Kai Du, Pierre-Louis Rivierre, Hanou Chen, Hongtao Li
(IBM 2ND YEAR GROUP PROJECT PRIZE - RUNNER UP)

Kings’ Conquest is a multiplayer strategy game. Similar to chess, it is a game between two players, where each player takes turns to make their moves. Each move must be completed before the time limit expires but unlike chess, players can control several units in the same turn and each unit can perform a variety of actions (attack, move and use a skill). Players can use gold to purchase extra units from the castle.

On top of a basic attack, each unit can activate an ability applying buff effects as follows (variable cooldown times):
• King – Battle Cry: unleashes a loud battle cry which buffs the stats of his ally units.
• Knight – Shield: shields himself from a single attack.
• Archer – Double Shoot: shoots a target twice and de-buff that target’s attacking power for 6 turns.
• Wizard – Rain of Fireballs: – casts an AOE spell which causes enemies to have a burning effect applied over 6 turns.
• Totem - Heal: automatically casts an AOE spell on itself at the end of each turn, healing nearby ally units.
• Ice Dragon - Breath: casts an AOE spell which causes enemies to freeze for 3 turns (frozen units won’t be able to perform any action).

To win the game, the player must kill the enemy king. For a ranked game, you win or lose ELO and gain an in-game currency called King Points depending on the game’s outcome. One can spend these King Points on items from the shop and use the items to customise his/her avatar. A rich set of achievements (trophies, ribbons and badges) can be earned.

New to the game? We have three interactive tutorials to get you started! Featuring a lobby system, you can play by creating or joining a room and then have the game start when there are enough players. There is a chatroom to make new friends or chill. If you don’t feel like playing, you can spectate or replay a past game from the match history – this is great for learning from the gameplay of pros or your past mistakes.

The game currently has three maps to choose from: The Bridge, The Island and Narrow Path. If that’s not enough, you can create your own maps with our map editor and then play with them!

A selection of screen shots from the application are shown below: