Will you answer the call?

Its now been ten months since we began Project Rubi-Ka. It has truly been an adventure! In recent months we've made leaps and bounds forward and are preparing to move ahead in our initiative. With that being said we're happy to announce that we are planning to open up a "closed alpha" season starting winter of 2019.

Closed Alpha Details

First off we want to be clear that this will be a "closed" alpha, meaning we will invite a select set of people to join the alpha test. We are super eager to share this project with the community, but we want to make sure it gets off to a good start. To do so we need to make sure the quality of our work is up to a standard that everyone will expect from an MMO. This is no simple task.

So with that being said what will the goal be for our first closed alpha season?

First we need to iron out bugs and the best way to do that is to just try playing the game. We will likely be focusing our efforts on initial starter zones and major cities on Rubi-Ka. We will be focusing on open world content as well as dungeon content (subway and totw). Unfortunately missions still remain on our development roadmap (curse you ACG doors!). Most nanos should work. Most abilities.

Of course bugs remain a top priority, but also another goal is to properly collect information on performance as additional players are playing the game. We are constantly making optimizations to reduce the latency on our playfield's "heartbeat". Also things we will look out for is functionality breaking when observed by another player. Often when we are developing we implement a feature and we test the feature as the player. Often we do not test the feature as if observing another player doing it. This means sometimes we miss things like making sure messages regarding the players activity is properly broadcasted.

So are you interested?

If you are interested in joining us in our closed alpha test, please fill out this survey. As the weeks draw closer we will start to pick from folks who have completed the survey to join us in testing.

Sincerely,

Portaler

Developer | Co-Founder