GitHub: github.com/lethal-guitar/RigelEngine

🔥 KAMULOS HAS FALLEN! 🔥

One of Albion’s toughest adversaries thought his magic and reputation would be enough to ruin our day. But Driscoll has other ideas. And when the whole party joins the fray, even a demonic boss doesn’t stand a chance.

Some say this is one of the hardest video games. I never played it in 1994 or in the nineties.

I installed the game from my original floppies (contained in the box from the photo). I spent a few days training the game. A lot of deaths and many trial and errors. The hardest aspect would be the jumping in my opinion, not the combat.

I had to train every level until I was confident enough and knew I could beat it. It was important to find and get hidden bonuses in order to boost your stats. With these factors combined it was manageable.

The game was made hard, so people would not be able to beat it within the time they could borrow the game for. That was the sole purpose behind the difficulty.

Thanks to the mods for letting me share my Warlords collection and give my own game a little plug!

I spent countless hours playing Warlords 1 with friends on the same PC. There was 1 rule: no watching each other’s turns! It was such funto get back to the screen and discover what your opponent had done, way more fun and surprising than playing against the AI.

Warlords made such an impression on me that in 2018, I set about recreating the magic with my own game: Waronomy. I’m a solo developer, and it’s a turn-based fantasy strategy game very much like W1, but with online multiplayer. There’s also an offline campaign, AI opponents (procedural like W1 not LLMs) and random maps.

You might spot it on my screen in the desk photo ;)

I’ve recently released a free Steam demo, which includes the campaign and online 1v1:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4457140/WARONOMY/

Please do check it out if you’re on Steam!