Argentum Online is a free open source Massively
multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It has all the features of the classic MMORPGS including a guild system, magic
system, combat system and skill system.
History of Argentium Online
The development of the game began in late 2000. The team involved in the project was not professional, just simple people on
Internet with almost no experience in game development. When the first open beta version of the game was released the development
team was christened NoLand Studios.
The aim of the project was to make the first free MMORPG in Latin
America and to serve as a platform for learning for those involved in the development. Now, December 2002, the game is in its
final beta stages, it has been almost two years of development, two years of hard work. The game has gotten an excellent welcome
from people on the net, there are more that 2000 active players, most of them from Argentina, Latin America and Spain. There are three servers available to play the game,two in Argentina and one in Spain; all the servers are full
of life, as soon as you enter to our magic world you will see people running, talking and fighting around you. We have achieved a
record of 375 simultaneous players on our main server, and usually there is more than 200 persons playing the game at any
hour.
The final version of the game is being developed, bugs are being fixed and new features are being added.
On 2002-11-25 the game's source code was released under GPL licence, since then many flavors of the game spawned as a result
of the community's work.
Argentum Online's 2D graphical engine is pretty basic, yet adequate to properly represent the magical world of
Argentum. The game's developers feel that the relative success of the game is due to their refusal to follow traditional
"recipes", rather be guided by their own imagination.
Game Play
The most remarkable characteristics of Argentum are freedom and frankness. Freedom in the sense that the adventurers are
allowed to do almost everything they want to. There are few MMORPGs like Argentum, for in most of them, the players are not
allowed to attack each other or to jorney freely along the world. The game is also frank, since does not ask the players to go on
impossible quests.
You begin the game creating a new character, all characters have skills and attributes, each skill or attribute is related to
some action or task, and determines how good are the player characters performing it.
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