Tirnua is a free, browser-based simulation game world. Edit your rooms, hang out with your friends, trade objects, play mini games. It is the latest venture started by Luc Barthelet, former Senior Vice President with Electronic Arts.

The scenery in the game is isometric 2D but the characters are rendered with Papervision3D so the Tirnuans have unlimited number of animations.

Tirnua is constantly in development with new features added every single week.

High Level Design Direction

Tirnua is a virtual world, designed by its community. It will consists of many locations owned by its users, and of several content creation tools developed by the development team.

The game will be freely accessible to everyone, and objects will be purchasable from Tirnua and from other players.

The locations will be accessible from many places:

* by launching the Tirnua game and navigating on a map
* by navigating to a web page from the persona book and entering a location own by that persona.
* by installing an application in a social network and accessing the location through a simple flash application

The locations will consist of a selectable but non editable surrounding (the view) and a large editable space that users will modify and edit at will using the custom content tools. As Margaret described in her first blog post, the first surroundings will be dream places like islands, beaches, mountain tops, or forests. The locations will vary in size from a simple room to several kilometer square. Objects will be added to the locations to make them interesting, and to enable the persona to do something. All objects will be trade-able between users. Everything in the game will be a trade-able object.

The fundamental game reward is provided by Tirnua in the form of seeds. Seeds are a crucial way for Tirnuans to grow plants. Each seed includes unique DNA that will provide a unique plant. Through naturally occurring mutations, some of those plants will grow into rare plants that we believe will be very valuable to some Tirnuans.

Growing plants is a key activity for all Tirnuans. It is harder than it seems. Slowly more complex ecosystems will emerge. Where in real life, people need money to acquire items, it is much easier in Tirnua, since the virtual items are so much cheaper than in real life. While in real life the environmental cost of most goods appear to be free to people, in Tirnua that cost will be highlighted and will not be ignored.