Posts by ironrealms
Starmourn has locked on to a new Lead Producer
Starmourn has officially hired our new producer, Ioan Sima! Ioan has been an avid player of IRE games for 11 years. He has enthusiastically played Starmourn since release, and even helped build some of the game before it launched. He boasts a high level of familiarity with both the world and the game systems in…
Read more...Starmourn Development is on Fire
Development on Starmourn continues at a furious pace, as the team works to refine, improve, and add to the game on a daily basis! Haven’t been watching the news? Here’s a quick rundown on just a small fraction of the changes that have come out recently: Ships and the Captaincy skill have all had massive…
Read more...Retirement on Starmourn is Now Open
Happy February! Are you ready for some exciting news? Starmourn is allowing the use of retirement credits one month early. Starmourn has been purring along for two and a half months and we feel as though things have settled to the point we can allow retirements into the sector. Starting immediately, Starmourn is open for…
Read more...Iron Realms Releases Its First New MUD In 9 years
For Immediate ReleaseDecember 13, 2018 Starmourn is Iron Realm’s most advanced MUD and first science-fiction game. December 13, 2018 — This Saturday, December 15, 2018, Iron Realms Entertainment is releasing Starmourn, their sixth MUD and first in a sci-fi setting. While the games industry long ago moved away from multiplayer text games, Iron Realms has…
Read more...Our first class – B.E.A.S.T.
Very excited to announce our first class – Biointerfacing Exoskeletal Assault Suit Technician – B.E.A.S.T! Read about it on its page!
Read more...The Celestine Ascendancy
Just added a page on the Celestine Ascendancy – the 3rd and final of the player civilizations we’ll have for release! They’re kind of the twin of the Song Dominion, and the two of them have long been at each other’s throats.
Read more...The Bushraki, Wetwiring, and Mindsims
I just published some fairly extensive history on the Bushraki, from whom we get wetwiring and mindsims both. Once tools of the Sa’hak-ren Hierarchy, and later unwittingly duped by the Ishvana, they’re a tragic, broken race of unstable, cybernetically-enhanced, drug-addicted humanoids whose genes indicate that they’re an incredibly old race, though they only reached spaceflight…
Read more...Mass Effect: Andromeda
Seen the new trailer? I love Mass Effect! I love the lore, the setting, the tone, the storytelling, and the gameplay. It hits all the right buttons in sci-fi for me.
Read more...The Y'saari – an Elder Race – and an update on hacking
I just added an entry on the Y’saari, whose currency – the Covenant Mark – underlies the economy of Starmourn, to the NPC Races page. Enjoy! As you can see from the final, he pretty much nailed what I wanted right away. Also, I talked about hacking in my last post and I’m pleased to…
Read more...Hacking in Starmourn
Having some kind of hacking in Starmourn is important to us, mainly because a lot of people have mentioned wanting something involving it. It is, however, much tougher than it may sound like to pull off well in an open-world multiplayer game. There are a few problems, from my perspective: We need a hacking system…
Read more...The Song Dominion
Just finished setting up a page on the Song Dominion, the second of the player-inhabited civilizations we’ve announced! You’re probably wondering what a player-inhabited civilization means in practical terms. If you’ve played our existing MUDs, they all have some version of player civilizations, usually expressed as cities or city-states. These are initially admin-created areas with…
Read more...Race graphics for backgrounds
Here’s a composite of our various player races for use as desktop/laptop backgrounds. Enjoy! Just right-click (Windows) or click-and-hold (Mac) then save the image. If you’re not sure which one to use, just try the first one.
Read more...Meet the Jin
Today we announced the Jin, our 12th and final player race in Starmourn. You can read all about them on the Jin page. I think you’re going to enjoy them! I thought I’d share the initial concept art sketches that our artist did for the Jin too. In this case I ended up liking #3…
Read more...Independence Day: Resurgence
I was stuck on a plane for awhile yesterday, so watched the new Independence Day. It’s the kind of movie I’d probably only choose to watch when I’m a prisoner in a metal tube. I mean, it wasn’t just bad, like the first one – it was terrible. I’m not sure there was a single…
Read more...Westworld is a MUD
Are you guys watching Westworld on HBO? If not, go do it. Find a way to watch it! It’s fantastic, and one of my favorite things about it is how unbelievably similar to designing and running a MUD or MMO the show is. For those unfamiliar, the tl;dr is that customers come to this fake…
Read more...Welcome the Krona!
We revealed the Krona player race today – a somewhat strange-looking race of belligerent show-offs. A little behind-the-scenes fun fact about them: This isn’t what they originally looked like, at all, and we redid them to be more interesting. Here’s how the player race process typically works, though this process gets broken or things get…
Read more...Interview with Matt Mihály – Starmourn's Creative Director and CEO of Iron Realms
Today, I had a chance to sit down with myself and find out a little more about what I’m working on. I’m both the one asking the questions and giving the answers. I’m a one-man interview machine! Q: CEO and Creative Director, huh? You think you’re better than me? A: Uhhh…This is an interview about…
Read more...Welcome to the Starmourn Blog!
We’ve started a dev blog for Starmourn! That’s pretty much it! It’s the first place you can really officially leave comments for us though, and that’s a fun step forward.
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