Netcore Games

Factsheet

Developer:
Netcore Games
Based in Paris, France

Founding date:
June 1, 2014

Website:
te4.org

Press / Business contact:
press@te4.org

Social:
twitter.com/darkgodone
facebook.com/tales.of.maj.eyal
Skype

Releases:
Ashes Of Urh Rok
Forbidden Cults
Tales Of Maj Eyal
Embers Of Rage

Address:
6 rue Lacharrière
75011 Paris
France

Phone:
+33 6 78 20 51 34

Description

Netcore Games is an independent game studio made up entirely of Nicolas Casalini, in collaboration with freelance artist Assen Kanev. Netcore Games is committed to building games that last: Tales of Maj'Eyal, while already very successful and selling, keeps getting new free updates. Happy players makes for happy developers!

History

It all began in late November 2009 when Nicolas decided to reboot his previous roguelike game, Tales of Middle-Earth 2. With no code and no assets he set out to make the game he wanted to play and released a few months later the first beta. It quickly became more and more famous in the, by then, fairly small roguelike circles and by the end of the year 2010 won the Roguelike of the Year award.

Over the years Tales of Maj'Eyal began to take a huge part of Nicolas' time but he felt it was worth it.Many new players where coming to the game and money was starting to come, allowing him to pay the artists that had worked for free, out of love of the game. Development continued at a great pace until the game was deemed ready for a 1.0 tag on the very last day of year 2012.

With development still going strong, the 1.0 release had attracted the attention of gaming sites and reviewers and soon online stores and bundles were asking to have Tales of Maj'Eyal. This was all new and frightening for Nicolas, who considered it a hobby project, but he went on and published it, bundled it and attracted even more players. In early November 2013 the big news hit: the game had been greenlit for Steam, the biggest of all online stores. One month later it was up on the virtual shelf!

Netcore Games itself was only created in 2014 as a need to have a true legal entity to handle business with online stores and to have a more stable ground to pay the artists for their amazing work. While it is still a one man boat, freelance artist Assen Kanev is an integral part of that boat. Development of the game continued as ever in 2014, with the release of many free updates but also of the first paid expansion to the game: Ashes of Urh'Rok in late October which was an immediate buy for many of the fans.

Projects

• Ashes Of Urh Rok
• Forbidden Cults
• Tales Of Maj Eyal
• Embers Of Rage

Team & Repeating Collaborator

Nicolas "DarkGod" Casalini
Game Designer & Developer, Founder

Assen "Rexorcorum" Kanev
Artist, Freelancer

Raymond "Shockbolt" Gaustadnes
Artist, Freelancer

Matti Paalanen
Music, Freelancer

Contact

Inquiries
press@te4.org

Twitter
twitter.com/darkgodone

Facebook
facebook.com/tales.of.maj.eyal

Web
te4.org