This game was named after the original Neverwinter Nights online game, the first graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), which operated from 1991 to 1997 on AOL. The intent was to create a potentially infinite massively multiplayer game framework.
Up to 64 players could connect to a single server. The game engine was designed around an Internet-based model for running a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), which would allow end users to host game servers. Neverwinter Nights is set in the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, with the game mechanics based on the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition rules. MacSoft released a Mac OS X port in August 2003.
BioWare later released a Linux client in June 2003, requiring a purchased copy of the game to play. It was released for Microsoft Windows on June 18, 2002. Interplay Entertainment was originally set to publish the game, but financial difficulties led to it being taken over by Infogrames, who released the game under their Atari range of titles. Neverwinter Nights is a third-person role-playing video game developed by BioWare.
