Kingdoms of Marazia - MMORTS

by siedge

co-authored: @kelly-riddell

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.35

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.50

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.14

Servers have been taken down so we can spend our time developing it further.

The concept

We chose an ambitious project for this Ludum Dare! Kingdoms of Marazia is an MMORTS. The combination of MMO and RTS has proven time and time again to be a risk. There have been attempts in the past to combine these two seemingly incompatible genres, but they've always been a real challenge to get right without compromising the parts of both genres that make them great. We love the idea of a MMO strategy game that truly takes place in real time, and we hope that we will ultimately build something really fun.

In the past 3 days, we have built an immense virtual world where you can build your own city, attack other players, and use in-game chat to communicate and coordinate. While the game is currently unpolished and its features are limited, it serves as a proof of concept for the game we hope to fully develop and release in the following months.

How to play

Since the game currently lacks a tutorial, here are the controls:
* Left click a tile to select it
* Right click a tile to move your selected unit to that location (one tile at a time)
* Press B to build
* Build a town hall for 250 wood and 50 iron to get access to other units, like woodcutters and miners
* With a wood cutter unit selected, right click a neighboring tree to cut it down
* Right click a neighboring unit to attack

* Woodcutters cut wood
* Miners capture mines that give you resources every minute
* Farmers give you food just from existing, they grow potatoes out of their pockets

Now you're ready to log in, get in chat and start playing. We'd love to hear what you think and what features you would like to see as we keep developing beyond Ludum Dare. Thanks for checking out our game!

Known issues

Spawning on water (Blue tiles) Leaving you unable to move.
Combat bugs out.

Keep up with us

Some people requested a twitter so I set one up at https://twitter.com/PlayFireDragon I will connect it to my mastodon so that people will get updates from both there.
If you want to keep up with this project (As I plan on actively developing on it) you can either follow me on the Fediverse (If you don't know what that is you should REALLY look into it!) at https://freespeech.firedragonstudios.com/@Siedge or add me on Discord: Siedge #5482

Tags: #multiplayer, #real time strategy

Genres: strategy

Comments13

Raphiell25 Apr 2018, 01:21

I'm having trouble creating an account/logging in right now.

Fernando Labarta25 Apr 2018, 01:22

I had issues it cant complete the login

hhsaez25 Apr 2018, 01:24

Hi guys.
I did manage to enter the game one time, but then I wasn't able to do much and the character was not moving. I tried to reload but now I'm not able to login again. I'm playing on a Mac, in case that's useful.

Ripter25 Apr 2018, 01:28

Nothing happens when I click register or login.

n00b25 Apr 2018, 01:31

This is a ambitious concept but it isn't really playable in its current state. A lot of the controls you listed here either didn't work or didn't apply to the unit you start with. There is no way to tell what kind of unit it is because after looking around the map and finding other units they all look the same. Also There was no music at all and there is really nothing to do when you get into the game. I fiddled around the controls and searching around the map for about 3 to 4 minutes before I just gave up. I think that this concept would be worth pursuing but in its current state it has too many issues to ignore.

Siedgeauthor25 Apr 2018, 01:41

@hhsaez Sorry, server had actually crashed. It's back up, could you try re-registering?

Siedgeauthor25 Apr 2018, 01:46

@Ripter Should be fixed now!

Ninjascribble25 Apr 2018, 03:08

I was able to login, but that's about it. The map loaded, and I saw a few figures on it, but I couldn't interact with or build anything. I love the idea, but maybe a bit too ambitious for a weekend? I hope you had fun anyway!

Siedgeauthor25 Apr 2018, 03:15

@ninjascribble yeah I was on when you logged in, it ended up breaking the server somehow :S LOTS of bugs. What can ya do (Well I could be a better programmer..)

Ninjascribble25 Apr 2018, 03:59

Haha, it's all good @Siedge. I'd loooove to see an MMORTS, but hell... just programming the netcode sounds like a ton of work. I'm impressed that you got as far as you did!

Siedgeauthor25 Apr 2018, 04:02

@Ninjascribble Yeah the entire time was PURE netcode. I had fun though :D

Lerg26 Apr 2018, 22:41

Can't register or login... To bad. At least post a video of the gameplay.

Hopeen27 Apr 2018, 14:24

I think you were a bit too ambitious with this one. I do think it's a nice concept but it's not really playable at the moment. Hope you do continue to work on it and manage to turn it into something down the line.