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Crowns of Power (TGE MMO) Patch 1.16.0

We are happy to announce the latest patch for the TGE powered MMO "Crowns of Power". This patch brings some bug fixes, rendering improvements, and additional content for high level players.

Author Peter Simard Date 10/22/2010 (7:45 am) Comment 1 comments

Crowns of Power - Community PvP Video

Here is a video posted by a skilled Crowns of Power player showing his PvP abilities. It is a community video we thought some of you might enjoy.

Author Peter Simard Date 09/25/2009 (2:58 am) Comment 8 comments

Crowns of Power - Micro Transactions

Hey folks, with Crowns of Power being out for over three months, I figure it's about time to post an update. In this...

Author Peter Simard Date 11/19/2008 (10:56 pm) Comment 4 comments

CoP - Top 100 now live

Greeting all! We have interfaced the top 100 characters onto our website. There is some real competition to see who will reach 50 fi...

Author Peter Simard Date 09/06/2008 (9:14 am) Comment 2 comments

Crowns of Power - End of Beta

Greeting! After several months of beta testing, we finally feel Crowns of Power is ready to go live! In anticipation of this, we ...

Author Peter Simard Date 08/17/2008 (4:15 pm) Comment 3 comments

To build a programming language

This is not a typical game development blog. I recently took the past few days to try to design a programming language from scratch. Why would I do this? Mostly to see if I could. How a language ac...

Author Peter Simard Date 07/06/2008 (6:19 pm) Comment 4 comments

CoP - Stress Test Results

On Friday, we held a stress test for Crowns of Power. It was a very important test to determine whether our current hardware setup will be able to take the load of our live game. Overall the test was ...

Author Peter Simard Date 06/23/2008 (11:23 am) Comment 1 comments

Crowns of Power - Stess Test

Greeting all! On Friday June 20th, we will be holding a stress test of our TGE MMORPG (that's a lot of letters) Crowns of Power. We...

Author Peter Simard Date 06/18/2008 (12:43 pm) Comment 3 comments

Crowns of Power - Beta update

Beta has been going relatively smooth so far. We would still like to see more players on though during peak hours to stress the servers. We are hitting about 20 online players but would like to see ar...

Author Peter Simard Date 04/07/2008 (12:39 pm) Comment 2 comments

Crowns of Power - Open Beta Download

All of us at Rampid Interactive are very happy to be able to release this public test of our game. There is only one question.. who will be the first person from the GarageGames community to hit level...

Author Peter Simard Date 03/31/2008 (8:51 am) Comment 8 comments

Crowns of Power - Open Beta Monday!

After years of development, Crowns of Power is finally ready to be released to the public. This Monday we will be releasing our client to be downloaded by gamers around the world. The download link...

Author Peter Simard Date 03/28/2008 (1:18 pm) Comment 3 comments

TGE Server Admin Software

Hello again. Here are the results of the past few days work on a server admin in C#. Previously we were launching servers via batch file after remote desktoping in. As things got more complex, this ap...

Author Peter Simard Date 02/20/2008 (5:59 pm) Comment 5 comments

Crowns of Power nearing completion! (pics)

Well, it has been a crazy few years, but our MMORPG is nearing finalization. When people say the last 20% of the work takes 80% of the time, they are not lying. Here are some of the things that have b...

Author Peter Simard Date 11/23/2007 (5:50 pm) Comment 5 comments

Crowns of Power - Open PvP Beta! Join the fun

Rampid Interactive is proud to announce the first open test of our MMORPG "Crowns of Power". For this phase of testing, we will be balancing the five spell colors (red, blue, green, white, and black) ...

Author Peter Simard Date 09/06/2007 (10:55 am) Comment 1 comments

More Crowns of Power model shots

We've been hard at work here trying to get all the current bugs worked out of the system in anticipation of our next beta test. Content has been steadily added and you can now level up to 15 completel...

Author Peter Simard Date 11/08/2006 (11:25 am) Comment 11 comments

New Crowns of Power player model

Its been a while since my last blog post but development is continuing strong for our upcomming MMORPG titled "Crowns of Power". Our artist recently finished the base model for our main male charac...

Author Peter Simard Date 10/16/2006 (10:41 am) Comment 13 comments

Crowns of Power alpha shots

Woohoo! All the hard work is starting to pay off. We recently launched our first public testing of our upcoming MMORPG Crowns of Power. We received more than 2,000 beta applications within the first 2...

Author Peter Simard Date 06/20/2006 (10:38 pm) Comment 8 comments

MMORPG becomming a reality.

Hey everyone. I've been hard at work finishing up some of the core functionally for Crowns of Power. The most recent updates are the inventory system, and item interaction. Below are some screenshots ...

Author Peter Simard Date 02/28/2006 (9:06 pm) Comment 10 comments