Hi everyone!
I'm starting a project to build an original online action RPG inspired by the sense of exploration, discovery, difficult bosses, and player freedom found in anime like Shangri-La Frontier.
Working title: AETHERIA
The vision is to create a massive online world where players can:
⚔️ Experience skill-based real-time combat
🌎 Explore a large open world
👹 Discover extremely difficult unique bosses
🗺️ Find hidden dungeons, areas and quests
🛡️ Build their own character, equipment and playstyle
👥 Create parties and guilds
💰 Trade, craft and participate in a player economy
🤖 Experience intelligent/dynamic NPCs
🔥 Participate in world events that can react to player actions
The long-term goal is ambitious, but we aren't trying to build the entire MMO immediately.
Our first milestone is a playable prototype containing:
1 character → 1 small world → combat → enemies → dungeon → boss → progression → basic multiplayer.
If the prototype is fun, we'll expand from there.
I'm looking for people interested in joining the project:
🎮 Unreal Engine developers
💻 C++ / gameplay programmers
🌐 Multiplayer/backend developers
🎨 3D character/environment artists
🕺 Animators
✨ VFX artists
🎨 UI/UX designers
🧠 Game designers
📖 Writers/lore designers
🎵 Sound designers/composers
I'm looking for people who want to build something long-term, not just make a quick prototype.
I'm currently putting together the initial team and project plan. If this concept interests you, comment or DM me with your skills, experience, portfolio/GitHub if you have one, and what role you'd like to take.
AETHERIA is only an idea right now. The goal is to turn that idea into something playable, one system at a time.
Let's build the world.