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ACTIVE 09/ 16

Ryzom – Atys

Test chamber 09. Ryzom. Welcome to Atys.

Ryzom – Atys

Ryzom is an online role-playing game that has been running since 2004 and whose code has been open since 2010. It is played on Atys, a living planet of giant plants. Since 2014 this lab has been part of the Ryzom team: on the events, on the code and on the servers everything runs on.

On the team since2014
Online since2004
Commits2,000+
To tryfree

Experimental setup

  1. 01
    OOC events. Halloween, Atysmas, Easter, the Summer Games: for years the big events for all players have come out of this lab. The idea, scripts in the ARK event system, decorations with the Scene Editor, client and server patches for Steam and the game’s own launcher, patch notes and the announcement. A deadline is a deadline.
  2. 02
    The Ranger Rite. When the Rangers arrived as a new faction in 2018, many of the missions, maps, decorations and translations for their rite came from this lab. Before that, the Matis and the Kincher rites.
  3. 03
    Hide n Hype and Goo Madness. Event games of our own. In the hide-and-seek game Hide n Hype a server hands out clues and counts who has been found, with its own interface and chat commands in the client, since Easter 2025. In Goo Madness towers, guards and finally a boss fall, and a counter in the background knows how far the players have got.
  4. 04
    Tools for admins and GMs. The command toolbar and the teleport interface in the game, tools for the GM island, web apps right inside the client, plus ryzom-bosses.com and a build system of our own for test clients.
  5. 05
    The code. Autocomplete for chat commands, emoji in the chat, crash fixes and closed security holes in the server. Plus the clients for Linux, Windows and macOS, and new regions like the Corrupted Moor with missions, NPCs and mobs.
  6. 06
    When it is on fire. A server goes down at three in the morning, a patch has to ship today: analyse the crash, build the hotfix, tell the players. Outside working hours too.
  7. 07
    Rygif. A GIF player of our own for the game client, built in 2025, with its own window. What played on it for Atysmas 2025: a Rickroll. The players were not warned. That was the point.

Why?

Because a world that its players have kept alive for more than twenty years deserves every bit of help. And because it is fun when an event you built is suddenly full of people.

Test result

Passed. Every event went live on time. The test subjects hid and were found. Mostly.

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