Film yourself playing Gods & Heroes to be immortalised in a trailer

by Brendan Drain on Feb 4th 2011 2:00PM

When Perpetual Entertainment closed its doors in 2008, it seemed all hope of the MMO Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising being released was lost. Thankfully, the game was taken up by Heatwave Interactive early last year, and the studio has been pushing it to completion ever since. The game's closed beta is already underway, and the Gods & Heroes team is now offering beta-testers the chance to be featured in an upcoming official game trailer.

As part of her ongoing "First Friday" event series, Community Manager Donna "Danicia" Prior wants players to break out their webcams and film themselves playing the game. Rather than asking players to capture footage of in-game characters, the Gods & Heroes team wants to see what the player behind the character looks like.

An official in-game meet-up is happening today in Rome at the Forum Romanum from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST to help players partner up and come up with ideas. If you don't make it to the event, the devs at Heatwave Interactive still want to see footage of the player behind your character. For full details on how to enter and the required video specifications, head over to the official Gods & Heroes First Friday announcement.

Source: First Friday event

Tags: Danicia, donna-prior, event, film, first-friday, Forum-Romanum, gods-and-heroes, heatwave, heatwave-interactive, Rome, video

Reader Comments (3)

Only 3 other players and no Heatwave staff showed up for the event. (They called today a snow day in Austin, TX.)

Perhaps you should have featured today's Producer's Letter instead. It actually contains some fairly big departures from the status quo for this title.

http://hwp-alpha-ext.godsandheroes.com/gods_heroes_state_republic_february_4th_2011

um ..hmmm if this is a closed beta ..then wouldn't it only be people who are IN closed beta who even have access to the game to even do any of this? I'm confuzeled :| Couldn't they just send an email to all the CB testers ..i dunno i guess i'm wondering why anyone would care about this unless they were already in beta, and in that case - they should know about it already. Maybe i'm missing something. I guess it counts as MMO news ..sorta?

Yes, it is a closed beta, in that participants may not disclose their involvement or details of the game that are unannounced.

However, so far, everyone who applies gets in automatically. The testing format is about to change, though.