That's what the "Notify" button is for.

Because the game is now well-known enough that posting here isn't going to provide any huge visibility benefits, and I'm interested in cultivating the community on my own forums. Natch.

I don't update this devlog anymore, so I'm afraid that thread subscription isn't going to do you much good. Here's the one you want: http://sinisterdesign.net/forum/index.php?topic=1224.0

I just saw this. Nice stuff! I hope sales are going well.

Nice. Whenever you've got it up, shoot me an email--I want to write about this!

Looking really good! How far off are we from a video showing early gameplay, do you figure?

[Dungeon Masters.]

I think this game looks quite promising, so please take the following criticism in the spirit of me trying to help you out.

I've settled with a name: Dungeon Masters.

Please don't choose that name.

• First: it's super generic.
• Second: there is already a super-famous RPG out there called Dungeon Master and a movie called The Dungeon Masters. This means your game is going to get absolutely buried on Google--people interested in this game will have a very hard time looking for it.
• Third: you are just begging for trademark problems because of the second issue. You will not only have a hard time trademarking this name, you can actually get sued over it.

Advice: pick something unique, and search Google first to verify that it's not already being used.

Ooh, nice! I'm glad to see this is still coming along.

Still planning to steer clear of a single player campaign mode?

Oh yeah; unit deployment. I guess I should add support for that in my own game, huh. I keep forgetting about that for some reason.

I never got why people get so anal about genre definitions (roguelikes especially).

I suspect it's because roguelike fans are looking for a certain type of experience, one that involves a lot of exploration and discovery. I enjoyed Bonfire, but it pretty clearly fills a different role and provides a different sort of experience (one which I'd say is closer to a dungeon in a standard jRPG, albeit minus the need to navigate a maze).

Ooh! Consider me intrigued.

This looks rather promising. What platforms are you targeting with this?

Ooooooh! This is new.

The graphic style is really fabulous, buuuuuut...those attack animations are placeholder, right? (At present, they lack a sense of weight.)

Also: I'd consider changing the name. Too close to Martian Chronicles, IMO.

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Yeah. There were a few folks who cared about multiplayer, but way more people cared about single player! I definitely wasn't prepared for it to be that lopsided. The Banner Saga experienced something similar. You'd be wise to put some feelers out about that--I have a feeling you may end up in the same situation if you focus too much on multiplayer...

(But of course, that said, multiplayer is super helpful for getting the system refined and balanced early on before you dig into single player.)

I'm glad to see this is still being developed (and that you found a good solution for those pesky buildings!)

Out of curiosity, how are planning to handle units in single player? Will they be unique characters, or just generic instances of a class type? Will they level up and improve over time, or remain static?

This is looking quite nice so far.

About the name, though: why Kingdoms Rise? (Other than the fact that everyone is just arbitrarily sticking "Rise" and "Rises" on the end of their franchise names lately.) "Kingdoms Rise" sounds to me like a plot-driven, single player aRPG rather than a multiplayer fighter. I'd pick Kingdoms Clash, or Kingdoms Battle, or Kingdoms Brawl, or Kingdoms Duel, or...well, pretty much anything indicating that this is a fighting game.

Sounds good!

One last question: is JaJ your developer name? Like, if I were to write a blurb about this game, would you want me to say that this is a game in development "by JaJ"? Or is there another name you want to use? (You can PM it to me if you want.)

Ooh, this looks rather promising! Is this just for Windows? When are you aiming for as far as a release date?

Cool beans. Is it just knife-fighting, or will there be other weapons available?

Hey! I know you. Any chance of a gameplay video for this? More details on the mechanics, perhaps?