What is Reddit's opinion of
Kingdom of Loathing?
From 3.5 billion Reddit comments
➔ Kingdom of Loathing website
By popularity on Reddit, this Service is:
100 reviews of this app found across Reddit:
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Kingdom of Loathing. Fantastically written, witty humor, great community, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. What more could you want? It is a fantastic game that is constantly being updated. Join us at /r/kol !
Edit: Thanks for the gold!
I'm surprised I can't see anyone having mentioned this yet. It's a humorous text-based RPG with charming stick-figure art. It's damn funny. And there is a stunningly large amount of game there - both in terms of content and complexity. It's great and well worth checking out.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Kingdom of Loathing! Fantastically written, witty humor, great community, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. What more could you want? It is a fantastic game that is constantly being updated. Join us at /r/kol !
I'm a Pastamancer
Edit: Some morons have obviously no idea what Kingdom of Loathing is.
Kingdom of Loathing - A browser based MMORPG. Theme of the game is satire of RPGs, the Internet, and pop-culture in general. Very heavy on puzzles, frequent updates, and developers have a bi-weekly "radio" show to answer fan questions and talk about the game, but mostly ramble off-topic.
It's probably my favourite game. I've played almost every single day for 5 years straight.
You are limited to a certain amount of turns per day, so you only play for about half an hour to an hour a day. If you don't feel like playing, no problem, because there is an active botting program that the developers are aware of and completely OK with, so you can just have it automatically use your turns to farm up currency for you.
Frankly, I would NOT hold out for a neopets-like site, most of them are... like you say, bad or unpolished.
So, I'm going to push a game I found on reddit via some askreddit "What's your favorite browser game" thing - it is very unlike neopets, more like a browser RPG that's awesomely punny and lampshades things and reminds me of xkcd - http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/static.php?id=whatiskol
It's magnificent and there's a great wiki (I wouldn't go to the wiki immediately, though, as it's quite spoilerific) for when you get into more in-depth stuff that requires walkthroughs.
While not exactly what you were asking about, the Kingdom of Loathing is a web text-adventure game, and it has a very strong speed-running community.
You get a limited number of turns per day, so a lot of it is making important decisions.
Speedruns are counted by daycount and turncount. I'm not sure what the hardcore record is these days, probably something ridiculous like two days, but with preparation you can do as many one-day casual runs as you want, and time them by more traditional speedrun metrics.
The game itself tracks numbers and posts leaderboards, and they're always keeping the meta interesting by introducing new items and reworking old zones.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Actually, no. Any site that expects high load is going to use a load-balancing system like that.
For instance, the browser-based game Kingdom of Loathing has - last I checked - eleven servers that www.kingdomofloathing.com can resolve to.
I'd be willing to wager that sites like Google, Wikipedia, and Amazon do something similar too.
Pastamancer.
With his mastery of the arcane secrets of Noodlecraft, the Pastamancer is a force to be reckoned with. He relies on his Mysticality to get ahead in the world.
Source Kingdom of Loathing
Kingdom of Loathing. Best stickman graphic game ever.
Plus, you can get a bitchin' meat car. And a Meat Fez. I wear a Meat Fez now, Meat Fezzes are cool.
And own a cocoabo. Oh bugger it. Join and join the pun madness. :D
> mushroomfarming
Actually, they have this in the Kingdom of Loathing. Basically, you plant spores in a mushroom plot, and after a day, the spores grow into mushrooms. You can pick them then, but if you leave them there, they might breed and create even better mushrooms. You can even get a special kind if the phases of the moons align just right. After you pick them, you can then use mushrooms to make food, wine, etc. More here
I wouldn't mind something like that in Minecraft, it could be pretty useful, and new mechanics are always fun.
Kingdom of Loathing - A free, irreverent, funny, in-browser, stick-figure RPG. The gameplay and graphics are dead-simple, which means in the decade-plus of this game being out, they've had the chance to make tons and tons of content. And, they just came out with a Steam game with the same humor and art-style that's amazing: West of Loathing
Obviously not intended, but you can still access the zone:
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/adventure.php?snarfblat=213
I just did it in my current Source run just to make sure it still works, and now I have 10 turns of "A little bit evil" & "Eye of the Seal"
Sometimes being forced to wait isn't bad. The problem is when the wait times exist to try to get you to pay to bypass them.
Take Kingdom of Loathing, for example. I really enjoy that, and I don't mind the daily limit.
The problem is when it is a tactic designed to suck money away from you. But then, all such tactics are annoying, aren't they?
I'm surprised I haven't seen anything on here yet about this.
This is from the devious minds behind Kingdom of Loathing and it is delightful.
The actual combat isn't that exciting to me, but the humor is 100% worth the price of the game.
> I can't remember the last time an IOTM was actually on-time, though I realize people have lives and all.
Just a heads-up: as of late October/early November 2015, IotM's are no longer released on weekends. So if the month starts on a weekend, you can expect the IotM to show up one or two days late.
If you folks haven't tried Kingdom of Loathing yet, I recommend it. It's a text-based parody of adventure games. You go on quests, building up to saving King Ralph from the Naughty Sorceress, then you ascend to Valhalla and get reincarnated as a different class with new skills.
The art is terrible, but you should definitely take the time to read adventures. KoL doesn't have the draconian rules Neopets does. No filters in chat, you can buy premium content with meat (the in-game currency), and you can trade premium items for meat, and you won't get frozen if you play on more than one account, though you can't use one account to farm items/meat for your main account.
If you sign up and message me in-game (AlaskanWeirdo), I'll hook you up with some stuff once I have access to my stash again (you lose access to your old items for 1000 turns after reincarnation). The community over at /r/KoL is also pretty great.
it's a text/picture based... i guess technically its an MMORPG but not at all in the WoW kind of way. practically everything in the game is a joke, i'm convinced that no single player will actually recognize every joke; there's just too many.
like there's a graveyard where you can fight zombies and their most common item drop is cranberries. little things like that just fucking everywhere in that game
Not that this isn't cool and all, but I think that award should go to the Kingdom of Loathing developers - their own con (now in its 8th year) and 5 weekly podcasts (2 answering player questions about the game, one about other videogames and 2 advice shows), I'd say there's more work to be done here...
Yeah, pretty much. In short, Jick accidentally dropped the entire database. We called it White Wednesday because the KoL homepage was essentially blank for a while. Some user data could be restored from backup or reconstructed (which led to some accidental item duplication), some was permanently lost.
No, he banned you for breaking the "don't be a jerk" rule and it appears that you've done that several times already.
The "don't be a jerk" rule doesn't mean you can't be a little rude or even an asshat at times but you were doing it directly to a chat mod. What exactly did you expect? Don't answer that. Please, don't.
EDIT: Just in case you decline to acknowledge the rule I specified: http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/static.php?id=policy
Spoilers!
If you spend 50 turns in The Bubblin' Caldera and head toward the roaring, you fight a boss called Lavalos.
>Millions of years ago, a strange meteor crashed into the surface of a cold ball of rock drifting silently through space. It drilled into the center of the rocky sphere, and unleashed an immeasurable amount of stored heat, creating a fiery molten core that warmed the stone and started its development as a nascent planet that would one day be able to support life.
>Your life.
>Now the time has come. The planet is teeming with life and energy -- energy that the parasite at the planet's core requires to begin the life-cycle anew and send forth seeds of its own. But before it can feed, it must first crack the eggshell that imprisons it.
>All life on the planet is depending on you. Depending on you to defeat this silly-looking thing like a giant hermit crab wearing a lava lamp.
It can copy attacks of other bosses (explicitly stating which boss it's copying). 250 attack, 200 defense, 500 HP, +50% initiative. It's a horror, and, surprisingly, has no elemental alignment. When defeated it drops two items: http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/desc_item.php?whichitem=337034963 http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/desc_item.php?whichitem=726558682
If cost and technology wasn't a concern, I would cyborg out and just lay in bed playing video games with my brain. Cost by itself, I'd probably roll 16GB deep with quad quadcores on an SLI setup with RAID6 running through SSD's a couple tera deep. I would run Crysis at maximum settings for about 10 minutes, then immediately go back to playing Kingdom of Loathing and Minecraft.
This option may take a bit more experience, but you can use chat commands to do a lot of things like changing equipment without having to reload the main pane.
For example, you could type to following into chat to equip a frilly skirt: /equip p frilly
Of course, that requires knowing at least part of the name of whatever you want to equip.
There's a partial list of chat commands here: http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/doc.php?topic=advanced_chat_commands
KoL, haven't played it in over 5 years so idk what it's like anymore, but I remember you have a sort of energy bar and can only do so much per day.
It's not only items but also clan items, skills/bookshelf books and familiars.
The idea behind it comes from the Magic the Gathering Type II format, where you can only use cards from the base set and from the latest two blocks.
It was explored first in the winter 2011 challenge path Trendy which disallowed things older than 12 months. See Type II list for the trendy restrictions (must be logged in).
Type 69 was introduced with the Summer 2014 challenge path Slow & Steady and has a larger window of legitimate items/skills/familiars which get rotated yearly and not monthly. The current Type 69 list can be found here (must be logged in).
> it's perfectly acceptable to create multiple accounts that can trade items and buffs back and forth with each other.
NO IT ISN'T!
Rule 4 of The Policies Of Loathing:
> Don't abuse multiple accounts.
> This is a tricky one. It's not against the rules to have more than one character per household, or per computer, or even per person. What is against the rules, however, is to have a bunch of extra characters that act as item or Meat farmers for your main character. Here's a yardstick: If your main character is accumulating wealth or advancing at a rate faster than would be possible without multis, then you're more than likely in violation of this rule.
> If you're abusing multis, and your behavior is noticed, all accounts other than what appears to be your primary will be disabled. If you make a bunch more multis and start doing it again, or if the first abuse we notice is really annoying or egregious, your primary account will be disabled.
You might like Kingdom of Loathing. It's a free browser MMORPG that is absolutely hilarious. It's been continuously updated for 10+ years, so has a LOT of content to see. The mobile site is pretty good too. I play it every morning and it hasn't gotten old yet (been doing it about a year). Here's the link: http://www.kingdomofloathing.com
Just to address a few of the other comments here:
1) He was not a dev. Members of the dev team are listed in the documentation here: http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/doc.php?topic=development_team
2) Mall manipulation is not against the rules (though it is a good way to get people to dislike you).
3) Multi abuse is definitely against the rules.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
The Kingdom of Loathing. Fantastically written, witty humor, great community, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. What more could you want? It is a fantastic game that is constantly being updated. Join us at /r/kol !
I'll be playing Kingdom of Loathing (an adventurer is you!) which is crazy awesome. About as different from Neopets as you can get, but... still fun! Has a great community, fun things, etc, etc. I actually just 'rerolled' (basically you can 'ascend' after 'beating the game' (YOU NEVER BEAT THE GAME, just the main quest line) and play as a different character with the same name and, in some cases, same items, etc) but uh, if anyone wants a mildly crappy newbie pack hit me up. And check out /r/kol!
The Kingdom of Loathing. It's a hilarious (mostly text) online mmorpg! You can be a Moxious Disco Bandit or a Mystical Sauceror or even a Muscly Turtle Tamer! Check it out some time and prepare to laugh and groan.
If you are looking for something awesome to do check this game out. If you join up send me a message my name is Spicyramen and I will help you out with some meat...since it is a meat based economy.
Kingdom of Loathing just added a way to summon dice. Using the d4 in combat gives:
>You roll the d4. It comes up 1, but before you can look up what that means on the appropriate table, your opponent steps on it and shrieks in pain.
Still playing Kingdom of Loathing in my browser, and it's still phenomenal. New Item of the Month should be coming out today, I'm excited to see what it is. Just starting to get my basic food/booze skills permed and about 1/3 of the way to Olfaction.
Troll Patrol has been eating up a lot of my time. I get stuck in a groove strategizing and lining up matches, and don't realize how long I've been playing. It's really fun, but for some reason global leaderboards don't show up on my version. Probably because it's still in beta.
Bacon The Game is so good, Philipp Stollenmeyer has built on Pancake and Burger and made something even more compelling than either. The art is minimalist absurdity, and is sometimes really macabre. You toss bacon into a flesh wall's mouth, and onto the game's live updated twitter thread. Physics are hilarious.
Linkme: Troll Patrol, Bacon the Game
I developed Metroplexity for playing while taking tech support calls, so it'll probably work for you as long as its not all downtime.
Kingdom of Loathing and Twilight Heroes are on a similar vein, all good for work where you might need to switch out at any moment.
The designers of Kingdom of Loathing got into this issue a bit, trying to avoid mechanics that encouraged people to do un-fun things because they were Optimal - the main dev compared it to "people who would rather stab themselves in the dick for eleven points, than bang the prom queen for ten points".
Which gave rise to one of my favorite terms for a phenomenon: dickstabbing.
Not really. This is the most detailed official thing I know about. They did start doing more detailed pages for iotms, but I'm not sure when they started that.
As far as I know, CI was the only new thing on that day.
As far as browser-based, Kingdom of Loathing!
Think of World of Warcraft, but written by Monty Python, and illustrated by XKCD.
It's a zany little MMORPG with turn-based combat, a ton of pop-culture references, and fun different challenge modes.
As far as a Free to Play PC game though, check out Planetside 2 (can be downloaded off the PS2 website and Steam)
Think Battlefield, except Planetside 2 makes Battlefield seem tiny.
It's the only real MMOFPS in existence, and is a 3-faction constant combined arms war. There's tanks, aircraft, infantry combat...all in one. It's amazing, and you really have to play it to believe the scale.
There are three factions, the Terran Republic, the New Conglomerate, and the Vanu Sovereignty. The TR generally has faster-firing, higher-capacity guns that do slightly less damage per bullet. The NC are just the opposite, trading slower fire rates for higher damage. The VS have a focus on accuracy and a bit more mobility, sporting energy weapons that have no bullet drop, but generally slower bullet speeds.
It's not pay to win, as anything weapon-wise can be gotten with enough playtime. Also, for the most part, all guns in the game are sidegrades, so the only thing that matters is your FPS skill from the start!
And if you have a PS4, the PS4 version was released recently (and is also F2P), so give it a shot.
Only warning I have is that it does take a pretty powerful computer to run well, so keep that in mind!
Also, you will die. A lot. The game's all PvP and is pretty tough as a beginner...but if you stick around it gets easier.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Kingdom of Loathing. Fantastically written, witty humor, great community, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. What more could you want? It is a fantastic game that is constantly being updated. Join us at /r/kol!
Kingdom of Loathing is pretty sweet. Good sense of humor, friendly community, and charmingly simplistic art style. It's a morpg, with classes like Seal Clubber, Turtle Tamer, and Accordion Thief (among others).
Clicker Heroes, if you're into that sort of game. Basically cookie clicker with a fantasy theme.
The Fancy Pants games are always good fun (not sure how many there are nowadays). Simple platformer with pretty solid animation for what it is. Surprising amount of secrets in later games at least. Lots more content than you'd expect from a miniclip game.
Met some of my best friends on KoL. I don't play as much anymore, I've seen most of the content I want to by now. But I still stop back in from time to time, do the occasional ascension or dungeon. Probably still the best gaming community on the internet, no question. People always make newbies feel welcome, there is a pile of content to play since the game has been developed constantly since 2004, and the content is coming faster than ever now. The game got mobile compatability recently, and there is a regular twitch.tv event that is developed live by Jick on stream. if you guys like quirky browser turn-based RPGs that turn out to be very deep games, this is the game for you. http://www.kingdomofloathing.com
Unlisted Zones
Using the /goto chat macro, you can do some cool stuff. One of the simpler tweaks is custom location links. It's nice that the topbar gives you a lot of location options, but some "locations" aren't listed. Maybe you want to whiz over to the Demon Summoning Chamber, but that's not a location in the list.
Right click the location you want to hotlink and copy the link address. For the summoning chamber you'll get http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/place.php?whichplace=manor4&action=manor4_chamber
Paste the linktext and delete everything before place.php, leaving you with place.php?whichplace=manor4&action=manor4_chamber
Add /goto (with a space after it) before that text, and you're set.
.
/goto place.php?whichplace=manor4&action=manor4_chamber
Edit
Finding an experienced artist is probably the best way to go since there are several restrictions and Jick needs to approve the art.
Official Custom Avatar Guidelines
Prices vary from artist to artist. Single frame avatars range from some millions to 1 Mr. A. Animation pushes that to 2-3 Mr. As depending on the animation compexity.
One very popular artist is Kyta who has currently done 253 avatars (including mine ;))
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Kingdom of Loathing. Fantastically written, witty humor, great community, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. What more could you want? It is a fantastic game that is constantly being updated. Join us at /r/kol !
Imagine a world filled with slightly satirical humour and full of references to movies, video games, books, pop culture and music. Now add poking fun of various parts of the internet (like trolls, neckbeards, and 1337 h4XX0rz) with RPG elements like an inventory, quests, and a combat system with wiggly stick figures and black and white graphics crudely (and sharply as of late) drawn with a white canvas and you get http://www.kingdomofloathing.com !
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Kingdom of Loathing. Fantastically written, witty humor, great community, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. What more could you want? It is a fantastic game that is constantly being updated. Join us at /r/kol !
No - you start over from level 1 of whatever class you chose.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/static.php?id=ascension is the official FAQ for it (though parts are a bit out of date since the Valhalla revamp).
A lot. Seriously.
Assuming that you're a writer, artist, modeller, multi-discipline (databases, rendering, networking, …) programmer, etc. I'd say you might have something worthwhile in a few years.
If you are assuming you won't have significant chunks of content and nobody is ever going to play it, and it's purely an interesting technology thing, it might be feasible. Otherwise, probably not. You could take the pure sandbox route (a la Second Life), which saves you from having to generate any content, but gives you an even bigger pile of problems to solve. You could make it text-based and save on graphics, though you're then wandering into MUD territory. 2D is probably technically easier than 3D. Or you might do it in the style of Kingdom of Loathing, in which case you can cut out a lot (but by no means all) of the graphical work. You could even do it in the style of Fallen London – a more-multiplayer version of that would be interesting to see. Both of the latter two require very compelling content, because they don't have much else going on.
I hate to be a downer, but…
(On the other hand, it would be really cool.)
In terms of languages, almost anything goes. Frameworks – well, it depends entirely on what approach you're taking; see above.
You can get pre-built MMO engines. Then you "only" have to provide logic, art, content, etc. If you're into CS I doubt that's really what you're looking for, though. (And the more they do for you, the less interesting your game will likely turn out.)
Why wouldn't Reddit work? There's loads of screenreaders.
A lot of tv works without seeing and there are audio descriptions available for movies.
Listening to music, playing text based/PHP games (Kingdom of Loathing has a lot of blind players), listening to the radio works fine.
You should check out Kingdom Of Loathing. The art style is pen sketches instead of pencil, but... it's very popular.
It helps that the art style is completely and utterly offset by the quality of writing (mostly done by an English major with an awesome sense of humor).
Also subscribers get a Box of Gratitude Chocolates. Opening it gives...
(3) Gratitude chocolate's (bourbon-filled): An awesome-quality 1 fullness booze.
(3) Gratitude chocolate's (Meat-filled): Gives 10,000 meat when used.
(3) Gratitude chocolate (thyme-filled): Gives 10 adventures.
(1) Gratitude chocolate (octopus-filled): A hatchling for a new 'Choctopus' familiar. It increases item drops and restores HP and MP after combat.
See http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/standard.php?date=2013-01-01 when logged in. There are currently the following familiars not allowed in Standard:
Familiars
Ancient Yuletide Troll, Artistic Goth Kid, Astral Badger, Attention-Deficit Demon, Baby Bugged Bugbear, Baby Sandworm, Baby Yeti, BRICKO chick, Bulky Buddy Box, Casagnova Gnome, Chauvinist Pig, Cheshire Bat, Coffee Pixie, Comma Chameleon, Cotton Candy Carnie, Crimbo Elf, Crimbo P. R. E. S. S. I. E., Cymbal-Playing Monkey, Dancing Frog, Dandy Lion, Dataspider, Disembodied Hand, Doppelshifter, Dramatic Hedgehog, Emo Squid, Evil Teddy Bear, Fancypants Scarecrow, Feather Boa Constrictor, Feral Kobold, Flaming Face, Frumious Bandersnatch, Gluttonous Green Ghost, Green Pixie, Hand Turkey, Hanukkimbo Dreidl, Happy Medium, He-Boulder, Hippo Ballerina, Holiday Log, Hunchbacked Minion, Inflatable Dodecapede, Jack-in-the-Box, Jill-O-Lantern, Jitterbug, Knob Goblin Organ Grinder, Li'l Xenomorph, Llama Lama, Mad Hatrack, Mini-Hipster, Mini-Skulldozer, Nanorhino, Nervous Tick, Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot, O.A.F., Obtuse Angel, Pair of Ragged Claws, Pair of Stomping Boots, Penguin Goodfella, Peppermint Rhino, Personal Raincloud, Pet Rock, Piano Cat, Pottery Barn Owl, Psychedelic Bear, Pygmy Bugbear Shaman, Reagnimated Gnome, RoboGoose, Robot Reindeer, Rock Lobster, Rogue Program, Snow Angel, Snowy Owl, Spirit Hobo, Squamous Gibberer, Stocking Mimic, Sugar Fruit Fairy, Sweet Nutcracker, Teddy Bear, Teddy Borg, Temporal Riftlet, Tickle-Me Emilio, Toothsome Rock, Underworld Bonsai, Uniclops, Wild Hare, Wind-up Chattering Teeth, Wizard Action Figure
From 1.1.2016 the following familiars from 2013 will be restricted too:
Blavious Kloop, Bloovian Groose, Mini-Adventurer, Reanimated Reanimator, Steam-Powered Cheerleader
It is hilarious! I've been known to loose months to that game. So many clever little jokes.
Kingdom of Loathing, a browser based satiric stick figure MMORPG that's been around for over 10 years.
The game predates the concept of micro transactions, its business model relies on donations.
A 10 usd donation gets you a token that can be exchanged for a special item of the month but since KoL has a player run economy (kinda like EVE Online) and everything can be bought and sold you can buy these items from other players for meat, the ingame currency.
If you like Braid, you have to play Transistor. I can't imagine it's too hardware-taxing.
Also, consider checking out Kingdom of Loathing, for something that A) doesn't care about your computer's specs, and B) is completely free. :)
I wouldn't say that nobody knows about it, but the Kingdom of Loathing is a fantastic free webgame with a great community, tons of pop-culture references, and lots of wit. Plus, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. We have a subreddit, too, at /r/kol!
I am absolutely amazed I didn't see Kingdom of Loathing. It is a browser adventure game with a great sense of humor, surprising depth, and the world's largest meat based economy. Check it out, its a lot of fun. http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php?loginid=a4790be303a549829c33a0c5e10d7243
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
The Kingdom of Loathing! Fantastically written, witty humor, great community, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. What more could you want? It is a fantastic webgame that is constantly being updated. Join us at /r/kol !
Reminds me of an item in an RPG (Kingdom of Loathing)
Note that the description in-game changes every time you read it, and when equipped, so does most of the rest of the text in the game, including the chat.
It's a PHP game, close enough.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
The Kingdom of Loathing! Fantastically written, witty humor, great community, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. What more could you want? It is a fantastic game that is constantly being updated. Join us at /r/kol!
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/ The Kingdom of Loathing! Fantastically written, witty humor, great community, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. What more could you want? It is a fantastic game that is constantly being updated. Join us at /r/kol !
I suppose everyone in the world becomes stick figures, all of us caught up in a gigantic plot by some evil (some say naughty) sorceress to destroy the world or something. She captured our king so we have to get him back at least. We all need to defeat hilariously named enemies in various double entendre locations.
The world isn't that doomed, because someone's going to end up saving the king. Unfortunately when you do everyone restarts, so maybe we are pretty screwed.
(Since nobody's going to get it: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/130764/mr-card-game is a board game built on the premise of http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/)
When my friend introduced me to The Kingdom of Loathing, this seemed like a good name for my character given the nature of the game. I've used it ever since.
It's actually a really awesome game and you should all check it out.
Kingdom of Loathing is an oldie but goodie.
It's always fun to check out Ludem Dare entries, here's the most recent batch, but some of them will be small downloads rather than web. An example from a few LDs ago that was pretty sweet-but-simple gameplay is Mini Metro, soon to be released as full game on Steam, but the original entry/demo is still playable online for free.
Kingdom of Loathing might be good for you. It's a web-based MMO that you might like. It's pretty funny, and it has a couple mechanics that are excellent for light coop play:
(1) Each day, you get 40 adventures. Each monster fight or non-combat encounter counts for one adventure. If you don't spend all of them in one day, they'll carry over to the next (up to 200). It makes it pretty nice to drop in and out, since you can log in when you have some free time, drop 10 adventures, then get back to work.
(2) There's some nice synergy between classes that can work like coop. For instance, Pastamancers and Saucerors can work together to make snazzy noodle dishes, and Accordion Thieves can provide a variety of buffs to others (and themselves!).
Plus, /r/kol is a really nice community.
It's a particular set of restrictions. There are certain skills, items, and familiars that you're not allowed to use in certain challenge paths.
It's a truly fantastic pop culture turn-based RPG. On your web browser. Reminiscent of old BBS games, with a graphical (Read: 5 year old with a pencil) interface.
KoLwiki: You are not permitted to use Mr. Items or limited-time content that became limited before January 1, 2012. The restrictions are shown in the type 69 schedule.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Kingdom of Loathing. Fantastically written, witty humor, great community, you need to take a grammar test before you can chat. What more could you want? It is a fantastic game that is constantly being updated. Join us at /r/kol !
I'm not sure if it would be useful to you, but the developers of Kingdom of Loathing have done exactly this a few times, streamed on Twitch. You can probably find video of the previous streams (if you're interested and you can't, let me know and I can try to dig around a little), or else check /r/kol periodically to see when the next one is coming up (it'll probably be a couple of weeks, I'd think).
It might not be directly applicable to you because it's such a specific style of game, because they're implementing it as they go I believe, and because they've been making this same game for 11 years and so probably have the process kind of streamlined in a way that works for them, but it might be worth a look!
If "downtime" at work means you're at a computer with internet... Kingdom of Loathing!
It's a simple, hilarious stick-figure RPG. You only get so many turns per day, so it's easy to keep it a coffee break game.
...of course, if you want to get more into it, it has incredible strategic depth, including a really rewarding New Game+ mode called ascension and multiplayer clan dungeons that reward cooperation.
It's got a killer community--you have to pass a literacy test before you can enter chat--and the developers are the best I've ever seen at interacting with their players.
It's also free. So that's neat.
Give it a shot! Then come visit us over at /r/kol for more community.
It is by no stretch of the imagination a bad game, but you would never be able to tell by looking at it. Kingdom of Loathing is a free-to-play browser game with high quality black and white stick figure graphics. And yet everything else about the game is fantastic!
The writing is whimsical, witty and charming; their free-to-play model works well for both the developers and the players, they have one of the best systems I've ever seen for playing the game over and over again, are somewhat protected from players ever burning out, communicate with their playerbase constantly, have a great system for putting out new content without disrupting the balance of the old content, and have many many ways to play the game using just one set of designed mechanics. They even have one of the best guild frameworks out there, and a pretty damn good chat system - in a browser game!
The technical 'expertise' required to make that game (as far as I know) was limited almost purely to online stuff, where the game itself is just a lot of damned good writing and systems design. And that's why I think game devs should check it out - because it proves that you don't need to be a programming (or artistic) guru to make something amazing. On the flip side of the coin, it shows that even amazing programming and art is no replacement for well-designed systems and great writing
If games aren't fun anymore, stop playing. Try replacing video games with reading, movies, or some sort of art. When you first start playing video games, it pushes your creativity a lot, but that stops after a while and everything starts to feel bland.
Alternately, if you're just bored of the games you have, branch out. Roguelikes and text adventures provide a completely different experience than the games you're likely used to. Kingdom of Loathing is really funny and limits how much you can play each day in order to prevent burnout.
Mr. Card Game, a deck-building game based on the in-browser MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing. It was Kickstarted in 2012, and they had some printing issues (because, well, it was a KS board game), but I got it last week.
I enjoyed it! As an 8+ year veteran of KoL (jesus christ) the licensed content was a plus, but I think this game would have been good regardless. I've only ever played Dominion and Ascension in the deckbuilding genre, but I watched some videos of Thunderstone, and I think that's its closest comparison. Your deck is made up of stat cards for Muscle, Mysticality, and Moxie (melee attack, spell attack / MP for skills, ranged attack / evasion) of values from one to four, and you improve them as the game progresses. You have many different monsters to choose to fight at a given time, and lots of non-stat character progression -- equipment, skills, one-shot items, etc. There's a rummy-esque mechanic surrounding cards you use or otherwise discard, too, which lends another layer of strategy.
It has the same problems that many other deckbuilders do, namely the occasional feeling of "multiplayer solitaire", but it was still a good time and I look forward to playing it again. (And it has a ton of supplemental rules and variants to make those replays fresh!) Strong recommendation for anyone who's played KoL, and definitely worth checking out otherwise if you like deckbuilders.
I don't know of any blogs, but you may try contacting soma fm or some other radio stations. If you play a game like kingdom of loathing that has a radio station, contact the dj's and ask if they'll give your stuff a listen.
Please reply with a download link when you get it put up. I would love to hear it!
> And now in one day I've shot up to 1 million simply because I have two accounts ._.;
The way this is phrased is ambiguous enough that I feel compelled to remind everyone of rule #4. Don't send meat or items between your two accounts. Maybe that's not what you meant, but I'd hate for you to have your accounts disabled over something you weren't aware of.
This reminds me of Kingdom of Loathing, which has a taco cat enemy in its area dedicated to palindromes, the Palindome.
I strongly recommend skipping fancy things like Unity and going straight for PHP and MySQL. While MySQL can be a bit of a finicky bitch, I've found PHP to mostly be a joy to learn and use, and that setup handles the client/server issue inherently. And PHP works fantastically for things that are mostly text-based, as you can see here, for example.
bots can break re-CAPTCHA better than humans can. I'd highly suggest rolling your own CAPTCHA system to test for humans. Ideally give simple logic puzzles, this also might help filter out a lot of the digg/reddit userbase that tends to bring the quality of these sites down.
Take a look at the signup/chat acceptance that Kingdom of Loathing uses for an example of some unique CAPTCHA.
You might want to implement some sort of restrictions on how users post as well as just the signup area. Do some rate limiting to force accounts to be worthless unless in bulk, then start banning accounts as quickly as they are created to spam. Once you cost them more to hack then they are earning they will stop targeting you directly.
Quite frankly, I find most games aren't worth the money these days.
I gladly paid money for games like Minecraft and Braid, where the money went directly to the people responcible for making the games. I also donate regularly to several online games. I have a hard time parting with my cash on a student's budget when it comes to games like Star Wars Lucasfest Unleashed 16: Revenge of the Franchise, with the knowledge that the people who actually made the game probably won't see much (if any at all).
Just to be clear, your drunkenness will disappear at rollover, which is explained here.
Every day you'll want to use up your free adventures, and eat and drink the best foods you can lay your hands on to gain extra adventures. You'll find you're able to cook better food as you progress in the game. You can't overeat, but be careful with booze, as you become drunk. Try to drink right up to your limit, then when you've finished for the day, guzzle down a massive drink that gives plenty of adventures for the next day. There are specifically-designed drinks that achieve this, like the bucket of wine, or some of the more interesting cocktails.
There are spleen items that give adventures, as well, but the spleen has been steadily moving towards giving effects rather than adventures. Again, that'll make little sense at the moment, but eventually you'll come to plan for a spleen diet as well.
The wiki is always helpful: Best foods, Best booze
Look at Jick , the creator of the kingdomofloathing and West of Loathing as an example of how to treat bugfinders and reward those who help the game (Aside for a minor controversy here or there) in the last 15 years it has proven very successful at keeping the bugs at a minimum.
Jick gives custom items to big bug fixers, to whole clans that are active fixers, he takes them on into teams to help and even hires some as staff. Plus they get custom animations or content written about them specifically.
If you don't mind text-based stuff, you can play Torn or Kingdom of Loathing. Torn has an app, KoL is a browser game you can find right here. I love the art in KoL but the graphics are very bad.
If you don't mind mostly text based games (with static hand drawn graphics), and you DO like extremely good jokes and over a decade of old content to explore, I suggest you check out Kingdom of Loathing. It's a free browser game that's been running for 13 or so years, and it's great. It was built by the same devs as West of Loathing, with the same sharp, absurd writing, and is constantly being added to and updated. Free to play, the only way they make money is selling Items of the Month, which are handy, powerful items that are completely optional. You can also grind in-game currency to make enough dough to buy them. There is also an active subreddit, /r/kol
Kingdom of Loathing.
It is a fairly full-featured online turn-based RPG. You probably cannot anticipate the depth this game has. If you decide to play it, then at first you might not be fully aware of what it has to offer. The game gradually unfolds in complexity as you learn more and try different things. Also the chat can teach you about anything you don't understand.
You might want to try KoL. Punny jokes, pop culture references, clans, quests, whatnots... Prepare your gaming rig though, it might be a tad bit high maintenance in the graphics department. :)
Video games hot dog.
Its 3 of the guys who make Kingdom Of Loathing and after a while the guy who made Frog Fractions talking about video games, often puzzles, and whatever inane BS they think of which is often pretty funny. They pick a game to play each week as an assignment an some time discussing it.
Pros: Skeletons with sweet swords
Cons: Not Frog Fractions 2^^or ^^is ^^it?
Kingdom of Loathing is a pretty solid mostly-text RPG game. Played that for a couple of years until I finally got broadband.
Also had almost no trouble playing online poker, which is difficult to do for money in the US these days but even the big sites like Full Tilt and Poker Stars allow free chip play still. Once the software is downloaded, the actual play takes almost no bandwidth.
Try Kingdom of Loathing. It's chockful of puns, jokes, and references. It's pretty demanding on rendering though, you might want to check your graphic cards settings ;)
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
The Kingdom of Loathing! Hilarious online rpg with a great community. We have a subreddit too, /r/kol. And you need to take a grammar test before you can chat, which is nice.
I'm privy to smaller, more community driven titles, so Kingdom of Loathing and Realm of the Mad God come to mind. Both are pay to win in some regard, but neither are super competitive unless you make them out to be, and both are chock full of great people.
They're also both playable-in-browser, which is great from an ease of use standpoint.
You could try Kingdom of Loathing. It's a turn-based RPG type game you can pick up and play any time and exit any time (even mid-battle), and come back right where you left off, it's got a ton of content but more is always being added, some witty humor and a pretty good community. It's not got the most amazing graphics, but there's a wealth of content and it's entirely free. http://www.kingdomofloathing.com
If you're looking for something a little unconventional The Kingdom of Loathing is a really great point and click adventure game that's been around since the early 2000s. They even have their own internet radio station.
I choose #273!
1) Recently gotten into KOL this incredible web game. It's stick figures. It's awesome. Also it requires no physical movement whatsoever except on your fingers.
2) My favorite thing? Probably eating. Eating vast quantities of chocolate.
3) holds up spork
wooo, happy birthday! celebrate!
imma pick 142
honestly I spend all of my time passing time on reddit
like, it's a problem
but outside of reddit http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/static.php?id=whatiskol is where it's at
The Kingdom of Loathing.
Text/stick-figure based browser RPG (w/ multiplayer/guilds if you are so inclined). Lots of pretty in-depth pre-Minecraft crafting elements and an open marketplace for trades.
There's snarky humor, tons of back-story and content and it's all free. I've been poking in on and off for the past 14 years or so.
Hi everyone!
Jamz: ALIVE by Port Isla is the clear winner right now. I love indie rock!
Gamin': HabitRPG!!.... jk jk jk. I love all manner of puzzles and games. I love cryptic crosswords, I love the Civilization series, I love this little browser-based game called Kingdom of Loathing.. everything!
Fact: This is so nerdy of me but I think it's really cool. When you taste things, the molecules that activate your taste buds have no real physical or chemical reason for doing so in the case of bitter, sweet, and umami-flavored things -- there's no biological reason that MSG tastes savory, it just is because that's how we perceive it. But in the case of sour and salty things, the sodium and hydrogen molecules (mainly) are the reason the message is passed on (by changing the taste bud's charge). I think it's so cool. Okay. Nerdiness over.
Meal: So there's this spicy, starchy noodle dish with asparagus and broccoli that my SO and I developed, and I think it's my favorite because I only ever have it with him, really, and he really likes it. =P
Dessert: Ooooh I don't even know. I like mint ice cream a lot, especially with dark chocolate things.
Book: First place goes to East of Eden by Steinbeck, a close second goes to One Hundred Years of Solitude by GGM -- but I often say that they're kind of telling the same story anyway. ;)
Childhood Thing: I was pretty into Neopets. That was really really fun for me.
Tonematrix, a fun thing that will make you feel like a genius composer.
Kingdom of Loathing, a hilarious RPG with such classes as Pastamancer, Disco Bandit and Accordion Thief. Bear in mind that it limitis you in how much you can play it in a day with an energy mechanic of sorts, but you can refill it with food and booze.
I checked out Fallen London and see that it's text based. I signed up and it's interesting so far. You might like Kingdom of Loathing. There is a sub /r/kol. There is imagery, if you like stick figures.
For something a bit more involved, I second the Dragon Age: Origins recommendation. Or Dragon Age: Inquisition.