Great news: I’ve migrated the player user database from my old MMORPG project into this new engine on rizae.com.
This game is now about two years old, and over that time around 30 people have logged in and played (at different moments). I moved their accounts into the new project - including login, password, and game progress - so returning players can continue without starting from scratch.
I also completely reworked the MMORPG itself. All character names are new and unique (Leon, Mira Ray, Fia from the Arden family), with an anime-inspired visual style, character design, and overall art direction for the world of Bree village and Alta city.
All images were generated with OpenAI tools through a curated process - I executed hundreds of specific manual queries (for example: “elf girl with pink short hair, magic wand, and mantle”). It took a lot of effort: around 200 prompts, many retries, and plenty of frustration. Sometimes characters came out distorted, oddly colored, or with extra/missing limbs. AI is still far from perfect - it can produce a great single image, but generating many consistent images of the same original character is genuinely difficult.
I redesigned the character visuals too: now they’re full-body, which looks much better on mobile.
Why do all this if the game isn’t monetized and only a few people play? Honestly: because I’m genuinely interested. I love programming, building projects, writing code, learning, and creating - it brings me a huge amount of joy. All source code, animations, stylesheets, dialogue scripts, character names, and world lore were manually written without AI generation. This is my life, and I’m happy with it.
I plan to invest a lot of energy into this project. Follow its development - I’ll add dozens of new characters (teachers, travelers, friends, and many more anime-inspired personalities), plus filters and more features to turn it into a big, interesting world.
The only thing I really need is people - users - because it’s mentally hard to build a project just for yourself. But building it for even 50 people already feels motivating and rewarding.
Thank you for your attention and support.
