About the Manasource organisation
Manasource is a federated group of autonomous development projects focused on free open source videogame software. Besides publishing other software, Manasource aims to build its own complete 2D MMORPG platform in its main game project: The Mana World. This includes a client, server and web component.
The organisation manages multiple projects including The Mana World, Source of Mana, Moubootaur Legends, the Mana and Manaverse clients, the Mana Launcher (Steam) client and more. We also maintain a library of shared content produced over the years by various past and current projects and make such content available under GPL and/or CC BY-SA 4.0 licenses.
Find us on IRC, Discord, Matrix and more: Chat directory.
Manasource is a member of Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
The Mana World
The Mana World (TMW) is a serious effort to create an innovative free and open source MMORPG. TMW uses 2D graphics and aims to create a large and diverse interactive world. It is licensed under the GPL, making sure this game can't ever run away from you.
Explore this large, ever expanding world to defeat monsters, help NPCs and team up with friends as you achieve your goals. Get your weapons, armor and equipment through quests, monsters or crafting. Play mini-games, go on complex investigations or slay powerful bosses. Hang out in town, socialize or attend player organized events. Wear your boots and grab your sword, adventure waits for you!
Moubootaur Legends
Moubootaur Legends is a game constantly growing, developed with the feedback from players. It features a small community, and being open source, anyone can contribute to the game.
Although the game is better played with friends, one may play it alone without difficulty. We keep adding more options to the game as the players request it (and as time allows us to). The game story is flexible, and it changes based on quests which are done by all players cooperatively. But not only with cooperation a MMORPG is done, and we feature competitivity and ranked events when it is suitable as well.
Source of Mana
Source of Mana is a 2D MMORPG using Godot to provide a modern player experience for a classic style of game that never really goes out of fashion. In Source of Mana you can live your medieval fantasy RPG adventure with friends and explore a world of magical tales and just pure silly fun.
SoM is in the very early stages of development and updates will come soon. Stay tuned and join us on Discord or IRC to discuss the project!
Mana
The Mana project, founded in 2009, seeks to resume development on its upgraded client and eventually server components. Its client is formerly TMW's official client and is in development for re-deployment.
Our history
The Mana World started in 2004 as a single server/client game project. In 2009, it spawned the Mana project to separate development from the established player community. Ever since the early years of development The Mana World continued to inspire new game projects and other related applications.
The Mana project was retired in 2014 and new developers decided to reverse direction and grow closer to their community. This enabled another 8 years of development. Eventually, the same desire to operate in a multi-game environment that had inspired the Mana project led The Mana World to become itself a multi-game environment in 2022.
In 2024, 20 years since the beginning of our story, we have adopted the name Manasource to represent the organisation. The Mana World is our original game title currently in active development, available and free to play. We also offer Moubootaur Legends as our second playable title. We have many other projects including Source of Mana and our client projects Manaverse (direct download) and Mana Launcher (Steam).
Recent News
The Mana World Organization rebranded to Manasource
Back in 2009 the Mana project split off from The Mana World in the hopes of encouraging collaboration and to shield developers from community politics.
Unfortunately, with many developers moving on, the Mana project became dormant sometime after the Mana 0.6.1 release. Some games that relied on this client became inactive as well, but The Mana World instead relied on the ManaPlus fork and is still alive today.
The Mana World is not only alive, but evolved from a single game into an organization that develops and maintains multiple closely related games. It now develops Moubootaur Legends and Source of Mana as well, both based on different servers and the latter also based on a new client.
To avoid confusion and to make each of these games feel at home within the
shared organization, The Mana World Organization is now rebranding to Manasource
and uses the previously dorment manasource.org domain as its new home!
Thorbjørn Lindeijer - 12 Aug 2024
Mana client 0.6.1 released
This release fixes a few annoyances and other small bugs. It is now easier to click beings that are close to other beings, NPC trading has been removed from chat (again), the last emote can now be used and ring and necklace slots were unswapped. Also, the Finnish, Brazilian Portuguese and Polish translations were updated.
Thanks to all contributers to this release! The shortlog provides the detailed list of changes.
Thorbjørn Lindeijer - 08 Apr 2012
Mana client 0.6.0 released
A lot has happened since our last feature release. Too much, in fact, which is one of the reasons we plan to do more frequent releases in the future. Mana 0.6 brings many improvements, small and large, for both players and content developers.
Many UI improvements have been made like scrolling tab bar (for when your whispers don’t fit), item search box in inventory/storage windows, display of item quantity in shops, resizable update window, double-click to equip, etc. Also, the application window is now dynamically resizable and no longer needs a restart when switching between fullscreen and windowed mode (except on Windows when using OpenGL). Many performance improvements have also been made, from caching layered sprites to streaming music directly from the update archives. The combat controls have also seen minor adjustments.
On the content side, the client now supports customizable hit and attack effects, and animated sprites for floor items and emotes. Improvements have also been made to handling of hair colors and styles.
The complete summary of the changes can be found in the NEWS file and the nitty details can be found in the shortlog. Thanks to all who helped make this release possible!
The client comes with updated translations to German, French and Spanish. We hope to add more in patch releases, so don’t hesitate to help adding your favourite language! Contributions in any other form are also welcome, you could even just help us decide what to work on for 0.7 or report any issues you find on our bug tracker. Mana is what you make it to be!
Thorbjørn Lindeijer - 12 Feb 2012