Yesterday, one of our active users confirmed to our community that Caesary, a Roman civilation-themed browser-based game yet with Chinese business model, is poised to enter North American market with the Kongregate gaming platform as Point of penetration.

What is browser game?

Well, actually browser game is playable at any web browser like Firefox, IE and etc. You do not need to spend a lot of time to download any client to play. The browser web game become popular dating back to the ages of Ogame.org and Travian.com.

However, in 2009, Evony is like a new and innovative force that just came into being spontaneously. Owing much to its beautifully crafted graphics, and perfectly structured user interface, Evony has attracted 10 Million players using a heavy ad campaign and facebook social network.

If there is a successor, there must be a follower in the back. There a great number of such followers along with the fashion, including Kingory, Casvian, Lords Online, Nap Wars, Empire Craft, Three Kingdoms Online, Heroes of Kung Fu, The Wars, Kung Fu Online, King and conqueror and many more. Of course, partly they made a lot money and doing well like Evony, and part of them failed and are doomed to death due to the great competitor. The most important thing is that they are just imitating things slavishly and losing its originality.

Hiplayers.com made a warning that

Like Evony, Nap War is money-rolling machine, especially the wheel of fortune, nothing more than a gambling machine. We are writing such article not for advertising this game, but warning those who don’t know the real condition and make a mistake taking gambling.

That the similarity among those games are made in China and published across the world. The game is not rated by Gaming Union, nor approved by any laws.

You may not know the fact that China has banned most of such games due to the gambling and false distribution. That is why they are seeking another way to hurt internet users.

Here I’d like to give a warning to players addictive in this game and internet users who have not been immersed themselves in the game.

The market is always selecting the superior and eliminating the inefficient. It has a very unique competitive advantage for online game if innovative developers are catching up on.

The top principle to make money is let users play happily and agreeably,

Did they work like this mechanism? or are they seeking to a new way to stand out? or they are just offering a game there and without a better service.

Let’s watch and see

War of Legends online is a Chinese Browser strategy game or Real time strategy game set in multiplayer model.  The Chinese name of “War of Legends” is 封神无敌 (World of Feng Sheng) published in China on October 18, 2009, and the Vietnam’s beta version was released by Sgame.vn. Yesterday, we covered the English Version of “war of Legends” published bu Jagex, UK-based Browser Game Vanguard and Tycoon, and even the number of Runescape’s online players has been logged down in the Guinness Book of world records. Overnight, Jagex become a  third-party publisher of online browser mmorpg or MMORTS.

War of Legends is an adaptation from a Chinese famous novel Apotheosis of Heroes, or Canonization of Gods (Translated version)

War of Legends Background:

According to legend, The vast ancient China will be faced with a catastrophe upon each millennium. The storyline of War of Legends takes place in BC, between mid-1100, to coincide with the dawn of the millennium catastrophe.  In the Central Plains of China, the war between the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty was fiercely engaged for a prolonged time. This is war between the immortals and Taoists, the Monarch and officials of master and servant, the three religions (Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism) and the nine schools (Confucianism, Taoist, Astrologist, Legalist, Nominalist, Mohist, Diplomatist, Miscellanist and Agriculturist)  and even the ordinary people have been engaged in the surging tide of history.

—————-The Real Developer—————

Founded in 2005, UltiZen is one of China’s largest all-platform game art outsourcing partner and PC game developer.

Exactly, UltiZen is behind War of Legends and Jagex is only a third party that got a licensed franchise to publish in North America and European Countries.

However, with reference to the game background story, War of Legends is a brand-new browser game, and totally new to No-Chinese players. The problem is War of Legends in China has tons of copycats there. Over the past two years, we have seen Evony, TransForce, Empire Craft, Kingory, Three Kingdoms Online, Warrior Legends, Lords Online and much more—published in North America and Europe.

They are using micro-transaction to roll money from innocent players, even the game is set in the browser, is it safe for your personal data?

Well, let’s continue to talk about the similarity :

1, City-building model: Construct command post, tech search. Oh, wait,  I cannot imagine, in Ancient China, there is a university. How weird! It never makes sense.

2, producing resources: Food, Timber, Stone, and Copper, full of platitudes

3, Forming an Alliance, which is really a ridiculous translation. In China, during Shang and zhou Dynasty period, I have never heard of the term “Alliance”

4,Recruiting a legendary hero. (Later you will find your hero will be stuck on the campaign, No one can fix the bug )

5, Daily Task.

6, Virtual Items. (That is the game’s “essence”)， we call this Money-rolling Machine.

7, Go to war.

8, even the characters they are using in game plagiarized Three Kingdoms Period hero portrait. Really does not match with the history.

What is “TWar of Legends” about? I still don’t know. If it means to be a copycat  of a traditional Chinese browser MMORTS, then why did they introduce University in BC time,  ridiculous, funny, weird.  If it is a new browser MMORPG, then why did they copy all of these, No innovative, no original! Sheerly backward!

The whole game feels like a taut game of cat-and-mouse between players.

Kingory is the international version the Flash-based strategic MMO game RXSG (热血三国) which is not only the best web game but the most-played: 40 million players has registered and 600 servers are active (as of June 2009). It consists of 5 resources, 10 armaments, 5 city defenses, and 30 stratagems and combat systems。 914 high heroes and infinite number of random heroes with different traits and properties are at your disposal. Revolutionary mix of real-time stratgy (RTS) and turn-based strategy (TBS), PvP system, and PvE & PvP system are available for the first time on your browser with a super-light ~2 MB footprint!

Backstory: King died. Unworldly young prince succeed the throne. Dysfunctional royal court feeds the power hunger of the local military forces: Tsao Tsao, Ywan Shao and Yellow Turbans all claimed sole allegiance while waging wars against one another in the name of ridding the rebels. The darkest days of the period gave birth to spirited young lords who united the peasants to defend and fight for true peace instead of false justice. (Kingory players, you’re one of them!)

Three ways to get more resources:
1 Build more resource fields in the Rural;
2 Trade with other players in the Market;
3 Apply Production Items such as Earth Deity Hoe, Lu Ban Wood Bane, Stone Reaper and Blazing Forge to increase production rate.

Three ways to increase Allegiance:

1 Conduct Appease Criticism in Government;
2 Lower your Tax Rate;
3 Apply Patriotic Bulletin..

Three ways to grow population:

1 Build and upgrade your Cottages;
2 Conduct Reproduction in Government;
3 Appy Census Order to add peasants at fastest pace.

About Collect

Pearl: Lake > Swamp > Forest = Pasture = Barren > Uplands
Coral: Lake > Swamp = Forest > Pasture
Liuli: Barren > Pasture > Forest = Swamp
Amber: Forest > Pasture > Swamp >Barren
Agate: Uplands > Barren > Swamp > Forest
Crystal: Uplands > Forest = Pasture > Barren
Emerald:Swamp > Forest = Uplands > Barren
Jade: Barren > Uplands > Forest = Pasture
Star Gem: Lake > Swamp > Barren = Uplands

scout imformation

count desc

1~9 = Few
10 = Several
25 = Pack
50 = Lots
100 = Horde
250 = Throng
500 = Swarm
1000 = Zounds
2500 = Legion
5000 = Bulk
10000 = Giga
Refugee = Yellow Turban Soldiers= Rookies
Robbers = Yellow Turban Veterans= Pikemen
Bandits = Yellow Turban Elites = Swordsmen
Mountedbandits = Yellow Turban Captains = Cavalries
Caterans = Yellow Turban Archers = Archers

Immortal troops: Green Wrap Book demystify

Green Wrap Book—— Sends 30% of casualties to Hospital for treatment. Effect lasts for 24 hours and will stay effective if applied repeatedly.

Some may look at this item with disdain, saying that Green Wrap Book only has minimal effect on sending the casualties to Hospital. But they are terribly mistaken on this. Here let me explain how this item works.

Influence is an influential factor in the outcome of casualties. Even without the help of Green Wrap Book, you can send up to 60% of your casualties to Hospital when you fight an opponent with higher Influence. Green Wrap Book sends 30% casualties to Hospital. Do the math. Now you have up to 90% casualties lining up to be cured in Hospital!

In short, Green Wrap Book is an item for the underdog. Use Green Wrap Book when your Beacon Tower signals the intrusion of an intimidating opponent. As both sides suffer considerable troop loss after a fierce battle, you can surprise your opponent with 90% of troops that resurrect in Hospital. Imagine the look on your opponent’s face!

Kingory Tips By Paul

1. By all means buy Corvee Order. 5 construction processions are definitely better than 2.

2. Maintaining 2 to 3 construction processions and upgrading resources and buildingsis key. Don’t forget Quest Reward either.

3. Items for resource production is useless at first but somehow becomes important later. So play safe.

4. A Market level 5 allows you to sell your Item for Gold.

5. Do more simple tasks such as scouting before handling any serious tasks.

6. Don’t waste a Recruitment Bulletin in the early stage. Any hero will do just fine.

7. At the early stage, no need to build any fortifications. Just complete Quests first.

8. Employ 250 Labors for war and another 250 with all sorts of resources in the amount of 10000 to build a new city and gather jewelry from wilderness.

9. Newbies Attack Immunity is useless in that Newbies are hardly the target of an attack. So upgrade Government to as high a level as you can.

10. Lumber is on high demand at early stage. So maraud any wilderness you can find, especially Forest, where there is plenty of Lumber and Pearl.

11. Build an Embassy to join leagues or it just gets boring day by day.

12. Once you embark on Epic Quest, keep in mind not to do any Contribute Troops Quest, you may lose part of your forces by doing so.

13. The higher the level of a hero and the wilderness, and the more troops sent for gathering, the higher the chance of finding treasures.

More Tips:

1. Use Gold smartly to recruit from Tavern.
You can use Gold to recruit all the heroes in Tavern and then choose dismiss those you don’t need. Of course, you can do that if you have a short supply of Gold.  With this method Tavern would be replenished with new heroes since you have clear it out, which is almost like you were using a Recruitment Bulletin.

2. When I send troops to allies’ wilderness, do they still consume my Food, and the sources they gather will go to whom?
Your troops consume double amount of Food of your allies and even whatever your troops gather belong to your allies.

3. When Equipment Wearability reaches 0, you can only recycle it or repair it with special item.

4. In the absence of metropolis city, quit the league when you go to bed and you can prevent your city from being attacked.

5.Contribution of Lumber is rewarding in Epic Quest. Contribute Troops is most rewarding.

6. When one of your league members get attacked, the declaration of war by the entire league can be intimidating.

7. How to locate a player after his relocation to whom I have declared war?
If you have previously scouted him or her, you can now check Report. Every hour the coordinates will be refreshed once so his/her new location will be updated.

8. Why can’t I ever defeat Barricade?
First, avoid going within the range of Barricades and order your Scouts to attack enemies’ Wall. It’s easier to conquer the city this way.

9.Soldier majoring in close range attack is not necessarily not up for wide range attack. Pikemen have 50 attack range.

10.Capturing unemployed heroes who just defect from their cites to the wilderness is relatively easy.

11. Quest Build Up Renown can be seen unless Wall is built.

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How to Conquer Metropolis City

Surely it won’t cost much to conquer metropolis city and mostly the way you command your troops is key. Shire City is difficult to be conquered for there are lots of competitions. But in fact, the strategies are no more complicated than those of conquering a small city.

1. Pay 150 Diamonds for an Heirdom Order, apply Green Wrap Book, and apply Stratagemical Seal to your heroes with high Intelligence and Military Seal to your heroes with high Siege respectively. Moreover, Mania War Drum and Cosmo Hexagram are also Items that come in handy.

2. Command your second most intelligent and brave heroes to maraud your enemies’ city with Archers and Light-horsemen. Eliminate all the mobilized forces and consider Caravans a lethal weapon. If the maraud is successful, you should be able to obtain Food that can last for at least 9 hour of high consumption.

3. Command your most intelligent and brave heroes to carry 12000 Ballista，40000 Rookies, 15000 Scouts, 5000 Battering Rams for an attack. While you are still commanding your first battle, order your second troops to remain in the rural area, and send the third troops, headed by heroes with high Intelligence, to attack using Battering Rams as weapons. Normally it would take 9 hours to capture the city. Bear in mind to give repetitive strikes so that enemies’ Fortification cannot recover quickly.

4. If the previous strategies are successful, now you can enter your next battle: Attack the Shire city.

Ballista should go first with other soldiers as guards. The moment your enemies’ Archery Towers are down, order your Ballista to remain and other soldiers to continue. Scouts are able to remove barricades. If the first round is not fruitful, keep attacking the Wall to consume enemies’ rockfall. Rookies should keep moving backwards and forwards to remove all the traps. After all the traps all consumed, order Ballista to move forward till reaching the Wall, where 5000 Ballista are able to destroy a Wall with 20 million Hit Points in just 2 or 3 rounds.

While browsing something on the internet, I found most of Chinese browser games  were hitting North America and Europe. They all are seemingly like Evony.

It’s happened to Kingory, a really true Chinese Browser Game. Most of the time, I snapped the screenshots and uploaded them to Playbbg.com, hoping more and more players know the game.

In the era of Browser Game, being the big project on browser game market no longer means being the success of the company, and to make a heavy marketing for a browser game is to make a big success. For most of the honest and traditional browser game developers or publishers, they still remain focused on game development and simulating the membership or subscription model to create their products, that is why they failed to make tons of money that is to be used for marketing or advertising.

In China, those developers and publishers are very smart and are able to discern what they should do right.  Almost 100% browser games and MMORPG are created based on virtual items and free to play models. For instance, if you construct a building, it will take 2 minutes to complete constructing, but you can use a virtual item called Speedup or Booster to instantly complete such construction. There is out of the question you should pay for such virtual item. Chinese developers were developing tons of such virtual items by which they make money and inject part of such money into Google ADs.

Today, we collected some Chinese browser games that hit North America and Europe, if you are a developer, why not take a deep look at these games.

1, Caesary Online

Caesary follows in the footsteps of other popular online free-to-play Asian strategy games like Evony. Here, the theme is one of Roman conquest and the art design for your budding Empire reflects this. Other than the visual style and occasional animal sacrifice, Caesary plays like an Empire-building game from any other era.

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Evony

Evony is a Free online  browser based title like any other in the genre and you don’t need to download any client, just open your browser to play Evony for free. The game requires you to become a powerful Lord, with an overarching quest of saving some princess, or something. The game itself is so disjointed from the primary quest that it is somewhat of a grail, but no matter, browser games, unlike normal games rarely have a clear beginning and an end. The end inevitably comes when your wife leaves you and your pets are starving because the game has you in its icy grasp.

1, Kingory

Kingory has endless quests for you to complete, including Growth Quests, Routine Quests, Delegate Quests and Epic Quests ect. All sorts of rewards can be gained from completion of quests. Kinory is a browser web-based real-time battle simulation system and PvP & PvE Arena.

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2, Warrior Legends

Warrior Legends is a free real time strategy(RTS) browser game set in the Middle Ages. You are the lord of a city as you are born in a country and you will play with thousands of real players. You can select your birthplace in three countries—-Gallia, Lllyrium and Germania. In the world of WL online, your mission is to develop your nation and go in for expansion and finally rejuvenate the civilization of the Middle Ages. To complete your mission, you have to gather crop, lumber and iron which can be used to construct infrastructure, explore technology and recruit troops.

Warrior Legends is a free real time strategy(RTS) browser game set in the Middle Ages. You are the lord of a city as you are born in a country and you will play with thousands of real players. You can select your birthplace in three countries—-Gallia, Lllyrium and Germania. In the world of WL online, your mission is to develop your nation and go in for expansion and finally rejuvenate the civilization of the Middle Ages. To complete your mission, you have to gather crop, lumber and iron which can be used to construct infrastructure, explore technology and recruit troops.

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3， Empire Craft

Empire Craft is a browser-based game (Web-game) with RPG and business strategy, players can start the game immediately without installing any client or plug-ins. And even there is no requirement for the operating platform. With a computer connecting to internet, players can start the game on browser easily.

Empire Craft has the outstanding game system, including creature killing, player competing, chatting, city managing, battling, campaign, task, instance zone, worldwide incident, equipment, skill, team playing, friend, union, property, goods, and market etc.

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4, Kings of Nations

Kings of Nations is a browser based multi-player online game. In Kings of Nations, player selects one from two of the civilizations, either Eastern Civilization or Western Civilization and plays on a randomly created map. Players begin with one main city, Central Government and some necessary resources and fight against other kings or cultures until he/she finally remains in the world. In the Central Government player can build different constructions, and developing new technologies. Different constructions have different functions. Before you launch the war either against the real player or against the NPC city, make sure you city economy is healthy. You have to find a balance point between economic developments and enhance your military force. Once your reputation reached enough level, you can set up your own country and command your underlings to attack your enemies.

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5, Rise of Empire

Rise of Empire is a big web strategic role-playing game. Players start with small villages and try to develop into great empires eventually. Territory is the fundamental and critical issue in the game. Every building needs a certain amount of land to allocate. Also, as an emperor, you need a large amount of land to produce food to feed your increasing army and population. Not only by destroying enemy’s army, players also need to conquer enemy’s territory in order to win the war. Just like the realistic, in Rise of Empire, land is the most important resource for an empire. Empires are mostly fighting for protect or expand their territory. Troops are the tools help an empire to defense from enemies’ invade or conquer enemies’ land. In Rise of Empire, the land territory is divided into 3 different types: Plain, Mountain and Forest. Besides, water territory is another issue players need to consider. Each type of territory will have its specific usage and limit, which will bring players more fun.

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6,The Legacy of Holy Castle

The brand new massive multiplayer web-game, The Legacy of Holy Castle, is making its appearance. Differ from other common web-game, The Legacy of Holy Castle is based on fantasy warfare story background, and the game also processes a combination of RPG and SLG elements to bring the most astounding gaming experience to its players.

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7,Lord of the Evil

Lord of the Evil (also known as Lords of Evil) is a web based MMORPG that was released in open beta as of October 4th 2008. There are many interesting promotions for new players during this release! This game is developed by Chinese company and run only based in the US, being one of the only of its kind currently, with most other browser based games being hosted internationally. Lords of Evil runs on flash, and is loaded with simple, yet generic features. For example, you may pick from Human, Orc, or Demon as your race. Lords of Evil also features a nifty guild system and an auto levelling system, which allows your character to continue training while you are away.

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Check More browser games like Evony

When It comes to Chinese browser games, Evony is a typical success case, which also stimulates those who want to bring Chinese browser games to North America and Europe.

Needless to say, Evony, the hottest and most controversial browser MMO, is also a copycat of Kingory in China, but the publisher of Evony made some graphic modifications and made the final version of Evony possible.  Back in july, Empire Craft from Hithere browser game or webgame platform is also a Kingory copycat. The launch of Kingory is also a big step forward to English browser market from Chinese Browser market. It may overthrow the former distribution. However, It is a pity that Kingory was not re-made to satisfy the needs of western cultures, nor was launched ahead of Evony and it is only a translation version of Chinese Kingory launched today.

“Kingory (RSXG) has been around since mid-2008. We’re the 1st in our genre, beating all others in terms of gameplay hands down.”according to its official press release “ Though often copied skin-deep, we have not yet seen one copycat with the full-fledged features that we have, especially our unique web-based real-time battle simulation system and PvP & PvE Arena.”

From players, no matter kingory, Evony, Kings of Nations, or Warrior Legends , they are all money-rolling machines. and from entrepreneur or businessman, they all deem them as commercial products and  According to Joyport’s CEO, its Janpenese and Korean Kingory version has been licensed to two big local companies, that means Kingory may have a chance to surpass the hottest Evony.

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