Introducing the Multiplayer Strategy Game Kdice
I started working on this game back in October 2006 initially stemming from a chat with Jay Bibby from Jay Is Games, who earlier posted a favorable review of Gpokr. The chat was about how we both loved Taro Ito’s Dicewars, which Jay had also reviewed, and thought it would be great as a multiplayer game.
Most of the development was finished by the end of November so I opened it up for testing to Gpokr players who were waiting for the December competition to start. Word traveled fast and Jay showed up on the tables within the first few hours and several hours later had the first review of Kdice up on his site.
It turns out Jay and I were not the only ones who wanted multiplayer Dicewars. Over the past few months over 30,000 players have signed up to help me test and tweak things here and there. At this point things are fairly stable. Making the game multiplayer has added a great politcal aspect on top of Dicewars’ mix of luck and strategy. There is also rating system based on ELO and different tables for players with higher ratings.
Introducing the Multiplayer Strategy Game Kdice
