Elarahem Windows game

Let me begin this description by saying that we have very high ambitions with this game :)

The idea
Elarahem, a fantasy world where war and destruction is common and where humans walk the earth among Elves and foul beasts'

Yes, you have all heard it before - menace, thousands of years of war and odd creatures ruling lands you never heard of' Over and over again has the MMORPG industry tried to take new steps in the enormous genre'
Where other online RPGs tries to flash you with their stunning graphics and tactical battles, Elarahem will take a step backwards' We want to return to the roots of role-playing, to the pen and the empty sheet of paper on a table in your garage' And what mastodon-sized client will you have to download in order to play it? None'

What we want to do with Elarahem is simply a game world that is accessible to anyone' Therefore, the world of Elarahem takes place inside your favourite Internet browser in an ASP-environment' You won't have to download huge plugins or similar scripts, everything is being taken care of on the server and then sent out to the players in pure HTML'
Our idea with Elarahem is to offer to our players at least the best parts of what today’s standard MMORPGs offer' This includes;

• Character Management
• PvE Battles
• Quests
• Buying/selling items
• A world-map on wich you can travel around
• Hopefully also PvP Battles
• ''' and a lot more

The fact that the games takes place in HTML makes it incredibly easy to play it - just start your computer, double-click your browser, login and play' It also makes the game content very dynamic - we can whenever we want update the world and instantly see the changes in real-time'

Gameplay
So, let's face it; HTML is static and will always be' Sure you can do some Java-scripting to extending HTML a bit, but in the end we cannot really compete with enormous seamless 3d-environments that you can run around in for hours' At the same time, Elarahem will not require you to switch between 4 CDs to install it' But, realising this fact, we are aiming at forming the layout and gameplay in streamline shape to make the player spend maybe just 10-15 minutes on his character a day' If we could achieve this and still maintain the interesting and fun aspects of the game, we would have interested and entertained players that wants to play the game, which must be the goal of every game developer'
Keeping the general play-time low, along with server-optimised programming and a clean layout will lower the bandwidth and hardware usage of the server, making the game more accessible and also faster to play'

What makes Elarahem different?
So, what does make Elarahem different? Well, except the fact that it takes place in HTML (which by the way has already been done) not much' Nobody wants to play a boring game, so we try to look in other RPGs for fun elements to add into the game' Vampire: Bloodlines and World of Warcraft is two games that we've been heavily inspired from, for example' These are the basics;

Since the beginning of time, Elarahem has been tormented by wars, leading to the formation of three major unions; The Empire, the Rebel Settlements and the Elven Society' The Empire - led by humans - would like to see the entire world united in The Empire, to create order in the world' The Rebel Settlements on the other hand consists of different creatures (such as trolls, ogres and demons) that loves nothing else but chaos' The Elves has simply withdrawn themselves to their islands, sick and tired of the other two unions constant fighting'
As you can see, this is a rather classic background story for a fantasy-game - but as in all RPGs, it is you that create your own experience of the game, not the other way around'

Almost everything, including the story, gameplay, etc' is under development and constantly changing' If you would like to know more about how you actually play the game and so on, you should visit our website'