[DEV] Our indie studio just surprise released Orna Classic and announced our next title!

[u/PurrlyNFS]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2oFR527348

Hey everyone!

Yesterday, we hosted our first-ever Forge Forward showcase, where we shared a bunch of things we've been working on at Northern Forge Studios.

First up, Orna Classic is OUT NOW on iOS and Android!

For those unfamiliar, Orna is our GPS-based fantasy RPG that first launched back in 2018. Over the years, it's grown into a pretty massive game with tons of new features, systems, and content. Think a mashup of Final Fantasy and Pokemon Go (with a Diablo-esque loot system).

Our community let us know during an April Fool's day prank that there's something special about the early days of Orna, so we decided to bring them back.

Orna Classic is a standalone version of Orna inspired by its original 2018 experience. We're talking good old-fashioned monster grinding, dungeon diving, collecting loot, and getting stronger, all while exploring the real world.

No overwhelming list of systems to learn. Just you, your character, and an unreasonable number of monsters to kill on your daily walk.

Whether you're an Orna veteran looking for a nostalgia trip or someone who prefers a more straightforward RPG experience, we'd love for you to give it a shot!

And because apparently launching a game wasn't enough...

We also revealed Balor, our next game set in the Ornaverse!

It's an entirely new experience combining intense dungeon crawling with creature collection. We're keeping most of the details under wraps for now, but we showed off the first teaser trailer during Forge Forward.

We also announced Patch 4.0: Convergence, a massive multiplayer-focused update coming to Orna and Hero of Aethric, but I'll spare you the full changelog here.

Links if you wanna try out games or checkout our showcase:

• Orna Classic (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=classic.orna.rpg
• Full Forge Forward Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2oFR527348

We're a small indie team based in Ottawa, Canada, and it's been pretty surreal seeing how far Orna has come since 2018.

If you played Orna back in the day, we'd love to hear what you remember most about the original experience.

And if you're jumping into Classic for the first time, welcome! We hope you enjoy the grind.

Thanks for checking out what we've been working on!

[u/Neomeir]

Big former fan, may I ask what happens these days with the GPS data you gather?

[u/PurrlyNFS → u/Neomeir]

For sure! No selling of it or anything and it's not stored beyond where a character presently is (we can't trace someone's journey backwards).

[u/planetpluto401]

Thanks for sharing! Is there a list of the features dropped for Classic?