Where Akarra Awakened comes from

Akarra Awakened is a remake of Whispers in Akarra by Jens Bergensten, an online role-playing game whose source code was released to the public. This remake is built from that source, and from the original game's own world, quests and classes.

The remake

DreamGlyph Studios is rebuilding the game piece by piece: first the original as it was, then the classes and lands it never finished. What the remake has today:

  • The original world, its quests, creatures, items and classes, converted from the game's own data files.
  • New pixel art throughout, on a grid twice as fine as the original's.
  • Day turns to night, and lamps light Hope after dark.
  • Start as a Mundane, then take a path: Fighter then Warrior, Neophyte then Cleric, or Apprentice then Wizard.
  • Tiers three and four: 28 more classes, from Knights to Druids, open in the next phase of the remake. planned

The alpha you can download is the remake as it stands, played online on our test server.

The road ahead

The remake is built in phases. Each ends at a checkpoint the game has to pass before the next begins.

  1. Recovery and data liberationDone
  2. FoundationsDone
  3. Networked vertical sliceDone
  4. Art pipeline and the starting regionDone
  5. Feature parity with the originalNow
  6. Expansion of the classes and the worldLater
  7. Launch and live operationsLater

Credits

Based on Whispers in Akarra by Jens Bergensten - http://www.OxeyeGames.com

Akarra Awakened is an independent remake by DreamGlyph Studios. It is not made or endorsed by Jens Bergensten or Oxeye Game Studio.