The Akeran software is a FREE multiplayer internet game. People from all over the world are welcome to register and play. The player role is to manage, in a heroic-fantasy context, a thriving empire governed by the player's avatar, one of the Mages dwelling in the ancient city of Greystar.
Achieving victory is the result of a complex strategy, combining city developpement, warfare, magic, trade and devotion to the Akeran's deities.
The game is turn-based. The main and slower timer is called the new season; its period is 8 hours long. The secondary timer is called the new moon; it takes place every 1 hour. The third timer is the battle round; it lasts 10 seconds and occurs only if player warfare activity takes place.
As you see, the pace of the game is quite slow. When you start a new game [jargon newplayer(ing)], you don't have many things to do but wait for the construction of the buildings you ordered to complete. By developping your empire, you will add to the management complexity and have more and more orders to send. Trade and warfare may farther on occupy you enough, depending on your gaming strategy, but that's then up to you.
Interested ? Give it a try ! If everything goes as planned, there will be a special newbies universe waiting for you. You might prefer to start there just to have a look. Then switch to the currently running age and confront other players in Akeran, the World of Magic and Fight.
Akeran is available through the Internet Relay Chat on Undernet#akeran or the World Wide Web. That means you can play the same game using an IRC client or a W3C compliant browser.
Note: The Akeran team is only composed of voluntary helpers. That means we prefer to spend that part of our spare time dedicated to the game to work on game features and not on browsers differences and deficiencies. So the Web Interface is designed to work in a fully W3C compliant browser, like those mentionned above, though the rendering is regularly checked and is also quite good under Internet Explorer (5.5 & 6). It's also likely to be adequate with Netscape 6/7 but we haven't checked. Tests are primarily made with Firefox (1.5 to 2.0) under Windows and Linux.