Neverwinter Nights is a third-person role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Infogrames . It was released on Microsoft Windows on June 18, 2002. BioWare later released a free Linux client in June 2003, requiring a purchased copy of the game to play. MacSoft released a Mac OS X port in August 2003. Interplay Entertainment was originally set to publish the game but financial difficulties led to a change of publisher. The game is set in the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, with the game mechanics based on the third edition Dungeons & Dragons... rules. The game engine was designed around an internet-based model for running a massively multiplayer game, which would allow end users to host game servers. The intent was to create a potentially infinite massively multiplayer game framework. This game was named after the original Neverwinter Nights online game; the first ever graphical MMORPG, which operated from 1991 to 1997 on AOL.
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