Another Qorena Foresight Playtest this weekend! Anyone is welcome to join! To participate, follow the instructions through the Qore World website.
If in the event the official server is full, you are encouraged to host a new one and invite friends to join it. We hope you will enjoy the first of the weekly playtest to come. This will be ongoing until version 1.0 release.
Weekly Qorena Playtest - [5/21/22]
Another Qorena Foresight Playtest this weekend! Anyone is welcome to join! To participate, follow the instructions through the Qore World website.
If in the event the official server is full, you are encouraged to host a new one and invite friends to join it. We hope you will enjoy the first of the weekly playtest to come. This will be ongoing until version 1.0 release.
Weekly Qorena Playtest - [5/14/22]
Another Qorena Foresight Playtest this weekend! Anyone is welcome to join! To participate, follow the instructions through the Qore World website.
If in the event the official server is full, you are encouraged to host a new one and invite friends to join it. We hope you will enjoy the first of the weekly playtest to come. This will be ongoing until version 1.0 release.
Nominate Maze Qore Arena for Steam Awards!
This game has been out for a full year, improving the game overtime. We truly want to make a fun game that is worth the player's time (however long it takes...), so much that we have made the entire early access free rather than charge money like most developers typically would do with their games (which is also fine).
The most important to us is feedback. This will tell us what we are doing right and wrong with the game and how to make it better and more worthwhile.
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We don't expect for Maze Qore Arena to win this year's Steam Awards, yet it is worth a try. A nomination or Labor of Love while not required, would be really helpful.
All we ask from you is to give this game a chance.
Maze Qore Arena Update & Plans for Overhaul - Version 0.7.0
Greetings!
The new 0.7 update for Maze Qore Arena is now available!
In this update, we have been hard at work to deliver yet another a new game mode, and a few more new levels!
NEW GAME MODE: IDENTITY THEFT:
Steal the ID card, escape the area or kill all the other players to win! Player with the fastest completion time wins!
IMPROVEMENTS
New game mode: Identity Theft.
New map: Outdoors - Imperial Base.
New map: Outdoors - Deserted Town.
Introduced a PS1/PC-classic graphics aesthetic.
Improved the AI to perform better with Flag Hustle, and the Riots.
KNOWN BUGS
Bot AI may still have a few hiccups with Identity Theft. We might work towards fixing it in a patch.
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS
As this year comes to a close, we've been deciding long and hard with what to do with this game. Despite our efforts, nigh no one seems to care that this game even exists as it has languished for months with no online servers populated with players (let alone at least one server to join), and almost no activity. Either that, or they probably played the outdated singleplayer demo and forgot about the entire game afterwards. For all we know, we are unsure if anyone is probably even reading these update articles.
So considering this and the research on how competitive multiplayer games fare on this marketplace, we've concluded that competitive multiplayer is a fruitless endeavor. We really want to give players a reason to care for this game, and most importantly enjoy the game, for our success can only be achieved when players are enjoying this game.
Starting next year (and part of our resolution for 2022), Maze Qore Arena will be overhauled. It will no longer feature competitive gameplay as it currently stands. Instead, it shall live closer to it's name; an Arena; a coliseum of enemies to slay; a might and fight for survival. MQA is going cooperative.
WHAT ABOUT THE CONTENT?
Most of the pre-existing levels, sprites, and gameplay will remain intact. The game modes will be scrapped and replaced with only one; Survival.
NPCs from the old singleplayer demo will make their return to the overhaul.
Bots will be overhauled to specifically support this game mode, so hopefully you will not have to fight alone against waves offline.
This also means MQA might compete with the likes of Killing Floor when it comes to it's new gameplay direction (even though we're not trying to compete with them).
From the beginning of this game development, we wanted to provide a variety of gameplay options for players to enjoy including the Survival mode (eventually), however we've learned that MP games for the most part have gone nowhere, often dead-on arrival. We tried to rectify this with bot support, giving players an alternative to at least still enjoy the game offline should online disappoint.
We've learned that sometimes. it is better to keep it simple and straight-forward, rather than try to make an online game suite.
Hopefully all goes well.
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I hope you enjoyed this update and thanks for playing Maze Qore Arena!
- Establish. Explore. Expand.
Maze Qore Arena Multi-player Patch - Version 0.6.2
Greetings!
Just fixed a few lighting bugs with two levels in the game, and improved movement for the players on network games.
Fixes minor latency flaw with player movement on listen server matches.
Fixed lighting ray-fighting in levels "Doctor Sid's Lab", and "Cloud Nine".
