| Type | Self |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Genre | Massively multiplayer online role-playing games |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder(s) | Zad El Mehdawi, Tasos Flambouras, Spiros Iordanis |
| Headquarters | Athens, Greece |
| Key people | Claus Grovdal, Game Design/Producer Tasos Flambouras, Associate Producer/Vice President Henning Ludvigsen, Art Director Ricki Sickenger, Lead Tools/Game Logic Programmer Kjetil Helland, Lead 3D/Client Programmer Erik Sperling Johansen, Lead Server Programmer |
| Products | Darkfall |
| Employees | 48 |
| Website | Aventurine SA homepage |
Aventurine SA is a Greek video game developer and publisher. The company's first game, Darkfall (a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, also known as Darkfall Online),[1][2] is currently active.
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Aventurine absorbed all five members of the Norwegian company Razorwax who joined Tasos Flambouras , Spiros Iordanis and Jade El Mehdawi. Aventurine was officially founded in 2003 in Athens, Greece, ostensibly to create the technologies that make games like Darkfall Online possible, and out of these, Darkfall was born. The game is currently under release for both North America and Europe.
Aventurine's core technology consists of their cutting edge real-time 3D Engine, a system of tools allowing users to create custom 3D environments and scenarios, and proprietary network technologies which allow the internetworking of thousands of simultaneous users inside graphically intensive 3D environments.
Darkfall Online: A groundbreaking subscription based Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game for the global market of online games. Darkfall went live on February 25th 2009. It's self-published by Aventurine SA in North America and Europe. Most of Aventurine's resources are dedicated to the continued development of Darkfall and the release of free expansions to the game.
Ground-breaking games can't be created without engaging in serious research. There's research happening at Aventurine every day but the company also participates in formal research initiatives in order to benefit from the collaborative research networks supported by European Union Frameworks. The following are some examples of what they've been doing so far: