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Hey all, 

I have a new game idea in a new direction for first person shooters. My game is called Aries, it is a new first person shooter massive multiplayer online role playing game. It was developed by the feedback from fans who enjoy fps, mmos, and rpgs. Games like EverQuest, Guildwars, Mass Effect, COD, Huxley and SWG have given a lot of influence to this title. I have been researching and gathering as much feedback as I can to provide a new concept of FPSMMOS. For the past 5 years I have been working on my game Aries and have caught much interest from a few large companies like Qualcomm and Sony. I even got a chance to speak with Mark Reins a few times over the phone from epicgames. I am now trying to get the word out about Aries to gain support from other FPS/MMO/RPG fans. I have been invited to E3 in 2011 with Sony, Uplinq convention in 2011 with Qualcomm and GDC 2012 with Qualcomm. However, I am still in negotiation with Qualcomm for the mobile scaled down version of Aries and I am looking at Zynga or Facebook for social media advancement.

During these last five years I have made it a priority in figuring out how to strategically use servers to share data between users for a game such as this. Most of the money I will need to raise will need to go into engineers, network gurus, and programmers. FPS games take a lot of data sharing and is tough to make sure there is not a lot of annoying lag when sharing data among multiple players. There are also going to be issues with technology advancement and compatibility. However, with the right team this can all be thought about and fixed before/during/ and after the alpha and beta period. We are detailing our game design document constantly and adding more and more information to make sure we can provide the best game play possible.

Currently, I am looking to grow my development team and find the right company to team up with. I am also trying to find ways to gather funding myself to help expand on my short playable demo for Aries using the Unreal engine. The demo took 3 months to finish with a team of 7 very skilled individuals I found through deviate art. Yes Deviate art =) The demo actually helped one of the members of our team get a job with Halo. I was very happy about that! We also gain a highly respected programmer and sound engineer to our team Jay Barbeau who was the former composer and one of the lead programmers for Everquest! Hopefully with all this hard work we gain the fan base we wish to achieve and open up more jobs for more skilled game testers, programmers, artist, scripters, level designers, webmasters, engineers, composers to work. Aries is a game for the fans and I wish to keep it that way and gain self funding through fans. With the funding I hope to develop the best team possible in return to develop the best game possible for 2014.

I hope who ever reads this blog looks at the fun features Aries has to offer. We just ask for as much feedback as possible and understand we are trying to execute this project. We are currently working on finishing our website. Long live Indie Games! =)

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