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{{StendhalManual}}
 
==What is Stendhal ?==
Are you looking for adventure? Do you want to fight for riches? Do you want to develop yourself and your social standing and meet new people? Or do you want to be part of a brave new world?
 
You can do all those things in Stendhal. Stendhal is a fullfully fledged multiplayer online adventures game (MMORPG) developed using the [[Arianne]] game development system.
 
Stendhal features a new, rich and expanding world in which you can explore towns, buildings, plains, caves and dungeons. You will meet [[StendhalNPC|NPCs]] and acquire tasks and quests for valuable items, experience and cold hard cash.
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# A nice community.
# Lots of creatures to kill.
# Lots of quests to complete and NPCs to meet.
 
==Aims of Stendhal==
Stendhal aims to makegive you have a fun time.
Stendhal features a world in constant evolution, with tons of interesting quests to accomplish and thousandshundreds of friends to meet.
And the best of it is that it is a never ending game :)
 
==What do I need to play Stendhal?==
Stendhal is a ''Java'' game and works in any platform that is able to run the Sun Java or OpenJDK JRE, that includes:
* Windows
* Linux
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So you need at least [http://java.com/ Java 1.5] to run it.
Right now Stendhal won't work with GCJ, so if you are a developer with experience in GCJ, you may want to help porting Stendhal to SDLjava.