Who are we?

We at OpenTibia.dev are a small subset of a larger Open Tibia community known as otland which has over the years largely turned from being an open source community to a very tricky egomaniacal business community masquerading as an open source community with no respect for free speech / any questions or criticism at all, changing their own rules when it benefits them, harassing and eventually banning users that doesn't submit to their no-questions-asked program, etc.

In response we made OpenTibia.dev, dedicated to the open source maintenance and future of Open Tibia and free speech within the boundaries of international law, common sense and rules when stated.

Since our advertisement thread was almost instantaneously deleted from otland, not allowing other developers a chance to even know of our existence, we're only a hand full of developers in the discord, most of which seem fairly inactive, so we may have a long way to go recreating our old community, but the good news is that all the software is Open Source and available to everyone, the only real thing missing are tutorials, talks, discussions and collaboration between developers.

What are we?

Open Tibia is an open source version of the proprietary game Tibia (© 1997 CipSoft GmbH), one of the first 2D tile-based MMORPGs to exist at the time, written in C++ and Lua, also extensively using MySQL and XML for file storage of server data.
As a community our goals are loosely to replace all proprietary assets (currently it's only common practice to borrow sprite assets, though not strictly required) used for the game and create a framework/engine that allows any user to create their own 2D tile-based multiplayer game with relative ease.
Many developers are also trying to create their own game simultaneously, myself included.

What are we looking for?

As an Open Source community we're looking for C++ developers to further and improve the development of Open Tibia and wiki contributors to create documentation and tutorials related to the use and development of Open Tibia.

Information

For more information about Open Tibia and what can be made from it see https://www.gamedev.net/projects/3001-open-tibia/​ for the project page, https://wiki.opentibia.dev/​ for the wiki, https://wiki.opentibia.dev/view/User:Admin/Projects/Open_Tibia​ for a peek into my personal Open Tibia projects, and https://otland.net/​ (VPN recommended) for old articles and some base level of discussion/exchange of vague ideas and similar.

Our discord and web forum can be found in the menu at the front page of the main website: https://opentibia.dev/​