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Press kit
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Fact sheet
- Studio
- Ninth Lantern, independent
- Games
- Shardbound (MMORPG, early access)
- Technology
- Kiln, our own C++ engine for Metal and Vulkan
- Funding
- Players, through Shardbound's early access
- Website
- ninth-lantern.com
- Press contact
- info@ninth-lantern.com
In one line
Ninth Lantern is a small, independent studio making Shardbound, an online RPG in early access, on its own engine.
In a paragraph
Ninth Lantern is an independent game studio. Its first game, Shardbound, is a classic tab-target MMORPG in early access, funded by its players. It runs on Kiln, the studio's own C++ engine with renderers for Metal and Vulkan, ray-traced shadows on Apple silicon and its own temporal upscaler. The studio builds in the open and is plain about what's unfinished: much of Shardbound's art is still placeholder.
Please note
Shardbound's key art and concept boards are placeholders and don't show the game. To show what it looks like, please use the in-game screenshots in Shardbound's press kit.
Logo
The lantern mark, and the wordmark set in Fraunces. Use them freely to write about us. Keep the lantern lit: amber on dark works best.
Ninth Lantern
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