Welcome to Ward Thirteen

Ward Thirteen is a small ORPG currently in development. While many tend to look down on indie games, online games in particular, being a small group of developers has advantages. For one, we don’t have investors telling us what to do, we’re able to make whatever changes we see fit, and ‘break the mold’ a little bit.

Our current goal is to focus around having a couple hundred concurrent players. Again, many might look at this number and scoff, however two things led us to this decision.

1. Most will point out that an Indie studio can’t afford large server architectures to support the playerbases that mainstream games have. This is true, for us at least.

2. World of Warcraft allows thousands of concurrent users per server. However, most users will never see even a fraction of these players, much less interact with them.

Because of these reasons, we don’t feel that a lower player target is a bad thing. It allows us to only use our one server. This drastically reduces our costs, but still allows a fair sense of community, or if you wish.. anonymity.  Our intent is for every player’s weight to be felt in the game, even if you never directly interact with that player.

Our gameplay focus is heavy on social interaction, roleplay, and strategic combat. We’ve tried to deliver a realistic experience, without sacrificing too much to gameplay. The original focus when designing the core engine was “conflict, not combat.” the purpose of that goal was to offer multiple means to advance, compete, and interact; without ever picking up a weapon.

We hope gamers, roleplayers, and even developers, will help provide feedback and criticism during this initial pre-alpha stage. Currently he server is in a highly malleable state, and this is the prime time to change the way things are done. We look forward to working with everyone during this phase.

More information about the game and setting itself can be found in the game info section, as well as the development updates.

Welcome to Ward Thirteen, enjoy your stay.