About Mkbcult
MkBcuLt is a leading Sword Weapon Manufacturer brand in Second Life since June 2010, designed and created solely by Mac Keystrel and the Mkbcult Development Team. MkBcult weapon concept has always been to create the kind of Melee Weapons inspired by Popular Anime's & Fantasy creations. Best in doing fantasy effects on swords & other kinds of melee weapons, animations, realistic sound and realistic sword built whether in high quality sculpt or mesh.
About the founder
Music teacher in real life, jack of all trades, master of none in terms of musical instruments. Through musical studies, competetion, band gigs in local & in SEA he developed his creativity that made Mkbcult Company today. Games on the other hand is his passion, a place of expressing himself on a different side of his creativity. Through exploring different kinds of rpg games he found himself fixated on the mechanics secondlife on the side of buildings, scripting, animating, sculpting, mesh creating and many more that made Mkbcult weapons a successful weapon creating company in secondlife.
Developer's team
Mkbcult development team is a compose of different people that are also doing business in their own line of work in secondlife. They are hired by Mkbcult to create the particular idea the team decided to do. The progress of creating a single weapon takes a lot of time because the whole team do their own specialty in a single weapon. Mkbcult Development team is also in the process creating a combat system called ElyonCS that will be used in the upcoming roleplay sim in secondlife. Though the process is long the progress is amazing and its only a matter of time before everyone will see the best combat system in secondlife be born.
About the roleplay
Doubtless death paradise is a medieval fantasy roleplaying sim wherein there are different races with different power specialties and elemental weapons use to defeat each other in combat. A dream of every roleplayers to have their powers come to life against their foes is what Mkbcult company is developing through swords weapons, combat system and community. Tournaments, Race wars, Boss fights and role playing that has never been seen in secondlife will be established by Mkbcult in Doubtless death paradise.
History
It all began when Mac Keystrel's real life friend Benjamin Qisentel invited him to play second life in the year 2009. Mac was hesitant at first since he's background in playing games is more on rpg and mmorpg games but yet by January 22, 2010 Mac keystrel was born in second life. Later on he found himself exploring different places and made friends with different people around the world through the game. While exploring different kinds of grid in secondlife Mac was invited by Benjamin again with several other friends of his to join a roleplay sim. In the process of his involvement in that roleplay sim he realized that a sword is a must have to be able to become successful in the sim. Unfortunately, all he has was the freebies that was given by few kindhearted people in the race he was in. In every combat Mac wins but loses to those with better sword weapon users because they have special features that freebies don't. So Mac went xstreet sl (called marketplace sl now) to check it out to buy for himself but was not able to because he was terribly broke. Out of frustration Mac started an idea of selling stuff just to get one weapon with special features. He began to build avatar armors, as a noob he used prims and freebie sculpties and texture. Mac wanted to post his works in xstreet sl but needs a land so he can use a magic box. He has no L$ Linden dollars to rent so a friend of his gave him 300L$ so he can get by. Mac rented a prim box for 25L$ a week and post his work inworld and in xstreet sl. Thus the name Mkb was made for his shop's name. MK - stands for Mac Keystrel and B - stands for "Bentables" in english it's sellable. It was just a funny idea in his language since he was not thinking of making it permanent. But as soon as people started buying his stuff and becoming known to many people, it was to late to change name.
Mkbcult in the making
Mkbcult's started as an avatar armor manufacturer
1st avatar armor made by Mkb
2nd avatar armor made by Mkb
3rd avatar armor made by Mkb
1st avatar armor made by Mkb
These are the first three avatars ever made by Mkb. Though it's terribly unsatisfying form of avatar armors it payed of since a lot off, people bought it after two days it was posted on the xstreet sl (MarketplaceSL now.) and Mac invested it to create more. He was able to buy a pair of dual swords with special features from his sales and used it in the roleplay sim he was in. Though his goal was successful he felt somewhat unsatisfied and began to think that swords are good stuff to sell.
He began researching about scripts and animation so that he will be able to make weapons. As usual mac searched in xstreel sl for scripts and animations but most are not modifyable and he thought that it's not worth it because he willl not be able to learn the script and use the animations for selling. So Mac settle himself using freebies instead.
These are the first two swords and one dual axe made by Mkb in March 2010. Mac was new in making sword by this time so Mkb got a very bad review from some people. It was a tough time because some people who bought these items got disappointed, discrimination from left and right, asking Mac to close his shop so people won't be buying trash as they attest to him. But Mac is tougher than them and told himself that he will make these people shut up by making better swords. When Benjamin saw the reviews people made for Mkb in xstreel sl in his sword creations, he help Mac and gave him an asset and scripts. Mac put his heart into it, Insteead of giving up becuase of the discrimination it motivated him to create better swords.
Transition from avatars to swords
Mkbcult's breakthrough
1st try weapon
2nd weapon made by Mkb
3rd weapon made by Mkb
1st try weapon
Mac used his musical creativity and putting his imagination on second life mechanics. In December 2010 Mac created Dragon Spirited katana's with flames on draw. This weapon made history because the sales was epic, it was mezmirizingly awesome that made people im Mac, commenting about how good was his creation. After that, some of Mac's customers suggested a Vampiric katana model, they ask him to make it with blood drenching from its blade. Mac was able to create their imagination into reality in secondlife. After it was released in January 2011 the people swarmed the vampiric katana and bought one copy for themselves. What's even more awesome about this weapon is that in February 2014 Mac developed the a script that will make the blade stained with blood on striking the user's opponent and the blood will leak from the blade and fades in time. These two weapons made history in Mac Keystrel's Mkbcult Weapons Company. Thus the people who once discriminated his work became his loyal customers. Mac's influence grew every single day and he took that opportunity to create a development team called Mkbcult Developers Team.
The birth of Anime inspired weapons
Mac was and still an anime fan, He then begin to think that making some of his weapon inspired by his favorite animes. Shaman king was one of the first anime crossed his mind and made Amidamaru Oversoul Katana. The weapon became so popular that Mac have to create some of the other weapons from Shaman King since it was suggested by most of his fans. From then on Mac include a lot more anime inspired weapons in Mkbcult.
Mesh enters Mkbcult
When mesh enters second life in between 2012 and 2013 the customers of Mkbcult was reduced into half since most of them want their weapons to be mesh. Mesh has less prims, better curves in blades, has more realistic texture and build than of the sculpted weapons. It came to Mac's senses that if he's not going to make any of these kinds his company will close down. Mac have no idea how to start so he hired one mesh sword maker who happened to be ripping off designs from other games and claims it to be his work. Mac didn't knew about this yet till one of Mkbcult developers team member realized that it was a ripped off from some game. Wasted money and time Mac didn't realeased the one he bought for the safety of Mkbcult. Then he looked for mesh creators who makes mesh from scratch. Fortunately for Mac, he was able to met one that still works for the company up to this time.
Mac don't want to create a simple sword mesh that every other weapon developers in secondlife do. He said to himself that he needs to do a weapon that will amaze the users. One of Mkbcult Development team member who is the master scripter approached Mac and showed a simple void effect in draw. The simple void effect became epic when Mac and his team enhanced it. As a result Mkbcult created Vampiric Malice Swords was released. The user draws the weapon from thin air and appears into a darkness elemtal effect from the user's hands. It was so amazing that some store owners in second life im Mac in-world about how they appreciate his creation.
Mkbcult's Weapons, Arms, Sword products
Mkbcult's products are neither simple nor exaggerated like most of sword creators in secondlife. Simple in the sense of draw the sword and use it in combat, little blood bursting on strike and that's it. Exaggerated in the sense that one swing of blade will cost the whole sim to lag because of the effects and script memory coming from their items.
Mkbcult's products are balanced
We create weapons with the right amount of effects that will not cost a sim lag. Our memory scripts are compressed in a way that it will not overlap its function to create smoother movements in combat. It's not simple in the way that every effects we make is something that no other weapon creators can do. From epic draw and sheath effects, realistic elemental blade effects (like fire, lightning, water etc.) like the picture on your left screen. Depending on the weapon, effects can be blade glowing on hit, blood staining blade on hit and droplets of blood flows from the blade that will fade in time or visible blade slashes that doesn't contain flexing prim when you press
ctrl-alt-T.
Our weapons are not limited in function in regards to different combat systems in secondlife. Our weapons can do the standard damage in Dynamic Combat System, Community Combat System, Gorean meter, Metalife and Linden Damage in accordance to their rules of damage.
Standard Damage?
Mkbcult Followers and fans were asking, what good is the elemental effects if it will not do any special damage like in the other combat systems. That is why Mkbcult Developers team decided that we will create our own combat system to make the imagination of our fans and followers into a reality in secondlife. Details of the our combat system is posted here.