Animus

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Game information

Our most important project, Animus Online will become a leading online strategy and RPG game.

Ixian Corp is scheduled to launch it some time within the summer of 2008 (the date is not yet decided upon), and it will benefit from nearly all of Ixian Corp's side projects (like the IXID or the IXchange). As it should be normal and obvious, Animus Online will need to wait for the other projects' coding completion.

Story and setting

The game itself takes place in a fantasy world. Animus, the main god of the realms, has gotten bored with the way things are running, and has therefore invited all souls to participate in what is to be perhaps the most advanced world politics, military, economic and personal simulation. His goal is far from setting everyone to destroy each other, but rather a selection of champions to tutor and offer responsibilities to.

The god, Animus, is assisted by eight secondary gods, who will occasionally test players or fend from their attacks in order to further strengthen the soul and make it realize that vast armies and immensely powerful artifacts will value nothing with the passing of time. The gods represent the eight elements of the world: Earth, Air, Water, Fire, Chaos, Order, Life and Death.

Each soul that achieves a certain level of power and demonstrates his good rule over his followers is then invited to ascend and evolve into something of greater power and knowledge. Starting from the simple soul that is embodied into a king to rule his followers and ending with an almost godlike force not to be reckoned with, each soul has the chance of replacing one of the eight secondary gods in their eternal pursuit for evolving and gaining limitless ammounts of power.

As a player, you are one such soul.

Gameplay

You will be able to create one or more kings according to your wishes and imagination, you will be able to lead your armies on a strategic map or, should you and your opponent wish, you will be able to lead your army in battle yourself. And while you are not concerned with the affairs of your kingdoms, help your kings gather more battle scars to take pride in through dungeons, mazes and fiery pits of doom in the RPG mode.

Customizing the king (and, inveitably, the kingdom) will require that you choose the race (planned are many races, such as Human, Orc, Undead, Demon, Faery, Elf, Troll, Avian, etc.), the sphere (one of the eight spheres, the one champion being able to choose the ninth sphere, that of Animus) and the alignment (good, neutral, evil and freaky), each with their own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.

Animus will be played at an economical level (being necessary to manage resources and trade with other players), a strategical level (you will be able to move troops according to your own will - and sometimes the will of your stronger foes), a magical level (you will be able to evolve and cast increasingly powerful and diverse spells), a tactical level (under certain circumstances, you will be able to actually lead your armies in battle), a political level (alliances, pacts and inter-kingdom relationships are mandatory for successful gaming experience) and a role-playing level (your king is a person onto itself, and can complete quests, evolve his stats and attributes, fight, and so on).

Requirements

Playing the game requires nothing but a browser, an Internet connection and exactly the ammount of time you wish to invest in it. It is designed to be free for play, and no fee will ever be charged for simply participating in the game.

Features

As a novelty, Ixian Corp does not impose the same limitation as many other online games do, and that is having one player account only. Through the new IXID project, you will be able to play with many accounts, all managed through one single IXID account.

Furthermore, Animus will be the first online game to effectively have a tactical battle map.

The game will be played on 3 progressive and increasingly complex realms, each new player starting on the lowest realm and having the ability to ascend to higher, more intricate and more fun to play realms.

Most important of all, the game actually has a purpose, it is not necessarily an on-going, never-ending game. Your mission: Defeat the god, Animus, and thus become his champion !

There have also been rumours through Ixian Corp about Animus Online that contain a high concentration of words such as "prizes", "rewards", "coupons" and "promotion", and also a certain design-and-add-on-dedicated rumour that was nearly full with the word "contest", perhaps some of these rumours might become true.