Cause then I’ll have to change VARCHAR(50) to VARCHAR(100)
Haha jokes, changed 
Maxlength is now 100.
Haven’t posted here in a while so I thought I’d give everyone an update! 
Implemented:
Parties - You can form a party, invite people and EXP/Renos (currency) obtained from monster kills will be shared between the party.
Quests - You can now do quests provided by NPCs to attain extra items, experience or advantages (such as ability to wield certain items)
Tutorial is now coded, tutorial will teach players nearly everything they need to begin their adventure in the game
Guilds - Players may now form guilds to gather together like minded players or friends to do certain guild quests and attain guild advantages.
Screenshot of a tutorial map: (disabled background on purpose)
Screenshot of parties working:
(Still working on making it look nice, but the point is it works!!)
Working on next:
Mining - Fixing up the mining system so you attain ores from mining rocks
Forging - Redesigning the forge UI so that different weapons and armours can be forged by players
Construction - Players may build their own houses by buying a piece of land etc, not sure if this will make it into Alpha though, since it’s a huge task 
For the benefit of some of us chaps newer to game development, would you care to expand on how you found and hired artists? And how did you manage them to get the desired outcome? (Managing 10 people is no mean feat, in any industry!).
Cheers,
nerb.
Sure thing!
For starters, I went onto DeviantART, made a post and I got about 200+ notes from it (great selection of artists to pick from), asked them to do a small trial job (for example, I asked most of mine to draw a butterfly or a flower) and if I liked it I would hire them for a week to produce x amount of assets, if I was happy with that I’d hire them for another week and so on.
Many of these artists I’ve found this way I’ve had for many months now, it’s a great way to get quality art.
I can also say PixelJoint.com is pretty good for finding pixel artists (which I have a few working for this game atm)
UPDATE:
Added support for widescreen laptop resolutions! (1366x768)
Implemented more equipment sets as you can see.
We’re also implementing more equipment sets as we speak:
WARRIOR
GENERIC
Working on:
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Rewriting the sprite recolorer to use OpenGL shaders instead of CPU pixel manipulation. (for LWJGL mode)
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Implementing more maps (sorry about not giving full visual updates, we’re actually going to revamp every single map and make them super pretty) next update we’ll show some pretty maps, promise!
In fact we already have all the graphics ready
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mining: working on implementing different kinds of rocks and ores, and ability to forge these into weapons.
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working on the game engine so that it can scale to any resolution, whether fullscreen or windowed. Stay tuned!
It looks great, the art is amazing. Do you pay the artists?
1366 x 768 is the resolution of my laptop :persecutioncomplex:
Thank you very much, I really do admire the work of my artists
That’s great, I was hoping that adding extra resolution options would help us improve compatibility.
And yes, I do pay the artists
Here’s a little update to show some graphics and how the game looks in its different configurations:
Starting with: (Low Definition) 800x600
Standard Definition: 1280x768
Wide Screen Definition: 1366x768
And finally, full HD definition: 1280x960
[b]Update:
Content Updates:[/b]
New monster (Boar):
New equipment sets:
NPCs now work as well:
Currently working on a new area, will post screenshots very very soon!
Stay tuned
Looks really nice, good work. I have two areas of improvement though:
- The grey background of the name in my opinion looks quite ugly. Change the colour to something that looks nicer and that contrasts nicely in all locations, or if that isn’t possible, you could make it a certain colour depending on the character location.
- The speech bubble looks ugly. It doesn’t really work with the nice backgrounds. Anything other than solid grey. I’m sure one of your artists could make something that looks nice.
As for the gray background, I really dont know what other color to make it, so if you have a suggestion go ahead
And yeah, I’m going to redo the speech bubble with pixel art instead of paint so it fits with the characters, should be simple
Thanks for the feedback, really appreciated! 
Also another update:
With the last update support for Java2D was completely dropped, the game now requires at least OpenGL 2.0 or OpenGL ES 2.0 to run, shader support is now mandatory.
Great work, can we expect a release date soon?
Thank you for your comment on Devianart, great resource
I had someone make me a logo for just $30, 10 revisions later im really happy with it.
Would never have found it without your comment.
Yes, should be ready by the end of January! We’re all working extremely hard to reach that deadline
And that’s great, yeah dA is a great resource if you need artists.
Update: Working on new map:
Check out the lens flare :’)
I love the lighting.
For the name tag background, maybe a translucent cyan or light grey?
Haha, thank you
Hmm I’ll try them, although you can barely see white on light grey.
Also, update, new login screen:
UPDATE:
We now have all sorts of facial expressions, hair can be redyed, 15 new hair styles, 20 new faces and more!
lol buzzcut
Heres an update, just some more towns and buildings and stuff
optimized the renderer just a little bit, now i’m getting over 1000 fps with no fps cap and vsync disabled.
Looks good but why is the characters default expression telling me they are “depressed” or have daddy issues? They look so upset man lol.
EDIT: Just seen the new ones! never mind haha. Very nice work.