Rebuilding Spellborn

Hey everyone,

 

I've been reading through this topic, and have to admit I'm quite happy to find some people who still feel the same emotional connection towards the world of Spellborn. Although my experience in game designing or even just level designing is quite inexistant at the moment, I'd like to give you a hand if possible.

 

Now let me introduce myself a bit and explain what I've been thinking about.

 

I had the chance to play Spellborn from the last weeks of beta up until the end of the European Servers. Starting on French servers (as I'm french ), I re-rolled on the international servers where I joined the Forsaken Gods guild. Now all that is quite common for all of you I suppose as most of you must have had a similar experience.

In real life though, Spellborn allowed me to discover the publisher behind it named Frogster. A few years after Spellborn died, Frogster bought the license to publish a game called Tera Online on the european soil. As I was following this game because of the targeting combat system which reminded me of Spellborn, I also discovered Frogster was actively recruiting. I gave it a shot, and got my first job as Community Manager in the games industry. And this is where it might become interesting, as I discovered a few ex-employees from Spellborn N.V. who had worked on the developement of the game ended up joining Frogster too. Obviously, I didn't resist bringing the subject up with them, and luckily I found out they were still very passionate and proud of the work they had accomplished.


Now Frogster is dead (has been bought by Gameforge), but I'm still in touch with those 2 game designers and I was thinking, maybe, I could talk with them about you guys and the dream you have. Now that could perfectly lead nowhere, as I don't know if they'll be ok with the idea of people working on the game without any real legal permission, or even if they have anything that might help us for that. But as they're very nice and friendly people, I think it deserves a shot.

 

On my side, I have loads of videos, screenshots and also a full version of the client gathered during my time in Frogster that I could share here if that would help in any way.

 

So that's pretty much all, sorry for the wall of text, I just felt like sharing what was on my mind.

 

Whatever happens, I'm very impressed you guys managed to stay so passionate and active here for so many years.

 

Cheers,
Aodh