|
List Of Free MMOGs
This is a selected list of notable massively multiplayer online games which are free-to-play in some form without ever requiring a subscription or other payment. These are commonly MMORPGs or MMOFPSs, but could be of any genre. Free play These MMOGs provide client software free of charge and allow users to play the game without requiring payment. The games' expenses are typically funded by sponsors or through donations (which have no effect in the game itself). Free play with advertising These MMOGs are free to play. They are funded through advertising, either in-game or through pop-ups. Free play with micro-transactions These MMOGs are free to play, but players may optionally purchase in-game items or currency. Optional paid subscriptions These MMOGs offer optional additional game content through paid subscription, but are otherwise free to play. See also *List of massively multiplayer online games * List of free multiplayer online games * List of MMORPGs * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MMOG
A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or more commonly MMO) is an online video game with a large number of players, often hundreds or thousands, on the same server. MMOs usually feature a huge, persistent world, persistent open world, although there are games that differ. These games can be found for most network-capable platforms, including the personal computer, video game console, or Mobile app, smartphones and other mobile devices. MMOs can enable players to cooperate and compete with each other on a large scale, and sometimes to interact meaningfully with people around the world. They include a variety of gameplay types, representing many video game genres. History The most popular type of MMOG, and the subgenre that pioneered the category, is the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), which descended from university mainframe computer MUD and adventure games such as ''Rogue (video game), Rogue'' and ''Dungeon (video game), Dungeon'' on the PDP-10. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gekkeiju Online
was a 3D MMORPG developed by a Finnish indie software company, Coolhouse in 2003. It incorporates anime-style characters into a medieval fantasy world. ''Gekkeiju Online'' was a GameOgre.com online game of the week, highlighting the MUD-style gameplay which is considered more in-depth than regular MMORPGs. A completely redone version of Gekkeiju Online launched to public beta test in January 2010. The project is no longer operational, with its website displaying an error page from May 16th, 2020, changing to a simple message stating "Project may be rebooted at later date" from August 13th, 2020 onwards. Races The game's character options consist of nine playable character races, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. The playable races are: humans, elves, halflings, half-giants, dwarves, wild elves, dark elves, goblins and catfolk. It's possible to change the race during playing through reincarnation offered by various NPCs in game. This is also the only way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terra (video Game)
Terra (also known as Terra: 2120 or Terra: Battle for the Outland) was one of the internet's original massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), debuting in early 1996 from Kaon Interactive. Kaon dropped development of the game within a few years and it has since been taken over and kept running by its loyal fan base. Other than minor updates to run on the newer Windows platforms, the game is still in its original retro format and is free to play. Overview Terra is a virtual world played from the first-person perspective with one of several vehicles, originally limited to a medium tank (Rhino), light scout vehicle (Goat), or a heavy long-range self-propelled howitzer (Buffalo). A light attack helicopter (Shrike) was added sometime in 1997 and several other vehicle types have been added since, including a heavy tank (Armadillo) and fast laser-armed recon vehicles both land (Scarab) and air (Phoenix). Also, stationary fort defenses which existed from the start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin Interactive
Virgin Interactive Entertainment (later renamed Avalon Interactive) was the video game publishing division of British conglomerate the Virgin Group. It developed and published games for major platforms and employed developers, including Westwood Studios co-founder Brett Sperry and ''Earthworm Jim'' creators David Perry and Doug TenNapel. Others include video game composer Tommy Tallarico and animators Bill Kroyer and Andy Luckey. Formed as Virgin Games in 1983, and built around a small development team called the Gang of Five, the company grew significantly after purchasing budget label Mastertronic in 1987. As Virgin's video game division grew into a multimedia powerhouse, it crossed over to other industries from toys to film to education. To highlight its focus beyond video games and on multimedia, the publisher was renamed Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1993. As result of a growing trend throughout the 1990s of media companies, movie studios and telecom firms invest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SubSpace (video Game)
''SubSpace'' is a 2D computer graphics, 2D space shooter video game created in 1995 and released in 1997 by Virgin Interactive which was a finalist for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Online Game of the Year Award in 1998. ''SubSpace'' incorporates quasi-realistic zero-friction physics into a massively multiplayer online game. It is no longer operated by VIE; instead, fans and players of the game provide servers and technical updates. The action is viewed from above, which presents challenges very different from those of a 3D computer graphics, three-dimensional game. The game has no built-in story or set of goals; players may enter a variety of server (computing), servers, each of which have differing objectives, maps, sounds, and graphics. ''SubSpace'' is considered an early entry in the massively multiplayer online game, massively multiplayer online genre due to its unprecedented player counts. History ''SubSpace'' evolved from a game originally called ''Sniper'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlaneShift (video Game)
''PlaneShift'' is a cross-platform 3D Online Multiplayer Role Playing Game in a fantasy setting. The framework is open source with the server and client released under the GNU General Public License v2, while the artistic content is covered under a proprietary license. All content, however, is available free of cost. The game requires client software to be installed on the player's computer. The project is no-budget and produced by a group of developers guided by the Atomic Blue organization. The development team comprises volunteers from mostly European countries and North America. An Unreal Engine port has been released in its alpha stage. Setting ''PlaneShift'' takes place inside a colossal stalactite named Yliakum.TUX December 2006 Issue 20, Pg 60 Players begin in the main city, Hydlaa, where they will start their journey. ''PlaneShift'' has 9 playable races, each of which have their own homelands and characteristics. The races feature standard fantasy types, like elves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omerta (video Game)
Omerta is a browser-based text MMORPG that launched in 2003. The player takes control of an American gangster in the 1930s, who must work their way up the ranks of organized crime by stealing cars, committing crimes, breaking people out of prison, and dealing alcohol and narcotics. Development ''Omerta'' was launched publicly on 26 September 2003 with the first version, now known as ''Omerta'' 1.0. This version was written by Moritz Daan in Groningen. During the 16-year run of ''Omerta'', there have been about 38 million player registrations. In January 2008, ''Omerta'' moved to a new service provider with 20 servers running the FreeBSD operating system. In July 2009 version 3.0 of ''Omerta'' was released. In the first month after the release more than 100,000 players registered. Following several intermediate versions, in February 2013 version 4.0 was released with enhanced game-play and a modern graphical style replaced the original frame-based standard web layout. Version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Game
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or Puzzle video game, puzzle-solving. The Video game genres, genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (List of text-based computer games, text and List of graphic adventure games, graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multiplayer design difficult. ''Colossal Cave Adventure'' is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include ''Zork'', ''King's Quest'', ''Monkey Island'', and ''Myst''. Initial adventure games developed in the 1970s and early 1980s were text-based, using text parsers to translate the player's input into commands. As personal computers became more powerful with better grap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyan Worlds
Cyan, Inc., also known as Cyan Worlds, Inc., is an American video game developer. Founded as Cyan Productions by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller in 1987, the company is best known as the creator of the ''Myst'' series. The company is located in Mead, Washington, just outside Spokane. ''Myst'' became the best-selling PC game ever made when it was released in 1993, and remained so for several years afterwards. It spawned several sequels, including ''Riven'' and the massively multiplayer online adventure '' Myst Online: Uru Live''. Before ''Myst'', the company created children's games such as ''The Manhole''. In 2016, they released the Kickstarter-funded game ''Obduction''. History Pre-Myst Cyan was founded in 1987 by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller, operating out of their parents' basement in their Spokane, Washington home. Rand had been programming games as a junior high school student in the 1980s, while Robyn studied music and arts in high school. The two found a common grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uru Live
''Myst Online: Uru Live'' is an open source massively multiplayer online game, massively multiplayer online adventure game developed by Cyan Worlds. The game is the multiplayer video game, multiplayer component to the 2003 video game ''Uru: Ages Beyond Myst''. Like ''Uru'', ''Myst Online'' takes place in 2000s New Mexico, where an ancient civilization known as the D'ni once thrived. The D'ni had the ability to create portals to other worlds or Ages by writing descriptive books of the Age. Players uncover clues and solve puzzles together; plot developments were added via episodic content updates. ''Uru''s multiplayer segment was delayed and only shipped with the single-player component initially; in February 2004 the multiplayer was scrapped entirely. Dedicated fans kept an unsupported version of the game alive through Cyan-maintained servers. Online game distributor GameTap resurrected the game as ''Myst Online'' in 2007, but this version was canceled due to a lack of subscribers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
