Spirits
| Developer | Jadestone (Singapore) |
| Publisher | Jadestone |
| Released | 2005-08 |
| Status | Unreleased |
| Genre | RPG |
MMO focused on collecting spirit beings, player duels, rituals and missions. Humans battle doomsday cult CUT trying to trigger natural disasters. Spirit hunting, combat testing and tactical challenges.
MMO dueling game where players collected elemental spirits (earth, water, wind, fire) and battled in turn-based duels on isometric arenas. Originally titled "Spirits — The Vivid Resistance" with a backstory about a spirit-seeing girl abducted in the 1960s. Demo created late 2003, full consumer version proposed October 2004, announced May 2005. Nokia discontinued N-Gage before completion. Post-cancellation, Jadestone built a PC MMO tech demo using jMonkeyEngine.
Original All About N-Gage Description
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Nokia Blurb
A long time ago, peace ruled the Earth as mankind lived in harmony with nature and all the other inhabitants of the planet - those you could see and those you couldn’t. Spirit beings born out of the four elements were all around us, and some humans could even communicate with them.
The memory of those ancient times is buried somewhere in the collective consciousness of mankind, but there are still spirit beings here to this day. SPIRITS™ tells the story of people that have been involved with the spirits in different ways over the millenia. The epic saga, which began in the ancient past of humanity, now plays out in the streets of today’s metropolitan cities.
SPIRITS™ is a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game with one main objective. You must fight the CUT - a doomsday sect trying to stop overpopulation by creating natural disasters to kill innocent people. You’ll have to hunt and collect spirits, test your skills in duels, perform rituals,
Press Release Annoucning Spirits
Nokia and Jadestone todaySpirits sees players fighting The Cut, a doomsday sect whose goal is to stop Earth's over population by triggering natural disasters and killing innocent people.
"The collaboration between Nokia and Jadestone has produced a collectible MMOG with a powerful storyline that is with you wherever you go. It is a classic battle between good and evil with a captivating sci-fi twist that makes the game very addicting." says Gregg Sauter, Director of Games Publishing, Nokia.
"Spirits will appeal to fans of collectible games, MMORPGs and strategy games. This is the first Spirits game in what we hope will be a very successful franchise, which should resonate well with audiences beyond the sci-fi and fantasy crowd." Robert Henrysson, CEO of Jadestone continues.
The core game play in Spirits is based on players hunting and collecting spirits. Gamers will test their skills in duels where tactical thinking as well as quick reactions will make all the difference. In the race to save mankind there is only one way to win: mastering the elements.
Links
- N-Gage Archive
- mupf.dev
- Original description from All About N-Gage
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