Eternal Realms is a codebase (or game engine) that seeks to create worlds where the users craft much of the world they inhabit. Eternal Realm games are massively multiplayer roleplaying games, where a person guides their player down any path they desire.
Eternal Realms is not a single game. Much like the ROM (and other mud) codebases of the past, enterprising people can download the stock Eternal Realm code and create their own server. Each world thus created can be vastly different in playability, game style, and theme; they are completely independent of the codebase.
Administrators of Eternal Realm derived games are highly encouraged to give their improvements back to the community.
The best place to ask questions or begin contributing is at our forum. This will the best way to contact us.
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Eternal Realms is an open source project, and we greatly value contibutions! Potential developers should pursue our SourceForge project page. Also, take a look at our Design Document, which describes, in general terms, the goals of the project and our roadmap for future development. New developers should take a look at our developer's guide on the wiki for help getting started with Eclipse and our source code.
News:We've got a new page on how YOU can contribute to Eternal Realms. Check it out and contact me (Andy Korth) if you have any questions.
Tyler and I made a lot of progress on the combat system tonight. We've also added a screenshot of our updated world builder utility featuring our new spriteset that we've been working on. This set features our new World Pieces and tiles that demonstrate overlapping and transparency. Special thanks to Danc from Lost Garden. He runs a great blog with an interesting and insightful commentary on video game development.
A lot of progress has been made since the last news post! There's a lot of work on the builder code, and we're getting close to adding some real content to the game. Updates are made regularly on the forum. We also use some new tracking software to track Eternal Realms progress.
We have jumped to release 0.010 to reflect awesome new additions! Please check out the forum for more information. To summarize, we have added our new world builder utilities. We have also added new build scripts and many internal changes.
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