nameraka
03-19-2009, 02:14 AM
Maintenance was taking a while, so I got bored and did some searches for Xen Online, the Korean predecessor of Secret of the Solstice.
For those of you who think Solstice is a ripoff of a certain popular game out there, that may be true. Someone (I didn't bookmark the source) mentioned that there once was a private server called "Xeno," and the developers might have worked from the server files to produce the prototype:
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8778/04063000100371.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8778/04063000100371.jpg)
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/255/04062900100271.th.jpg (http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/255/04062900100271.jpg)
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2028/04063000100381.th.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2028/04063000100381.jpg)
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2202/04063000100391.th.jpg (http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2202/04063000100391.jpg)
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2658/04063000100401.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2658/04063000100401.jpg)
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/8219/04063000100441.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/8219/04063000100441.jpg)
(Click on the thumbnails to see the full picture.)
Of course, a rumor is a rumor, but I'm just presenting what I heard and what I saw. Judge for yourself. ;)
I can't read Korean, so I don't know if Xen Online is still under development. According to a games news site, Xen Online was hacked sometime ago, and the official site left up a notice for several months. That site now redirects to a listing of games by Paran.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that.
For those of you who think Solstice is a ripoff of a certain popular game out there, that may be true. Someone (I didn't bookmark the source) mentioned that there once was a private server called "Xeno," and the developers might have worked from the server files to produce the prototype:
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8778/04063000100371.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8778/04063000100371.jpg)
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/255/04062900100271.th.jpg (http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/255/04062900100271.jpg)
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2028/04063000100381.th.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2028/04063000100381.jpg)
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2202/04063000100391.th.jpg (http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2202/04063000100391.jpg)
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2658/04063000100401.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2658/04063000100401.jpg)
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/8219/04063000100441.th.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/8219/04063000100441.jpg)
(Click on the thumbnails to see the full picture.)
Of course, a rumor is a rumor, but I'm just presenting what I heard and what I saw. Judge for yourself. ;)
I can't read Korean, so I don't know if Xen Online is still under development. According to a games news site, Xen Online was hacked sometime ago, and the official site left up a notice for several months. That site now redirects to a listing of games by Paran.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that.