

Source is alsoĪvailable for those who'd prefer to compile their own, of course. The game is being distributed as a binary that can be installed on most The game is set 3,000 years in the future, but it has a very strong swords and sorcery flavor.
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Picture the movie Avatar and you start to get the idea. Ryzom is set in a "science-fantasy" world, which combines elements of science fiction and fantasy. (Of those, about half of the users are participating in English, and then about evenly split between French and German). Ryzom CTO Vianney Lecroart declined to give specific numbers, but said the game has " thousands of active users" spread across three servers - one for English-speaking players, one for German-speaking users, and one for French-speaking users. The community is still small when held up to massive moneymakers like World of Warcraft. The release of the Linux client is the latest in a long saga of taking Ryzom from the failed remains of Nevrax via a campaign to release the game as free software - not to mention keep it online for the community that it had accrued so far. "artistic assets" are available under the Creative CommonsĪttribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license. The GNU Affero General Public License (AGPLv3) in May 2010 and the The game, including both client and server The bigĭifference for Ryzom, aside from a different storyline and such, is that To games like World of Warcraft and produced by Winch Gate. Ryzom is a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (MMORPG), akin Outstanding game for Linux, or a plot to undermine productivity for Linux desktop users? The official release of the Ryzom client for Linux is, perhaps, a little bit of both.


This article was contributed by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier.
