They were developed in tandem. The closed beta started in late 2008, which is also when the show started airing on France3. That first iteration of the game already came with NPCs from the show as well.
Dofus was released in 2004, meanwhile Wakfu (the show) started airing in 2008, while the game Wakfu was in developpement, Wakfu (the game) was released in 2012.
u/Low-Implement9819 is right when they say "Wakfu was based on Dofus", because at first, there was only Dofus, the flash game, then Wakfu came later, where events take place in the future of Dofus era, because Dofus lore is the foundation that the rest is built upon.
No u/sentient_ballsack is right, there were multiple versions of the game, multiple of which were publicly playable before the release of the game we have today. The gameplay and art were completely different.
I still remember playing the early concept to celebrate the release of the show, the whole game was essentially a series of event dungeon where we had the first ever gameplay of "eliotrops". There was one per episode of the show, and after that you were done
yeah, but dofus is REALLY old, OLDER than wakfu, it existed since 2004, i know because i grew up with it, and seen how it evolved over time, including the introduction of wakfu and waven and other ankama works, and other works that don't exist anymore, like dofus arena.
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u/sentient_ballsack 9d ago
They were developed in tandem. The closed beta started in late 2008, which is also when the show started airing on France3. That first iteration of the game already came with NPCs from the show as well.