Illyriad Voted Top Indie MMO of 2011!

Illyriad has been voted into the Top 100 Indie games of 2011 at IndieDB and is the top Massively Multiplayer game.

There were over 3000+ independent games in this year’s competition and first round votes were entirely chosen by the public. We were thrilled to see the Illyriad community come out in full force to help us get into the top 100 games!

But we need your help again. 

Voting has begun for the final round to choose the top 10 games from this list. Let’s see if Illyriad can win the overall Player Choice award across all categories of Independent Games!

Vote here

After you have voted it should look like this:

Voting closes on December 20. Thank you again for all of your support and for making 2011 a great year for Illyriad!

MMObility: Ten terrific titles for this nifty new netbook

Illyriad was mentioned in Massively’s MMObility column:

“The HTML5-based MMORTS will truly work on any device, as long as it has a browser. I have played it on every phone, tablet, laptop, desktop and now netbook in my home. Once you meet the community and get started, you are likely to forget that the game is actually a free-for-all PvP sandbox. … It’s perfect for a netbook. Hell, it’s perfect for any device.”

You can read the full article here.

MMObility: Ten terrific titles for this nifty new netbook

Interview: Illyriad: The Journey from Concept to HTML5

Andrew J Baker talks to Illyriad CEO James Niesewand about the HTML5 MMORTS Illyriad, from initial concept to release to adoption of HTML5 and continued development. As well as advice for new and old developers of persistent HTML5 games.

You can read the interview on Gamasutra.

Andrew J. Baker was a speaker at the first HTML5 games conference onGameStart, and is the developer of the work-in-progress HTML5 game Fleeting Fantasy and promoter of the browser-based games channel (#bbg) on irc.freenode.net

Review : ThriftyGamer.ca

Illyriad has just been reviewed by ThriftyGamer.ca

“Illyriad is a massively multiplayer browser-based empire-building real time strategy game (and a kitchen sink!). When you think of free-to-play browser games which can be linked to Facebook, you probably imagine being bombarded with advertisements and the feeling that, without ponying up some cash, you aren’t getting the full experience. This, however, is not the case at all with Illyriad. I could tell right away that this game was special.”

You can read the full review here.