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Witching Hour: Salem Beta Sign Up, Video Diary

By Jim Rossignol on March 23rd, 2012 at 5:00 pm.


Salem‘s chilled out lead man Björn Johannessen talks a bit more about the nature of his intriguing colonial fantasy MMO in a new diary, which you can see by peering onto the next page. In this latest video Johannessen explains how civilisation works in Salem’s player-formatted world: making it more civilized makes it easier to use, and the further you get from these centres of peace and civility, the nastier it becomes. You may need to trek out there into the dark, however, because of the weird things that live out there, and the resources they provide. The lo-fi sandbox MMO is also now taking sign ups, so if this sort of thing interests you it might be worth putting your email in the box over here.

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  1. 23/03/2012 at 17:07 Torgen says:

    Someone please use this link to sign up: http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=98081164a0a

    We can start a referral chain in this thread to get RPSers in the beta. :)

    EDIT: If JackShandy and krisanto used my link, I have my 3 now. Spread the love!

  2. 23/03/2012 at 17:13 d33p says:

    Please use my referral link;
    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=ef9b3d2c2ee

    I got nothing to play right now, and this looks really interesting for some reason! O_o

    Thanks guys

  4. 23/03/2012 at 17:24 Stupoider says:

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=8f0058a81d5

    Referral link for the kind people of RPS!

  5. 23/03/2012 at 17:29 Computer Spirit says:

    Here’s mine. I hope three of you can help me out since I have no other friends to turn to for something like this. (wow…my life seems so sad all of a sudden…I’m a lonely gamer)

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=1e380d85c77

    • 23/03/2012 at 18:24 Computer Spirit says:

      Ummm…doesn’t it kind of defeat the purpose if we all post links that we want others to use but have no indication of who used what?

      We could end up with some links clicked by a bunch of people while other links aren’t clicked by anyone.

      If people indicate when they’ve used a link then we can track how many links have the required three friends and new people can use other links.

      Click me! Click me!

  7. 23/03/2012 at 17:37 Rioghal says:

    Thank you all for the links!

    Here’s mine,

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=6adc5559bb8

  10. 23/03/2012 at 17:46 Bork Titflopsen says:

    Here’s mine:
    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=6645c02f9b5

    Thanks for the links, people!

  11. 23/03/2012 at 17:46 Devenger says:

    Is this post a contender for the Staring Eyes tag? Those are pretty big eyes.

  13. 23/03/2012 at 17:47 weizur says:

    Sounds good here’s my link (Note it’s cuter than all other links)
    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=8460577b7a0

  14. 23/03/2012 at 17:53 Berzee says:

    Is this referral chain just…for people who don’t like making fake Mailinator emails? =P

    I think this game looks amazing, but I’m not sure if I want to play the beta for fear of making the final product less exciting. Still — if I get in, I probably will play forever and ever. =P

    Heck, I even asked for (and received) that old book full of the monsters of the woodlands, from which this game draws inspiration!

  15. 23/03/2012 at 17:57 Noi says:

    Yet another lonely link:

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=adbd78c05f1

    It needs a soothing click!

  16. 23/03/2012 at 18:05 Deadly Habit says:

    this and hawken have to be the 2 biggest things i’m waiting on
    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=686988da877
    if anyone feels like being so kind

  18. 23/03/2012 at 18:58 the.celt says:

    I’m not sure if I should have clicked on someone else’s link or created my own. Is it basically taking people in groups of 4? Or does everyone have to get 3 others? At any rate, here’s the link it gave me:

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=8578c55d61f

  19. 23/03/2012 at 19:09 Muzman says:

    You know, I only just worked out that picture is a caricature of the lead designer.

  27. 23/03/2012 at 20:55 proudpheeple says:

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=35ad90fae1c
    Much appreciated if anyone wants to use it.

  29. 23/03/2012 at 21:56 Zindaras says:

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=1d64828a7cf Hope the one I clicked on earlier still needed any, heh…

  34. 24/03/2012 at 00:27 Arglebargle says:

    Because everyone’s doing it…..

    Not usually a fan of this sort of thing, but they seem to have considered a lot of the ramifications of how they are organizing their game. Will be very interested to see if they can actually pull this off.

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=7d33ffa9324

  39. 24/03/2012 at 02:33 thebigJ_A says:

    I don’t think he knows what churches really do…

  42. 24/03/2012 at 07:02 LutherBlissett says:

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=1ab00ca5ea5

    Need two more sign ups!
    PlsKThx

  45. 24/03/2012 at 07:35 Skoul says:

    Used yours karmafarm – here is mine:

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=b34873f2484

    Thx

  46. 24/03/2012 at 08:29 BilbyCoder says:

    Used Ledi’s Link
    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=5d09b3f7f80 is mine.

    Let’s flood the server with RPS types

  47. 24/03/2012 at 08:30 Evil Star says:

    I used yours Skoul…cheers

    My sign-up link…

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=1d35a2fbc51

  48. 24/03/2012 at 12:06 J-snukk says:

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=aadf4e60549

    There is mine, also this comment thread is really quite amusing.

  51. 24/03/2012 at 14:08 ikh says:

    I just used my real e-mail plus three mailinator addresseses to register. is that not working for anyone, did no-one just think of trying it yet or is it considered immoral in face of referral chains? :)

  53. 24/03/2012 at 14:53 Torgen says:

    I suggest we create a RPS village in beta, and name it Horace-[town ending]

    Horacetown?
    Horaceville?
    Horaceton?
    Horaceburg?

    or just, Horace?

  54. 24/03/2012 at 15:18 TheItzu says:

    I am extremely sorry, but I signed up for the beta before I saw the chain sign-ups.
    If someone has mercy on me, here is my beta signup link and thanks.

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=20723bb6ca7

  60. 26/03/2012 at 03:50 Bongs says:

    seo service
    It appears to me Wikipedia has basically no safeguard at all against one or two neckbeard losers removing content due to their grudges/disorders. At the very least, deletion of an article for notability (read: subjective) reasons should take several admins to do, the same people should not be able to nominate it for deletion again if the deletion is denied the first time, and repeated, obvious conflict of interest edits should lead to warning/ban for the admin.

  61. 26/03/2012 at 05:00 dinorceeho says:

    seo service
    Also note that the new Stug is based off a tier X and Jagdtiger tier VIII. Will the Jagdtiger collect digital dust in our garages, or will there be an improvement to keep this monster in competition with its tier IX rival. I’ve heard of the Jagdtiger II, and thought, if they go Jagdpanther tier VII, Jagdtiger tier VIII, and Jagdtiger II tier IX and leave out the Jagdpanther II that is planned, then the Jagdtiger can take its rightful place on the tech tree. Of course much will be edited on the Jagdtiger to do this and would call for nerfing it immensely

  64. 26/03/2012 at 19:04 icemelon says:

    Here I leave my refer link. I hope someone will use it!

    http://beta.salemthegame.com/?ref=14b4ff46958

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