Support Palm Kingdoms 3 on Steam Greenlight!

"Hi Guys! looks good so far! keep up the good work. I worked on HoMM 3 and 4 creating all of the skill and spell icons and HoMM interface graphics and would be interested in possibly helping out with your great game. Let me know if you might need something that I could provide. Good Luck!" 
Brian Kemper. Senior Artist 1997 - 2002, New World Computing

"Wow — your project is such a flashback!"
Lisa Farina. Assistant Designer 1994 – 2001, New World Computing

"Palm Kingdoms 3 is classic 'Heroes' gameplay at its finest"
Review at TouchArcade

About The Game.

Palm Kingdoms 3 is a heroes-inspired turn-based strategy for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mac OS X, and Windows.

 

Gameplay.

You use your heroes to explore the map, gather resources, hire armies, and conquer castles. 

We learn from the best strategies of the 90's. We're keeping what you liked in them, and take it a step further. 

Check out our work on Royal Bounty HD, an isometric one-hero RPG, built using the same game engine:

The Graphics.

We have hand-crafted pixel art graphics of huge size, suitable for modern ultra high-DPI screens. And it looks just fantastic.

Interface.

Palm Kingdoms 3 will get a major facelift. The mobile version will gain extra functionality, while keeping the interface minimal and simplistic.

The Desktop version will have a full-fledged PC GUI. It will feel just the way a PC game should. 

The Tablet version will use the desktop GUI, adapted for touch-screens.

Why Crowdfunding?

It is a very large project. And we want to make it right. We need extra artists, extra programmers, and map designers. And testing.

Programming: this is a huge project, and we will hire extra programmers to speed up coding.

Graphics: The biggest part of the total budget is reserved for pixel art sprites, and cut-scenes.

Voice Acting and Soundtrack: This is another big part of the project development. We will use the funds to complete the soundtrack, and voice acting for cut-scenes.

Level Design: this can only be done when the game is 100% complete. We will get experienced map makers that made maps for classic turn-based strategies.

Rewards.

We have carefully thought about rewarding our backers. In addition to each reward tier, we add a bonus: a DRM-free copy of Dwarf Tower for Windows. 

Moreover, each backer will get this bonus Dwarf Tower reward even if our campaign fails. 

 

Stretch Goals.

------- 25,000: Campaign --------

The most important thing we would like to be introducing in Palm Kingdoms 3 is the campaign mode. Playing single scenarios is fun enough, but you always wanted to be involved in something bigger. So here we are: introducing a story mode! It's main feature is non-linearity. You will have more that one way to complete it, resulting in different tactics. It has greater replay value, since every time you choose another playing style, you get different heroes, different spells and fight on different maps.

 

 

 

- 30,000: Random Map Generator -

What really adds the replay value is the long-awaited random map generator. A good random map generator must give you challenging and non-trivial maps that can be still be passed if you try hard enough.

 

------- 40,000: Improved AI -------- 

Palm Kingdoms 2 Artificial Intelligence was good enough. However, experienced players new how to trick it into doing something stupid, like buying ships constantly or taking unnecessary risk. It all has changed now. The AI in Palm Kingdoms 3 will be significantly improved with random elements added and challenge increased

---- 50,000: Built-in Map Editor ----- 

Building maps for Palm Kingdoms was always complicated because the official Map Editor was only available on Microsoft Windows. Not anymore! We are going to built a fully-functional map editor right into the game. You can change the world as you go. Then click Save and that's it. A new map is ready. Perfect, isn't it?

------- 60,000: Linux Version -------- 

Linux gaming is growing. It is important for us to provide Linux users with a quality build for most popular Linux versions.

------- 80,000: Mods Support -------- 

For all of you who always want some more there is one feature of Palm Kingdoms 3: the mod studio. Now you can tweak each and every aspect of the game: monster costs, map rules, visitable buildings actions, spells, castles and so on. Beware! You really need to think what you are doing. Ruthless customizing might ruin the game for you or even make it unplayable!

 

---- 100,000: Online Multiplayer ---- 

The most hard thing to properly implement in such a complex project is multiplayer mode. Palm Kingdoms 1 even had one back in good old WinMobile days. Of what we understand one thing: a turn-by-turn mode is boring. That's why we are introducing a simultaneous turns concept, like in Civilization series. You can play against your friends (or complete strangers) via Wi-Fi connection, or on our online server.

 

iosoftware is a small, experienced indie development team, focused on pixel art games. We are dedicated on true games the way many people remember them from the childhood. We believe that something very important was lost on the way to 3d graphics and large-scale production. Something that needs to be recovered.

if you're an iOS user, make sure to check out our Palm Kingdoms 2 for iPad, and iPhone.

All our iOS games can be found here.