Industry Video game industry Headquarters Marousi, Greece Number of employees 48 | Website Aventurine SA homepage Founded 2003 Type Privately held company | |
Genre Massively multiplayer online role-playing games Founder Zad El Mehdawi, Tasos Flambouras, Spiros Iordanis Key people Claus Grovdal (Game Design) (2003-2014)
Vangelis Kalaitzis (Game Design)
Al Stellakis (Writing)
Henning Ludvigsen (Art Director) (2003-2010)
Ricki Sickenger (Game Logic) (2003-2010)
Kjetil Helland (Lead Programmer)
Erik Sperling Johansen (Lead Server Programmer) (2003-2010)
Thanasis Nikolopoulos (Programming)
Jon Massey (Programming) Products Darkfall, Darkfall Unholy Wars Video games Darkfall, Darkfall Unholy Wars | ||
Aventurine SA is a Greek independent video game developer and publisher founded in 2003, located in Athens, Greece. They are the developers of Darkfall, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, also known as Darkfall Online.
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History
In July 2000 Claus Grovdal, Kjetil Helland and Ricki Sickenger founded Razorwax AS in Oslo, Norway for the purpose of making online games. Soon they were joined by Erik Sperling Johansen and Henning Ludvigsen and in August 2001, they announced the development of Darkfall.
In 2002 the group relocated to join Zad El Mehdawi, Tasos Flambouras and Spiros Iordanis and found Aventurine SA in Athens, Greece, in order to continue developing Darkfall.
Darkfall
Darkfall Online is sandbox MMORPG released on February 25, 2009 and was published in North America and Europe. Darkfall Online's servers shut down on November 15, 2012.
Darkfall Unholy Wars
Darkfall Unholy Wars is the sequel of Darkfall and was released on April 16, 2013.
In June 2012 Aventurine signed a deal with MGame Corporation, a Korean game publisher and developer, to release the new version of Darkfall to the Asian market.
Technology
Aventurine's core technology consists of their real-time 3D engine.
Research projects
Aventurine participates in formal research initiatives in order to benefit from the collaborative research networks supported by European Union Frameworks. Some examples include: