User:WojciechWielgus/sandbox

Margonem
Margonem is a computer game of the genre MMORPG played in a web browser. It was created in 2006 by a group of students of the Silesian University of Technology as a thesis topic of one of them. The copyright for production belongs to Garmory. Initially, Margonem was a non-commercial project, developed for the creators' own pleasure. With time, thanks to the inflow of players, it has evolved into a commercial project. Margonem is a game based on 2D graphics. Participation in the game is free, however Margonem offers a virtual currency called Dragonblade (formerly Dragon's Tears), which is available mainly thanks to micropayments.

Gameplay
The world of peace games nine cities. They include Ithan, Torneg, Karka-han, Werbin, Eder, Mythar, Nithal, Tuzmer and Thuzal. In modern matters, performing their skills. These locations to the place where players wear out after the death of their hero. Devices around them are areas where players gain experience by killing technology there monsters.

The course of the game
The action takes place in a land called Margonem. During registration, each player can choose one of six available professions: a warrior, paladin, blade dancer, mage, hunter or hunter, which affects further play, because each of them has different skills, strengths and available items. The player exploring the land gains experience and items for killing monsters and performing quests. By acquiring new levels, he develops his character, raising his stats and learning new skills. Items obtained from fights are items of equipment. The main sources of income are sales of items at auctions, rewards for completing tasks and selling spoils for gold at the NPC store. Interaction with other players is carried out through chatting, chatting with creatures, clan wars or PvP fights. The consequence of death in the fight is the need to wait for a certain time until the hero regains consciousness. This time depends on the level of experience of the character. The larger the level the hero has, the longer he must wait for awakening.

Development
Since 2006, Margonem has been based on a PHP engine on the server side and DHTML on the client side. In 2008, the performance of PHP turned out to be insufficient to serve the growing number of players, therefore work began on rewriting the game engine in C ++. Since 2010, Margonem is based on an engine written in C ++ and a new client written in HTML using the jQuery library. Graphic design of the game is two-dimensional and made with the pixel art method. The most frequently used graphics format is GIF with transparency. Graphic design refers to the RPG Maker XP program. Maps are based on the so-called tileset (sets of graphics for the game) whose tiles have a size of 32x32 pixels.

Community and media
The statistics of the game show that Margonem has about 300,000 players who run the game under 17 official worlds and 38 private. On November 18, 2011, Margonem ranked sixth in the ranking of the most popular online games in Poland according to the Komputer Świat portal. On October 16, 2013, information was released that in the November issue of the CD-Action magazine an article about Margonem will appear, while on March 3, 2014 the game was described in the PC Format monthly.