Dungeons Kingdom

[kanda]

Hello happy DM familly games addicts !

I want to introduce you my DM style game, named Dungeons Kingdom :



It's planned for Desktop (windows, mac, linux) as well as mobile ( Android, iOs, Windows Phone).
I have been workin on Dungeon Master / Chais Strikes back / Ishar clones since my childhood for fun as i am a big fan of these games. But now it's time to make a bigger step and create a game ready for the DM community ! The game is quite advanced (you"ll see it soon on more screen shots), including mobile optimised UI Layout.

I'll be glad to here your feelings. (good and bad of course )

regards

edit: changed dungeon kings name to Dungeons Kingdom to avoid confusion with a game with a similar title.

[RAF68]

I very much expect to see more forward

[kanda]

Thanks. I'll make some update soon !! Curently working on creatures AI & combat.

[Seriously Unserious]

The screenshot looks great. I'm looking forward to seeing more about this game.

[Magica]

thank you very much , I though I am the only one who mention Ishar right after Dungeon master , and here you are ..
I am waiting for your game for sure

[kanda]

Thanks a lot for your kind words !

thank you very much , I though I am the only one who mention Ishar right after Dungeon master , and here you are ..
I am waiting for your game for sure

Well i am big fan of Ishar Games, i finished the three games and the prequel named Crystals of Arborea. However if Dungeon Kings exploration will take place mainly in Dungeons, there will be one outdoor part (but i don't want to spoil too much !)

That's said the next episode of Dungeon Kings is expected to have more outdoors, but...that's another story

For now i am finishing the Inventory / Items systems and it's almost done. I am taking time as i need the game to be playable both with mouth (desktop computers...) and touch (mobiles, tablets). So i have to make a lot of tests according the screens resolutions and the mouse/touch avaibility on the device it's running to get the best ergonomy. I wouldn't bear the game to fail for an ergonomy problem !

Thanks again for the sweet words.

Regards

[kanda]

Can't resist to publish something about Dungeon Kings, so let's go : two portraits
It's very important for me to have nice hand painted portraits of heroes for Dungeon Kings ! Hope you'll like it !

[Seriously Unserious]

Those pics are great.

Did you do them from scratch? If so that's very impressive.

[kanda]

Well actually i am not the one who made the portraits. I asked to a friend wich is artist to make them from my descriptions and needs for most of them and a bit more freedom for the others. In exchange i'm coding some stuffs for him, we can see it as some kind of creation trading

About the inspiration / instructions, i try to get classic oldschool classes and races plus unknown ones. For the design and style, i drive the artist following my love of the games i enjoyed to play so much like (the whole serie) Dungeon Master, Ishar, Eye Of Beholder... and artist like Larry Elmore, Keith Parkinson, DKS...

For example the elven portrait is not a retake of an existant one, but i gave instructions to the artist about it as i wanted the style and the design to be close to the elven portraits in Ishar games. So it has similar features (face shape...).

Kanda

[Seriously Unserious]

Ah, I see. That sounds like a win-win trade then.

[kanda]

Hello,

I have just setup a website for DungeonKings

So from now on you can get informations at http://www.dungeonkings-game.com/

Regards


edit: replaced lonk by direct url.

[Seriously Unserious]

awesome, I checked out your website, it looks pretty good so far. A bit thin on contents, but I'm sure you'll be adding more as you go.

[kanda]

awesome, I checked out your website, it looks pretty good so far. A bit thin on contents, but I'm sure you'll be adding more as you go.

Thanks.
Indeed it's a bit thin for now, and you're right, i'll fill the website with much more content soon. However i don't want to publish to muchs screen shots right now as i am working heavily on interface and the visual of the UI can still change a lot these days. So better wait for final look And it should happen very soon !!!

Thanks anyway for your feedbacks, it's quite precious for me as you and me a propably sharing something big : the love of this kind of games

[Seriously Unserious]

Yup. I'm doing my own project on RTC even now, so yeah, I definitely love these sort of game a lot. I still have fond memories of spending hours on my old Amiga playing Dungeon Master, CSB, Wizardry and EOB 1 and 2. I definitely prefer the old school RPGs to most modern ones.

[kanda]

Yup. I'm doing my own project on RTC even now, so yeah, I definitely love these sort of game a lot. I still have fond memories of spending hours on my old Amiga playing Dungeon Master, CSB, Wizardry and EOB 1 and 2. I definitely prefer the old school RPGs to most modern ones.

You get all my respect !
And if you want to get involved a bit to DK for story, levels, or just giving your opinion, feel free to get in touch !

[Seriously Unserious]

Thanks, and I'd love to help as much as I can. I'll be pretty busy for the next while, between my RTC custom dungeon, College and other studies , and testing Rasmus' Dwelvers project I have lots do to already but I'll be sure to dedicate as much time as I can to helping you out with the story, website development, bug reports, suggestions and features requests.

[RAF68]

I expected to see more about your project, very promising project

[kanda]

I expected to see more about your project, very promising project

Thanks Raf ! Merci

More to see very soon

[kanda]

Site has been down few days for maintenance and is now back, featuring a new post giving some details about the recently reworked Touch interface :

http://dungeons-kingdom.com



Regards

edit: changed dungeon kings to Dungeons Kingdom

[Zed5Duke]

Everything looks great

[kanda]

Everything looks great

Thanks

[kanda]

I have made a short video of Dungeons Kingdom, you can watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsKiW4P-gqo

Regards.

[Chaos-Shaman]

oh, i liked that Kanda, nice work, like REALLY NICE. this is smoking hot!

[kanda]

oh, i liked that Kanda, nice work, like REALLY NICE. this is smoking hot!

Thanks. Here is another one, this time played on Nexus 7 tablet device:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nrn2H2ii4o

Regards

[Chaos-Shaman]

those stairs just gave me the feel i was really there, oh my that's nice.

[kanda]

those stairs just gave me the feel i was really there, oh my that's nice.

This is one of my wishes for DK : that player really feel the game to be immersive. I am glad you enjoy it.

[Zyx]

Nice!

[Seriously Unserious]

How's the development coming along, anything new to report?

[kanda]

Hello !

I am very busy these past weeks, working on another application project on job side, wich should end soon (one week or two in worst case), this include extra work on evening & week-ends until it's available. However, i managed to get a bit of time and implemented the fighting in Dungeons Kingdom, including attack action, fx, sound, damage etc. etc. My next task is the magic handling, and AI (i want very different behaviors according the creature type).

I'll release a new video about the fighting soon. Thanks for asking news

[Seriously Unserious]

No problem. It's good to see you're still making some progress, even if your paying jobs have slowed things down a bit. Gotta pay the bills, of course.

BTW, are you planing on this being a payed for game, or free? Have you considered raising funds to develop this game through something like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo?

EDIT: One more question, have you developed a forum for your game yet, and if not, are you planning to build one? If you'd like, I could help out with the web development stuff, such as building you a forum, and helping out with maintaining your web site. If you are interested in any of that feel free to PM me and we can start a more detailed discussion about that either by PM or email.