Hey everyone,
I’ve been trying to track down some video of a lost indie MMORPG from the late 2000s (around 2007-2009) called Apocalypse Online (or Apoc Online). It has completely fallen off the face of the internet, and I'm wondering if anyone here remembers playing it or miraculously has old screenshots saved on a hard drive somewhere.
It’s crazy to think about how many indie passion projects from that era are just gone because of old image hosting sites shutting down, but I remember this one vividly.
What I found or remember about the game:
- It seems to have been made by a tiny team called DAR Gaming Company, led by two guys
- It was a brutally hardcore, open-world survival MMO built on the Realm Crafter engine. You had to scavenge for food, water, and actually find warmth at night to survive. It was basically Rust or DayZ years before those games existed. I remember spending my first couple of hours kiting this spider that would roam starter areas. Maybe balance wasn't fully tweaked yet hahah.
- You played as one of four groups trying to survive a nuclear winter after the moon was destroyed: Nomads, Raiders, Tech, or Enclave.
- The game was hosted at http://www.apoc-online.com and later http://www.apoc-online.net/. You can still explore the old forums using the Wayback Machine, but almost all of the image links (Photobucket, TinyPic, etc.) and Xfire/YouTube videos are dead.
There is a single "Customer Spotlight" still alive today on the website for the budget 3D modeling software they used (AC3D). You can read the lead dev talking about the game here:http://www.inivis.com/custspot1.html
Back in the day, the forums were incredibly active. The devs even taught the players how to use AC3D to help model weapons and armor for the game, it shows in the wayback machine titles of the forums but each individual thread is lost.
I know it's a massive longshot, but does anyone remember this? Did anyone play in the beta tests around 2008? It would be amazing to see even a surviving video of what the game actually looked like.