Factsheet

Developer:
Phanxgames LLC
Based in United States

Genre:
Pixel MMORPG

Platforms:
Windows and MacOS:
Itch.io (Alpha)
Steam (Early Access)

Game Status:
Alpha (In Development)

Price:
Alpha: Pay What You Want
Release: Free to Play

Release Date:
Early Access
Coming Spring 2022

Game Website:
AetherStory.com

Press / Business contact:
admin@phanxgames.com

Social:
Twitter
Discord
Twitch.tv
Facebook
Youtube

A pixel MMORPG Adventure. Fight against the darkness as you explore the pixel world of Aether Story, a multi-player co-operative adventure.

Description

Aether Story is a passion project mixing the aesthetic of retro JRPGs with modern MMO-like game play elements, creating a co-op adventure that you can play with your friends. Explore the world as a hero with a mysterious past, as you learn the world is being destroyed by dark forces. Are you the hero that will save mankind? Are you the hero of light? Join Aether Story and make a name for yourself.

Features

Battle
Fight alongside two other allies in grid-based, strategic combat. Master over 100 unique abilities across 12 class specs.

Explore
Adventure across a detailed world full of quests, characters, and dungeons. Discover the beautifully pixelated world of Aether.

Unite
Join your friends in this social, co-op adventure while you explore, puzzle, trade and fight in a multiplayer world.

Craft
Gather rare materials to craft epic armor, weapons and gadgets to take down your foes and trade with your peers.

Score
Place in the competitive leaderboards in both Player VS Player and Player VS Dungeon content. Seasonal challenges await.

Achieve
Hunt for treasure, discover unexplored lands, fill your monster log, and discover hundreds of easter eggs hidden throughout the world.

History

Early history

Henry has always been fasinated with the idea of creating worlds that others could explore and experience. Starting off with world creation on pen and paper at a young age, it was only a matter of time that this interest interested into game development. Henry started off making games using RPG Maker 2000, and eventually started to program his own game using his own engines. Several of these earlier custom engine games could be considered the predecessor to Aether Story. The goal of creating an MMORPG has been Henry's passion for over 15 years. Having gone to University and studying Databases, Henry mixed both of his passions to create an MMORPG.

After that

In 2017 Henry and Mark teamed up to create a pixel MMORPG, where Henry would be doing the programming and Mark would write the story. Together they started to work toward the game's content and features. Every Alpha release allowed players to test core features, explore the starting zones of the planned world, and to realize the vision that the team is aiming for. The team continued to work on core features with new Alpha patches releases every quarter.

Present

Today Henry (along with the team) is still working hard to bring the game to a "feature complete" status and working towards Early Access. Many core features are being developed and released monthly and active development occurs with the community's feedback and input. The current goal is to release the game's Early Access by Spring 2022.


Videos

Aether Story - Teaser Trailer July 2021 YouTube
Story Preview Trailer YouTube
Winter Fest - Holiday Trailer YouTube
Halloween Event - Holiday Trailer YouTube

Images

download all screenshots & photos as .zip (31MB)
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GIFs

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There are far more images available for Aether Story, but these are the ones we felt would be most useful to you. If you have specific requests, please do contact us!


download logo files as .zip (3MB)
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Selected Articles

  • "This is one of the few MMOs in development that I actually recommend, out of the many I've tried over this last year. Check it out!"
    - IndiePatron, https://itch.io/post/3230794
  • "A great little MMO with a lot of potential. It has lots of exploring to do and things to find. The little secrets to find chests and loot are fun to look for."
    - Wampyre, https://itch.io/post/1079770
  • "Lots of love and hidden items in it, keep it up, hope the combat will be fun"
    - Mystice Games, https://itch.io/post/1075043
  • "This is a very nice concept of a Final Fantasy MMO. What I like about the world is that it isn't plain and boring bunch of tiles but places actually got some life in them and some extra designs that make spots interesting I see this project going some good places :)"
    - EllixOnline, https://itch.io/post/1073254
  • "This game is cool! It's also very pretty with some spooky dungeons. "
    - Yesitty, https://itch.io/post/1064922

Wishlist on Steam
Aether Story is now on Steam coming Spring 2022 to Early Access.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1668470/Aether_Story/

Live Development Stream
Watch the game take shape and join the developer as he works on developing the game by programming, doing artwork or level design.
https://www.twitch.tv/phanxgames

Download Aether Story on Itch.io
The Aether Story Alpha is available with the "pay what you want" model.
https://phanxgames.itch.io/aetherstory

Phanxgames LLC
We are an Indie Game Development studio currently developing a Retro Multiplayer RPG known as Aether Story. We are a huge fan of SNES-era JRPGs and Aether Story takes these inspirations to heart.
https://www.phanxgames.com



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