Hi there!

My name is Jim, and this is my member-blog here at the Shadow Era homesite. It's here that I hope to provide some insight into the Shadow Era TCG, produced by Wulven Game Studios.

Heh. That is, IF I am selected to participate in the Closed Beta. Consider this starting post my shameless plug to Kyle to be considered in the first wave of beta-testers.

But note, this won't be a substitute for how I report bugs and gameplay issues. That will be done in whatever manner Kyle wants it to be done. However these member blogs allow me (and anybody else who decides to create one) to have a space to document less specific impressions, and just talk about the game in general.

That being said, today marked a first big step towards actually being able to play Shadow Era. Kyle posted some details on how the Beta will work: HERE.

Needless to say I'm excited.

The way Wulven Gate Studios is going about this also makes a lot of sense to me. By releasing each Hero gradually, they can really focus and direct the Beta-Testers towards testing specific gameplay elements. That seems smart and organized to me.

Now a little bit about me: I'm a 42 year old geek who has played role-playing games and confuter and console games most of his life. I've played a lot of TCG games but never fell in love with one before (but there is always a first time). I've also done some freelance writing for RPG games. I've never formally beta-tested a computer game before, but I hope that Shadow Era provides me that first opportunity.

I'm leaving the comments unmoderated for the time being (I'll see how much hate-mail I get!), so I look forward to hearing from you guys and talking about the Shadow Era Beta Experience and about Shadow Era in general!