Saturday, September 24, 2011

Parallel Kingdom

My latest game addiction is a fantasy MMORPG game that you can play on your phone, iPhone or Android, called Parallel Kingdom.  But its not just any fantasy MMORPG game.  Its a location-based game.  What that means is instead of the game taking place in a constructed fantasy world, like Middle Earth, the game takes place on a real world map via Google Maps.  So instead of killing wolves in Middle Earth, you're killing them around the block from your house, in Kansas City, for example. And you can plant flags to claim territory.  My whole neighborhood was already claimed by Rokbot and Coco444, but I sent Coco a message and she was nice enough to give me several of her flags so that now I own several blocks around my real-life house.

You can initially teleport 3 places in-game:
1) your current out-of-game physical location
2) the town center of your nearest town
3) random places of unclaimed territory

So I was initially teleported with my pet dog to an unclaimed area of central Missouri and I now claim vast amounts of territory near Waverly, MO (real world population 800).

So the real world map and territory claiming features make it fun, and its fun to be able to play on the phone when you're somewhere and need to kill time by killing giant spiders.  Graphics are very basic 2d, but that doesn't make a difference to me when the game is fun enough.  

If you want to play, then the sign up process allows you specify a referral code to get extra gold.  I know that all referral codes give the same amount, 1000 gold.  So please sign up with my referral code with this referral code, then I get extra food.  My Parallel Kingdom referral code is: zldjcy