Ankama Games goes from DOFUS to Wakfu

 

DOFUS, the MMORPG wonder that drew three million people into its cartoonish, yet stylish world, served as an omen for Ankama Games to start work on a whole new MMORPG. The tactical combat, good versus evil game won several awards in the U.S. and France, including “Audience Award” at the Independent Games Festival back at the 2006 Games Developer Conference, and its characters and visuals have been inspiration for mangas and art books.

While the new title, dubbed Wakfu, will still be based on the storyline as DOFUS, the events in Wakfu all take place 1,000 years before the story of DOFUS. The E3-previewed game will follow after Orgrest, who searched far and wide for Dofus, which are six magical dragon eggs. After he found all six eggs for his beloved, he was turned down. In frustration and anger, his tears flooded the world and as a result, most of the Wakfu world is under water.

Ankama Games is already at work on their new title, which is slated to enter a closed-beta program this 2007. They hope to deliver the better humor and unique gameplay experiences that DOFUS delivered and a whole lot more. It will be sporting the following features:

• Persistent World with an autonomous ecosystem
• Turn-based tactical combat system
• Multi-directional scrolling in an 3D isometric world
• All 12 classes from the DOFUS MMORPG
• All new class spells
• Highly customizable look for characters
• Interaction with the environment, ecosystem and the community
• Up to 25,000 players can be online in one world
• Time-limited challenges will be introduced to involve the entire community in real-time
• Guilds based on player profession

The recruiting campaign for beta-testers is already up, and you may sign up for the beta-test newsletter over at the official site of Wakfu. Now it’d be something if Ankama Games can still bag another prize for this new masterpiece at the Independent Games Festival awards at the Game Developers Conference this 2007.

Via Wakfu

 

DOFUS, the MMORPG wonder that drew three million people into its cartoonish, yet stylish world, served as an omen for Ankama Games to start work on a whole new MMORPG. The tactical combat, good versus evil game won several awards in the U.S. and France, including “Audience Award” at the Independent Games Festival back at the 2006 Games Developer Conference, and its characters and visuals have been inspiration for mangas and art books.

While the new title, dubbed Wakfu, will still be based on the storyline as DOFUS, the events in Wakfu all take place 1,000 years before the story of DOFUS. The E3-previewed game will follow after Orgrest, who searched far and wide for Dofus, which are six magical dragon eggs. After he found all six eggs for his beloved, he was turned down. In frustration and anger, his tears flooded the world and as a result, most of the Wakfu world is under water.

Ankama Games is already at work on their new title, which is slated to enter a closed-beta program this 2007. They hope to deliver the better humor and unique gameplay experiences that DOFUS delivered and a whole lot more. It will be sporting the following features:

• Persistent World with an autonomous ecosystem
• Turn-based tactical combat system
• Multi-directional scrolling in an 3D isometric world
• All 12 classes from the DOFUS MMORPG
• All new class spells
• Highly customizable look for characters
• Interaction with the environment, ecosystem and the community
• Up to 25,000 players can be online in one world
• Time-limited challenges will be introduced to involve the entire community in real-time
• Guilds based on player profession

The recruiting campaign for beta-testers is already up, and you may sign up for the beta-test newsletter over at the official site of Wakfu. Now it’d be something if Ankama Games can still bag another prize for this new masterpiece at the Independent Games Festival awards at the Game Developers Conference this 2007.

Via Wakfu