1. Mabinogi Duel

Type: Mobile Game
Genre: Card Game
Mabinogi duel is a strategic card trading game optimized for mobile devices. With 5 resources and a deck consisting of 12 cards, players can delicate tactics and enjoy real time battles and asynchronous match play. Also, Mabinogi duel allows card exchanging with other players.

2. Legion of Heroes: Raid

Type: Mobile Game
Genre: Real Time Action RPG
Legion of Heroes: Raid is the real time action RPG, which uses the Legion of Heroes IP, a popular mobile RPG title up until now. Since it has successfully realized raid’s fun point onto mobile, which may have experienced from online games, players will be able to enjoy real-time strategic battles.

3. Dominations

Type: Mobile Game
Genre: Battle Strategy
Dominations is the authentic battle strategy game from Big Huge Games by Brian Reynolds, a legendary game designer of “Civilization 2″ and “Rise of Nations”. It is truly a global blockbuster on mobile, providing incomparable achievement to users through developing of each different civilizations, and excitement through competing their strategy against other players with battle and siege warfare.

4. Gwanggaeto The Great

Type: Mobile Game
Genre: Strategy & Real Time Strategy
Gwanggaeto The Great is Taegon Kim’s new title, another Korean style strategy game with historical settings coming 15 years after Limjinrok. Users will be able to enjoy two modes, “Strategy Mode” protecting one’s own land but invading the other’s land at the same time, and RTS (Real-Time Strategy) providing strategic simulations battles along with others.

5. Durango

Type:  Mobile Game
Genre: Open world MMORPG
Durango is a “pioneering open-world MMORPG” providing experiences that players from the modern times are put into a wild environment and challenged to survive and build a communities. The game features a new and different way to play online games, such as survival, exploration, hunting and society construction, which allow players to use their creativity and thinking power.

6. Aima

Type: PC Online Game
Genre: MMORPG
Aima is a new keyboard action MMORPG being developed by KOG. Users can experience MMORPG’s massive contents by using only keyboard controls. Among the various contents, the brand new job changing system “Guardian” where users can collect different classes and transform them into advanced forms will provide the joy of experiencing rhythmical action packed with fascinating hit impact.

7. Peria Chronicles

Type: PC Online Game
Genre: MMORPG
Peria Chronicles is a cel-shaded animation style MMORPG allowing players high and unlimited level of freedom, and provides friendly visuals which completely capture players. Peria Chronicles is featuring a unique combat system using Kirana, which makes the battles more strategic with gorgeously fancy actions. Also, players can enjoy creating their own contents to be components of the world.

8. Hyper Universe

Type: PC Online Game
Genre: MMO Strategy Game
Hyper Universe is an online game developed by Cwavesoft, featuring battles of HYPERs who are psychics chosen to save the universe from the apocalypse in Hyper Universe, a supernational hub where all the universe are connected to each another.

9. Closers

Type: PC Online Game
Genre: Action Game
Closers is a side-scrolling action game, where users become a psychic who defends Earth, fighting against the dimensional monsters invading through dimensional gates. Stylish visual effects give the users dynamic combat experiences. Also, with actual landmarks from Seoul such as “Gangnam Station” and “Gooro Station” as a background, users can enjoy the excitement of playing an action game they have never experienced.

10. Maple Story 2

Type: PC Online Game
Genre: MMORPG
Maple Story 2, an isometric 3D MMORPG, is featured in a block-based world. MapleStory2 allows players to customize their own unique characters and to enjoy its dynamic combat system. There are many activities you can partake in MapleStory2, and the game will bring a new level of excitement by providing user generated contents, which allow users to create their own costumes as well as their houses.

11. Preta

Type: Mobile Game
Genre: Action RPG
Preta is a medieval fantasy action RPG with various competitive elements as well as cooperative contents from dynamic battles and cooperative quests to PvE ranking competition and PvP guild tournaments battles.

12. Sudden Attack 2

Type: PC Online Game
Genre: FPS
Powered by Unreal Engine 3, Sudden Attack 2 provides fun and intense battles featuring high-quality graphic and enhanced hit impact. The know-how that NEXON GT has built by servicing Sudden Attack and making it a leading online FPS game, the advanced technical skills, and the unique contents of Sudden Attack 2 will present a incomparable joy of playing FPS games.

13. Ghost in the Shell

Type: PC Online Game
Genre: FPS
The online FPS game Ghost in the Shell Online is built upon a world view based on the original animation. It provides main characters and skills from the original and offers players chances to engage in the differentiated battle plays. Also, a skill sharing system between players using “an electronic brain network” is designed for the players to enjoy advanced cooperative battles.

14. Arpiel

Type: PC Online Game
Genre: RPG
Arpiel is a quarter-view style RPG developed by Ngine Studios. By Arpiel’s two key feature “Awakening” system and “Skill Deck” system, players can get into dynamics combats with characters designed based on various animals such as snake rabbit, and tiger. Also, players will be able to widen their experiences in the world of Arpiel through a wide range of life contents provided during the game play.

15. Tree of Savior

Type: PC Online Game
Genre: MMORPG
“Tree of Savior” is an orthodox MMORPG with high degree of freedom, which depicts heroes’ adventure to find vanished goddess in the world covered all over with plants. Featured with its fun to raise about 80 distinctive classes, and coexistence of diverse cooperative and competitive missions, Tree of Savior claims to be an authentic open world MMORPG. Also filled with its charming pictorial graphic assets and vast contents, Tree of Savior will give players brand new and novel experiences.

Source

Using latest technologies such as HTML 5, Javascript and WebGL, (private) server owners can now use roBrowser as a cross platform solution to publish their game to players who are using different Operating Systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) and can even support smart TVs and smartphones. As long as the players have a device that supports WebGL (1) and OpenGL ES2.0 (popular browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Opera and IE11), they can run the full game from their favorite device. Sounds too good to be true? Here’s the catch, roBrowser is still in early stage of its development.

(1) API (application Programing Interface) tools for rendering 2D and 3D graphics for web browsers

How does roBrowser Work?

In the past, your computer does all the processing and rendering of Ragnarok Online game. With roBrowser and the power of HTML5, the server and your internet connection does all the heavy lifting. This is achieved by installing a remote client in the server that extracts the GRF files (Ragnarok Online files are all packed in GRF files) and sends it across the internet to the player’s browser.

The original Ragnarok Online software is installed in the server and players have to download contents from the server in order to play the game. So during an upgrade, server admin only needs to update the server’s copy of the game, everybody else will receive update on the fly. This means no more drawn out downtimes between upgrade and maintenance fixes.

For those with slower internet connections, loading screen can take a while. In Prontera map alone, there are up to 312 graphics files to load. This is temporarily fixed in March 25, 2014, where roBrowser has been improved to allow optional loading of Ragnarok Online files directly from the client’s computer. This means having a fully installed client in the PC will help speed up the loading process.

Development Progress

While the roBrowser client is still in its development stage, it is constantly being tested and improved by contributors. The following are the projects completed:

• Basic Interfaces
• Basic Mechanics
• Pets System
• NPC shops
• Emotions and Status ailments
• Card System
• Trade Interfaces
• Party System

Other features such as guild, cart inventory, auction system, vending skill, cash shops interface and default sprites are all still in development. roBrowser is an open source project that uses the GNU Free Documentation License. This means that anybody with the necessary programming skills can get involved in the project and help develop roBrowser to support more features in Ragnarok Online. If you want to contribute and speed up the works of roBrowser, please visit roBrowser Github page for more info.

Testing the roBrowser Experience

Left: This screen lets you drag and drop your full Ragnarok Online install to enhance loading screen loading speed.

Right: Logging into the demo version of roBrowser

Left: Character selection screen. Many other people has already tested the game so quite a few characters has been created. I simply picked one.

Right: Prontera, Capital of Rune Midgard. It has been awhile since I last came here.

Left: Apparently for the demo roBrowser the host added Porings in the city. Gives me the chance to flex my l337 skills.

Right: Bullying Orcs in Orc Dungeon

Left: It takes a pro to die to Orcs and bats in Orc Dungeon Level 1 with a level 99 character.

Right: Most skills work and have proper animations.

Overall it was a decent experience in the demo server considering roBrowser is in beta stage. Most skills work, only issue is some animations might not work largely because a lot of effects that are hardcoded into Ragnarok Online and do not rely on files to be displayed. Give it a try yourself.

For (private) server publishers, visit the getting started page to learn how to set it up for your server. Keep in mind that roBrowser does not have full Ragnarok Online functions in the game.

Servers That Support roBrowser

If you’re keen on trying out roBrowser, I have listed a few servers that allows testing. The most awesome thing about this is even if you don’t have RO installed in your PC right now, you can have a nostalgic taste of RO just by visiting any of the sites below. Enjoy!

• roBrowser Demo
• ROwser.net – First roBrowser private server
• GatheringRO – Existing private server to support roBrowser

Bear in mind that because roBrowser is still in beta development stage. This means you will not enjoy the full game the servers below offer. Read development progress again.

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