Wolfpack Studios debuts the Shadowbane Beta Journal, detailing experiences and encounters in its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for the Mac and PC, Shadowbane. The journal is written by the company's staff writer who has not played any other MMORPGs and has not played a major role in the design of Shadowbane itself. One of the goals of the journal is to outline some typical experiences in the game as well as subtle features that the company has yet to highlight publically...

Note the dusty track down the middle of town: it's a road - a player made road. This is a neat thing Naarsin built that I don't think we've talked about now.  Walking back and forth across the terrain actually deforms it - after a few dozen passes paths develop, and grow into dirt roads. With everyone coming and going to equip and train, all the grass got stomped out of Brellamere very quickly.

by MacNN Staff