Iron Realms Entertainment

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Iron Realms Entertainment (formerly known as Achaea LLC) is a computer game development company that has created the MUDs "Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands", "Aetolia, The Midnight Age", "Imperian, the Sundered Heavens" and "Lusternia, Age of Ascension". Matt Mihaly is its founder and CEO.

1 Games in production
2 Rapture Engine
3 History
4 Notes and references
5 External links

[edit] Games in production

Iron Realms Entertainment is currently developing three games:

Midkemia Online, a text-based MUD game based on author Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia universe.
Tears of Polaris, a text-based MUD game based in a science fiction/fantasy universe.
Earth Eternal, a graphical MMORPG announced on January 10, 2007, that is now being produced by SparkPlay Media^[1] a sister company to IRE. Players' avatars are anthropomorphic animals, called "Beasts". The game covers a wide range of established mythology. ^[2]

[edit] Rapture Engine

The Rapture Engine was created by Iron Realms Entertainment and is used by all of its MUDS, though albeit heavily modified for those most recently in production.

Rapture was used to develop an interactive chat system in conjunction with a United Nations affiliated organization for the 7th Annual World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs^[3].

[edit] History

Iron Realms Entertainment LLC was originally founded as Achaea LLC in 1996. After the release of Aetolia in 2001, Achaea LLC was renamed Iron Realms LLC.

In 2004 IRE was featured in Computer Gaming World and on Wired News after the release of an "addictive" virtual drug called gleam^[4]^[5].

Achaea was featured in the June 10th, 2004 episode of The Screen Savers.^[6]