Massively have secured another interview with Reakktor Media today; this time with Lead Game Designer, Lorenz Dames.

The interview carries three new screen shots for you to drool over  and goes into depth about mission design, including details on how missions have been created, their dynamic nature as well as various types of missions players will be able to enjoy - in teams or as a lone wolf! Due to Black Prophecy's action focused orientation it is certainly nice to see an appreciation for good old MMORPG style missions thrown into the bag for good measure.

You can check out the interview in full here; with an official discussion thread available at the official forums, allowing you to throw in your opinions and frothing excitement.

Black Prophecy Technical Director Cyrus Preuss continues his developer diaries with a description of the way that the physics engine allows the movement of the craft, and some of the approximations that have been made to make the game more enjoyable for the players.

A feedback thread on the official forums can be found here... why not add your own thoughts on the physics engine.

Myself and everyone else on the Prophecy Network team would like to wish all our visitors a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Exon.

We will be on a break for Christmas, but if Reakktor do suprise us with some news over the holiday season, we will try to drag ourselves away from the beers or a round of Qualf, to bring you the news!

There is a new interview at Massively with Jens Kortboyer, the lead artist for Black Prophecy.

He talks about the character creation within Black Prophecy, and there are 4 new screenshots with character to feast your eye on. (I personally like the pilot with the ciggie, I guess smoking in cockpits isn't banned in the 26th Century!)

What will be interesting when Beta comes along is how different the character creation is to other games. (Such as EvE for example.)

Read the full interview here, and maybe drop a few comments at the official forums.

For those of you that can't get enough of Black Prophecy, Reakktor have unveiled a "christmas gift" in the form of five Black Prophecy wallpapers to choose from. These wallapers are huge, supporting up to a dual 1080P monitor setup, with other sizes also available in the pack. The 5 papers avaialble are a general BP background, papers based on the logos and concept art for both Tyi and Genide and a massive ingame screenshot of both a Tyi and Genide orbital facility.

The Community Bulletin that brought us this news also mentioned that publisher negotations were now down to one candidate and that a second gameplay trailer is planned for early next year.

OK, so it's been something like 3 months since the last update on Reakktor's mumblings from the TPN. This started out being due to lack of news, but eventually fell into habit. Anyway, we're back and with a fair amount to cover.

Anyway, the first thing that KK had to tell us about was the launch of the Stellarvox Veritas website. This is going to have storyline news from the game in both the lead up and presumably once the game has begun. So far, the focus is mainly on giving greater details on the events previously described in the Black Prophecy timeline.

Next of interest is the continuation of the art developer diaries. Nick Ebenhoch takes us through the design concept and realization from the Human (recognisable modern day/80s inspired tech), Tyi (Functional, knobbly, techy) and Genide (sleek, Apple-esque, hints of feudalism in logos etc)

ZAM scores an interview with creative director Timo Krahl and ask him a barrage of questions, starting out with the basic overview of Black Prophecy, before delving into Marrack's writing, PvP, flight systems, PvP, special abilities and clans.

Reakktor announced that they were offically no longer insolvent with the sixth community update. As well as the usual warp up here, there was also the mention of some "eye candy" to be delivered before christmas.

Finally, Technical Director Cyrus Preuss gives us an insight into developing the physics for Black prophecy in the first and second of his developer diaries.