History
- 2001, foundation of Ankama, web agency.
- 2003, Ankama Games, subsidiary of the company, began developing its first game, Dofus. Dofus was fully developed in Flash and a beta version was released in October of this year.
- 2004, after nearly a year of beta testing, the game was distributed via Internet and updates were regularly added.
- 2005, Dofus was officially released in September. Ankama Editions was created to develop comic book publishing. Ankama began development on Dofus Arena, the second game by the studio.
- 2006, Wakfu began development.
- 2007, Dofus-Arena version 2 was released, the alpha version of Wakfu was presented for the Japan Expo, and Ankama Animation was created, dedicated to the Wakfu animated series.
- 2011, Wakfu was launched into open beta after more than 4 years of development. The full release was announced to be February 2012
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