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Posted July 18, 2017
Your window to a better dungeon crawl.

<span class="bold">Kingsway</span>, the world's most advanced operating system for home-operated dungeoneering, is now available, DRM-Free on GOG.com.

Dungeon dwelling can get messy: potions, traps, loot chests, enemies, trinkets, random pieces of gear - if only there was a neat suite to help keep all these in order.

Don't despair, heroic clicker! Kingsway OS is here and it's using cutting edge technology like drop-down menus, popups, desktop icons, loading bars, and emails, to help keep your adventure organized and blue-screen-free. Install yours today!

Watch the commerc--trailer.
Post edited July 18, 2017 by maladr0Id
Posted July 18, 2017
Looks terrible... but Adult Swim games... hmmmm... might be fun.
Posted July 18, 2017
Ouch, that price tag seems a little excessive for a cute gimmick.

Good luck to them.
Posted July 18, 2017
i really dont get this one, wishlisted for curiosity sake



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just read the bit about perma death..... definitely pass
Post edited July 18, 2017 by mintee
Posted July 18, 2017
Looked at some game play videos... Blue Screen of Death - that's very clever. So if you die you get a BSOD and lose all your work, that made me chuckle. Might get this on sale - maybe sooner if combat seems interesting.
Posted July 18, 2017
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kokosabre: Looks midly interesting and might pull the trigger if there was some actual release version gameplay video and if the trailer was actually showing the game and not oneliners from different outlets.
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groze: The trailer *is* showing the game. That's the gameplay. As for the "accolades", I think they're meant to be a poke at commercials of yesteryear, especially considering the transitions, the fonts and the font colors.
I think he meant something more than a couple of seconds, like how do you actually play, equip, fight, move? etc
Posted July 18, 2017
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groze: The trailer *is* showing the game. That's the gameplay. As for the "accolades", I think they're meant to be a poke at commercials of yesteryear, especially considering the transitions, the fonts and the font colors.
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juancho.268: I think he meant something more than a couple of seconds, like how do you actually play, equip, fight, move? etc
Here you go:

https://youtu.be/FBpJdxeguk8
Posted July 19, 2017
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yogsloth: NEXT
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Darvond: Indeed. At the least Rouge Legacy this or give me something to work with for the next playthough.

Nethack has the bones files, Binding of Issac has unlocks, Guild of Dungeonnering encourages experimentation and has advantages for heroes (and disadvantages) who survive the dungeon along with a unique approach, Dwarf Fortress even plays off Permadeath better.
Looking at this let's play - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FayITL_DCmE

In beginning, it shows you that you can use gems that you accumulated from playing games to unlock additional gifts/features/shortcuts. So you DO still make progress, even when you die.
Posted July 19, 2017
Since a lot of people don't seem to understand how this game even works, I thought I might let folks know LovelustGames is doing a Kingsway stream on GOGcom's twitch channel right now.

Since most Europeans will probably miss the stream, do note twitch has a VOD (archive) system and you can watch the stream later.
Post edited July 19, 2017 by groze
Posted July 19, 2017
So does the game run full screen or is it actually using multiple windows?
Posted July 19, 2017
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IronArcturus: So does the game run full screen or is it actually using multiple windows?
It uses multiple windows inside a full screen :P

(seriously, though, the game itself is a program that can be ran at full screen -- like any other game --, and it simulates an OS with multiple windows, desktop and taskbar icons and mostly pop-ups, be it windows or messages)
Posted July 19, 2017

The world of Kingsway is randomly generated every time you play, and death is permanent.
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yogsloth: NEXT
What the hell is up with these gorgeous pixel art games and their shitty perma-death repeti-bore gameplay? THIS and the trend of anti-keymap rebind options are really crippling indies, which sucks as indies are far superior to AAA as far as not dicking the customers/supporters go...

PASS!
Posted July 19, 2017
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Vythonaut: I own an older version of the same game; it writes "Windows 95" on the disk!
Sure its not Windows 3.0? :D
Posted July 19, 2017
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Vythonaut: I own an older version of the same game; it writes "Windows 95" on the disk!
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anothername: Sure its not Windows 3.0? :D
Definitely! Windows 95 looked more polished
Posted July 19, 2017
How is it compatible with Windows 7,8,10 if it is it's own OS?

Sorry, someone had to make that 'joke'.

*walks off in shame*

PS: Another game with annoying perma-death then, maybe the devs couldn't be bothered with save management so they made us do it instead.
Posted July 19, 2017
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Vythonaut: I own an older version of the same game; it writes "Windows 95" on the disk!
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anothername: Sure its not Windows 3.0? :D
Nah, W3.0 was the prequel -- W95 ran in the same e̶n̶g̶i̶n̶e̶ window though. After that, Microsoft started releasing cosmetic DLCs and i wasn't really paying attention. :P
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