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The setting of the game is high fantasy in a medieval world where feudal Empires rule the continents, and the noble Houses are engaged in a vicious contest for survival and power.
It is a time of turmoil and with the old emperor at the brink of insanity and leaving no heir, all the nobles of the Realm realize that they have a legal claim to the Imperial Throne. Personal power struggles and treason leave everything - the economy, government and social order - in chaos.
The goal of Call of the Kings is to win the Imperial Throne, take control of the Empire and hold it successfully against the other players. 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 vassals.
Call of the Kings - the Mirror Black is an online hybrid strategy role-playing game set in a feudal medieval empire. The Imperial Peace is fragile and only held together by an old Emperor who seems to be on the brink of insanity. While the noble players of the realm impatiently await their Emperor's total mental breakdown, they send fleets of troops and heroes into the colonial frontiers to capture the wealth and political prestige needed to fully prepare them for the coming Battle of the Imperial Throne.
The game has been in closed beta since November 2007.
"Creating a MMOG with a tiny independent team has proven very challenging," says covert ops director Lars Nielsen. "We ended up creating the game without funding, a 2 man full-time team and the help of friends, students and interns. We are still some way from our full feature milestone, but we are getting there. A BIG thanks to our testers and fans from the old Call of the Warlords who have been a steady supply of encouragement during the last three years."
"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 diplomacy, espionage, army movement, and civilization improvement instead of the classic tactical troop management and resource gathering of the RTS genre,"
Emanuel Greisen, programmer
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 dedicated geeks has been working hard to create this new strategy MMOG.
Call of the Kings - The Mirror Black 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.
Online Multiplayer RTS with a growing Persistent RTS element.
We expect each world shard to contain 2000 active users. We still need to benchmark on this, however the game world is currently not designed to contain more active players than the 2k.
The players control an aristocratic House of families. They will all have a main family of heroes in the khadorian Empire which is a slow progress world much like the concepts behind many browser based strategy games. ie. every few hours you gain some income that you can login and spend. The Khadorian Empire game will last from 2-5 months.
Meanwhile you will be able to send related families into faster colonial frontier games. These are basicly smaller versions of the Khadorian Empire (different geography and scenario objectives of course) with income arriving once every minute. These are designed to last a standard gaming session of 1-5 hours. The fast games will have room for 10-100 players depending on scenario type. The outcome of the colonial games will reflect back into the slow Khadorian Empire game. And the "global" politics, clans etc. will reflect the other way from the Empire into the colonial frontiers.
None yet. You can play the first 5 out of 6 episodes of the game for FREE using a Roamer Account. To play the final episodes and most of the multiplayer colonial battles you must pay a monthly fee of approximately $10 (to be announced).
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