Shroud of the Avatar: Village Homes Revealed
In the latest update to the Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarter website, we get a look at the various “village level” houses that Citizen-level backers of the game will receive.
The simplest home is the Shingle Roof house, a single-room dwelling:
Benefactors — those who pledged at the Citizen level after May 20th, 2013 — will be able to enjoy a slightly more upscale home, with a larger floor plate and a couple of interior alcoves:
Founders — those who pledged at the Citizen level before May 20th — will be able to enjoy a slightly different home, meanwhile:
Additionally, Portalarium have revealed a new house, which they are calling the Viking Home:
This home is available as an add-on purchase for everyone who has pledged at the Citizen level. As clarified by Dallas Snell here, the home will be added to your inventory of available houses when you purchase it, although you’ll only be able to place one house at a time on a village level plot.
Here, by the way, are a couple of comparison images of the various houses:
Additionally, Portalarium give a shout-out in this update to the Hearth of Britannia for the $12,999 that was raised during the recent Telethon of the Avatar. Job well done, Rustic Dragon! (Which, by the way, reminds me: there’s a Dragonsmeet tomorrow evening!)
Somehow reminds me of the graphic-engine of “Dark Ages of Camelot” which I enjoyed to play a lot some years ago.
I think that DAoC uses a different engine…Unity didn’t exist at the time (I don’t think).
That said, there is some design similarity there.
They need a house one level below the Shingle Roof house. A lot of folks just had a thatch roof, cob walls and earthen floors (literally the ground). The Shingle Roof house is pretty damn fancy for the lowest form of housing.
I realize that SotA isn’t attempting to be historical fiction, but I’ve heard reference to it being “darker” and “grittier” and all that, and I think the stark realism of a lower-tier house would add to that significantly.