tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7506015789437969512012-01-29T15:34:02.036-05:00The latest information from the Realm of Empires team on this medieval strategy Facebook gameBubaribamanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091660848830308849noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750601578943796951.post-59773823763343199112012-01-23T08:55:00.000-05:002012-01-23T08:55:08.959-05:00

Do you agree with Greg's opinion?Bubribaman on realms: Free-to-play damaging game industry?: Yes.... at least according to this Inside Mobile Apps article : Gamespot is reporting that Olivier Comte, Namco Bandai’s SVP for Europ...

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Greg Bala's self pat on the back:Bubribaman on realms: How you know you have a social game: "Today's release brought the much enticipated 'NEXT EMAIL' button (ability to quickly go to the next internal email) It puzzled me that..."

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Realm of Empires (RoE) is a MMO that currently caters to thousands of players. We recently read an article from Gamasutra on MMOs and found that we agreed with a lot of the points that were mentioned. Summarized briefly, the article mentioned the importance of satisfying your core audience. Engagement was touted as one of the key drivers for a game’s success, and the best way to keep engagement

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Many times we’ve been asked by our players to tell them what is going on at Realm of Empires, what direction RoE is going in and what features we’re currently working on. As a small studio, it’s often hard to give an accurate picture of where we are headed. Because we are small, we have to have a lot of flexibility in our plans. For example changes in facebook frequently require an immediate

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With the re-launch of the official Realm of Empires blog, we thought it’d be a great idea to give our readers, an inside look at the members of the RoE team. As a result, we’re rolling out our very own interview series, where each installment will give insight into the lives of the Developers and also present new information about Realm of Empires. Today we had a chance to sit down with Greg

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Two atoms were walking when one of them said, "I think I lost an electron!" "Really!" the other replied, "Are you sure?" "Yes, I 'm absolutely positive." Oh boy this was 'hilarious'! How is this relevant? Well, it appears Realm of Empires players are heavily attracted to double positives! Players prefer the North East Quadrant OK, geeky jokes aside; it appears that players, when presented with

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For long-time followers of this blog, you know that it has been about the trials and tribulations of building the Realm of Empires Facebook game. We are now expanding it to look at topics beyond just technical aspects, new features and benefits of the game. New topics will include: The latest Realm of Empires player and clan news Trends in Realm of Empires game play (what are players' cool

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A feature that was promised before R7 and R8 released is finally coming!!From the earliest days of Realm of Empires, we've struggled with the problem of too many fake attacks. Attackers felt compelled to send as many as possible, defenders found themselves with too many attacks to manage.As ROE veterans can appreciate, its a hard problem to solve since fake attacks are a core tactical tool in

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The purpose of this post is to explain the spirit of rules surrounding stewardship with concrete examples.Stewardship is there to ensure that you can take a few days off from the game when you go on vacation or when you simply cannot access the game.Stewardship was not intended to allow your account to be played 24/7 by a number of people.We do understand, that often stewardship is used this way,

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Today we are pleased to make yet another release with some great new features and updates!Summary of today's release:From attack report, can paste attacker & defender into battle simulator as attacker or defender (much more flexible than what we had before) From attack report, can paste the intelligence info available in the report, about the attacker or defender, into a note on a the village.

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Realm of Empires will donate 20% of PayPal sales to the American Red Cross - Haiti Relief and Development fund on all servant packages completed in the week starting January 19thWith your support, we will help more of those in need!Details:The transaction has to be completed in the time specified (Jan 19th to Jan 26th)This is for the PayPal sales of packages between 30 and 2000 servants, not for

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As mentioned a number of times, we are actively looking for ways for our players to earn servants. Today we are rolling out a ‘blog for servants’ offer! Basically, we want to reward you for helping spread the word about Realm of Empires!So, if you have a blog, know someone with a blog, write for a magazine, know someone who writes for a magazine etc, and you can either write a favorable blog,

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At realm of empires, we only publish relevant stories about significant events in the game ( read about stories we publish ).We strive to make the stories fun, interesting, appealing to the eye to your and to your friends.Being able to publish stories to your wall, helps us grow! Facebook may publish those stories to your friends news feed hence increasing the chances that Realm Of Empires will

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As seasoned facebook user, you probably know that Facebook Applications you authorize, can post stories to your wall.Those stories are supposed to tell your friends significant events in your 'life'. Unfortunately, many applications spam their members.Many game post as many stories as the they possibly can, mostly of trivial events events such as of you inviting friends to the application ("Bill

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ProblemI cannot enter the game. Everytime I click on Login or Enter, it just takes me back the main screen. ReasonWe use cookies to remember who you are, ie to log you in. Because Realm Of Empires is running inside Facebook iframe, Realm of Empires is considered a '3rd party' so you must enable 3rd party cookies.SolutionWhile in Beta, we only support Fire Fox 3.x and Internet Explorer 7. If you

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Many of you have expressed your displeasure at our recent game update with regards to the features in RoE. As many of you know, there is no such thing as a "free" game. Games must be financed whether it be through advertising or by the players themselves. Banner AdvertisingEarly on we decided against using banner advertising in our game. This is for several reasons including the fact that

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Realm Of Empires Terms of Use - some explanations and clarificationsSome of you have asked for some more explanation / examples of breaking Realm Of Empire's terms of use (http://new.realmofempires.com/tou.aspx) which may result in a ban. Here is my take on it:Creating multiple Facebook accounts if we find that you have personally created and are playing more than 1 account on a realm, all your

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What is this about?Many of our players have suggested limiting clan membership or risk having a handful of large clans dominate the realm. Likewise for alliances. We’ve been thinking about it as well, but have resisted it, and have kept on postponing it for reasons I will describe here.However, the situation on Realm 2 has pushed us to deal with this now. I wanted to discuss our decision with you

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So you wanna go to war eh!? Of course you do! It’s a game of conquest and war, not sim-village. So what do you do? Gather your forces and attack a nearest neighbor? If it is inactive, or clan-less, then sure but it is not much fun when there is no challenge, is there?What you really want to do, is bungee jump off that bridge, skydive, ride the scariest rollercoaster, jump over the highest ski

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This is my second installment in my attempt to answer the question of why Realm 2 is not as fast as Realm 1 (see first part http://realmofempires.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-game-too-slow-at-start.html )Please note that Realm Of Empires is designed such that you can choose from a variety of game styles.Realm 1 is a fast realm, Realm 2 is slower. If you find that you have a lot of time to dedicate to

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With the release of the new realm, which is slower than the first beta realm, we've receive some comments that the game is too slow. That new players quickly run out of things to do and will get bored.AsideFirst of all, like always, thank you for those comments, they guide our development in a very significant way. You help shape Realm of Empires!I would like to respond to these concerns. First

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This is definitely not rocket science, but perhaps it could help someone...If you have a facebook application, and want to move from one server to another, requiring an IP change, as we did recently, you can follow this method to achieve a virtually no downtime move.Your domain is MyApp.com (IP 1.1.1.1).Your Facebook (FB) application MyApp.com/WelcomePageYou want to move to a different IP (

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OK, ok, I should clarify - at the end Realm of Empires is a sort of virtual community so you can, if you want to, spend the whole day messaging friends. The intention is that you do not need to spend a lot of time to enjoy playing the game.Also, the 15 minutes per day is our goal. We conciously decided not to reward players constant online presence and instead we'll offer tools to simplify

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Before sharing my experience of building Realm Of Empires, let me tell you what it is first! :)RealmOfEmpires.com is a medieval-themed Massively Multiplayer Online Real-Time Strategy Game (MMORTG), what an acronym eh?! :)Its very simple really, you take control of a small village which you slowly grow into a large town.You slowly recruit an army, and eventually, expand your empire by conquering

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OK, so now that I know how this crazy blogging software works, I am dying to tell you why 'Bubaribaman'OK, so, back in University of Waterloo, back in days it took good few minutes to download just one victoria secret page, my comrades and I found a ingenious method of communication - why remember all the words when you can instead use the all defining term 'bubariba'.So instead of, 'pass me a

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This is bubaribaman, the creator of a Facebook game RealmOfEmpires.com... ok, ok bubariman man is just the codename (will explain where that come from one of these days).I started this blog to share my experience with creating a Massively Multiplayer Online Real-Time Strategy game and building and leading a team to make it happen.I wish I could say I 'willed' the game in to existence but that

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