I refuse to apologize for the title- it’s hard trying to come up with new and exciting titles for the blogs here and on my GarageGames blogs. But since you’re reading this, here’s what’s been going on with Epic Frontiers…

#1 Recipes are enabled. No videos of it yet. Why? Well, it’s not “done”. Sure, you can make items just like in WoW or other recipe-crafting games… But that’s not how Epic Frontiers is rolling. I’m working on some other functions for modifying those items and breaking them back down into pieces- cool stuff. But since it’s not yet ready, I don’t want to post the video up on YouTube.

#2 And that brings me to my next update: No more Vimeo videos. Oh, they have really high quality video on their site, but as you’ll notice in my other blogs, there are random videos missing, and my pleas to Vimeo that these development videos are not just video captures of gameplay and should be reinstated has fallen on deaf ears. I’m not the only game developer that has been hit with their arbitrary rulings either, so I have created a YouTube channel for Epic Frontiers, and I’m going to try and get the resolution of the game bumped up so I can upload some HD stuff for your viewing pleasure. OR… I’m also considering direct hosting of the files to see how that works.

#3 Co-op! Yes, we’re talking about how to successfully create co-op gameplay features in Epic Frontiers. No guarantees yet as to what will make it in, and what will not, but our guidelines are to make it fun, as simple as possible, and in-line with the “laws” of the game universe. So you won’t find co-op gameplay under every rock in the game, but we’re looking to implement it in some areas that make the game that much more fun to play with friends.

#4 Game Website! It’s a long time coming, isn’t it? Well, in all honesty, there’s three of us working on this game, with day-jobs and relationships and… ugh, time is a commodity, and we give priority to the game itself, but looking at the webstats, we understand that the game is getting more and more attention, which says something considering how much eye-candy we don’t have on display here. But by the end of this week we should have the game website up at http://EpicFrontiers.DigitalFlux.com and in the meantime, you can pop into the message boards at http://EpicFrontiers.DigitalFlux.com/devboards to ask questions for us to dodge

#5 One of the big focuses of this month happens to be on AI. You’ve seen from the other blogs that we’re putting some interesting features into the hands of you, the player, but it just wouldn’t be fair to give only you all that firepower, now would it? No. So the NPCs and MOBs in Epic Frontiers are getting a brain-boost to take them beyond the realm of “aggro as AI”. That’s all there will be on this subject until around early March though, and rest assured that you’ll like what you read when we talk about that.

So that’s about it for the update for now- I need to get back to making the website…