Stendhal (computer game)
Stendhal is an full open source multiplayer online adventure game (MMORPG) written in Java, using the Arianne game development system. The game (server, client, graphics, everything) is licensed under the GPL. Even though Stendhal is still heavily under development (its on the top 50 activest projects hosted on SourceForge), it is fully playable.
The server website has the following text:
- Stendhal features a new, rich and expanding world in which you can explore towns, buildings, plains, caves and dungeons. The player will meet NPCs and acquire tasks and quests for valuable experience and cold hard cash. The character will develop and grow and with each new level up become stronger and better. With the money you acquire you can buy new items and improve your armour and weapons. And for the blood thirsty of you; satisfy your [...] desires by roaming the world in search of evil monsters!
Latest Version
The latest version, 0.65, was released on December 3, 2007.
- Semos has been decorated for Christmas. Santa Claus wanders around the island and gives presents to adventures who meet him. The extra cold winter has brought out the ice and air elementals, and they've taught the fire, water and earth elementals to toughen up. The world continues to expand, and get easier to travel across. There are now routes between the newer cities of Kalavan and Kirdneh, using the underground great caves as a shortcut past Fado forest.
Cities
- Semos City : Semos City is the town the workers of the nearby semos quarry once settled. It is populated by 40-50 persons. The defences of semos is now abandoned and moved to the capital Denirian. Semos' current weak state have forced them to make an emergency notice about heroes wanted in the help of town defence. Semos City is the place where new players start the game.
- Semos Vilage : Semos Vilage is The Ancient town of Semos. It is now mostly abbonded as most people moved to the newly founded City of Semos in the east. Nishiya the sheep seller, however, still lives here.
- Ados : The rich coast city Ados is in a food crisis right now, since the farm town Semos is suffering constant attacks from monsters and thieves. Ados now pays high fees to good heroines and heroes that can help protect the town Semos and the food caravans that go between Semos and Ados.
- Near Ados there is a haunted area where a famous battle took place. The area is now populated by some spirits of those who died there. Take care because they don't rest in peace.
- Nalwor : Nalwor is the main city of the elfs located south east of Semos in the Nalwor Forest. Be careful as elfs do not like humans and the soldiers will attack everyone they spot. The civils elfs living there, however, may sell valuable items even to humans.
Development
The development of Stendhal is coordinated using the bug tracker offered by Source Forge and the IRC channel irc://irc.freenode.net/#arianne #arianne on freenode. People willing to Contribute can do this in a number of ways, starting from reporting bugs and IDeaS about new features, keeping the documentation in the wiki up to date to contributing graphic and code.
Special note to contribution graphics: If you find some graphics on the net which claims to be free, please try to verify that before offering them. The Stendhal projects is very sceptical about those because history has shown that such graphics are often not free but ripped from some old days commercial console games. Non-free graphics are considered to be a serious bug.
For every release a branch is created in the CVS repository. Starting with the day of The Release, only serious bugs are fixed there. So people running there own server should monitor the branch for the version they are running.
External links
pl:Stendhal (gra)