A huge thank you to everyone who played KOTC!
We’re just about to fly back from San Diego to London and Toronto, but first we wanted to thank everyone who played King the Castle at TwitchCon San Diego 2022!
Whether you were playing with friends at our booth on your phones, a streamer trying to run a Kingdom consisting of your unruly chat, or Nobles on Twitch jumping in for the first time, seeing how much you all enjoyed the game meant the world to us.
We’re honestly overwhelmed with the response! We had queues of people wanting to play on the show floor, with returning Monarchs dragging friends to the booth for the pleasure of being overthrown by them.
A special thanks to our many Team17 sponsored streamers during the day, especially Blue & Queenie, and to everyone at Team17 who set up our incredible booth.
Finally, an extra special thanks to our announcement streamers, Nihachu and Lomadiah. Lomadiah has been helping us shape King of the Castle from day one and having her there at launch was the cherry on the cake. Meanwhile, Queen Nihachu ruled over a Kingdom of over a thousand Nobles (the largest we’ve ever had live in the game!) with grace and many wives.
Our public pre-release build is out!
We’ve released 0.6.1 for everyone who took a key from us at TwitchCon. If you have a key and are waiting, it’s ready for you now!
This version has both:
- Twitch Mode - Connect to Twitch with chat playing as your Nobles
- Browser Mode - Host a game at kotc.app and up to 24 players join there for free
Feel free to play on either at any time! We’d always appreciate a quick tweet tagging us if you do, so we can watch the fireworks.
Some features of this version we’d like to shout about:
- Over 800 possible events
- 16,000 choices that impact and branch the story
- 5 regions with their own unique events and schemes to usurp the Monarch
- Dynasty Games, where you can see what happens to your Kingdom next
- Voting
- Schemes
- Buildings
- Taxation
- Executions
- Wizard curses
- Full scale rebellions against the crown
- Nobles amassing vast amounts of wealth
- Romancing procedurally generated spouses
- An increasingly unlikely series of events involving spoons
- Find yourself invaded by giants, promise to sell your Kingdom to your rebellious region’s leader in return for help, watch them get swiftly beaten by the giants, then try to escape the capital, only to be caught and subsequently eaten by said giants
- And more!
If this all sounds like something your stream or friends might enjoy, don’t forget to wishlist the game. If you’d also like to join our streamer program to get yourself a pre-release copy, sign up to our Streamer Program here!
Finally a shout out to our favourite 0.6.1 ruler from TwitchCon, “Monarch Milkman The Pathetic”. Despite having a superb pink beard it wasn’t enough to save them from the chop. What are friends for, if not overthrowing you in a violent coup?
After the coronation
Though the response to our announcement was overwhelmingly positive, we’re still in pre-release and see plenty of space for improvement. So we at Tributary Games have dusted ourselves off and got to work on 0.6.2 immediately.
We had some great feedback and suggestions from our Discord, especially from TheMadHatter115 (our many thanks!). We’ve also been making copious notes throughout and have some very exciting improvements in the works we’ll be talking about soon...
In the meantime our studio lead Sam will be continuing his Developer Streams every Tuesday night at 7:30PM GMT/BST, 11:30AM PDT, or 2:30PM EDT. Follow our Twitch account to be notified when our development streams are live and see the latest developments from the team.
If you have any feedback yourself join the Discord above or post below! We’d love to hear it and are keen to make King of the Castle even better.
Finally, don’t forget to wishlist the game. Only one player needs to own a copy to host a game, so together you and your friends can steer the Kingdom to glory… Or ruin.
Very probably ruin.
Wishlist King Of The Castle now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1839880/King_Of_The_Castle/
