Realm of the Dominion

Realm of the Dominion is a 3D Multiplayer Third Person Roleplay Experience inspired by the MMORPG Face of Mankind. We like to call it an MMO in your pocket.

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Current stage is: Very Early Prototype - Mechanics Development

The multiplayer experience is open world role-play supported by open unrestricted PVP. The servers are completely dedicated and player community hosted, thus the game-play policies are dictated by your community. Realm of the Dominion puts the role-play into the hands of the players and the administration of that role-play into the hands of the community owners. Additionally, server owners can dictate what items they wish to enable/disable from their servers allowing them to provide a unique experience for their community. This allows communities to host their own living universes with their own rules on role-play and their own story growth. This also means that with the game being provided without any form of DRM and without official hosting, even if the worst possible thing happened and Cryptic Realms Studio shut down tomorrow, you would still be able to host and continue to play the game to your heart's content.

A Realm is the environment built for RotD. Each Realm will consist of multiple maps that are designed around a time period/alternate universe. Realms will have their own art designed around this universe and their own set of items designed specifically for that universe. Realms after the first realm will be released as DLC to support the ongoing development of the game.

The first Realm  is called Cassette Punk an aged cyberpunk future where the tone is of a serious nature with corporations vying for power and an oppressive government, the Dominion, pushing the limits of it’s access to maintain full control of the population. There will be multiple cities/planets the players can traverse and experience, each one represented by it's own map.

The Game-play is inspired by the 2005 MMORPG Face of Mankind. This is, in essence, a re-imagining of Face of Mankind. The game itself will be an environment that provides players the tools to role-play out the lore of the realm they play in however they wish. All items in the Realm are mined and crafted by players and sold by players.

Role-Play is up to the player. Choose a faction that best aligns with your interest and become whoever and whatever you want to be. Craft and sell illicit goods under the nose of the Dominion, open a snack bar on a colony, rise up and rebel against the oppressive Dominion. The story is yours to write and your actions change the political and territorial atmosphere of the universe.

Factions fight for control of territory, every player must join one of the factions available. The faction system provides accountability to a player's actions forcing faction leadership to take responsibility for their remembers, hand out punishments and potentially even kick them out of the faction forcing them to join another. This encourages role-play over random murder as everyone answers to someone and factions as a whole are held accountable for their actions by the other factions combined potentially going to war with them.

The Communication is handled via text chat and chat bubbles over players’ heads. We personally believe this creates the most role-play friendly environment in a game like this.  It is possible voice communication will be added down the road as an option for server owners to enable/disable.

The base game and the first realm are FREE. The additional realms and potentially other cosmetic additions will be released as paid DLC to support further development of the game after the base game is complete. This is not a cop out, no tricks up our sleeve. We want to build a community around the game and what better way to do this than by releasing the first realm and all future mechanics added to it for free.