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Whispers in Akarra

Akarra was built between 2001 and 2005 by Jens Bergensten and a small team around him. A 2D fantasy MMORPG with a hand-drawn world, a five-colour soul system and a skill tree made of gem sockets. The servers went quiet in 2005.

History

How it went

  1. 2001–2003

    The pre-alphas

    Akarra grows in public, one numbered release at a time. Fellowships arrive first, then items and loot, trading, lighting, quests, shops, day and night, and finally skills, gems and player killing.

  2. 2003–2004

    Alpha 1

    Darkness, torches and lights. Ranged weapons. The cleric class. Clans, and a much bigger world. The last content the game ever received is dated February 2004.

  3. July 2005

    The public release

    The official servers are gone. The team releases the game so fans can run their own servers: "released to allow fans to play again on their own servers, and perhaps build their own worlds."

  4. February 2008

    The source goes public

    The server source is released under a licence that allows anyone to use it, on one condition: credit.

Now

And then it came back

The 2008 release is why the game is playable again. The world, the art, the monsters, the items and the maths are the originals, rebuilt to run in a browser instead of on a Windows machine with a 2001 graphics card. There is no music, because there never was any. There is no shop, no subscription and nothing to buy. One server, one world, free.

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Credits

The people who made it

From the credits page inside the 2005 release, unchanged.

Project leaders
  • Jens 'Khaile' Bergensten (founder) ·
  • Jason 'Trance' Rochon ·
  • Mattias 'Syspurge' Lundmark
Artists
  • Daniel 'thewreck' Brynolf ·
  • Pontus 'Kinten' Hammarberg ·
  • Jan 'Delaque' Lachauer ·
  • Marcus 'MaCc' Andersson
Programmers
  • Jens Bergensten ·
  • David 'pmnemonic' Martin ·
  • Johan 'Mace' Glysing
Additional team developers
  • Braiba
Administrators
  • Aardwolf ·
  • Caldores_Ghost ·
  • Catear ·
  • Charchie ·
  • JamaKris ·
  • Ormoc ·
  • Phoenixlord ·
  • Rechendak ·
  • Sorcerer ·
  • Tears ·
  • Timotheus
Special thanks
The #promode fellows · the #gamedev fellows
Additional thanks
The Dawn of Daria development team — named in the 2005 readme as the makers of Akarra's unofficial sequel, and the people who drew most of this art.

Credit

The licence on the 2008 release requires one exact line wherever the game is used:

Based on Whispers in Akarra by Jens Bergensten - http://www.OxeyeGames.com

It is in the footer of every page here and along the bottom of the game's login screen. This is a fan-run revival, not affiliated with or endorsed by Oxeye Game Studio or anyone credited above.