Minions of Mirth - Groundbreaking RPG released!!!

[JRitter]

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PRAIRIE GAMES, INC RELEASES GROUNDBREAKING ROLE-PLAYING GAME: MINIONS OF MIRTH

Wishek, North Dakota - December 15th, 2005 - Prairie Games, Inc today announced that it's groundbreaking role-playing game Minions of Mirth has been released for Windows and OSX.

"Minions of Mirth gives the player an incredible amount of freedom in their role-playing experience! It can be played in single player, multiplayer, and even allows friends to run their own custom persistent worlds! We're very pleased to be releasing this amazing product. We've worked very hard with our community to make sure Minions of Mirth totally rocks!", says Josh Ritter co-owner and programmer of the title.

Minions of Mirth is available for Windows and OSX at http://www.prairiegames.com for the special price of $25 through January 31st, 2006. The full price of the game will be $29.95 and there are no monthly service fees. Prairie Games, Inc hosts the complimentary PrairieWorld server and there are also community hosted worlds to play on. Minions of Mirth is also fully playable in single player with no internet connection.

Minions of Mirth Features:

* Auto-patcher that delivers immediate content and feature upgrades
* Full single player support
* Player vs Environment and Player vs Player multiplayer
* No monthly service fees for multiplayer
* Form your own party of up to 6 characters. Join other players in online alliances with up to 36 characters
* 16 playable classes, 12 playable races, Multiclass characters in three careers up to level 100
* 3 playable realms: Fellowship of Light, Minions of Darkness, and the Monster Realm
* 14 huge and diverse zones to explore
* Unlock monster templates to create your own stable of monsters
* Epic Battle System
* A tremendous amount of unique NPC, creatures, items, and quests
* 2 hours of original music
* Free dedicated world server with source code is available. Host your own persistent world with your own original content

Players are encouraged to visit http://www.prairiegames.com to get all the latest news, game information, and to download the free demo!

About Prairie Games, Inc:
Prairie Games, Inc is an independent game company dedicated to creating fresh and innovative role-playing games and technology. The company has offices in Wishek, North Dakota and Los Angeles, California. Minions of Mirth, it's debut title, is now available on Windows and OSX. The company's website is: http://www.prairiegames.com

-Josh Ritter
Prairie Games, Inc

 

[Mefi]

Good luck with this release.

Thought the alpha/beta process was excellent in the way you guys took out the best of the feedback to refine the game.

Hope you get the sales you deserve as this is a very, very good game.

 

[Deacdo]

Game sounds like it was designed for multiplayer. Not really my type of thing, but I'm going to check out the gameplay trailer anyway.

BTW, what are the system requirements? I don't see them listed anywhere.

 

[crpgnut]

I'm normally not interested in multiplayer either because you get so many immature people. With a shareware game, I'm not sure that you'd have to deal with that. How many l33t d00dz play shareware? I'll give the single-player a go, and if I love it, I may actually try MP.

Anyone here been keeping up with the game? If so, what other crpgs does it play like?

 

[Rune_74]

MoM

To me at least it plays alot like mix between bards tale and might and magic....it feels like a good rpg from the good old days and I love it....

there is a learning curve but you get what you put into it.

lots of creativity in it as well...

Rune

 

[DarkSign]

Hey Josh! Great stuff. We've tooled around together in MoM a few times (Vanquish). Great stuff...especially when you realize the size of the achievement by one person!

Keep up the good work...and thanks for proving that an MMO can be done in Torque!

 

[Shagnak]

This is pretty damn impressive.

What a HEAP of work!
I played some of the beta what seems like ages ago, so I'll give it a whirl to see how things ended up.

 

[BbaxterD]

Game sounds like it was designed for multiplayer. Not really my type of thing, but I'm going to check out the gameplay trailer anyway.

BTW, what are the system requirements? I don't see them listed anywhere.

I couldn't find any on the site, however, a quick google search led me to RPGDot http://www.rpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10053&ID=1182.

For those interested, these are the suggested specs.

R: MoM runs on Windows and OSX. The game supports resolutions of 1024x768 and higher. We provide a number of graphics options to scale the game's system requirements. There are people playing the game on some pretty old gear. I would recommend downloading the demo and trying out different settings. As for a recommended system, a 1.6 ghz machine with 512+ megs of ram and at least a GForce3 should run the game quite well.

I'll give this a shot once I get my new comp together.

 

[ElastiZombie]

I fired up the demo last night for a very brief time just to take a look and I must say that I am very impressed. Enough that I want to give it a more indepth look in the near future when I have a little more free time. Hmmm... Christmas is around the corner. :D

Good job.

 

[MINIGUNWIELDER]

an mmo with single player? are there cpu players that "play" with you?

 

[roguefrog]

This uses Torque? It sounds really cool. Anyone play it enough yet to give an impression?

 

[Naked_Lunch]

I played the SP for about 15 minutes. It wasn't very good. Purdry graphics and the music was alright, I guess. But the combat is total poo, and all the quests are your generic MMO Fed-Exes or monster-killin'. I'm not a fan of MMO, so maybe someone that is might enjoy it.

I sure didn't.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Ditto with our bovine friend, maybe i'll give it another try some day but it completely failed to impress me.

Your skelly's looked good atleast.

 

[yipsl]

Re: MoM

To me at least it plays alot like mix between bards tale and might and magic....it feels like a good rpg from the good old days and I love it....

there is a learning curve but you get what you put into it.

lots of creativity in it as well...

Rune

That comparison's going to make me give it a try. I felt the new The Bard's Tale wasn't Bard's Tale enough and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic isn't even an RPG.

Just in case Ubisoft has their minions surf the web for fan comments: I'll by HOMM V, but not Dark Messiah! Not till it drops to ten dollars in a bargain bin, or better yet, I'll get it used at EBGames so you don't get my money for doing just a "Half Life Too" instead of a genuine Might and Magic 10!

Somebody close the valve feeding mainstream marketing into Ubisoft's game design department. RPG fans want Might and Magic 10.

I'll check out the Mirth trailer tonight and get the game after the holidays if it's as good as Bard's Tale meets Might and Magic.