Knights: Spiral Islands Windows, iOS game

Knights:
Knights is an online action adventure game in which players travel across all of space and time in a vast multiverse to battle evil, defend the innocent, and add to the collective good of the cosmos. Your role: a knight – a paragon of goodness and virtue charged with defeating evil in whatever form it takes; whether that happens to be vanquishing terrifying armies or reading bed-time stories to orphans.

The game is designed to be infinitely expandable in bite-sized releases. In one scenario, the knights are up against an invading fleet of star Vikings, while in another it might be mushroom zombies, haunted bicycles, evil robots, or psychic space bees. The scenarios are as variable as we can stretch our imaginations, and the same applies to gameplay and art style. Ranging from single player narratives to multiplayer arenas, co-operative gameplay, and everything in between; cutting edge graphics or 8 bit – Knights is intended to be like a music playlist that goes on and on in endless variety.

Kickstarter:

Knights is on Kickstarter.com starting February 15th for 55 days, with a goal to raise 25 thousand dollars, So please go visit the kickstarter page and help kickstart Knights!

This game is funded by its players. The more you add to the pot, the bigger the game gets, the faster it develops, and the richer the content becomes. Once it hits market it’ll generate a revenue stream of its own, but until then, it’s on you. This game belongs to its community.

Development:

As it is, we’re already in development on the Spiral Islands scenario, and will continue to work on it as hard as we can until someone comes and shuts off the power and puts us out on the street. Once it’s gone to market, and we can cover our costs, we will continue to develop new scenarios until old age, blindness, and promiscuous universal incontinence sets in. Maybe even after that. As long as we can keep a roof over our heads, Knights will continue development in some form or another and will remain publically available. This is the game that doesn’t end.
After the Spiral Islands scenario is complete, we’ll produce another and bit-by-bit increase the playable spaces you and your friends can explore in the Knights universe. New places and times to visit; new game modes to play; new arenas to battle in; new bad guys to beat into toothless, pulpy submission.

Spiral Islands:

Spiral Islands is our first release; a first person action serial delivered in a sequence of small chapters. In this scenario, the Knights arrive in the mysterious Spiral islands to battle a pirate fleet seeking out an ancient power said to be locked away there.

This scenario begins with a battle across the beaches and tide pools of the Spiral Islands and continues on in subsequent chapters with the unfolding story of the Carcinite pirates and the mystery of the islands. In addition to the chapter-by-chapter serial, the Spiral Islands scenario includes a number of multiplayer arenas to be released over time.

Humming Bell Station:
The Knights hail from their home universe simply known as “Castleworld”. Castleworld is an unmappably vast city/fortress where the Knights live, train, and conduct all of their operations. It’s their home and their headquarters. In game terms, Castleworld is also intended to be a gigantic content launcher where you and your friends can gather into parties, choose scenarios, and engage in ongoing social activities.

That said, the development of the Knight’s home universe is a long ways off for us. It’s just too big for us to tackle right now. So, instead, we’re going to develop Humming Bell Station: one of several Castleworld outposts which offers much of the same functionality, but on a manageable scale for us to develop. From here you can launch into the Spiral Islands serial as well as ongoing multiplayer and mission content.

More information on Knights, the Spiral Islands scenario, and the Outpost will be made available as the game develops.