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Development Progress
Over three years of work have gone into the new War of Conquest so far. By leveraging the Unity game engine, we’re able to focus on developing and implementing a kick-ass game design while leaving the technicalities of 3D rendering, multi-platform compatibility and TCP/IP protocol to Unity. Programming is now mostly completed, and the Kickstarter campaign was a success. Over the last few months before release we’ve been working to complete the art, sound, music, and other aspects such as language localization. The final phase involves play testing, debugging and game balance.
- Design & Content 98%
- Programming 96%
- Art 95%
- Sound and Music 100%
- Web and Marketing 60%
Development screenshots from the new War of Conquest
The Legacy
War of Conquest started out in 2002 as a Flash game. While its graphics were primitive, it was an innovative game in several ways. It was among the first massively multiplayer strategy games, and one of the first free-to-play games to utilize microtransactions and in-game currency. It also offered cash prizes to those players who were able to capture and hold the enigmatic Orbs of Power that dotted its virtual landscape.
Despite its outdated visuals, War of Conquest attracted a sizable following who found its gameplay addictive and valued the camaraderie they shared with its community of players. Five years after the servers shut down, War of Conquest players still have a presence on social media, where they’ve been clamoring for the game to make a comeback!
Screenshots from the original War of Conquest
The new War of Conquest is built using the Unity game engine, and features vastly improved graphics as well as many more strategic possibilities. Players are able to build a diverse array of defensive structures that can be combined in novel ways to protect the land, resources and orbs that their nation has captured from its rivals. The new game does not offer cash prizes as the original did — instead, the reward for capturing and holding the game world’s various orbs will be the earning of in-game currency, called credits, which may be used to buy resources, customizations, and special technologies that increase a nation’s power.
At its heart, War of Conquest retains the spirit of the original. The game continues to be about exploration, advancement, capturing and defending the land and resources needed to give your nation the edge in battle, and working both with and against other players to get ahead. The ultimate goal of the game is once again the pursuit of the game world’s rare and coveted Orbs of Power — the nations who can hold these Orbs gain in both power and the respect of their fellows.
Latest News
War of Conquest teaser video and Kickstarter launch date!
It's official, the War of Conquest Kickstarter campaign is set to launch at noon EST, Tuesday September 5th! What can you do right now to help make this campaign a success? Get the word out! Any posts you can make on social media, gaming forums, and to gamer friends...
Kickstarter is less than 2 weeks away!
Here's a quick progress update on War of Conquest. Programming is now almost complete, and I've been spending the last few weeks focused on preparing the Kickstarter campaign. This campaign needs to be a success in order to raise the money needed for the remaining...
New world revealed
Welcome to the latest update on War of Conquest! I've been hard at work for the last few months getting WoC to a state of being "code-complete", where all the features are in place and it's just testing, debugging and game balance (as well as additional art) that...
First look at the latest new art
It's been an industrious last few months for War of Conquest! Most of the programming is finished, and while I'm sure there will be a lot of balancing and tweaking of mechanics to do once testing begins, it's starting to feel like a game. Lately I've been focusing on...
The new web site is live!
Development of the new War of Conquest hit a small milestone today, as the newly revamped warofconquest.com web site has gone live! The new home page describes various aspects of the game and features some brand new screenshots. It also features a section talking...
Development notes
The game is steadily progressing... though every step takes a little longer than planned. Hopefully it will be entering early testing before the end of the year. Not yet sure if the Kickstarter will run this year or early next year -- I've read that Kickstarter...