Alchemic Dream
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Alchemic Dream, Inc. | |
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Type | privately-owned company |
Founded | 2001 |
Headquarters | Shawinigan, Canada |
Key people | Aurélien Merville, CEO Philippe Nadeau, COO |
Industry | Interactive entertainment MMOG Management |
Employees | 150+ |
Website | Corporate Website Community Website Community Newsfeed site |
Alchemic Dream Inc. is an online gaming company founded in 2001 and whose headquarters are located in Shawinigan, Canada. The company's aim is to offer MMOG (massively multiplayer online games) management solutions to its clients.
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[edit] Introduction to the company
Alchemic Dream offers a catalogue of MMO Games (massively multiplayer online games). The different AD Teams handle localization, technical support, customer service, community management and/or ingame events management (campaigns, scenarios and scripts, contests, etc.) for the games they are assigned to, corresponding to the wishes of their respective clients. Those clients include, but aren't limited to, Linden Lab, Codemasters , Auran[1] and many others.
The company owns a community portal (PlayMMO.com) which gathers corporate information and the latest news related to all of AD's products as well as a contest section and forums in which the different game communities can meet and discuss.
Alchemic Dream has its own corporate blog, Dreaming Alchemists, where game masters, CSRs, translators and others talk about their own experiences in and out of the company.
Alchemic Dream also operates a news feed siteMMPOWthat is fed news by users using the PLIGG technology, letting users vote for the most pertinent MMO related news.
AD has recently launched a subsidiary company, located in Mysore, India (AD India)[2].
On November the 14th, 2007, Alchemic Dream announced their partnership with Flying Lab for their MMORPG Pirates of the Burning Sea[3].
As from December the 6th, 2007 Codemasters partly ceased their cooperation with Alchemic Dream. This cancellation of contract only affects the CSR services AD is providing for Codemasters (mainly DDO & LOTRO).[4]
[edit] Titles AD is currently active
The Alchemic Dream Teams are or have been involved in the following MMOG titles:
- A Tale in the Desert[5]
- Adellion[6]
- ArchLord[7]
- Call of the Kings[8]
- Dark and Light[9]
- Dreamlords[10]
- Dungeons and Dragons Online[11]
- Entropia Universe[12]
- Fury[13]
- Kwari[14]
- Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar[15]
- Pirates of the Burning Sea[16]
- RF Online[17]
- Second Life[18]
[edit] Games where AD used to work for
- Neocron - Cyberpunk MMORPG (Alchemic Dream's involvement ceased in September 2005)
- Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game
[edit] References
- ^ Auran Establishes Partnership with Alchemic Dream For Fury - MMOsite News Center
- ^ Alchemic Dream creates AD India, Deccan Herald, 24 November 2006.
- ^ Alchemic Dream sets sail for the Burning Sea with Flying Lab's brand new MMO.
- ^ Codemasters forum - Codemasters expand internal support teams
- ^ PlayMMO.com - A Tale in the Desert
- ^ PlayMMO.com - Adellion
- ^ PlayMMO.com - Archlord
- ^ PlayMMO.com - Call of the Kings
- ^ PlayMMO.com - Dark and Light
- ^ PlayMMO.com - Dreamlords
- ^ PlayMMO.com - DDO
- ^ PlayMMO.com - Entropia Universe
- ^ FURY - http://www.unleashthefury.com
- ^ Kwari and Alchemic Dream Team Up // GamesIndustry.biz
- ^ PlayMMO.com - LOTRO
- ^ Alchemic Dream sets sail for the Burning Sea with Flying Lab's brand new MMO.
- ^ PlayMMO.com - RF Online
- ^ http://www.playmmo.com/game-secondlife.php?lang=en
[edit] Links
- Corporate Website
- PlayMMO - Community Portal
- Dreaming Alchemists - Corporate Blog