Multiplayer Online Roleplaying game based on open source technology that has provided a unique world supporting three major operating systems for almost a decade.
The art and writing content is managed
by a charitable foundation whose goal is to produce an educational persistent online roleplaying game, always free of PlaneShift advertisements and requiring no fee for players all over the world. PlaneShift MMORPG Homepages & Downloads PlaneShift is in an open alpha release http://www.planeshift.it and many people play full time on our servers. Play along with a wonderful international community Project Forums & Bugtracker by downloading our client software, http://www.hydlaaplaza.com Persistent Massively which is distributed for Windows, Multiplayer Online Macintosh and Linux clients. IRC Channel Role-Playing Game irc.freenode.net PlaneShift is also seeking talented Port: 6667 people to help design, contribute and #planeshift influence the evolution of the game. PlaneShift Client/ If you wish to join us in creating a Server Project unique immersive world, please review http://www.sourceforge.net/ our recruitment, project description, projects/planeshift and documentation available on our homepages. Atomic Blue http://www.atomicblue.org/
Pamphlet by Verden Vellix, 2009
FAQs When connecting to the game, must Where are the sewers? my name be "role-playing style"? Go left from the blacksmith in Hydlaa and follow How big is the client for the demo? the city walls until you find a large hole in the Yes, absolutely. We will not allow names like "1m To play the game, you will first need to download ground. There is also a second entrance behind C001" or "Sw33t Ch33ks" or any other non rpg- a client for your operating system (Windows, the tavern. related name. We do encourage the Role-Playing Linux, etc...). The client for the current tech demo is about 230 Megabytes. It will increase in size in side of the game in all its aspects. Where is the tavern? subsequent releases. It contains an auto-update Starting from Hydlaa Plaza, look to the left of Does the PlaneShift client contain any program that can download any necessary new the large red temple for a ramp/street in the software when you start the game. spyware or ads? direction of the taller brown tower. Take that Absolutely not. The PlaneShift client does not street and then go up the first staircase on your Will PlaneShift run on Windows, Mac, left. Follow its curve, and you'll see the tavern on read any personal info, does not pop up any ads Linux, et cetera? your left eventually. Can't miss the sign of mugs and does not contain any spyware. The source We have tested PlaneShift under Windows (98, above Kada-El's doors. code is open for anyone to see, so even if we NT, 2000, XP), various Linux distributions and wanted to do that, we could not hide anything. Where is the Hydlaa Library? MacOS. What happens when I die? Starting from Hydlaa Plaza, look to the right of What are the minimum hardware the large red temple for a wide passageway into requirements to run the game? You are whisked away to the Death Realm, where the eastern part of the city. Follow the road - the you must escape it to return to the realm of the library will be a building on your left, slightly The hardware requirement are connected to living. In Crystal Blue the Death Realm is very enclosed by walls. our 3D engine, Crystal Space. The engine is small, but it will be expanded later. continuously evolving and so the requirements Where is the town of Ojaveda? are not written in stone. A PIII 600Mhz with When will the next release of PlaneShift Exit Hydlaa from the east gate, in the same sector 512Mb of RAM and a Geforce 2 card is probably be made? as Jayose's library, and follow the road across the the minimum. The most important aspect is Ojaroad Plains. It's a long walk, but eventually RAM at the moment, so if you have a very good The next minor release of PlaneShift is named you will find the dsar of Akkaio, one of many machine, but 256Mb of RAM, PlaneShift will SteelBlue. We will reach that release by adding dsars that make up Ojaveda city. probably run badly. For best results you need pieces to the current public one, so you will a PIII 1ghz with 512 RAM and a GeForce3 or get it piece by piece. The date by which we Where is the Magic Shop? equivilant card. More ram is recommended, will reach all objectives set for Steel Blue is not Exit Hydlaa from the north gate - from the center especially if you want to keep many maps available yet. plaza with the Laanx Statue, look toward a tall loaded to avoid having to zone. brown tower and make your way towards it. After Can you give us a release date for the exiting through the gate, continue through the What does "roleplay" mean? final product? forest path and then take the right fork as soon as you see it. Planeshift is a Massive Multiplayer Online PlaneShift is a free and non-profit project, and Role Playing Game (M.M.O.R.P.G). That means so our release dates are difficult to define. We Where are the Bronze Doors? that your character lives in a virtual world, has are now working for next minor release, but we a background story and interacts with other Exit Hydlaa the same way as to the Magic Shop, cannot yet give you release date for the final characters. Role playing means that you adjust but take the left fork instead of the right. The product. your chat in concordance with the setting of way can be long, but just follow the road. the game, with your character's background Will there be Player vs. Player combat Who is the overall "leader" of and with the other characters you meet ingame. in Planeshift? PlaneShift? Who ensures quality and Talking out of character (OOC) is prohibited in the normal chat but you can act ooc when Yes, you can challenge someone to a duel progress of this project? whispering to another player using the and fight - currently they have to accept your Atomic Blue is lead by the board of directors command "/tell". The background story of your challenge for the right to begin. One can use PvP that includes Keith "Vengeance" Fulton, Andrew character is decided by you and, as long as it fits mode anywhere, but it is customary to fight in "acraig" Craig and Luca "Talad" Pancallo. in the setting of the game, there is no limit to it stadiums and/or arenas. The board of directors ensures quality and but your imagination. progress and determines the direction of the development.