Preview: Kingdoms iPhone

[Tigairius]

Hi guys, I've been pretty secretive about this project since it has been started, and I felt that I owe you guys an update since everyone has been waiting so patiently.

I promised that Kingdoms iPhone would bring great things to Graal Kingdoms, and I still maintain what I say. We have a lot more freedom with Kingdoms iPhone because we have completely remade the systems from scratch.

Right now, I will outline some of the things we have done:
- Battle system is done
- Leveling system
- Questing system
- Guilds system
- Party system
- GUI and controls, including hotkeys, etc.
- Spell system
- Item system
- Monsters and NPC intelligence
- Inventory
- Hundreds of levels worth of content
- Much more

We're proud of what we have so far, but we're going to continue working to provide the best quality for when we release the game.

I asked one of my graphics artists, Cloud Rubeus, to get us a nice image showcasing the potential of Kingdoms iPhone - this is a land we will probably be releasing shortly after we release the game.



I will keep you guys updated throughout the major stages of our development. I hope you enjoy this preview.

[cbk1994]

The image looks great, as does all the other stuff I've seen on Kingdoms iPhone. It's nice to see quality being put before quantity on Graal.

[Sinkler]

Absolutely beautiful.

[BigBear3]

Awesome. Cannot wait... for the PC version to be updated!

[MattKan]

Release date?

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

Cloud Rubeus.

Hahaha bringing in some old school I see.

[Tigairius]

Originally Posted by Crono

Hahaha bringing in some old school I see.

'Course, gotta bring in my old buddies to get stuff done.

Originally Posted by MattKan

Release date?

Right now, there is no release date. We are hoping for sometime before summer of 2011 though.

[Astram]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

Right now, there is no release date. We are hoping for sometime before summer of 2011 though.

So, I'm wondering what the currently position of development your in because as you said it will hopefully be released before the summer time. But now its almost winter, almost a year before you made this thread but kingdoms isn't released. Hopefully it will be released in a matter of weeks? Or did the project die, and Ol' West took over?? Please give us a heads up !

[gravator]

Old west, really, it was a new idea but that never got off the ground with the first owner, it should have just been left alone, it's such a shame the more talented and experienced developers take on so much work with multiple projects and spread themselves thin trying to work on all of them, you only risk wearing yourself out and in the end you lose the desire to make those final steps.


If you are dead set on dealing with old west, could you perhaps speak with skyld and get permission to use Konidias's new style classic bodies for it? It's a shame such great ideas are left to stagnate when they could already be in use.

[skillmaster19]

ETA please

[Crono]

Cloud doesn't need an iPhone, he'll power RP his way through PC.

Kingdoms has potential, hope to see it come out nicely.

[joel34]

I guess that's supposed to be a swamp? Looks nice.

[Hatred89]

As someone who has played Graal Classic for the iPhone I just hope you guys make accounts for the iPhone GK because when switching ipods your account doesn't transfer only the paid app. Also I hope that all the players who have paid for gold will get access to the server via pc because playing on the itouch/iphone for long periods of time can sorta get old.
Also the image looks nice but is it a swamp or fog? =P

[Tigairius]

Originally Posted by Hatred89

As someone who has played Graal Classic for the iPhone I just hope you guys make accounts for the iPhone GK because when switching ipods your account doesn't transfer only the paid app.

We've considered doing this and we're still unsure if we want to mess with the headache that is involved with account creation (accounts being sold, accounts being hacked, account restoration, account management, account recovery, etc). However, it might need to be more necessary since we will be heavily economy based, unlike the other two iPhone servers where you can't really trade. Player-to-player trading is already opening up a lot of headaches that we will be dealing with from scams, hackers, etc.

[Hatred89]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

We've considered doing this and we're still unsure if we want to mess with the headache that is involved with account creation (accounts being sold, accounts being hacked, account restoration, account management, account recovery, etc). However, it might need to be more necessary since we will be heavily economy based, unlike the other two iPhone servers where you can't really trade. Player-to-player trading is already opening up a lot of headaches that we will be dealing with from scams, hackers, etc.

Well if this is something that you plan to go the mile you will have to find some type of solution to that. Some people upgrade their iPhones or iTouches each year or two years and since GK will be a mmorpg for the iphone then people will complain about all their hard work lost.
Also will gk iphone be open to the pc graal community who has gold? I mean thats one way of drawing in players from the phone servers to the pc server and bringing in more money.