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King-Dom-maddma@outlook.com

You may notice, I haven't specified minimum hardware requirements. Apologies. Me is very, very software, but not at all hardware, so I dunno. Hopefully it helps if I list my PC's specs ?-)

Acer Predator G5900

Intel Core i5 CPU 650 3.2 GHz

8GB DDR3 RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 340

Windows 10 64-bit x64

Update (18/3/19):

It runs plenty-fast on me old machine, but now also have a new PC:

Intel Pentium CPU G4560 3.5 GHz

8GB DDR4 RAM 2400 MHz

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Windows 10 64-bit x64

And, yes, me is very, very, very happy with how Kingland runs there !-)

Also, I can actually record actual videos of King-Dom with me new machine … will be posting a proper one this week ...

First, both players (Steam friends) must be running Kingdom to start a game. There are two start game options listed first on the title screen, Landscape (procedurallly-generated map) and Kingland (as saved by the editor).

Whomever is to be player One, and thus have the first move in the game, then does this:

1. press Start Landscape Game

2. choose a landscape number and type: click on a digit's top half to increase it, or bottom to decrease

3. select the pre-arranged opponent from your Steam friends list, and press PLAY to send the invitation

or

1. press Start Kingland Game

2. choose from your list of editor-saved (or downloaded) Kinglands

3. select the pre-arranged opponent from your Steam friends list, and press PLAY to send the invitation

Meanwhile, back at the player TWO ranch:

1. you will receive the invitation, thus press the TICK button to accept it

Next, the selected Landscape will be terraformed, or the Kingland transferred. This will take a little while, but the result will be cached to hard-drive, for instant future playing (eg: when load a saved game). The game comes with "000000" Chess, Standard and Big landscapes pre-saved.

The remaining options on the title screen are: load a previously saved game (either type), start the Kingland Konstruction Kit (editor), and Quit !-)

There are four landscape sizes:

1. Chess (no enhanced game options are enabled - only flat terrain permitted)

2. Standard = 64 x 64 board squares

3. Big = 128 x 128

4. Massive = 256 x 256

There are three landscape terrains:

Generally Flat

Undulatingly Hilly

Toweringly Mountainous

There are one million initial seed numbers for the procedurally-generated landscapes.

Thus this gives 9 million different landscape permutations (for playing King-Dom), and one million very similar Chess boards (for playing standard Chess).

Simpy point at the center of the base of a piece, and LMB to select it, then point at a valid board square to perform a move (green cursor).

You can press the RMB, and move the mouse, to rotate the camera, and the mouse wheel zooms in and out of your selected piece.

Keys 'Z' and 'X' can be used to cycle through your pieces.

The save game button at screen center right is available when it is your move, and obviously causes both player's machines to save the current state of play.

At the screen lower right is a "Draw" button which causes the battle to be declared a draw if both players have pressed it.

The screen lower center shows camera direction and angle buttons, when you are not in the shop.

The rest of the details here pertain to (enhanced) King-Dom, not (traditional) Chess ...

To build a straight line of board squares using your selected Rook, just point at where the final board square of your intended path would be, and press LMB to build it. Or yo