Madoka Magica Online

Official website as of December 28, 2011

Puella Magi Madoka Magica Online is a multi-player browser-based freemium game based on Puella Magi Madoka Magica settings. It is open for play, and closed beta testing is complete. The game is free for basic play but items will cost money. Access to the site is regionally-restricted. Screenshots are available in the gallery. Refer to Getting Started and Troubleshooting for answers to common questions.

Description

In a separate time axis
from the one where Madoka became an extra-dimensional entity.
There, five magical girls still fought against the witches.

They still try to defeat every witch and familiar of this world,
as well as Walpurgisnacht.
Yes, in this time axis,
In order to defeat the witches, the five have become one.

Despair and prayer.
Reality and parallel reality.
Trust and betrayal.
A moment and an eternity.

Your will, and the determination of the five magical girls
will become one
in order to fulfill the wishes of all time.

In this time axis' world, will Mami be saved?
Will it end without Madoka's disappearance?

Come forth, with the world-saving wish in your heart,
Embark on a journey, hand in hand with the five magical girls.

Gameplay style

The Home/Lobby UI.

The game is centered around the anime story. Players will be allowed to create their own magical girl, and form a team with the original five magical girls from the cast. Kyubey is not playable, but exists as an instructor who explains when events occurs. The game will feature a 6 player party system, using your original character or the cast characters. Parties can be made of any combination of original characters and cast characters (pending future updates that will implement co-op features).

Players can freely travel around Mitakihara alone or with a party as they finish quests, in a way similar to 'Sugoroku'. There will be quests centered around past and future magical girls. Certain quests may require certain cast characters, or a certain amount of players. Players will be put into separate servers in the game and each instance only contains up to 6 players at a time. When each player finishes all their quests, they may participate in a massive raid against Walpurgis Night that exceeds 6 players (not yet implemented). As the player progresses through the game, their apparel will become stronger and level up as they combine items to create better ones. The game is free-to-play with an item store.

There are 6 parts which can be customized by players. Players can change the weapons, clothes, accessories, and skill cards of their magical girls. Rare clothes and accessories may also improve her abilities. Even the 5 main cast magical girls can change weapons in game. Special finishing move attacks however, can only be used by the player's character and their respective canon characters (e.g. Gun type special attacks can only be used by players and Homuhomu), so if the player wants to use the special attack cards, he will have to equip the canon characters with their original weapons.

Getting Started

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  How to register.

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  Choose a world/server.

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  Enter your character's name here.

• A step by step guide on how to register

Gameplay Mechanics

Quests

• Click the target icon at the top of the screen to begin questing. The grief seed over the city leads to a list of quests.
• You've got 50 max AP. It takes 10 AP to do a quest. AP regenerates 1 per 5 minutes. You also get full AP upon level up. If you have spare AP when you're close to leveling, spend it in battle mode so it won't be wasted.
• The experience points obtained from each maze increases with the stage level, for example for level 1 the exp. is 100, level 2 is 110, and level 3 is 120.
• Always make sure that you have inserted any newly acquired party members before starting a quest. Party members and the level you acquire them is as follows; Lv.2 Homura, Lv.5 Sayaka, Lv.10 Kyoko, Lv.15 Madoka, Lv.20 Mami-san.

Battle Mode/PvP

• To obtain the purple ticket (better chance to get rare cards) in large numbers, the player will have to use "play with others/battle mode" (accessible from the home screen, costs 10AP per play), which is similar to PvP (other player controlled by NPC).
• The number of cards received increases with the number of players defeated and the current rank level, and the rank level point is obtained by defeating at least one player per play. The player will also obtain coins that could be used to upgrade weapons.
• Rank points required to increase the rank level is; Rank C:200, Rank B:500, Rank A:900.
• Players are encouraged to only leave one person in the party when not playing, so as to allow other players to win easily in the "play with others" match. This is called ソロ放置 or 紳士放置 by the elevenese players. No penalty will be given if your character lost.

Equipment and Upgrading

• You can't change the clothes of the canon magical girls. You can equip them with accessories. If you manage to find enough glasses, you could give them to everyone. However, a bikini, for example, can only be used by player-made characters.
• It is advisable to upgrade your weapon with as much material weapon cards as you can to save on coins. Upgraded weapons if used as a material will provide extra weapon upgrade exp points, but with a large penalty.
  • For example, upgrading a weapon with many other weapons at the same time is much cheaper than upgrading it with one at a time since you get a discount (maximum 25%) for bulk upgrades and it's more expensive to upgrade higher level weapons than lower level ones.
  • Since upgrading higher level items is more expensive, using mid-level items to upgrade high level ones is more efficient than using low level ones. For example, you can combine your level 1 items into level 7 items and upgrade your level 12 weapon with the 7's instead of the 1's to drastically reduce the coin cost.
  • The Japanese wiki's synthesis page (google translated) contains tables with exact values. (Click here for Japanese)

Achievements

• You get purple tickets for clearing a quest within 2 turns for most of the earlier quests. If you can kill the boss in one round in earlier levels, you can farm tickets.
• You get bonuses such as coins, variety tickets, and weapons for clearing stages multiple times. For level 1 you need to clear 3 times, level 2: 5 times, level 3: 7times, level 4: 10 times.

Skills

• Skill cards with 0/0/0 stats allow the player's character or the character on the card to use special attacks if they're using a weapon that matches the character on the card. For example, give Sayaka or your character a sword and a Sayaka skill card and she will activate her skill randomly. A S,SS-level skill card however could only be used by the character on the card.

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  How to change your party members and their gear.

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  Top: Skip turn. Bottom: Inventory picked up in the quest.

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  How to use the friends screen.

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  Homura activating her special attack skill with her RR card.

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  How to use the achievements screen.

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  How to collect presents.

Future Updates

• Mid-September: Addition of special quests, ranking feature between those in your friend list.

• End-September: Co-op play with max 4 people, chat while you clear those quests with your friends! , New stages and quest, with continuation of the current story!

• October : Guild System!, Raid Bosses! Rankings! Extra Dungeons, Additional quests!

• November : Weapon Synthesis improvement! Guild System Improvement!, Raid Bosses Improvement!

Technical Specifications

• Download-free browser
• Requires ActiveX
• Browsers supported: Internet Explorer 7 or higher, Firefox 3 or higher, and Google Chrome 3 or higher.
• Adobe Flash Player to navigate site

Troubleshooting

• If you get an Apache 2/CentOS test page, you may need to use a proxy to bypass IP blocks. Certain blocks only apply to the signup and login areas, so some users have been able to log in with proxies and switch to direct connections after world server selection screen.
• High server load can cause issues such as being stuck at a loading screen or getting stuck with a grayed out screen while trying to load a menu.
• If you get the error pictured below while trying to open a Kyubey BOX, your inventory is full. You can have at most 30 of each type of card (weapons, clothes, accessories, skills). Sell some to make room, and then open the history screen from the lobby. Go to the packages tab and collect the card that was withheld due to the inventory being full. After clearing your inventory and packages, Kyubey BOXes should work again.

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  Inventory full. Sell items and clear history packages.

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  Server can't get status. Restart the game.

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  Connection lost. Restart the game.

Teaser site

See also Madoka Secret Project

Game Information

Image	Translation
	What is your wish? What would you do if... just if, okay? What would you do if you were told you could be granted any wish if you became a magical girl? In exchange for getting a wish granted, you become a magical girl and must act upon a certain mission. The mission...? Bubbles: I want to fulfill my family's wishes I want to live forever I want to save those who suffer
	Your first step as a magical girl You've taken your first step as a magical girl. Along the way, you learned about your mission and met magical girls you never knew Homu: We need your help The plot develops like the show, but the result...
	Now, let's go on a barrier hunt! The stage is set in the witch-made board game-style map... the Witches' Barriers. Various events wait for you in the places you stop. Mami: It sorta feels like the dice decide your fate, huh? Get items from treasure chests! Collaborate to defeat enemies!
	Finally, the long-awaited witch confrontation! Complete each clear condition in the witch's barrier, and confront a witch from the original show!! Clear it nicely, and earn a variety of useful items and rewards. Kyoko: Just gotta beat the crap outta them, am I right? Try to conquer the witch together Succeed, and...
	Synthesize with cards! Make them stronger and stronger! You can use the cards and rewards you obtain in witch barriers to strengthen weapons and skills! Won't it be a piece of cake to search through witch barriers with stronger weapons and skills? Sayaka: You should probably choose your cards wisely Status up!
	Appearances are important for magical girls too You can strengthen items you obtain as rewards and such. But shouldn't even magical girls care for their appearances? Madoka: I'll be so proud of you all for becoming the best magical girls
	Woohoo with the whole gang Double the fun with cooperative play! Simple, but addicting! Make so many friends! By playing alone in solo mode, you become the protagonist, and can enjoy conversations and adventures with characters introduced in the original show. You can even form your own dream party unseen in the anime! You can form a party of you + five others.
	So many fun things to do Weapons and Special Moves (Skills) Defeat witches using special moves, both original, and from the animation! Synthesis and Growth Synthesize weapons and skills (special moves) and UP your ability to defeat stronger and stronger witches. Strengthen your weapons and they'll glow. Multiplay Use the internet to connect with other players and search barriers or defeat witches together. Let's chat together to make playing more fun. Powerful Witches Team up with players scattered across the world to defeat the world's strongest witch, Walpurgisnacht! Content currently in planning
	Feature 1 Take along five magical girls and defeat evil witches! Feature 2 Create your own magical girl out of over 400,000 combinations Feature 3 All new illustrations!

Gameplay Gallery

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  News 12-21-2011

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  News 12-28-2011

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  News 01-12-2012

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  Revealed new site background 3-09-2012

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  New illustration

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  Clicking on grief seed gets you a page on witches.

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  Each witch has a brief profile and info on its familiars.

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External links

• Official website (may be region-restricted)
• Japanese wiki

• Closed Beta site
• Strategy Partners official website (game developer's website)
• ANN announcement
• OnlineGamer write-up (Japanese)
• Interview with Producer Fujii, by 4Gamer (Japanese)
• Trailer

• 4chan thread
• 4chan thread #2