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About games.mantikora.com project |
We would like to promote games.mantikora.com to become a real heaven for all fantasy, sci-fi and strategy gamers, all over the world. Yes! Everybody would say, 'what an adventurous plan! It is a blind faith!' It's true. Time will tell, how real our dreams and estimates were! But even you may support our efforts, join our team and boost our aims! Are you an author of a story or a game that lies idle in your drawer? Report us! Become a co-author of games.mantikora.com! 2. More about project games.mantikora.com Games.mantikora.com project is relatively unique. Though our web-site hosts various stories, reports and previews, it is, and always will be, especially focused on games and gaming. There are only few internet servers devoted strictly to the gathering of freely distributed fantasy, sci-fi and strategic games, none devoted to the development of games, support of new authors and game-designers and also players. We are trying to fill in just this gap! Games.mantikora.com project slides on a thin edge between professional commercial web-site and the sphere of hobbies, interests and fans. Gaming and games were, and always will be, inherently bound to devotees and fans. The same it is with our project. Games.mantikora.com is professionally represented by the group of its founders, administrators and managing staff, has its own internal rules and license agreement and also permits authors to place advertising banners into their respective materials. On the other hand, everything at games.mantikora.com is free, authors and administrators are fantasy, sci-fi and strategy fans and the web-site is primarily targeted at fans of the same opinion. I believe, this won't be amiss, quite the contrary. I believe this will guarantee the quality of materials, materials that are made all over by our hearts, not by lure of gold mine that many people expect by working at internet. 3. Why board games in the century of computers? Without any doubts, we are the civilization of gamers! This fact is confirmed by countless number of more or less bad television game shows. But why board games? When I was preparing games.mantikora.com web-pages, one of my friends asked me this question. I was astonished! I just didn't understand, how can somebody ever ask? My answer was very simple! Try it! You shall see:o) I personally know many people, tenacious computer gamers, yet these people periodically meet every weekend over the glass of good beer (or soda water), but foremost over the game boards, maps, dices and attractive adventures. Board game is above all social occasion computer may not replace. Between good friends, it doesn't matter who won or who was ignominiously defeated. Entertainment and fun is the most important object! And that's what I wish you with all heart and soul. Gather up your friends, download a game from games.mantikora.com and get down playing!
Mantikora may also be found in many fantasy stories. We've chosen this invincible, relentless and ferocious creature to represent our domain. We took mantikora as an example! We hope that something from the power of mantikora would pass over to us helping to reach our goals. We believe that some of the mantikora's power would also pass over to you, to become absorbed enthusiastic players and mantikora fans! Vote mantikora! Let it be your badge! Mantik is a restless and very rare white mantikora young. You may see Mantik in the top left corner of every page; he peers from behind of some advertisements and fools around the web-site. Mantik is our symbol of games and fun, symbol of friendly mantikora willing to serve you all the time! Everything at games.mantikora.com is available for free! We are trying to finance the operation of our web-site from advertisement banners placed on it. Even more, the respective authors of materials has got right to place advertising banner of some web sponsor at the top of the material they have created. However, there are only few such web-sponsors! Moreover, most of the web-sponsors don't pay per view, but per click. What per click, per click-through! It means that you have to click once more at anything on the web-sponsor's page. Here it comes! If you like any material at games.mantikora.com, you can support the author by clicking at his advertising banner. He would appreciate your feat. Games.mantikora.com managing staff can't pay direct royalty to authors. Support the lionhearted authors! |
And why not? An attractive domain name, won't you say? And what
does
Mantikora mean? For those of you who've never heard about mantikora (or
manticora or
mantiger), the following picture may clarify the term. Mantikora is a
legendary beast
having the human head, the body of lion, wings and the tail of scorpion.
Reports of
mantikoras seem to be a greatly exaggerated description of the Caspian tiger.
The
assumed source of the word mantikora is an Old Iranian word that means
'man-eater'.