TalesRunner
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Tales Runner is a Massively multiplayer online game
created by the South Korea
n company Rhaon Entertainment and published by Nowcom
. It combines the genres of social, fantasy and racing games; players compete by running, jumping, dashing, skiing and climbing across different magical fairy tale settings. The game setting is centered around Eastern and Western fairy tale
s.
Tales Runner has local servers for various countries including Korea, the United States
, Taiwan
, Hong Kong
, Malaysia, Thailand
, Mainland China
and Japan
. On November 16, 2011, gPotato
announced that their North American servers would permanently shutdown on December 21, 2011.
The Korean name for Tales Runner is "테일즈 런너" (Teiljeu Reonneo, a transliteration of "Tales Runner"). In Hong Kong, it is known as 跑Online (lit. Run Online), in Taiwan, "HiYo衝天跑" (lit. Run to the sky), in Mainland China, "超级跑跑" (lit. Super Run), in Japan, in Thailand, "เทลส์รันเนอร์" (Tales Runner).
The game supports several racing modes, including individual races where each player runs for himself, team mode with two teams, and relay mode with up to six teams of three players. There's also a mode for up to 30 players racing as well as a Tournament Mode for special events, and also a 8 players co-operate to finish the face. Racing rewards differ dependent on the position at which the player or its team finished. Rewards consist of game currency award, experience points award and randomly in other items used in other game features.
. Players may have as many or as few characters as they wish, and once purchased are permanent additions to a players My Room. All game servers don't support all the playable characters. In addition, there are transformation characters used to "disguise" a playable character as a person from a fairytale, as well as special characters for the character Maki, in the shape of ghosts.
Characters are purchased in game using either TR, or gPotato
(USA Tales Runner) currency.
Experience gained via racing is also used in improving some player's belongings or allow special interactions with the items, for instance, Experience gained can level up pets, farm animals, and growable farm crops. Farm animals and farm crops can be harvested for various items, Experience, or money.
Shop items available for purchase are usually only available for one of the currencies.
The game does not support trading, but players can buy items for other players. After the purchase of an item, the item can never change owners.
Playable characters used for racing are also inventory items - new characters can be bought in a shop, and the selection of active character does not change the player's in-game name, experience count, or money balance.
allows players to create new items by combining various cards obtained via racing with items bought in shops. The alchemy system also supports upgrading lower level equipments to a higher level. Each alchemy item supports a different stat, and is able to increase that stat.
s. There are daily quests and race battles that are exclusive to only Guilds members. Details vary depending on the servers.
Massively multiplayer online game
A massively multiplayer online game is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet, and usually feature at least one persistent world. They are, however, not necessarily games played on...
created by the South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
n company Rhaon Entertainment and published by Nowcom
Nowcom
Nowcom founded in 1994, is a Korean IT Company.The first service of Nowcom in South Korea was Nownuri which is VT-based online BBS started in 1994 and currently they operates Afreeca, TalesRunner, O2Jam and ClubBox as well as Nownuri....
. It combines the genres of social, fantasy and racing games; players compete by running, jumping, dashing, skiing and climbing across different magical fairy tale settings. The game setting is centered around Eastern and Western fairy tale
Fairy tale
A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...
s.
Tales Runner has local servers for various countries including Korea, the United States
United States
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, Taiwan
Taiwan
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, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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, Malaysia, Thailand
Thailand
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, Mainland China
Mainland China
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and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. On November 16, 2011, gPotato
GPotato
gPotato, is a free multiplayer game portal website operated regionally by subsidiaries of Japan based Gala Inc. gPotato game portals are in South Korea, Japan, North America, Europe and Brazil...
announced that their North American servers would permanently shutdown on December 21, 2011.
The Korean name for Tales Runner is "테일즈 런너" (Teiljeu Reonneo, a transliteration of "Tales Runner"). In Hong Kong, it is known as 跑Online (lit. Run Online), in Taiwan, "HiYo衝天跑" (lit. Run to the sky), in Mainland China, "超级跑跑" (lit. Super Run), in Japan, in Thailand, "เทลส์รันเนอร์" (Tales Runner).
Storyline
King Henry is the king of a beautiful country. To make the people happy again, he started the "Fairyland Sightseeing Racing Competition" with a fairy tale theme. The winners of the competition will be awarded a stone that can fulfill any wish. Each contestant is called a "Tales Runner".World Servers
| Server | Language | Country | Local Publisher | Remarks |
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| Korea | Korean Korean language Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing... |
 KoreaKorea Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the... |
Nowcom Nowcom Nowcom founded in 1994, is a Korean IT Company.The first service of Nowcom in South Korea was Nownuri which is VT-based online BBS started in 1994 and currently they operates Afreeca, TalesRunner, O2Jam and ClubBox as well as Nownuri.... |
IP from China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture... , Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... etc. is blocked. |
| Japan | Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an... |
 JapanJapan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... |
2006:NEETS / 2010:RHAON Japan | NEETS stopped operating on April 30, 2007. RHAON Japan stopped operating on June 22, 2011. |
| Taiwan | Traditional Chinese |  TaiwanTaiwan Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following... |
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| Hong Kong SAR/Macau SAR | Traditional Chinese |  Hong Kong SAR Macau SAR |
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| China | Simplified Chinese |  ChinaChina Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture... |
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| Thailand | Thai Thai When used as an adjective, Thai refers to anything that originates from Thailand. As a noun it may refer to:* Thai language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in and around Thailand* Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand... |
 ThailandThailandThailand Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the... |
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| North America | English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
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gPotato GPotato gPotato, is a free multiplayer game portal website operated regionally by subsidiaries of Japan based Gala Inc. gPotato game portals are in South Korea, Japan, North America, Europe and Brazil... |
Shutdown on December 21, 2011 |
Racing
Racing is a key part of Tales Runner. Players race though various racing maps in an effort to finish the map and collect money, experience points, Alchemy Cards, and various items. There is a variety of map styles ranging from training maps resembling sports facilities, fantasy maps themed around fairy tales stories, or survival races with monsters to conquer.The game supports several racing modes, including individual races where each player runs for himself, team mode with two teams, and relay mode with up to six teams of three players. There's also a mode for up to 30 players racing as well as a Tournament Mode for special events, and also a 8 players co-operate to finish the face. Racing rewards differ dependent on the position at which the player or its team finished. Rewards consist of game currency award, experience points award and randomly in other items used in other game features.
Characters
Tales Runner currently supports twelve different customizable playable characters with different statsStatistic (role-playing games)
A statistic in role-playing games is a piece of data which represents a particular aspect of a fictional character. That piece of data is usually a integer or, in some cases, a set of dice....
. Players may have as many or as few characters as they wish, and once purchased are permanent additions to a players My Room. All game servers don't support all the playable characters. In addition, there are transformation characters used to "disguise" a playable character as a person from a fairytale, as well as special characters for the character Maki, in the shape of ghosts.
Characters are purchased in game using either TR, or gPotato
GPotato
gPotato, is a free multiplayer game portal website operated regionally by subsidiaries of Japan based Gala Inc. gPotato game portals are in South Korea, Japan, North America, Europe and Brazil...
(USA Tales Runner) currency.
Leveling and Experience
Experience gained in racing or using other means allows the player to level up. Character abilities can also be improved using special equipment or clothing items, or with buffs from NPCs, event prizes, or fortune telling.Experience gained via racing is also used in improving some player's belongings or allow special interactions with the items, for instance, Experience gained can level up pets, farm animals, and growable farm crops. Farm animals and farm crops can be harvested for various items, Experience, or money.
Currency
There are two currencies available in the game: A 'real' currency called gPotato(shortened to gP), which can only be obtained using real money, and the in-game currency called TR, which can be obtained via racing, with a variety of farm items, or purchased by tickets with gPotato.Shop items available for purchase are usually only available for one of the currencies.
The game does not support trading, but players can buy items for other players. After the purchase of an item, the item can never change owners.
Playable characters used for racing are also inventory items - new characters can be bought in a shop, and the selection of active character does not change the player's in-game name, experience count, or money balance.
Alchemy
AlchemyAlchemy
Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base...
allows players to create new items by combining various cards obtained via racing with items bought in shops. The alchemy system also supports upgrading lower level equipments to a higher level. Each alchemy item supports a different stat, and is able to increase that stat.
Couples, marriage, and family
Players in Tales Runner can have couples, marriages, and family. They can purchase it with gPotato.Guilds
Players can form guilds with other players in addition to being in families; these are similar to the guild system in some other MMORPGMMORPG
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
s. There are daily quests and race battles that are exclusive to only Guilds members. Details vary depending on the servers.
Farm
Farms are miniature maps a player can own, maintain, and use for meeting with other players. It is possible to use permanent items on maps for decorative purposes, or growable items which produce other useful items the player can use. Growable items use experience points obtained by the player in races but don't prevent or slow down the character leveling up. Growable items expire after certain amount of using and either disappear or must be renewed to continue working. The farm needs a farm ticket to be used so it doesn't expire; this ticket is bought with currency.Achievements
Achievements are small quests or tasks which player can accomplish while playing the game. Examples are racing certain number of races, performing certain number of racing tricks, or buying certain number of items in the in-game shop. Completing an achievement is rewarded with various amounts of in-game currency.Tournaments and events
In tournaments and events, players compete against each other for points and prizes, varying depending on the server and event.External links
- Tales Runner official website, North America
- Tales Runner official website, Korea
- Tales Runner official website, Hong Kong
- Tales Runner official website, Taiwan
- Tales Runner official website, mainland China