight (Elflight Genesis) is set in a cold and inhospitable world that is for the most part unexplored by humans. After a shipwreck you are washed up on the beach of a small island that lies to the south of the main island of Ellerdine. it is here that the first scene is set and this is the subject of the beta program for invited members.
Gameplay
If one word describes the game more than any other, it is 'survival'. As you progress through the game you will acquire many skills from cooking, building to the dark arts. Your appearance will slowly change depending on the life you choose and the skills you learn. You will be given a number of tasks or quests which will be varied and require different skills. It is only by completing these that you will progress through the game.
Elflight is a sandbox game where you may roam as you will, but dangers abound and there is little chance or survival if you do not have the requisite skills. Although the total area is massive, this will be limited during the beta phase.
Both PvP and PvE are supported but we have attempted to avoid 'levelling'. The skill sets give an enormous range of abilities but the outcome of any encounter cannot always be predicted. Often the ability of a player to think around a problem will prove the deciding factor.
Beta Phase
We are hoping that the beta phase of testing will allow us to establish a prime core of players who will taken an active interest in the game. We will listen to all views in planning each new phase.
An important aspect of any game is, of course, how it is to be financed. After looking at a number of models we have decided on a simple monthly subscription fee. The level of this fee, however, will be kept very small. Once the game is launched, the initial scenes will be free so that people can decide whether the game is for them. We will endeavour to keep enough content available in these scenes for casual players.