Official Site:Â A Tale in the Desert
Studio:Â eGenesis/Pluribus Games
Launch Date:Â February 15, 2003
Genre:Â Fantasy Ancient Egyptian Sandbox
Business Model:Â Hybrid F2P (Optional Subscription)
Platform: PC
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The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v2.0
While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...
The Game Archaeologist: Raph Koster on MUDs and Privateer Online
The release of Raph Koster's monster book of game essays, Postmortems, was of high interest to Bree and me for different reasons. For her,...
The Game Archaeologist: A Tale in the Desert
Once asked what he thought was the most innovative MMO from the last decade, Dr. Richard Bartle, the creator of MUD, gave a succinct answer: "A...
Global Chat: Avoiding MMO activities
Have you ever noticed that you play it way too safe in your MMOs, especially when it comes to interacting (or not) with others? Aywren...
A Tale in the Desert has launched its eighth Telling since 2003
Last summer, we included classic sandbox A Tale in the Desert in our Whatever Happened To column as one of those games that had...
Raph Koster on MMO ecosystems, the balance of power, and tennis
Most MMORPGs have the core sandbox problem: Whoever gets there first, controls all the toys and has the power to drive everyone else away....
Whatever happened to PlanetSide 2, A Tale in the Desert, and Istaria?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, "What ever happened to that game?" With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it's surprisingly...
The Game Archaeologist: How DikuMUD shaped modern MMOs
Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...
Massively Overthinking: Prestige systems in MMORPGs
Last week, an interesting question dropped into our team inbox. It was from a game developer -- I don't know for which game --...
Stronghold Kingdoms plans to let players delete their own server
Stronghold Kingdoms developer Firefly Studios claims to be making history today by becoming "the first developer to place the fate of entire game worlds...
Perfect Ten: MMOs you forgot existed (but are still running)
No MMO can be in the spotlight eternally. Even some of the biggest names out there -- your World of Warcrafts, your Guild Wars...
Global Chat: Why is Blizzard so sluggish?
World of Warcraft: Legion and Blizzard's recent decisions were at the forefront of a couple of recent MMO blog posts as of late, their authors...
A Tale in the Desert reboots into Tale 7 on September 11th
We've known for a little while that A Tale in the Desert's next "telling" was on its way, but now we have firmer details...
A Tale in the Desert preparing to restart with Tale 7
A Tale in the Desert's current "telling" -- Tale 6 -- has been running a long time, ever since its debut in 2011. Since...
Perfect Ten: Combat-free MMOs
If there's one thing that always, always goes with MMOs, it's combat. I mean, we can't be a hero without killing something, right? We...
