Iron Realms Entertainment

Iron Realms Entertainment
Type	Limited liability
Industry	Interactive entertainment
Founded	1996
Founder	Matt Mihaly
Headquarters	United States
Key people	Jeremy Saunders
Products	Video games

Iron Realms Entertainment (formerly known as Achaea LLC) is a computer game development company that has created the MUDs Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands; Aetolia, The Midnight Age; Imperian, the Sundered Heavens; Lusternia, Age of Ascension; and Midkemia Online. Matt Mihaly is its founder and CEO and Jeremy Saunders is its President.

Games

Games developed by Iron Realms Entertainment include:

Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands, a high fantasy text-based MUD operating continuously since 1997.
Aetolia, The Midnight Age, a roleplay-intensive text-based MUD set in a Gothic fantasy world with numerous player-run political organizations.
Imperian, the Sundered Heavens, a fantasy MUD set in a world ravaged by natural catastrophe.
Lusternia, a text-based MUD game set in a fantasy sword and sorcery world revolving around four city-states and two nature communes.
Midkemia Online, a text-based MUD game based on author Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia universe.
Starmourn, a science-fiction MUD announced by Iron Realms as under development in May, 2016.^[1]

Rapture Engine

The Rapture Engine was created by Iron Realms Entertainment and is used by all of its MUDs, albeit heavily modified for those most recently in production.

Rapture was used to develop an interactive chat system in conjunction with a United Nations affiliated organization for the 7th Annual World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs.^[2]

History

Iron Realms Entertainment LLC was founded as Achaea LLC in 1996. After the release of Aetolia in 2001, Achaea LLC was renamed Iron Realms LLC.

In 2004 IRE was featured in Computer Gaming World and on Wired News after the release of an "addictive" virtual drug called gleam.^[3]^[4]

Achaea was featured in the June 10, 2004 episode of The Screen Savers.^[5]

Notes and references

↑ Lefebvre, Eliot. "Starmourn, a new commercial MUD, is arriving in 2017". Massively Overpowered. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
↑ Wired news on the 7th Annual World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs
↑ Computer Gaming World on Gleam
↑ Wired news on Gleam
↑ Achaea on TechTV

External links

Iron Realms Entertainment official site
NoGFX (No Graphics): Logs posting site for IRE MUDs
Official site for Midkemia Online

MUDs

Major branches	AberMUD DikuMUD LPMud LPC MU*

Minor branches, codebases, libraries	DGD GodWars Merc MOO Mudlibs MudOS MUSH Talker TinyMUD TinyMUCK

Concepts, terminology	Alternate character Avatar Avatar customization Bartle taxonomy of player types Buff Camping Computer game bot Consider Cybersex God Gold farming Gold sink Griefer Grinding Hack and slash Immortal Implementer Kill stealing Lag Looting Mob / Monster MUD client Comparison MUD trees Mudflation Nerf Online creation Online wedding Persistent world Player character Player versus environment Player versus player / Playerkilling Powerleveling Quest Remort Rent Spam Spawning spod Social verbs Syntax guessing Tank Twinking Virtual good Wizard Zone / Area

Publications	Designing Virtual Worlds Imaginary Realities Life on the Screen "A Rape in Cyberspace" "A Story About a Tree" Terra Nova A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Companies, organizations	Areae Iron Realms Entertainment Jagex Lysator Kesmai The Mud Connector Mythic Entertainment Plaintext Players Simutronics Skotos XYZZY Award

People	Alan Cox Amy S. Bruckman Andrew Gower Ben Laurie Brad McQuaid Brian Green Bruce Woodcock Cat Rambo Chip Morningstar Christopher Howard Wolf Dr. Cat Edward Castronova Elonka Dunin Espen J. Aarseth Greg Stein J. Todd Coleman James Aspnes Jason Scott Sadofsky John Viega Joi Ito Judy Malloy Julian Dibbell Kelton Flinn Lars Pensjö Lennart Augustsson Lisbeth Klastrup Mark Jacobs Matt Mihaly Michael Lawrie Michael Seifert Mizuko Ito Nick Yee Noah Wardrip-Fruin Paul Barnett Pavel Curtis Randy Farmer Rich Skrenta Richard Bartle Sherry Turkle Stephanie Shaver Steve Yegge T. L. Taylor Wes Platt

MUDs	3Kingdoms Achaea, Dreams of Divine Lands Alter Aeon AmberMUSH Ancient Anguish Armageddon ATHEMOO Avalon: The Legend Lives AVATAR BatMUD BurningMUD Castle Marrach Costello Dark Age of Camelot Darkness Falls: The Crusade DartMUD Discworld MUD Diversity University Dragon's Gate DragonRealms DragonSpires Dune II Elendor Empire EverQuest Federation II Furcadia FurryMUCK GemStone IV Genesis LPMud Genocide God Wars II Habitat Holy Mission ifMUD Infinity (AberMUD) Infinity (LPMud) Island of Kesmai JediMUD LambdaMOO LegendMUD Lost Souls MAD MOOSE Crossing MUD1 MUD2 Medievia Meridian 59 MicroMUSE MorgenGrauen Muddy Waters NannyMUD Nightmare LPMud Northern Lights Nuclear War MUD PernMUSH Ragnarök The Realm Online Realms of Despair The Ruins of Cawdor RuneScape The Shadow of Yserbius Shattered World Star Wars MUSH Threshold TinyTIM TorilMUD TriadCity TubMUD Ultima Online Wyvern Xyllomer

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