industry video game industry genre massively multiplayer online role playing games founded 2003 founder zad el mehdawi tasos flambouras spiros iordanis headquarters athens greece key people claus grovdal game design 2003 2014 vangelis kalaitzis game design al stellakis writing henning ludvigsen art director 2003 2010 ricki sickenger game logic 2003 2010 kjetil helland lead programmer erik sperling johansen lead server programmer 2003 2010 thanasis nikolopoulos programming jon massey programming products darkfall darkfall unholy wars number of employees 48 website aventurine sa homepage aventurine sa is a greek independent video game developer and publisher founded in 2003 located in athens greece . they are the developers of darkfall a massively multiplayer online role playing game also known as darkfall online . contents 1 history 2 titles 2.1 darkfall 2.2 darkfall unholy wars 3 technology 4 research projects 5 references 6 external links history edit in july 2000 claus grovdal kjetil helland and ricki sickenger founded razorwax as in oslo norway for the purpose of making online games . soon they were joined by erik sperling johansen and henning ludvigsen and in august 2001 they announced the development of darkfall . 1 in 2002 the group relocated to join zad el mehdawi tasos flambouras and spiros iordanis and found aventurine sa in athens greece in order to continue developing darkfall . 2 titles edit darkfall edit darkfall online is sandbox mmorpg released on february 25 2009 and was published in north america and europe . darkfall online s servers shut down on november 15 2012 . 3 darkfall unholy wars edit darkfall unholy wars is the sequel of darkfall and was released on april 16 2013 . 4 in june 2012 aventurine signed a deal with mgame corporation a korean game publisher and developer to release the new version of darkfall to the asian market . 5 technology edit aventurine s core technology consists of their real time 3d engine . research projects edit aventurine participates in formal research initiatives in order to benefit from the collaborative research networks supported by european union frameworks . some examples include 6 aventurine received development grants for darkfall online by the hellenic ministry of development related to law 3299 2004 private investment for economic growth and regional convergence the project development marketing and distribution of the subscription based online game darkfall was funded by the information society under measure 4.3 advanced telecommunications services for the citizen for the action funding of enterprises for implementation of advanced broadband services . the hellenic secretariat of research and technology funded aventurine s research proposal for the design and development of next generation 3d engine technologies . partner in a joint research proposal on virtual collaborative environments with the university of dublin mit s medialab europe siemens fraunhofer gesellshcaft and sintef telecom and informatics under the eu sixth framework programme s e inclusion research initiative . partner in a joint research proposal on the development validation and promotion of a standard file format designed to support the efficient reuse of 3d data . other partners include the politecnico di torino samtech group giugarospa csa spain university of dresden octaga living solids instituto technologico de catilla y leon . the research was part of the eu s specific targeted research projects . references edit darkfall interview . retrieved 2013 04 11 . darkfall developer journal 1 about adventurine . retrieved 2013 04 11 . past & present subscribers play free . retrieved 2013 04 11 . darkfall unholy wars launch april 16 . retrieved 2013 04 11 . darkfall from greece to asia . retrieved 2013 04 11 . research . retrieved 2013 04 11 . external links edit aventurine sa homepage darkfall unholy wars aventurine mini documentary retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aventurine sa & oldid 720201730 categories video game companies of greecevideo game development companiesvideo game publishers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 may 2016 at 09 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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