Songbird Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Songbird Productions is pleased to announce pre-orders are open for Kings of Edom for the Atari Jaguar. First run is limited to 100 carts. Orders will start shipping by Oct 26, 2021. Kings of Edom is a fantasy adventure that places you as the lone hero exploring twelve levels of mazes in your quest to find the lost crowns. Each game is unique, as an ancient spell causes the maze to bend and swirl into a new challenge when you start a new game. Monsters and traps will hinder your journey, while treasures of steel and magic will allow you to grow in might. The goal of the game is to retrieve 11 lost crowns, which will require many journeys through the dungeon. Once you have all the crowns, find the white star and perform the ritual to honor the kings. The game was developed exclusively for the Jaguar by Phoboz, who made a strong showing with other recent Jaguar games such as Wormhole 2000 and SpideX. Kings of Edom includes a cartridge, box, and full-color 16-page manual. Back of box game text: Many brave souls have entered the treacherous ruins, but thus far, none have returned. They all seek the same reward: the lost crowns of the Kings of Edom. It was thirty-five years ago the legions from the south broke our defenses and scattered the crowns throughout their winding maze of rock and pillar, swamp and fire. Only by wit and cunning can one hope to survive, let alone succeed. But succeed you must, for the glory of the kings of old and the honor of your people. Now you stand at the threshold, and the brooding dungeon beckons you. Do you dare accept the challenge? NOTE: International shipping to Australia is currently suspended except for USPS Global Express which is quite expensive. We'll resume our regular international shipping rates to Australia once the shipping options improve. 17 4 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Saturn Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Nice! Just bagged 2 copies 3 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4917708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoboz Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 (edited) Sharing the latest game-play video for the game: Edited October 5, 2021 by phoboz 10 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4917780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFG 9000 Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Awesome! Order placed, looking forward to it. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4917818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Ordered... But I have some questions about shipping. I will pm you, Carl... 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4917850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Congratulations for the release! I think it's an excellent choice for a genre and I hope more Rogue likes/lites will follow this one! 4 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4917854 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Congratulations! 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4917857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Just a few minor things: - when you upload the final version video, make sure to set the aspect ratio to 4:3. Currently it is set to 16:9, which make the graphics not look right. - if you haven't done so already, check that the text is not clipped on a real CRT TV. - unlike the text background, the border appears to be not-quite-black (it can be seen at the bottom of the screen). Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4917925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaggyneo Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Got mine. Can't wait. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4917937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
K3V Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Got my order in first thing this morning. Looking forward to this release, thanks Phoboz and Songbird! 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4917961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoboz Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Zerosquare said: when you upload the final version video, make sure to set the aspect ratio to 4:3. Yes, I found a better setting for that in the video capture tool. Can be seen in later Asteroite videos, but still YouTube skips every second frame in window mode, which makes flasing sprites dissapear completely, or not to flash at all. 1 hour ago, Zerosquare said: check that the text is not clipped on a real CRT TV Checked on both PAL, and NTSC CRT TVs. 1 hour ago, Zerosquare said: unlike the text background, the border appears to be not-quite-black This was also fixed during bug testing. 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4917987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Looks really cool! Congrats! 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4918255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Ordered! 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4918317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Songbird Posted October 6, 2021 Author Share Posted October 6, 2021 Wow, only about 25 copies left for the first run. Thanks so much for the support! Boxes should arrive from the printer in about a week, then I'll start programming and testing the carts. 7 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4918873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoboz Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 (edited) On 10/5/2021 at 2:43 PM, agradeneu said: Congratulations for the release! I think it's an excellent choice for a genre and I hope more Rogue likes/lites will follow this one! The roguelike genere has expanded with the arrival of retro-style games on modern consoles, and PC. To me the original rougelike games were more similar to the original game Rogue (1980). Using graphics, and smooth scrolling (instead of text characters) like the examples below, but please correct me if there were other roguelikes on retro consoles? Edited October 7, 2021 by phoboz 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4919006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikebloke Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 Waiting for payday, if there is any left in 8 days time I'll grab it! Otherwise it looks like 2nd run for me ? Congratulations for getting this out though, looking forward to your other games too! 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4919036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 On 10/7/2021 at 11:00 AM, phoboz said: The roguelike genere has expanded with the arrival of retro-style games on modern consoles, and PC. To me the original rougelike games were more similar to the original game Rogue (1980). Using graphics, and smooth scrolling (instead of text characters) like the examples below, but please correct me if there were other roguelikes on retro consoles? No idea, it was pretty niche. I looked for them on mobygames, quite interesting that back in the day, these games got fairly mixed reviews. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4920518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoboz Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 (edited) 19 hours ago, agradeneu said: I looked for them on mobygames, quite interesting that back in the day, these games got fairly mixed reviews. I guess that console gamers were not really used to roguelike RPGs at that time. Even ordinary RPGs were only recommended for advanced players. I remember I wanted Dragon Crystal, but the shop-keeper conviced me to get Sonic the Hedgehog instead, which I regretted later. Because Dragon Crystal got practially impossible to obtain, while Sonic was available everywhere. SEGA were quite brave to invest in RPGs outside of Japan, while Nintendo only had Zelda for a long time (before they allowed releases of RPGs from Square, Enix etc. outside of Japan) Edited October 10, 2021 by phoboz 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4920947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 3 hours ago, phoboz said: I guess that console gamers were not really used to roguelike RPGs at that time. Even ordinary RPGs were only recommended for advanced players. I remember I wanted Dragon Crystal, but the shop-keeper conviced me to get Sonic the Hedgehog instead, which I regretted later. Because Dragon Crystal got practially impossible to obtain, while Sonic was available everywhere. SEGA were quite brave to invest in RPGs outside of Japan, while Nintendo only had Zelda for a long time (before they allowed releases of RPGs from Square, Enix etc. outside of Japan) Sooem reasons for the low scores were that the press compared them to full RPGs like FF, complaining about lack of story, characters and variety. Also the graphics were described rather boring. Honestly the modern era rogue lites fixed a lot of those problems that compromised that genre back in the day. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4921041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCarseat Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Sweet! Ordered a copy up! 4 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4922460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 We are very lucky. Phoboz seems to be incredibly prolific. I can't believe how fast he's developed these titles. He's developed two different ones, one a rpg no less in about a year. In 3-4 years he's on the verge of 4 titles. Amazing. Wyvern Tales took better part of a decade on the Lynx though that was amazingly ambitious. I'm glad we didn't have to wait that long. 1 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4922923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 9 hours ago, JagChris said: We are very lucky. Phoboz seems to be incredibly prolific. I can't believe how fast he's developed these titles. He's developed two different ones, one a rpg no less in about a year. In 3-4 years he's on the verge of 4 titles. Amazing. Wyvern Tales took better part of a decade on the Lynx though that was amazingly ambitious. I'm glad we didn't have to wait that long. To be fair, WT started when Lynx homebrew seemed almost dead and its a special challenge to start programming such complex game on a system that has an 4 MHZ CPU and 64K RAM. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4923079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 It will be interesting to see how the different people play this when it comes. Everything from it's too hard I'm stuck to yeah I blew right through this in a weekend. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4923611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 1 hour ago, JagChris said: It will be interesting to see how the different people play this when it comes. Everything from it's too hard I'm stuck to yeah I blew right through this in a weekend. Not forgetting: "I put it on a shelf and looked at it." "I dumped it straight on ebay for 4x the purchase price because it was a limited run." 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4923637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoboz Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, JagChris said: from it's too hard I'm stuck to yeah I blew right through this in a weekend. There is a strong element of chance in this game. If you get a rough ride the first time you play, don't give up, and give it a couple of more tries. Edited October 14, 2021 by phoboz Removed spoiler 6 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/325665-kings-of-edom-pre-orders-open-now/#findComment-4923694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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