At Sidular, we’re not just shaping digital landscapes—we’re crafting new worlds that promise adventure, creativity, and boundless possibilities. Ularthia, our upcoming sandbox MMORPG, represents our commitment to innovation and our passion for the genre. This game is built on the shoulders of giants, drawing inspiration from iconic titles like New World, EVE Online, Elder Scrolls Online, Final Fantasy XIV Online, Black Desert Online, and the anime Sword Art Online. By blending the best features of these masterpieces with bold new ideas, Ularthia is shaping up to be a truly transformative experience.

A PvPvE Experience with Full-Time PvP

Ularthia’s dynamic gameplay centers around a thrilling PvPvE system that combines player-versus-environment and player-versus-player interactions. Outside of towns and designated safe areas, full PvP is always active, encouraging high-stakes battles and fostering a competitive environment. This constant potential for combat makes every journey an exciting and strategic endeavor, where players must balance risk and reward.

A Sandbox Universe with Theme Park Touches

While Ularthia is predominantly a sandbox MMORPG that prioritizes freedom and player agency, it also incorporates subtle theme park elements to enhance the experience. These features include curated adventures and quests that guide players through the vast and ever-evolving world, adding layers of narrative and discovery to the player-driven exploration.

Infinite Crafting: Unleashing Full Creative Potential

One of Ularthia’s standout features is its truly infinite crafting system, designed to empower players with unmatched creative freedom. This complex system allows players to create completely unique items, both functionally and visually, enabling them to express their individuality through crafting. Whether building tools, weapons, armor, or structures, every item becomes a testament to the creator’s vision and ingenuity.

Guided by the Greats

Ularthia’s development is heavily influenced by some of the most beloved titles in the MMORPG genre:

• New World: Thrilling first-person combat mechanics serve as the foundation for immersive, strategic battles.
• EVE Online: A dynamic, player-driven economy where every item has real-world value encourages entrepreneurship and trade.
• Elder Scrolls Online: A medieval atmosphere and sword-fighting ideas, refined to push the boundaries of immersive gameplay.
• Final Fantasy XIV Online: Rich world-building, fantasy tones, and storytelling influence Ularthia’s expansive universe.
• Black Desert Online: Fluid, fighting-game-style combat inspires engaging and rewarding battle mechanics.
• Sword Art Online: The iconic tower system inspires layered progression, offering challenges and mysteries to unlock as players ascend.

A Universe Designed for Freedom

At its core, Ularthia celebrates freedom, creativity, and player-driven storytelling. With full-time PvP, an infinite crafting system, and a dynamic economy, it empowers players to shape their own paths and leave their mark on a living, breathing world. Whether you’re battling formidable foes, crafting one-of-a-kind items, or exploring uncharted territories, Ularthia offers a canvas for limitless imagination.

Elastic Servers: The Technology Behind Seamless Gameplay

Ularthia’s cutting-edge technology is powered by advanced elastic computing servers, delivering an uninterrupted, fully immersive gaming experience. One of its standout features is the complete elimination of loading screens. Players can traverse the expansive world freely without the immersion-breaking pauses that often accompany transitions in traditional MMORPGs. This creates a unified, continuous gaming environment where the world feels alive and interconnected.

Elastic computing servers dynamically adapt to player activity, redistributing resources in real-time to maintain optimal performance. The game world is divided into zones, with each zone managed by a dedicated server. As players move across the map, their session seamlessly transitions to the appropriate server for their current location. This process happens instantly and invisibly, ensuring smooth gameplay without any noticeable lag.

Additionally, this technology allows the servers to scale resources based on player density. Whether you’re engaging in massive PvP battles, exploring highly populated areas, or participating in large in-game events, the system ensures minimal latency and a smooth experience.

Mythological Races and Dynamic Kingdoms

Ularthia is home to a diverse array of mythological races, inspired by the rich traditions commonly found in other RPGs. Players can choose from these fantastical beings, each bringing unique traits, abilities, and cultural backgrounds to enrich the immersive experience. From elves and dwarves to orcs, humans, and other mystical creatures, the races of Ularthia ensure players can create a character that aligns with their personal vision and playstyle.

Each race is intricately tied to its own AI-driven kingdom, of which there are three in total. These kingdoms are dynamic and continually evolving based on player interactions and the natural progression of the world. Representing the cultural and societal essence of the associated races, each kingdom serves as a hub of activity and development, featuring multiple towns, villages, and unique landscapes for players to explore.

When players select their race during character creation, they are assigned to that race’s kingdom. From this point forward, they will become a citizen of that kingdom, which has its own distinct laws, economy, market, political structure, and even a ruling monarch—a king or queen. These kingdoms are alive with activity, hosting guilds, political intrigue, and economic systems that are influenced by both player actions and AI-driven dynamics.

For example, the economy within each kingdom is shaped by the crafting and trading efforts of its citizens. Laws govern player behavior, introducing consequences for actions such as theft or other transgressions. The political structure provides opportunities for players to rise in influence, perhaps joining guilds that sway the decisions of the king or queen or participating in efforts to change the fate of their nation.

The interplay between players and the AI-driven systems ensures that each kingdom evolves in response to its inhabitants, creating a world that feels deeply alive and reactive. Whether defending your kingdom in battle, navigating the complexities of its market, or engaging in its political drama, every player has the chance to shape the destiny of their chosen homeland.

In Ularthia, kingdoms are not static—they are vibrant ecosystems where mythological races thrive, alliances are formed, and stories are written in the tapestry of a world waiting to be explored. This interconnected system adds a profound layer of depth, ensuring no two players’ journeys are ever the same.

Immersive Communication and AI-Driven NPCs

Ularthia revolutionizes in-game interaction by making voice communication a core aspect of the player experience. The game features robust in-game voice chat capabilities, allowing players to communicate seamlessly while navigating the vast world. To further enhance immersion, players have access to real-time voice changers, enabling them to fine-tune their voices to match the personality or characteristics of their in-game avatars. Whether you want a gruff warrior’s tone or an ethereal elf’s lilt, the system lets you align your voice with your character for added depth and role-playing opportunities.

In addition to player interactions, Ularthia introduces AI-driven NPCs powered by sophisticated conversational systems similar to ChatGPT. These NPCs are designed to hold meaningful, context-aware conversations with players. They can reply dynamically, offer unique quests tailored to your activities, provide updates on events happening in the world, and even discuss ongoing storylines. The NPCs adapt to your presence, making the game world feel alive and responsive to your actions.

To maintain immersion and blur the line between reality and the game world, there are no icons or visual indicators distinguishing players from NPCs. This design choice ensures that every interaction feels genuine and unpredictable, as you’ll never quite know whether you’re speaking to another player or a highly advanced NPC. The result is a rich, evolving world where social interactions and storytelling take center stage, immersing players in a world that feels truly alive.

MMO Engine: Built for Boundless Ambition

To support a game as vast and ambitious as Ularthia, Sidular is developing a fully custom game engine specifically designed for MMOs—the MMO Engine. This bespoke engine is built from the ground up to handle the unique demands of a project of this scale, providing the technological foundation necessary to bring Ularthia’s dynamic world to life.

The MMO Engine is tailored to meet the challenges of a seamless open-world environment, leveraging advanced elastic computing to maintain smooth transitions between servers without loading screens. It’s designed to support real-time player interactions, dynamic AI systems, and an expansive, ever-evolving world. Every feature, from the realistic combat mechanics to the infinite crafting system, is optimized within this powerful framework to deliver the highest level of performance and immersion.

By crafting an engine specifically for Ularthia, we’re ensuring that every aspect of the game—from its AI-driven NPCs to its dynamic economies and PvPvE systems—is seamlessly integrated and scalable. The MMO Engine is not just a tool; it’s the technological backbone of our vision, enabling us to push the boundaries of what’s possible in MMO development. With this innovative engine, we’re creating not just a game, but a new standard for the genre.

Shaping the Future of Gaming

Ularthia is not just our homage to the MMORPG genre—it’s a bold step forward. By integrating the legacy of influential titles and introducing groundbreaking features, Sidular is crafting a game that promises to redefine the boundaries of adventure and creativity. Though the release date has yet to be finalized, Ularthia is poised to be a universe where possibilities are endless and every player’s journey is unique.

Stay tuned as we bring this world to life. Ularthia is not just a game—it’s an invitation to dream, explore, and create. The horizon is just the beginning.

We’ll have more to share soon. 

You seem confused. Honestly, we can’t blame you. This game isn’t exactly normal, and we’ve been keeping the secrets of the maze pretty under wraps. If you’re not in the know, you just don’t know.

Except, now people are asking questions. Simplistic questions, like “why isn’t there anything other than promotional images?” and “what’s the objective of this Maze thing?” 

So, we figured we would answer a few common ones, just because we like ya. 🙂

Q. What’s the objective?
a. Find the exit.

Q. Is this game scary?
a. Not for true explorers.

Q. Is there a story?
a. Sort of.

Q. What’s with the images?
a. We like taking pictures.

Q. Why are you being so secretive?
a. We like mysteries.

Q. When’s this releasing?
a. August 20th.

Q. Console port, please?
a. no comment.

Seriously though, you’ll just have to find the answers yourself once Maze: An Exploration Game releases later this year. The best part to exploring the maze, is not knowing what’s around the next corner. It’s not knowing whether or not there’s a story, or an objective outside of pure exploration.

Though, it does make you wonder, doesn’t it?
Why does this maze exist? Who created it? Are we hinting at a story?

Find out later. Cause for now, our lips are sealed.