PlayNoEvil posted an interview
on Friday that the author did with me recently. It’s probably got the best history of Iron Realms I’ve seen, though it’s basically a history of the business rather than the individual games. I even created a very high-level timeline of our history for it. That’s it!
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September 11th, 2006 at 9:57 am
Michael Chui
Matt… something you don’t mention is when IRE itself was formed. I seem to remember that Achaea was run by Achaea, LLC for a while? My memory is imperfect.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:02 am
Matt
Ahh, I don’t remember if that was edited out of the interview or if the question wasn’t asked. Iron Realms Entertainment is the same company as Achaea, LLC. I just had the name legally changed.
–matt
September 11th, 2006 at 11:00 am
PlayNoEvil
I don’t think the question was asked in that form. So, to clarify, there is Iron Realms, plus three additional companies for the current follow-on games (and presumably 2 more for the games under development).
September 11th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Clayton
I just finished reading this interview and it was very enlightening I must say. The history was very interesting and I really enjoyed it.
Matt, Bravo at all the stuff you have accomplished!
September 13th, 2006 at 3:47 am
Ronald/Azhrarn
*chuckle* sure brought a few old memories back.
especially the thing about the non-coded cures.. it happened more than a few times that i got stuck because i was hit by my own secreted venom. :S
I can tell ya I was very happy that sarapis showed up at odd times of night quite reguarly.
September 13th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Kris L
Isn’t it just IRE for all the games and the ones upcoming? That is what I thought it was. The games have individual producers, but to me they’ve all been considered IRE.
September 13th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Matt
That is correct, Kris. They are all Iron Realms games.
–matt
September 14th, 2006 at 4:49 am
Style
Heh, very very very interesting reading, brought back much memories, from both avalon and achaea, and reminding me of fact that you still owes me a mount for winning some offering competition back in avalon days.. about 10 years ago.
I seem to remember in around 96 or 97, there was also a few other projects that licence the vortex engine…. a fantasy one called “Cardea” or something, and a victorian one called “Age of.. something”. Are those projects related to Iron Realms at all?
September 14th, 2006 at 10:48 am
Matt
Style: Sorry about the mount!
Cardea was a MUD started about the same time as Achaea, but it never went anywhere. We eventually yanked their Vortex license due to repeated license violations (not paying us) on their part. I think Cardea is still running. In fact, I just telnetted to cardea-rpg.com and indeed it is. 10 years later, and it’s still in beta! Heh heh.
The Victorian one you’re thinking of is actually 17th century France. It’s called Age of the Throne, but is/was using the Hourglass engine. It’s still around I think, with a small handful of players.
–matt