![]() And while you can't directly play with other people, you can steal their stuff, join guilds and interact. The whole game is consistently absurd and amusing, from the enemy types, to the genre conventions it apes so cleverly. And then there's the Haiku Dungeon, where not only are all the descriptions of your enemies in haiku form, but so are your attacks. The Disco Bandits dance at their enemies, fuelled by moxie. The Sauceror flings hot sauce in people's faces, and they get damaged, because hot sauce would really hurt if someone threw it at your face. Take, for instance, the pun-based classes. It's trying to be funny, and it's been going strong for years. It's a little ugly, but Kingdom of Loathing isn't trying to be pretty. ![]() ![]() Kingdom of Loathing is a sort of pseudo-mmo kind of thing, firmly embedded in the web interface, with drop down menus letting you select your attacks, and page refreshes for every new area. Until then, please report any bugs you notice in trunk (now 0.26 alpha!) on github or mantis.Play: Kingdom of Loathing | Release date: 2003 | Developer: Asymmetric Publications This will change in coming days, and at that point you can help us test the 0.25 beta. The stone_soup-0.25 branch is available in the repository, but hasn’t been installed on servers yet. What, you didn’t like those fancy TO/DO icons? Tiles have finally been added for Cigotuvi’s Embrace, Hood of the Assassin, and Tins of Tremorstones.Many new random artefact description words have been added.Paralysis, sleep, and confusion status icons are now shown for allies.Look, we don’t want you crawling away that easily. Formicids can no longer cast the Swiftness spell.Trove fees have been adjusted to not ask for potions of stabbing and to add possible fees for scrolls of fear and fog.Xom, of course, thinks you’re all hilarious. Just a little gift to the people crazy enough to use those contraptions. ![]()
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