I updated a few things on the website, but mostly I just took off the out of date information. The bigger piece of news is that I simplified the game design to specialized classes and capture the flag as the core.

The trend in mods right now is to come up with a crazy new game design in hopes that they'll become the next Natural Selection, or even Day of Defeat. My community (mod teams) are forgetting that a new and obscure gameplay idea isn't guaranteed to be fun. Making a great game takes a long time to perfect, and is still a huge risk for those making the project.

We were heading down the path of "new-age gameplay", but when things got messy I decided to focus the gameplay and make things clearer. As fashion trends and social trends go, old things get re-invented to be new and popular. We're re-inventing CTF gameplay, or specifically Team Fortress gameplay meaning specialized classes and capturing the flag.

Don't worry though, we're retaining a lot of the old game design elements and our goals are still way high. With this new game design we can have more characters in the game, and Analognovelist (the team writer) is perfecting an amazing backstory he wrote. I'm not a fan of online stories and object to Kingdom Lost having a backstory, but Analognovelist's story is Genius.

The only things that got cut were NPC's and a complicated RPG system. The source engine (it turns out) can't handle such a a huge load of models. Bots however, are on the agenda in single player, and perhaps (in a long time) we can incorporate NPC's in the game.

Down to site news, Overlord is designing a new (flash) website. The major change will be our gallery section, which won't be on the forums, but on an HTML page as is the proper thing to do for games. The WIP art and audio sections are staying on the forums however.

Expect in-game screenshots soon, we're starting animating and the SDK (software developers kit) for HL2 is expected to be out this week.