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Wizard101 is a 2008 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by KingsIsle Entertainment. Players take on the role of student wizards who must save the Spiral, the fictional universe in which the game is set, from various threats.
KingsIsle Entertainment was founded in January 2005 by Elie Akilian. [1] Inspired by his teenage son, who was a fan of video games, Akilian established KingsIsle in Plano, Texas, [2] and started hiring former employees of id Software and Ubisoft to work on what would become Wizard101. [1]
It is a sister game to Wizard101, set in the same fictional universe of the “Spiral”. The player assumes the role of a pirate, who, after being rescued from a prison ship, begins searching for pieces of a map that could take them to the mythical, long-lost world of El Dorado .
Free Realms contained many of the staples of MMORPG's at the time, such as an open 3D environment to explore and quests to complete for usable rewards. Unlike most MMORPG's, Free Realms set out to appeal to children as well as adults with a family-friendly design [6] and muted combat visuals, such as a lack of blood or explicit death; whirling stars would appear above a fallen enemy's head ...
Avalon Hill introduced many of the concepts of modern recreational wargaming, including the use of a hexagonal grid (a.k.a. hexgrid) overlaid on a flat folding board, zones of control (ZOC), stacking of multiple units at a location, and board games based upon historical events. [2] [3]
Avalon was the first text-based multi-user role-playing game to offer a developed profession and skills system. [1] Avalon differed in that one could choose from one of three cities, each of which had guild variations of iconic professions, such as Mage, Knight, and Bard amongst many others.
Avalon Heroes, known as Avalon Online in Asia, [3] was a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena video game developed by WeMade Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. [4] The game is heavily based on Warcraft III: The Frozen Thrones popular mod CHAOS which is also heavily based on Defense of the Ancients.
[1] [2] Barkley 2: 2021 (cancelled) ARPG: Proprietary/CC BY-NC 4.0 (engine/game code) CC BY-NC 4.0: Tales of Game's Studios Source code released to the public under no license on 11 June 2021, upon the cancellation of the game. [3] Barotrauma: 2017 Role-playing video game: restrictive (only mods) [4] Proprietary: Undertow Games / Joonas ...