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Game Name: Call of the Kings - The Mirror Black

Game Description:

(from press release)
FIRST SCREENSHOTS FROM NEW STRATEGY MMOG
Call of the Kings - The Mirror Black

The first screenshots are now available at the game site. After quite a few years the small independent game developer Gamalocus is finally getting ready to launch the beta of their online hybrid strategy and role-playing game, Call of the Kings - The Mirror Black.

Features
Call of the Kings is an online hybrid strategy role-playing game set in the Empire of Khadoria. It is a time of turmoil and with the old emperor at the brink of insanity and leaving no heirs; the nobles realize that they have a legal claim to the Imperial Throne. Personal struggles for power and devious schemes of treason leave everything - the economy, government and social order - in chaos. The goal of Call of the Kings is to win the Imperial Throne for your kingdom team of players, take control of the Empire and hold it successfully against the other kingdoms. To accomplish this, each player controls a noble family of heroes and retainers. Players must rebuild the economy and fund an army, by creating commerce in their towns, establishing trade routes and political alliances, building monopolies and collecting revenues from vassal players.
The Empire is a slow paced persistent world for thousands of players. Outside the Empire the players will control distant relatives in conquest of colonies and frontiers in fast paced strategic battles. The results of the wars on the frontiers will reflect upon the players, their clans and their available resources and political relations in other areas of the game world.

“The game caters to both casual gamers with the tick based concept found in many browser strategy games. And at the same time it has the frontier battlefields where the players can spend hours fighting it out in strategy PvP. It runs in real-time, but the RTS element has been applied to armies, diplomacy, espionage and civilization improvement instead of the classic tactical troop management and resource gathering of the RTS genre,” says programmer Emanuel Greisen.

“We tried to bribe some cinematics experts from a well known company into leaving their jobs,” says covert ops director Lars Nielsen, “but for some reason the 520.000 Imperial Gold Coins and two elven princesses were not enough to sway them. So for now we’ll have to stick with our small team, virtual budget and cheesy yet heartfelt motto: Gamalocus, Gameplay in focus.”

Sign up for the beta test at
www.callofthekings.com

Screenshots at
www.callofthekings.com/screenshots.php

Background
The Danish game developer Gamalocus was founded in 2001 during the production of the graphical strategy browser game Call of the Warlords. The last three years a small team of no more than 5 dedicated geeks has been working hard to create this new strategy MMOG - a genre that has been left mostly unexplored due to the gargantuan and single-minded focus by the industry on the popular roleplaying MMOGs. Call of the Kings is the name of Call of the Warlords 2.
Call of the Kings is programmed in java using the 3D engine jmonkey. The game will be available for PC including the operating systems of Windows, Linux and Macintosh.

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Logo: http://forum.gamalocus.com/templates...l2_header1.jpg

Publisher: Gamalocus ApS

Platforms: PC, MAC, LINUX

Genre: Hybrid RPG / Strategy MMO with 3D Graphics

Status: Closed Beta. Beta this summer (2007)

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