Call of the Kings: The Mirror Black Announced

Gamalocus issued a press release this morning announcing development of a new massively multiplayer RPG/strategy hybrid entitled Call of the Kings: The Mirror Black.

FIRST SCREENSHOTS FROM NEW STRATEGY MMOG Call of the Kings, The Mirror Black

The first closed beta 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.

(Thank you for the water son). The guard winked at Aaron as he continued on his rounds. Aaron turned and gazed out from the battlements of his father’s keep. The sun was setting on the horizon and the peasants of the small village were returning home from the fields. He sighed.
There was no glory here for the youngest son of a baron.

Features
Call of the Kings, The Mirror Black, 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 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 moving persistent world for thousands of players. Outside the Empire the players will control distant relatives in conquest of colonies and frontiers in fast paced 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.

Sign up for the beta test at www.callofthekings.com
Screenshots at www.callofthekings.com/screenshots.php

Background
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 programmed in java using the 3D engine jmonkey. The game will be available for PC including the operating systems of Windows, Linux and Macintosh.