Rise & Ruin Returns to Closed Development After a Successful Open Beta

Summary: Rise & Ruin is returning to closed development to build out the gameplay experience for past, present, and future players for continued fun and fury. Rise & Ruin will remain up in its current state, 24/7. We simply want to let you, our community, and any potential future community members know that we are ending this round of Open Beta, and are turning our complete attention to finishing development of key areas of Rise & Ruin.

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Over the past two months of Open Beta, we have received generous feedback from you, our community, and are very appreciative for your support. We have issued five Game Updates during that time, which addressed a number of areas, from Skill balancing to browser-specific issues.

Part of our original design plans called for:

  • Additional card types for more advanced and strategic gameplay
  • More modes of participation, including single-player options
  • Ways of automating complex processes, such as leaderboards and tournaments

Your feedback affirmed our plans, and our small team will be working heads-down and tirelessly to complete our design vision.

What this means for you as a player and community member

Rise & Ruin will continue to remain up and in its current state, available for play 24/7 at your leisure, until we return to Open Beta. As mentioned before during this period, our development team will be focusing completely on creating the next iteration of Rise & Ruin after this productive round of Open Beta testing.

Again, due to the very small size of our team, this means it is very unlikely we will be releasing any new content or Game Updates until we return to Open Beta.

The focus of the articles published on the site will also be shifting from general information about Rise & Ruin (such as Battle Tips, Contests, Trivia, and so forth) to updates about our development progress, and other relevant information to keep you up-to-date on exactly how we are progressing on accomplishing these goals.

How you can remain an active force

We will continue to hold Friday Night Fights, every single Friday, at 7:30pm EST. Attending FnF will earn you additional rewards, the opportunity to battle other players, and also the chance to get updates on our progress from our development team. We want to encourage the entire community to attend FnF, every week, if they possibly can.

When Rise & Ruin returns to Open Beta, we know you will greatly enjoy the end result by being able to see a more complete vision of our design, and changes you have helped to inspire.

If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment in this thread, or e-mail your Community Manager GM-Burdenday at burdenday at riseandruin dot com.

Everyone on the Rise & Ruin team appreciates your continued support! We look forward to returning to Open Beta after this period of closed development as we continue to ramp towards launch!

 

very nice work guys just

very nice work guys just what we were expecting, we know you guys have a small team but you guys are doing great, this game have so much future, and i think we all wanna see how this evolve.

keep up the nice work so far :D

LOBO's picture

cant wait to see the

cant wait to see the improvments.

cerdric's picture

I look forward to playing

Original Fire: Founding Fighter

I look forward to playing with you guys in the future!

~ Cerdric Darkfall -The Reaper- {The Reapers of Chaos}
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"You had better fear the Reaper... because I'm coming."

Nice

I enjoyed the current version of the game and I'm looking forward to the next incarnation of it. I appreciate how you are taking our comments into account while you re-enter your Beta development. This kind of community involvement makes players feel welcomed and a part of the action.

Thanks.

Muto

Is it December yet?

Beta Tester

Is it December yet?

December? What do you mean

December? What do you mean with that? Is it comming in dec?

Whohooooooooooo

"Submitted by GM-Burdenday

Beta Tester

"Submitted by GM-Burdenday on December 12, 2009 - 16:12"

cerdric's picture

Created 0 seconds ago. ~

Original Fire: Founding Fighter

Created 0 seconds ago.

~ Cerdric Darkfall -The Reaper- {The Reapers of Chaos}
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"You had better fear the Reaper... because I'm coming."

arcaholic's picture

had to say hi

ChampionExiled CollectiveOriginal Fire: Founding Fighter

well u know ill be back for the launch just let me know sorry been busy working
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cerdric's picture

Flaunting your badges...

Original Fire: Founding Fighter

Flaunting your badges... ;P
Good to see you around Arc!

~ Cerdric Darkfall -The Reaper- {The Reapers of Chaos}
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"You had better fear the Reaper... because I'm coming."

Spore's picture

Arc!!! :-D

ModeratorBeta Tester

Arc!!!

:-D

arcaholic's picture

hihi

ChampionExiled CollectiveOriginal Fire: Founding Fighter

i keep trying to catch some of you out there but every time i sign in nobodys there i think i must keep missing yall... anyhow gotta go to work so hopfully if im off on a friday soon and ill be able to make it to fight night

ttyl

Arc

Thanks for keeping in touch!

DeveloperModerator

Thanks for keeping in touch, Arc!

We're still working hard behind the scenes on the next version of Rise & Ruin. I hope to see you soon at FnF!

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GM-Burdenday
Rise & Ruin Community Manager

Spore's picture

I've stayed out of the game

ModeratorBeta Tester

I've stayed out of the game so I can focus on features/bug fixes, but not only that, my computer shuts down from overheating. I'll be back to normal and doing some GM shifts in about 2 weeks.

cerdric's picture

I'm sorry I haven't been

Original Fire: Founding Fighter

I'm sorry I haven't been around at all lately, my life suddenly got very hectic. But, I should be back as usual in a little while. Excelsior!

~ Cerdric Darkfall -The Reaper- {The Reapers of Chaos}
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"You had better fear the Reaper... because I'm coming."

A Simple Letter

Dear RnR staff:

You are amazing. Thank you for telling the people what is and will be going on in the game's development. It really aides the notion of RnR staff caring about the game, its direction, and most importantly, the people that play the game. Keep being awesome, RiseAndRuin!

Thanks, Steve

DeveloperModerator

Thanks for the kind words, Steve.

I will pass them along to the rest of the development team!

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GM-Burdenday
Rise & Ruin Community Manager

cerdric's picture

SO, was there no event today

Original Fire: Founding Fighter

SO, was there no event today then?

~ Cerdric Darkfall -The Reaper- {The Reapers of Chaos}
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"You had better fear the Reaper... because I'm coming."

Hello ^^

Hi!.

To bad i live 5hrs after the game time. like when its 22.41 here its 16.41 in the game.

Im new by they way. Hope to see you all at Friday.
Right now its seems no one in. Bet i bet i will on Friday or Saturday for me xD. because of the time.

Hey Slash

DeveloperModerator

Hey Slash,

I hope to see you tonight at Friday Night Fights! Myself and others will be there itching for a battle or few.

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GM-Burdenday
Rise & Ruin Community Manager

Hello. :D Just a thought,

Hello. :D

Just a thought, as you work on furthering the game. It would be nice for the text in the lobby not to dissappear when you enter a battle, and likewise for the text in the battle not to dissappear when you return to the lobby. I've noticed it clips conversations into bits as is. Hope it can help. :D

Thanks, Shawnreed

DeveloperModerator

Great feedback, Shawn.

I will definitely pass this along to the developers for a future build of Rise & Ruin.

See you in game!

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GM-Burdenday
Rise & Ruin Community Manager

Suggestion

Play vs NPC (LvL1)(LvL5) so on.
In other words Single Player mode..

KBJugg3RnauT's picture

^^^^^^

Single player is being worked on and someone get on and play me already im more bored then someone paralyzed from the neck down

Spore's picture

Where are you guys? My

ModeratorBeta Tester

Where are you guys? My swords need sharpening, on your skulls.

Melawe TRS's picture

Ads and Video

First psst!! I messed it again!! :( What cards you ppl got?

And second I know many game sites but I have never seen an ad for R&R that I remember, just one on http://lilgames.com/(spore plz!! stop the flashing download button XD my comp might die or me :'( ). I have never seen one on Knogregate or Miniclip, just named those two cause I think those two are enough and the rest will be word of mouth.

Plus there aren't videos on YouTube or any other site like http://www.wegame.com/, just one @ http://games.bbgsite.com/games/riseandruin/, I don't think that one video will help cause it's only shows the game and what you will be doing, more videos of full battles would be great there is just on on YouTube, and one more video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0yYpp1M5HM I don't think that one will help but just seeing the game play cloud make ppl sign up. And lol there is 420jug there XD.

One video I've never seen here is http://www.gametrailers.com/game/rise-ruin/4520 I was just wondering why there is no link to it here, and how did you guys type the video on bbgsite.com (plz don't say fraps XP)?

plz anyone

plz anyone help me get at least 1 battle i want to see this game

cerdric's picture

So... Is there any news as

Original Fire: Founding Fighter

So... Is there any news as to whether this "project" is looking at being abandoned? Haven't heard/seen any of the mods for the last few weeks and the FnF's have stopped being scheduled/made... Would love to see a moderator poke his head in and reassure us.

~ Cerdric Darkfall -The Reaper- {The Reapers of Chaos}
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"You had better fear the Reaper... because I'm coming."

News?

Ive been waiting for a while to play this game but im in europe so its hard to play at FnF, so plz is there any development?
or at least any information when the game will be open again?

Melawe TRS's picture

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What is your time zone GMT? GMT+3 here.