Ever, Jane MMO from Linden Alum Inspired by Austen Novels Goes Open Beta With Special Offer for NWN Readers!

Ever, Jane, an MMO inspired by the works of Jane Austen, is now in open Beta. Lead created by Judy Tyrer, who was a senior engineering manager at Linden Lab back in the day, Ever, Jane development started after a successful Kickstarter in 2013, a labor of love to innovate the genre with a game far from the dungeon crawling and leveling up that MMOs have retreaded for literally decades. "Instead of raids," as Ever, Jane's homepage proclaims, "we will have grand balls. Instead of dungeons, we will have dinner parties."

And thanks to fellow Linden alum Judy, there's a special offer for NWN readers to go with this open beta: Create an Ever, Jane account, post your account name in Comments here, and get 100 Pounds Sterling Regency extra to spend in the game.

Also, here's a special message Judy sent along, with a welcome and request for new players:

"Three years ago we launched our Kickstarter hoping enough people would love the idea of a role play game in Jane Austen’s world and we were rewarded with sufficient interest to move forward. We are now pleased to bring our world to you in Open Beta. This is not an EA-style Open Beta, we haven’t fixed all the bugs we know about. This is much more a work in progress Open Beta but all of the infrastructure for the main game is in place and we need to start working on scaling from our tiny team up to the hundreds of people per server we will be supporting in the final product.

"And that is where we need your help. We need to find all the bottlenecks and race conditions that can happen in a multi-player game. And we believe there is enough 'inspiration' in our little sandbox that it can be sufficiently fun for player while we do so. If our team remains as tiny as it is, we see a full year between now and full release. We are seeking equity investors to help grow the team and shorten that timespan. So I hope you enjoy what we’ve built and take a romp through our 'roadmap' so you can see what the next year has in store in terms of additional development."

Go here to start playing, and be sure to check out the user's guide here.

Ever, Jane screenshots courtesy of Judy.

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[Amanda Dallin]

Looks interesting. I created an account and downloaded the client.. Hopefully I'll have more time to explore this next week.

[Milka]

I am going love this I am sure! I am missmilka in the game ;)

[Judy Tyrer]

Thank you so much for your interest and help.

I was able to give missmilka her extra credits, but cannot find a Dallin in our account database - what is the name of your account so I can add you?

Also, if you tried the game late last night or early this morning we had a little snafu. We overflowed the size of the database and it started rejecting new accounts. Fixed now (larger size) and we're adding a monitor so next time we can shut down BEFORE we overflow.

[Dawny]

Looks very interesting so I created an account. My name is Dawny there.

[Deoridhe Quandry]

This does look interesting - I think I remember reading about it in the past.

[Angharad]

Sounds worth a try - have created an account as Angharad.

[Lelani Carver]

Intriguing! Thank you for the kind invitation, I shall be delighted to attend. You may find me as Miss Lela Carver.

[Amanda Dallin]

Account name Amanda Dallin character name Amanda Dallington. Yes I tried to login the first night this article appeared and it wouldn't let me get past character creation but it did the next day.

Looks good.

[Judy Tyrer]

Got everyone to date except Dioredhe - you should all see an additional 100 PSR and thank you to the person who purchased additional PSR from the marketplace.

[Maggie]

I signed up as MaggiePye.

[Julia Lagrange]

I'll try it out as Julia Lagrange.

[Elizabeth Mester]

So excited to check this out! I'm missusmester. Yay!

[Misty Rhodes aka the Linden formerly known as Mia]

Pamela Swynford De Beaufort is my name in Ever, Jane

[Peter Rauch]

Just signed up as Wordbeast.

[Judy Tyrer]

Everyone up through and including Wordbeast should have their extra 100 PSR now.

[FancyPants]

Username: FancyPants

[Judy Tyrer]

Sorry that took so long, I've been obsessively heads down getting the new patch out. We probably cut lag in about half. But Fancy Pants now has her (his?) extra PSR.