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Cheers!

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How hard was it to make the original Kingdom Rush? Did you ever feel like giving up?

What is your personally most favorite enemy you helped design and make in Origins and why?

What games did you get inspiration from to make Kingdom Rush?
And what games did you used to play before starting to make the original Kingdom Rush?

Are you aware that you live in a south-american country that has better living conditions than most if not all of post-communist Europe? I actually find that pretty cool.

On a game related-question, will you ever make it possible for customers to buy heroes and/or KR games with SMSes on mobile versions?

You have created a monster, TaTs.

Anyway, about how many lines of code go into a game, say Origins on its original release.

It terms of concepts for enemies, heroes (and levels):

Do you think of a mechanic and create a level/enemy/hero to fit that mechanic, or think of the level/enemy/hero first and create mechanics to fit them?

Why did you make only 1 paladin hero?

AerisDraco wrote:You have created a monster, TaTs.

Anyway, about how many lines of code go into a game, say Origins on its original release.

Origins lines of code count is 158129 right now, including updates.
This doesn't include code which is shared between all three versions of KR.

Colo wrote:

Which question did you "answer"?

Hey he stole my icon , jk

When the steam version releases(unless it has haven't checked), will u add a workshop page where we make our own custom heroes to be modded into the game(as well as mini campaigns and stuff.)

Thanks, bolin.
I almost thought you were phillipriv9 because you guys have the same avatar.

New question:
What percent of this "new game" is completed? And is there an estimated season for the release date?

Also, will the prophecy of the great balance update ever come to fruition?

Aeris if u look at the maturity Level then u can if its me or bolin. IronHide devs are very strange.

Why are Rising Tides and Shadowmoon the only expansions with their own music??

bolin wrote:

AerisDraco wrote:You have created a monster, TaTs.

Anyway, about how many lines of code go into a game, say Origins on its original release.

Origins lines of code count is 158129 right now, including updates.
This doesn't include code which is shared between all three versions of KR.

Is the general writing style like

void func()
{
//do stuff
}

or

void func(){ //do stuff
}

?

Big Bad Bug wrote:Ooh! Ooh! OOH! PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME!!!!

How hard was it to make the original Kingdom Rush? Did you ever feel like giving up?

The studio co-founders spend a whole year working overtime to make the first game.

They were super motivated so "giving up" was probably not in their vocabulary... although, the exhaustion of that first year probably hurt their sanity quite a bit.

FiskeAgent007 wrote:What games did you get inspiration from to make Kingdom Rush?
And what games did you used to play before starting to make the original Kingdom Rush?

A ton of tower defence games where used as an inspiration. The idea was to improve on the genre.
Castle Crashers, the Warcraft series, LOL and Dungeons and Dragons were a huge inspiration.

Each dev has his own favourite games. On a side note, the studio co-founders were also the creators of Uruguay's official LANparties, so they've been involved with video games for quite some time, even before they were developers.

Kowaghuz wrote:Are you aware that you live in a south-american country that has better living conditions than most if not all of post-communist Europe? I actually find that pretty cool.

On a game related-question, will you ever make it possible for customers to buy heroes and/or KR games with SMSes on mobile versions?

Yes. Most Uruguayans are very much aware that the living conditions in our country are quite stable and satisfactory in comparison to a lot of other countries. However, Uruguay is still a third world country with tons of poverty, low income families, no heavy industry of any kind, increasing crime due to the expanding influence of Latin American drug cartels and the constant pressures of bigger countries that are constantly pushing us around. Long story short, it's not perfect by a long shot, but it's a great little country.


The problem with payment through sms is that each country has one, if not several, mobile services companies, each with their own commercial agenda and policies. We would be forced to negotiate terms with each and every company out there in order to be able to charge for our games. In that sense, Google Play, Amazon, Steam and Apple are much more easy to death with... they terms and conditions apply to every country.

phillipriv9 wrote:Hey he stole my icon , jk

When the steam version releases(unless it has haven't checked), will u add a workshop page where we make our own custom heroes to be modded into the game(as well as mini campaigns and stuff.)

Very, very unlikely.

The game's engine is a somewhat delicate thing as it is. When you make a game, you need to plan way ahead for each feature, so if you want the players to be able to customise Heroes and levels, that needs to be taken into account during the early stages of development.

Tats is multi-posting. Is this the end for us all?

Big Bad Bug wrote:Tats is multi-posting. Is this the end for us all?

No I'm not.

I posted separately to see if I could arrange each answer to be underneath the original question but then changed my mind and replied all of them in a single post. I'm not always a smart man...

You didn't answer my question, you only made 1 paladin hero. WHY?