Sorcerer King BETA road-map!

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imageGreetings!

We’re very excited to have you with us on Sorcerer King.  We hope you’re having as much fun playing the beta as we are having making it.  This post will go over the road-map between Beta 1 and the final release of the game so you can see where things are.

Milestone #1: Sorcerer King BETA 1 [October 2014]

  1. Crafting is in
  2. Outposts attack enemies in ZOC and can be upgraded
  3. Minor factions are on map but don’t do anything
  4. Wizard sovereign is in
  5. City improvements determine available base units
  6. Default small maps are in.
  7. Trained units can be equipped with crafted items (even Bailey! <g>)

Milestone #2: BETA 2 [November 2014]

  1. Minor factions ally up with either you or the Sorcerer King based on what the player (or SK) does.
  2. Minor factions give player access to their unique units that cost 0 logistics
  3. Sorcerer King will begin casting spells into tactical battles
  4. Priest, Warrior, Guardian sovereign added
  5. Sovereign customization in
  6. Summoning Spellbook added
  7. Pretty Quest screen added

Milestone #3: BETA 3 [December 2014]

  1. HighDPI UI support (>2K/4K display enhancements)
  2. Warlord, Tinkerer sovereigns added
  3. Dungeon Master world system added (Everything you do in the game feeds data to the DM that may come back to help or hurt you later, variables will be listed in the Quest screen)
  4. Hall of Fame added
  5. In-Game status reports on how you’re doing in various interesting way
  6. Large map support added
  7. Random Map generation added

 

After Beta 3, it’s content, content, content.  More monsters, units, spells, abilities, quests, balance, bug fixing, etc.

 

Cheers!

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Reply #1 from SorcererKing Forums Top


Hall of Fame!!! \o/

Reply #2 from SorcererKing Forums Top

This is great! Thanks for doing this! 

I can't wait for November. I really, really want to see the way minors affect the game!

 

Off to do my Let's Play!

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Reply #3 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Dungeon Master world system? Drool.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Is it your plan to convert/transfer many of the items/quests etc from LH into this game?

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting GFireflyE, reply 4

Is it your plan to convert/transfer many of the items/quests etc from LH into this game?

Most of them wouldn't make sense.  We see LH having a different path.

Reply #6 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Please consider letting us test developer builds through an opt-in beta. I'm always interested in stuff like that and I know others are, too!

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Lots of cool features yet to go in, I like.

Reply #8 from SorcererKing Forums Top

 

  • Dungeon Master world system added (Everything you do in the game feeds data to the DM that may come back to help or hurt you later, variables will be listed in the Quest screen)

Is that essentially a random event generator?

Reply #9 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Sounds like a good plan.

I'm having a lot of fun playing now and I can't wait for all the new stuff to be added. ^_^

 

 

 

 

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

This game looks really cool, I wish I could play it.  It looks like you guys have looked at all the random ideas that we Elemental forum troglodytes have posted over the last 4 years and made a game inspired by them. 

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Borg999, reply 8

 

 

    • Dungeon Master world system added (Everything you do in the game feeds data to the DM that may come back to help or hurt you later, variables will be listed in the Quest screen)

 


Is that essentially a random event generator?

It's a generator but it's trying to not be too random.

Reply #12 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 11


It's a generator but it's trying to not be too random.

 

That's cool. Just the way it was worded reminded me of some of the random events from GC2 and FE - if you started to expand too quickly for example, the game would toss out a "random" event to slow you down a bit.

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

Will there be a workshop, especially for (tactical & world) map creation ? Maybe a particle effect generator for cool spells ? :D

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting davrovana, reply 3

Dungeon Master world system? Drool.

 

Wat dis means?  Like will you be able go into dungeons and stuffs?

 

I have to say, I am enjoying Sorcerer Kings very much, it's incredible.

Reply #15 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Thanks for the great feedback!

I can't wait to get the minor factions in there. There's just so much interaction between them, you, the world.  They're NOT like minor factions in any game we've done before. They're designed to be very very unique to themselves.

Reply #16 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Will we get any incremental patches between the major beta states listed in the OP?

Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top

Definitely.

Reply #18 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 15

Thanks for the great feedback!

I can't wait to get the minor factions in there. There's just so much interaction between them, you, the world.  They're NOT like minor factions in any game we've done before. They're designed to be very very unique to themselves.

 

This sounds great, Frog. I'm really looking forward to them. I know hindsight is 20/20, but maybe having them ready to go for the initial EA would have been best, especially since they're so integral to gameplay and the world.

Do you have a public Steam account?

 

Also, any chance you would be interested in a podcast interview over Skype? Would love to hear your thoughts on SK and where you see it going. I could provide you the questions beforehand.

Reply #19 from LittleTinyFrogs Forums Top

Quoting XWerewolfX, reply 18


Quoting Frogboy,
reply 15

Thanks for the great feedback!

I can't wait to get the minor factions in there. There's just so much interaction between them, you, the world.  They're NOT like minor factions in any game we've done before. They're designed to be very very unique to themselves.



 

This sounds great, Frog. I'm really looking forward to them. I know hindsight is 20/20, but maybe having them ready to go for the initial EA would have been best, especially since they're so integral to gameplay and the world.


 

You should talk to the dwarves. They go into some detail complaining about it.

re Skype, I'm draginol.

Reply #20 from SorcererKing Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 19


Quoting XWerewolfX,
reply 18






Quoting Frogboy,

reply 15


Thanks for the great feedback!

I can't wait to get the minor factions in there. There's just so much interaction between them, you, the world.  They're NOT like minor factions in any game we've done before. They're designed to be very very unique to themselves.



 

This sounds great, Frog. I'm really looking forward to them. I know hindsight is 20/20, but maybe having them ready to go for the initial EA would have been best, especially since they're so integral to gameplay and the world.





 

You should talk to the dwarves. They go into some detail complaining about it.

re Skype, I'm draginol.

 

Skype AND Steam? I just added you.

 

Any chance you would be interested in talking next weekend about Sorcerer King through a recorded podcast interview through Skype?

Our first podcast already has over 100 listens! It's not much, but there is an audience for it and I'd love to hear your thoughts on where you want to see Sorcerer King when it's done and what makes Sorcerer King different.

Bottom line: talk to me. Nerd out with a couple 4X game fans. It can't hurt, right? :)