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" and "Lusternia, Age of Ascension". Matt Mihaly is its founder and CEO. Iron Realms Entertainment is known for three things: 1. Supporting its games through the sale of virtual items. 2. Heavy player-based political systems in its games. 3. Complex combat systems in its games.[1] Each game gives users the option of buying credits, which can be used to expedite the learning of skills, used as a special currency, and even be sold to other players for in-game gold. Iron Realms Entertainment is currently developing two games:
- Midkemia Online, a text MUD game based on author Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia world, for which Iron Realms has exclusive license.
- Earth Eternal, a graphical MMO announced on January 10, 2007. Players' avatars are anthropomorphic animals, called "Beasts". The game covers a wide range of established mythology. [2].
It also created the Rapture virtual world engine, which is being used by all four of its flagship MUDs. The engine used to be available for commercial licensing but this is no longer true. [1] 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[3].
History
Iron Realms Entertainment LLC{IRE} was originally founded as Achaea LLC in 1996. After the release of Aetolia in 2001 Achaea LLC was renamed into Iron Realms LLC. In 2004 IRE was featured in Computer Gaming World due to their release of an in game drug known as Gleam[4]. They were also mentioned in Wired[5] for the same reason. Achaea was featured during the June 10th, 2004 episode of The Screen Savers.[6]
