World of Darkness Being Played Internally at CCP

CCP has said its World of Darkness MMO is being played internally at the studio.

Last we heard of World of Darkness was in summer 2012 when the game was classed as in “active development”. After a restructuring at CCP that seemed to hit the Atlanta office hardest, no one was certain the world would get to see the Vampire: The Masquerade inspired MMO.

Months earlier at Fanfest 2012 World of Darkness senior producer Chris McDonough had, taken to the stage to proclaim that the project was not dead.

McDonough offered some detail about the game as well. He said it will feature real-world city locations like London, Paris and New York, and will be built on a sandbox philosophy with deep political systems that can put player Princes in charge of cities.

Those Princes will also have the power to inflict permadeath on other players, gulp.

There will be complex hand-to-hand combat and blood will be used as a currency.

According to CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, EVE Fanfest 2013 attendees in April will even get a “tiny” piece of the title.

“[Development] is going on very nicely, we’re playing it internally at CCP. It’s actually a problem that some of our employees are losing themselves already in the World of Darkness as we go through the playtests,” Pétursson said.

“And we’ll be showing a tiny piece of that also at Fanfest. So that is all I have to say about that at this time.”

World of Darkness is said to be based on Vampire: The Masquerade.

Vampire: The Masquerade is a role-playing game created by Mark Rein·Hagen. It was the first of White Wolf Publishing’s World of Darkness role-playing games, based on the Storyteller System and centered around vampires in a modern gothic-punk world. The title of the series comes from “The Masquerade”, referring to the Camarilla’s attempts to hide vampirism from humans and their governments, but is also a double entendre referring to vampires’ efforts to convince themselves that they are not truly monsters.

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World of Darkness Being Played Internally at CCP