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Encyclopedia > Iron Realms Entertainment

Iron Realms Entertainment (formerly known as Achaea LLC) is a computer game developer company that has created the MUDs Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands, Aetolia, The Midnight Age, Imperian, the Sundered Heavens, and Lusternia, Age of Ascension. Iron Realms Entertainment is known for three things: A limited liability company (denoted by L.L.C. or LLC) is a legal form of company offering limited liability to its owners. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video or computer games. ... In computer gaming, a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon or Domain or Dimension) is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games and social instant messaging chat rooms. ... Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands is a multi-user dungeon (MUD) created by Iron Realms Entertainment (formerly known as Achaea LLC) in 1997. ... Aetolia is a MUD created by Iron Realms Entertainment. ... Created by Iron Realms Entertainment, Imperian, the Sundered Heavens, is a MUD based in a fictional, fantasy universe. ... Lusternia is a MUD created by Iron Realms Entertainment. ...


1. Pioneering the pay-for-virtual-items trend in MMOGs back in 1997. A massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) is a type of computer game that enables hundreds or thousands of players to simultaneously interact in a game world they are connected to via the Internet. ...


2. Heavy player-based political systems in its games.


3. Complex combat systems in its games.[1]


Each game gives users the option of buying credits, which can be used to expedite the learning of skills, used as a special currency, and even be sold for in-game gold. Iron Realms MMOs are among the most popular in the world.


Iron Realms Entertainment is currently building a game based on author Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia world. Raymond E. Feist (born 1945, Los Angeles, California) is an American author, mostly specialising in fantasy fiction. ... Midkemia is the fictional world on which most of the stories in Raymond E. Feists Riftwar series of fantasy novels are set, except for the three Empire novels set on Kelewan which were co-written with Janny Wurts. ...


It also created the Rapture virtual world engine, which is being used by all four of its flagship MUDs. The engine is commercially available, but the cost for a software license is in the tens of thousands of United States dollars.[2] Rapture has been licensed to Persistent Realms LLC for use in Ilyrias, the Aegadian Isles. A software license is a type of proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user. ... This article is about general United States currency. ...


Notes and references

  1. ^ "Mechanics of Achaean Combat" essay written by founder and CEO of Iron Realms
  2. ^ Information on Rapture virtual world engine

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Iridon - Press Releases - 186768 - GamersHell.com (382 words)
Lusternia, employing the Rapture engine that powers all Iron Realms games, is an original high-fantasy world with a strong focus on planar travel in a roleplay-encouraged environment full of customizable player-run governments, adventuring areas, over 600 quests, and a PvP combat system with over 700 abilities and spells.
Iron Realms Entertainment is an independent developer and publisher of massively-multiplayer games based in Mill Valley, California.
Iron Realms' next project is likely to be a text MMO based on best-selling author Raymond E. Feist's world of Midkemia.
Iron Realms Entertainment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (342 words)
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".
Iron Realms Entertainment LLC{IRE} was originally founded as Achaea LLC in 1996.
After the release of Aetolia in 2001 Achaea LLC was renamed into Iron Realms LLC.
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