Stendhal (computer game)
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| Developer(s) | The Arianne project |
| Publisher(s) | The Arianne project |
| Engine | Arianne |
| Platform(s) | JVM |
| Release date | May 29, 2008 (0.68) |
| Genre(s) | MMORPG |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
| Media | Download, Webstart |
| Input methods | Keyboard, mouse |
Stendhal is a full open source multiplayer online adventure game (MMORPG) written in Java, using the Arianne game development system. The game (server, client, graphics, everything) is licensed under the GPL. Even though Stendhal is still heavily under development (its on the top 50 most active projects hosted on SourceForge), it is fully playable.
The server website has the following text:
- Stendhal features a new, rich and expanding world in which you can explore towns, buildings, plains, caves and dungeons. The player will meet NPCs and acquire tasks and quests for valuable experience and cold hard cash. The character will develop and grow and with each new level up become stronger and better. With the money you acquire you can buy new items and improve your armour and weapons. And for the blood thirsty of you; satisfy your killing desires by roaming the world in search of evil monsters!
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[edit] Latest Version
The latest version, 0.68, was released on May 29, 2008.
- Gossip has been spreading about the precious nuggets of mithril found deep in ados mountains. Some say there is a man who can cast them into mithril bars, which are yet more precious. Some even say that a shield can be forged out of this amazing metal. It's up to you to discover if there is any truth in these rumours.
The chatterboxes of Faiumoni have had plenty more to talk about, from the controversial new ados barman, to the new attractions on Athor, and yet more fantastical rumours, of huge trees in female shapes that roam the earth ... For those with less mouth, more action, seek out the assassins' tower and pit your strengths against the best of the villains. Beware of the dragons!
Have you money to spend? The traders of you will be delighted to hear of the meat market in Ados, and new shops in Nalwor, Ados abandoned Keep, Amazon Island and many more exotic locations. Explore again areas you used to know well, you'd be surprised to see what has changed!
[edit] Cities
- Semos City
- Semos City is the town the workers of the nearby semos quarry once settled. It is populated by 40-50 persons. The defences of semos is now abandoned and moved to the capital Denirian. Semos' current weak state have forced them to make an emergency notice about heroes wanted in the help of town defence. Semos City is the place where new players start the game.
- Semos Village
- Semos Village is the ancient town of Semos. It is now mostly abbonded as most people moved to the newly founded City of Semos in the east. Nishiya the sheep seller, however, still lives here.
- Ados
- The rich coast city Ados is in a food crisis right now, since the farm town Semos is suffering constant attacks from monsters and thieves. Ados now pays high fees to good heroines and heroes that can help protect the town Semos and the food caravans that go between Semos and Ados.
- Near Ados there is a haunted area where a famous battle took place. The area is now populated by some spirits of those who died there. Take care because they don't rest in peace.
- Nalwor
- Nalwor is the main city of the elfs located south east of Semos in the Nalwor Forest. Be careful as elfs do not like humans and the soldiers will attack everyone they spot. The civils elfs living there, however, may sell valuable items even to humans.
[edit] Development
The development of Stendhal is coordinated using the bug tracker offered by Source Forge and the IRC channel #arianne on freenode. People willing to contribute can do this in a number of ways, starting from reporting bugs and ideas about new features, keeping the documentation in the wiki up to date to contributing graphic and code.
Special note to contribution graphics: If you find some graphics on the net which claims to be free, please try to verify that before offering them. The Stendhal projects is very sceptical about those because history has shown that such graphics are often not free but ripped from some old days commercial console games. Non-free graphics are considered to be a serious bug.
For every release a branch is created in the CVS repository. Starting with the day of the release, only serious bugs are fixed there. So people running their own server should monitor the branch for the version they are running.
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