Antilia

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Antilia is the leading product of Right Brain Games, and has been under development since 2002[1]. It is a fantasy MMORPG set in the world of Forra and Alenfay, which is inhabited by a species called Taipii (that can be divided into five different breeds of anthropomorphic animals).

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Development status

A Koro, the deer-like breed of Taipii.

In September 2007, Right Brain Games built a new website for Antilia, which includes a blog providing status information and development screen captures. The game has been open to periodic alpha testing since November 30, 2011[2].

History

The project was started between 1998 and 2002 by an inexperienced team of developers. Since then the team had struggled to develop their own graphic engines and various technology for the game. They produced two previous versions of the game, one of which was made available for public testing. In 2006 the Antilia-Game website was replaced with a "Coming Soon" message, and little information regarding Antilia was released until the website returned in September, 2007[1].

On Tuesday, March 25, 2008, Jeff Leigh (the head of the project and, at the time, the only man on it) had replaced the new site with a message stating that Antilia will be delayed for an extended period of time, and what remains of the site (the message) will, itself, be taken down on April 4, 2008[citation needed].

Antilia was brought back on October 30, 2009[3], and Jeff Leigh began providing informational blog posts around once a month, with occasional development screenshots and examples of progress[4].

Plot

While the Antilia website has returned, it does not, as of February 2012, provide any current information on the game's plot. However, the setting of the alpha tests is known to be the island of Kasau and the world of the game is known as Forra.[5] Also, the wiki lists much of the game's lore.

Player Species

According to the Antilia website, the following species will be included in the first public release[6]:

Roleplay

Antilia offers forum-based, post-by-post roleplays for members, both Canon and non-Canon. However, the Canon roleplay has been paused since November 28, 2010 [7], though it is still open to be read by the public[8]. There have been three non-Canon: A New Frontier[9], which has been finished, Strange New World[10], which hasn't been posted on since May 10, 2011, and The Knowledge Fountain [11], which hasn't been posted on since January 3, 2012. Plans have been made by Equivamp, under the username Kila, to submit A New Frontier to Guinness for its length, although an actual date has not been specified [12]. Strange New World's GameMaster had noted that he could no longer maintain the roleplay--as he did in the original one--but DNide4Evr, as he did in A New Frontier, took over as GameMaster, though whatever plot the original GM had in mind is now lost as the original has made himself hard to contact [13].

Antilia-Chat and 4ntilia

In a forum post, a member suggested that a chatroom be created. [14] Kila offered to make one using Webs webs hosting service.[15] However, the Meebo app used to create the chat did not meet the expectations of anyone, [16], so a xatchat was created, and a link was added to the spin-off website.[17]

Wiki

On Saturday, May 28, 2011, Antilia got a wiki.[18] Users can ask questions about the lore and society of the Taipii as well as edit pages they have knowledge on.

Right Brain Games

Right Brain Games (previously known as Enygma Arts) is an independent computer game company currently consisting of two game developers, who are also the working artists of the team.

Their main philosophy is namely that the games they produce must first and foremost be visually appealing, and as such they require all their (current and future) developers to be artists above anything else. Antilia is being created using the company's own game engine, previously Saffron, now known as Toi.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Antilia - A Brief History
  2. ↑ Antilia - Alpha Testing Begins
  3. ↑ http://www.antilia-game.com/index.php?page=Blog:18
  4. ↑ http://www.antilia-game.com/index.php
  5. ↑ Antilia - A New Approach in August, A New World in September
  6. ↑ Antilia FAQ
  7. ↑ http://antilia-game.com/index.php?page=Forums.Topic:289#post_43905
  8. ↑ http://antilia-game.com/index.php?page=Roleplaying
  9. ↑ Antilia: A New Frontier RP
  10. ↑ Antilia: Strange New World RP
  11. ↑ Antilia: The Knowledge Fountain RP
  12. ↑ http://antilia-game.com/index.php?page=Forums.Topic:202&offset=40370
  13. ↑ http://antilia-game.com/index.php?page=Forums.Topic:303&offset=290
  14. ↑ http://antilia-game.com/index.php?page=Forums.Topic:327&offset=0
  15. ↑ http://antilia-game.com/index.php?page=Forums.Topic:327&offset=20
  16. ↑ http://antilia-game.com/index.php?page=Forums.Topic:344&offset=0
  17. ↑ http://antilia-game.com/index.php?page=Forums.Topic:344&offset=0
  18. ↑ Antilia Wiki Announcement Post

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