Client

The Tibia Client is the program one runs to play Tibia. Speaking in general, a client is a computer system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network (see Wikipedia:Client (computing)).

There are two clients, the C++ Client and the Flash Client. The C++ Client is a stand-alone program written in C++ that must be downloaded to be used on a computer. It is the first variation used to play Tibia since it's beginning. The Flash Client is played through a Web browser, not downloaded, and was first publicly announced in 2008 and released in alpha (testing) and beta stages in 2011.

The Tibia Client does the following:


 * Connect to the game server,
 * Show the situation in the game to you (as received from the game server),
 * Send your actions to the server.

The client contains not only the connection software, but also a graphics interface and some other data, e.g. images.

To get the Tibia C++ Client, visit the download section on www.tibia.com. To use the Tibia Flash Client, visit the Account Management page (login) on on www.tibia.com, select the "Join Beta" button at the top, then click on any of your account's characters and click the "Play" button on the left to open the client in another window.