New November - 27-11-09

NDA
The last months have been a real rollercoaster ride here at Star Vault, albeit a very positive one. Most of the core features planned for release have been introduced and tested in a controlled manner, and we've been extremely eager to see the reception each time. We are now at a point where we feel that, although there is still a lot of work to do, it's time to increase our efforts of marketing the game, and part of this process is the lifting of the NDA.
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MMC – Mortal Online Machinima Contest
With the fall of the NDA we started a new contest on our forums. Jump into the game, get your mates, make a video and upload it to youtube. Show how you build your house, create an awsome piece of armor, re-enact Braveheart, or explore the wonders of Nave - it doesn't matter. As long as it's cool and will impress our judges.
The contest will run from November 23rd until noon December 14th (GMT+1). Winners will be awarded with MMC-Avatars for the forum. The best three videos will be hosted on mortalonline.com. The N°1 video will also be awarded with:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX295
Custom User Title on the forums
3 Beta Keys

Beta Forums open for public
We decided to open up the beta forums to the public. If you are a registered member of the Mortal Online Forums you can now read all sections of the beta forums. Please note that only beta testers can post on the forum at this point. We feel that opening up the beta section is a very nice way of letting the public in on what went on behind closed curtains for the last few months, and as you know, honesty about our product is something very important to us.



Developer Blog
A few days ago Henrik Nyström (CEO) made his first post in the new developer blog on mortalonline.com. The blog enables us to share a bit more of the excitement and everyday life of a "dev". Stay tuned for regular updates and interesting tid-bits about the developer team, MO and the office life.
Blog

http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/27231-mortal-machinima-contest-2009-a.html



Mortal Online Machinima Contest
2009

Show us what you got. Jump into the game, get your mates, make a video and upload it to youtube. Show how you build your house, create an awsome piece of armor, re-enact Braveheart, or explore the wonders of Nave - it doesn't matter. As long as it's cool and will impress our judges.
The contest will run from today November 23rd until noon December 14th (GMT+1). As soon as you've uploaded your video, make a thread in this subforum, post the link and maybe a short description of what you are going to show us. Make sure you also link back to your thread in the video description on youtube.

We've upped the ante. To give you guys another incentive, we've thrown in a brand new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295! So let's see some nice videos guys. We've extended the contest for 2 more weeks so that you have enough time to prepare something awsome and are also able to use everything in the upcomming patch.

Rule of engagement:
between 3-7 minutes long
English only
no nudity or at least blurred/blacked out (meh, youtube... whatcha gonna do)
no copyrighted music
you are allowed to dubb (in English)
make sure you are not breaking youtube's TOS

The 3 best videos will be awarded not only with the respect of the developers and the community, but also with these cool prizes. They will also be featured on mortalonline.com.
Note that the Avatars are handcrafted and approved by our 2D God, Lord Hannu himself.