Fantastic Pixel Castle

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Fantastic Pixel Castle (FPC) is a new studio founded in 2023 to create our take on a modernized fantasy MMORPG, codenamed Ghost. ✨▪️🏰

From all of us at FPC to all of you, who have been with us the whole way, thank you. We hope this isn't goodbye. We're so proud of what we accomplished in just two years of development - from endless expanses of checkerboards to something that really started to resemble the game of our dreams.

Fantastic Pixel Castle's employees stand on stone docks in their pre-alpha build city, showing off the four early classes currently in game. There are Tempests, Songbirds, Sphinx Guards, and Dreamblades gathered on the stone pathway.

In the most recent episode of our podcast, our host Scott asks Brian, our Gameplay Design Director, what strategies he has in mind to keep Ghost's 30 eventual classes exciting and distinct.  Check out the full episode on YouTube for a deep dive on classes and combat in Ghost!

Concept art of our first healing class: The Songbird. The joyous music of the Songbird brings respite to all who might listen. Their uplifting presence and powerful healing crescendos make them a welcome presence upon any Skyship traversing the Drift.

Concept art from the early development MMORPG, Project Ghost. A man in layered, billowing blue and white robes with gold detailing raises his hands in incantation as a lute-like stringed instrument floats in the air in front of him. Faint winged creatures, like butterflies or birds, flutter in the background.Concept art from the early development MMORPG, Project Ghost. A man in layered, billowing robes of pink, white, and peach reaches toward a floating stringed instrument in front of him. The instrument is an ornate guitar-like creation with leaflike trim along the body, and a long neck bedecked with tassels. The man wears a silver crown reminiscent of branches upon his head.Concept art from the early development MMORPG, Project Ghost. The image is of three fantasy stringed instruments for the healing class The Songbird. They are various long-necked instruments reminiscent of guitars, shamisen, or a lute. They are patterned with leaves or other ornate natural-inspired detailing like branches or flowers.

Did you know we'll have 30 classes at launch? It might sound like a massive number, but Brian and Greg are confident we can make it happen. Find out more about how we're hitting that magic number by launch in our most recent podcast episode!  What kind of class do you want to see next? 👀👀

In the most recent episode of our podcast, our audio designer James talks with Scott and Greg about the details of sound design in building immersive video game worlds - and how sometimes the most useful sound effects come from the most unlikely of places!

exciting news: I'll be joining Ghostcrawler, JoshStrifeHayes, and CohhCarnage in a live stream showing off the newest build of the in-development MMO Project Ghost this Thursday at11am PST/1pm CST! And after having played it myself last week, I'll let you know now: there's a LOT to show off

concept art of Ghost with the live stream date information