King Arthur's Gold
King Arthur's Gold is a free online action game developed and published by Transhuman Design for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Gameplay
King Arthur's Gold is a game about mining resources, building castles and destroying the player's enemies. It is a side-scrolling 2D pixelated action online multiplayer and offline singleplayer war game with a focus on building by gathering resources, buying and unleashing siege machines, and player vs player combat. There are three playable classes: Knight, Archer, and Builder. Each class has its own role in KAG and works together to defeat the enemy team. Knights excel at close range combat and demolition using bombs and explosive kegs. Archers have superior mobility and a selection of specialized arrows and a grappling hook that can be used for scaling walls and escaping enemies. Builders erect fortifications block by block, build "shops", lay traps, dig tunnels and initiate escalades.Some inspirations for the game are Soldat, Minecraft, Dungeon Keeper, Ace of Spades, and King Arthur's World. In KAG, two teams struggle to dominate the other on a giant randomly generated or custom-made 2D map. There are five online multiplayer modes: CTF, TDM, THH, Sandbox and Challenge. The singleplayer mode includes Challenge and Sandbox modes like in multiplayer, along with a basic Tutorials section and the short Save the Princess campaign, where the player fights against a purple-clothed necromancer named Sedgwick.
Modding
The game has extensive modding support. Whole game logic is written in AngelScript and can be easily modified by anyone. Numerous mods have been created, adding new classes, items, and game modes. Total conversion mods also exist, e.g. Shiprekt where players build ships from blocks in a top-down view arena. Players can also create their own custom heads and use them along with the official built-in ones, as long as the modded server supports and recognize it. A few heads are recognized by modded, unofficial, and official games, but those are specially-earned, usually by being part of the development team of King Arthur's Gold. Heads are merely cosmetic, changing nothing, not even the hitbox where damage can be dealt.Development
The team of THD started working on KAG on 18 April 2011, and the first alpha version was released only 3 days later. The public beta was released silently on 1 May,while the real release of the game was on 5 November. KAG is still under active development as of early 2019, the main focus is on bugfixing, adding minor content, and supporting the community to develop content itself.