Harling: a fantasy MMORPG
playharling.com
Fifteen hundred years ago, four doors were closed. Now they are giving way. Harling is a fantasy MMORPG: explore a continent, face its monsters, play alongside other players.

Hi all! I’m the developer of Harling, a fantasy MMORPG I’ve been building on my own. It runs natively on Linux: the launcher comes as a .deb for Ubuntu and Debian and as an AppImage for every other distro, and once installed it keeps the game updated by itself.

The world is Orand, a continent of 58 regions (these tests will focus on just one of them) where four ancient Labyrinths are starting to give way. There are six classes (Knight, Mage, Archer, Barbarian, Monk, Assassin), group dungeons and voice chat with the players around you.

Harling is in an early stage of development and still in testing, so not everything works well yet: expect bugs, balance that needs adjusting, graphics to improve and more. I’m looking for testers who enjoy playing and telling me what works and what doesn’t. Spots are limited and invites go out in small waves. The server is in Europe, so the ping is best from here.

Sign up here: https://playharling.com/#partecipa

I’ll be in the comments for any question, Linux ones especially. Thanks for reading!

Edit (Oct 12): in-game screenshots, only cropped to hide the HUD.

Sylamalyra from the hill

Sun rays in the woods

Whirlwind

Kobolds at sunset

Candlelit crypt

Hall of statues

  • fraksken@infosec.pubEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    Launcher in Italian only. Release notes, etc in Italian. Installs game in ~/.config/… Was not confident in continuing. No opion for account removal, so does not comply with gdpr, or local Italian privacy laws (AGID).

    • Harling@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      12 hours ago

      Thanks for actually trying it, this is the most useful report in the thread. The launcher only talks to playharling.com (game files, updates, login and game server); voice chat uses Cloudflare’s STUN server. It should follow your system language: if it came up in Italian on an English system, that’s a bug and I’ll look into it. You’re right about account deletion: until it’s in the launcher, email [email protected] and I’ll delete the account and its data.

    • fraksken@infosec.pubEnglish
      17·
      1 day ago

      The appimage (was really not gonna use a .deb for this) immediately makes many connections to sus domains.

      • Harling@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Hi fraksken. That’s not accurate. As stated in the comment above, the launcher only talks to playharling.com, plus Cloudflare’s servers for voice chat. Nothing else. If you saw other domains, please name them and I’ll look into it…