Other World of Darkness character types such as werewolves or mages were not planned to be playable at launch, but would possibly appear as non-player characters (NPCs) or as player characters in an expansion pack or in a separate game ghouls were planned to be included as minions to the player characters, which could be sent on missions. Players were planned to start the game as humans, with the possibility of being turned into a vampire from one of seven vampire clans with access to various vampiric powers, such as sucking blood, running quickly, and leaping high in the air. It was meant to take place at night and have a supernatural horror theme, and was based on the World of Darkness series' setting – the shared fictional universe of several of White Wolf Publishing's tabletop role-playing games, including Vampire: The Masquerade. World of Darkness was planned to be an open world, single- server massively multiplayer online role-playing game. In this screenshot, a vampiric player character feeds on a human character's blood. The gameplay involved players using vampiric abilities, and forming alliances. Preview impressions of the game were generally positive, particularly of its visuals and experimental gameplay, while later impressions based on leaked screenshots were less favorable. The team size was also significantly decreased throughout the production, with several rounds of layoffs.Īlthough World of Darkness was considered one of the highest-profile games to have been canceled in the 2010s, the cancellation and layoffs were not unusual for the video game industry, something The Guardian considered a scandal in itself. The development was long and troubled, with organizational and managemental issues, including staff being moved to other CCP Games projects for months at a time, significantly slowing down progress and leading to work being abandoned and redone repeatedly. The gameplay was going to be nonlinear and focus on social interaction and politics, with goals reached both through combat and through players forming alliances with each other.
Players were to have assumed the roles of humans who could be turned into vampires of one of seven vampire clans with various abilities.
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It was based on the World of Darkness series of tabletop role-playing games by White Wolf Publishing. World of Darkness, also known as World of Darkness Online, was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in development by CCP Games from 2006 until its cancellation in 2014. Massively multiplayer online role-playing
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