Questions on Armada: Kingdoms?

If you have any questions about the game, please feel free to ask and I will try to answer all the non-confidential stuff for you.

Did everyone on this forum have already signed the "Confidentiality, Non-Disclosure and Non-Use Agreement" document? If so, we can talk freely about the project here... no? I'm not sure of what is considered confidential or not, but maybe some topics with a clear description of the project, his mechanic, the factions and characters, the story, the status of the project, the things done and the others that need to be done, and if there is any development with your distribution partner, can be a good start?

I believe all the confidential stuff must be talked about in the dev-forums. This thread is available for everyone

Frederic, Jennifer and Guido have all signed an NDA, and they're part of the developers forums group.

I've talked with bart about our marketing / public info plan, and I'll write it down in the dev forum. I'll also note what should and shouldn't be talked about (and when).

I'd love to release some stuff in the public though

so... where's the dev-forum

You should be able to see it now..

cool!

so this game is for mobile phones only.. any chance u can just download it on your computer and play from there??

Will the game run on BlackBerries?

alamore wrote:so this game is for mobile phones only.. any chance u can just download it on your computer and play from there??

Technically this would be possible ofcourse, but it's not something we will support. We know traffic can be expensive, but prices keep getting down as more people and more are interested in using internet on their cellphone

Dafu wrote:Will the game run on BlackBerries?

Since J2ME is possible on BBs, we will do our best to create a port for them.
Our porting priorities are also based on the number of beta requests with a specific handset.

jrz wrote:

alamore wrote:so this game is for mobile phones only.. any chance u can just download it on your computer and play from there??

Technically this would be possible ofcourse, but it's not something we will support. We know traffic can be expensive, but prices keep getting down as more people and more are interested in using internet on their cellphone

so its unlikely to play it on your computer?
dam this would be sweet to play on the computer.

At this moment it is not very likely. Although we won't rule out anything. It all depends on how A:K is received by the public.

We were thinking about doing some sort of management website for stats / account info. But actual gameplay for now is mobile only.

Dafu wrote:Will the game run on BlackBerries?

I'm sure that they wish to extend it to that sweet-spot BlackBerry market of 8 million (total) users, else they wouldn't have invited us!

How much of the processing is done client-side and how much server-side? Is the client-side just graphical while the computational stuff (battle results, loot table) is server-side? Will there be "realms" where players can only react with other realm players? Are there PvP and crafted items?