Hi Again. I really wanted you all to see what we are working on with Battle Realms Genesis (BRG internally) and get your first impressions. So we’ve created a wallpaper gathering an assortment of the cool characters we’re working on! (There are two versions, one for widescreen and one for iPad.)
The wallpapers below are built from characters that are at stage 2 of our character creation process. I wanted to give you an early look. Can you see members of your favorite Clan? New Clans?
There are four steps to our ideation process for characters & cards. First we sketch it out. This is super loose and only meant to convey the pose and defining characteristics of the character. Once we like the sketch, we make a tighter black & white version. This helps us understand tones, color values, and readability.
I should mention that the appearance of a character in these wallpapers is not a guarantee that they will be in the game. We fully expect that some characters won’t make the cut for the game’s launch and others might never see their way into the game at all. It’s a natural part of the process. I couldn’t wait to show this to you, and I’m excited to get your reaction to the various characters.
Stay Liquid,
Ed
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Means the development of this TCG or whatever it will be that there will be no update for BR or a new BR?
We have multiple things we want to accomplish with BR. The BRG card game is just one of them. Good Old Games is soon to launch the original BR modernized to run on today’s machines. We are also looking for funding to do an update to BR1 and potentially a BR2. Hope this help turn that frown back into a smile.
Hi Ed, I will give you some tips that will help you out:
1- I wish that you focus on the Gameplay more than the Graphics because these days games are becoming so stupid and childish very much only because that they focused on the Graphics more than the Gameplay; I hope you know what I mean.
2- DON’T remove ANYTHING and that includes (Characters, Maps, Buildings, and everything) from Battlerealms BUT add some awesome new things: New Characters, New Clan if necessary, New Maps, New Buildings, New Abilities, New Upgrades, New Campaign, New Increase for Population so we can get more units, Quality Online Gameplay to not lag in the game, and New Weather Condition for map I mean that put in the Map Selection Menu a checkbox for a Rainy Weather, Cloudy Weather, Fog if necessary).
3- VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! You need to improve the Online Gameplay Server because I always lose the connection because the server is bad you need to choose a quality server or a server that doesn’t lag too much. (Send me an E-mail if you need any question feel free to ask me and don’t hesitate).
4- Please please please don’t ruin the Gameplay of this game like other companies did like: EA and many others.
Let me explain to you:
EA ruined most of it’s games and here’s some examples:
Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 was nice and awesome but when EA did a new remake of this game which is Red Alert 3 they ruined everything up and it’s Gameplay and Graphics are Cartoonish.
Second Example: The new remake of Need for Speed Most Wanted and the other new remake of Need for Speed Hot Pursuit are all ruined by EA. Most of EA Games are ruined if you don’t believe me come see it in their Website or on Youtube.
Here’s my POINT: My point is to tell you that don’t make the Characters, Gameplay, Buildings, and the Graphics look childish. PLEASE Sir!
5- Battlerealms is Unique than other games and the most awesome game so keep its awesomeness. The point is don’t make it like the game “League of Legends” or “DotA” or “Warcraft III” or “Diablo III” because these games have their own awesomeness. So keep Battle Realms like its awesomeness The Chinese/Japanese Tradition and how the character defends himself when the other character is hitting him.
6- DON’T Change the Voices of the Old Characters BUT if you want to add a voice to the old characters add a very similar voice to the original voice; I hope you understood what I mean. (Feel free to ask me or it’s better if you send me an E-mail).
7- Keep making the peasants take Rice and Water and don’t remove this feature and if you want to add new resources like taking WOODS via cutting the trees or taking GOLD via entering Goldmines or something like that it’ll be more awesome! And please don’t remove HORSES in the game we want them and we love this feature!
8- Keep Battlerealms Nature like (Trees-Rocks-Grass-Waterfalls-etc.) awesome and if you want to put new things to nature don’t ruin it and make it realistic.
9- The campaign of Battlerealms was very awesome and realistic it was like a real story and battle and that’s one of the things that I liked in this game.
10- Keep the Ability that a Unit/Soldier can hit a target or hit a tree and don’t remove this awesome feature.
11- Put the character “Kenji” in Skirmish games if necessary because I only find him in the campaign.
Please These tips are very important and I have took time to write it and think about it so please do them because if you did them the game will be awesome believe me!
P.S. I have been playing this game since when I was maybe 7-8 years old and now I’ll turn 16 so I have gained so many experience in this game. If you need any help just feel free to ask me and don’t hesitate and it is better to send me an E-mail I’ll be very happy and I’ll respond to you fast if God wills.
E-mail: Sharg@w.cn
Thanks!
Sincerely DrenZooT.
These news and this reply made me smile ear to ear.
Sent you an email about a suggestion for BR.
Bring BR back, I need that strong and emotional feeling that the story has and the gameplay.
Best of luck
I would love to see a br2, but what I really want isn’t a game, but a game editor, capable of making models / textures, landscapes(keep what you go its perfect), actual “custom” clans(using one of many structured out lines of course), custom sound, custom effects.
perhaps a campaign editor.
also i am going to post this game again but if their is a br2 then plz make it so the keep acts as a shop for zen masters but also like a training ground for other units to become zen masters, this would be a zen master for every unit normal unit there is..
AWSOME!! Thank you for make a new Battle realms game! battle realms is my best game in all time!
1. battle realms
2. CCG ZH
3. Minecraft
i just want to give you a tips: please dont make the big changes from the old game, there are enough games that have fail to make a sequel!
eks:
1. Commander and counquer series (after zero hour everything did suck)
2. red alert
3. Call of duty
4. Stronghold
ect ect
can you please make a respond to this, so i know that you did read this, so i can come whit some tips to you
Best regards
- Your biggest fan i Europe
Glad to know that Battle realms back up but this was not the way I wanted. I expected a quality game as were the previous games, adding this to my disappointment to learn that it would not be what I wanted I wish you luck in the development
a greeting hug.
top left hero looks badass!
I think this card game is a great way to get people to increase the popularity about one of the most innovative rts of all time, as a card game involves strategy quite heavily and i believe it’s an awesome idea and props again to Mr. Castillo for all these years of fun.
I’d also like to know, will this also be on android?
Whoa, this picture surprised me, in a bad way.
Battlerealms was THE game for me and some of my friends when i was around 12years old and i’m still loving it.
While i didn’t really cared about the game’s style back then i’m really digging it nowadays and was super excited for the card game to feature all these original characters. ( especially the Wolf Clan Troops)
For that Image, i cant sort those characters to any of the known clans, maybe theres a sexy booby clan now?
It kinda looks like a colorless version of a generic asia-mmo
I love the way you keep in contact with the old Community but can’t understand the decision behind this new design direction, maybe its nothing and this is just to get more attention to the project (lacks tooney colors for that purpose) but yeah, i’m scared.
pls be good pls be good pls be good
Hi Tschoppo. See my response to Captain Star. I think you will be happy. I will admit that our new artists like to put a bit of sexy into the units but we’ll try to stay true to the original direction. The next images we put out should make you happy.
Ed Del Castillo
Pres./Founder
THis can be great.. even if it is only a card game… atleast it is a BR game..Nothing can replace BR.. bec of its simplicity and living world.. simplicity is beauty… BR dont need to copy features from other games.. BR is very very unique..
I’ll be honest, I’m not digging the non-human races. Part of Battle Realms’ charm was that it carefully blended historical realism with mysticism and sorcery. It felt more like an alternate history tale more a complete work of tolkien-esque fantasy fiction (like you would see in the Warcraft series).
In Battle Realms, it always felt like if you could travel westward, you’d end up running into High Middle Age European clans with knights, lancers, and the sort with their own conflicts and mysterious dark powers.
The introduction of elves, and multiple other strange, non-human races into the lore retroactively diminishes the effect the original game delivered.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy and grateful to see that Battle Realms is returning, and it’s obvious that you’ve spent a lot of effort and time to allow that to happen. I just had to put my two cents in.
Thank you, and good luck!
Captain Star, I’ve come to believe that you are completely right. When I first created the BR universe, It was always intended to be much bigger than the game we were able to make. I think, in the early stages of BRG, that got the better of me and I was trying to resurrect many of the unfulfilled desires of that time. What the early concept work and explorations allowed me to realize is exactly what you said in your post above.
A couple of years ago, I was talk to Notch at a party and I told him. “Once your build it, and people fall in love with it, it’s not yours anymore. It now belongs (spiritually anyway) to the fans, and you are no longer the creator of the world but rather the curator of the experience.” I believe that and I think that the concept phase let me get a lot of Pre Battle Realms ghosts out of my system.
Going forward you will see the pointy ears go away and the universe return to primarily spectacular humans with a sprinkling of monsters and mystical creatures. It’s the right call. Thanks for keeping me honest.
Ed Del Castillo
President / Founder
ojala que salga todo bien .el battle realms puede mejorarse con nuevas razas saludos.
hello i am new to BR and WOTW but its fun i am just asking if there a new journey like a lotus journey
battle realms 2:
a 4th level of training that allows any unit to “become” a zen master.(yes even peasant)
editor that allows clan creation in all its aspects. (even though i love the world editor it has now i would like to be able to make my own clan example: scorpion clan, spider clan)
editor that can convert old battle realms maps to the new platform, and perhaps provide campaign creation.
add the star system used in halo wars(units get stronger for kills and assists, some units(zen masters) can get more stars than others)
this last wish is out their but if it could be implemented, it would be the first of its kind i think, make this game rts and first person, kinda like in nwn2 but that wasnt really first person.
/ note:
battle realms is a game i can play over and over and still enjoy, but i wish to see it grow and become the game it was always meant to be. I think if you tack on a grand enough world editor that is able to make its own models with clan molds in place and the ability to make custom sound, texture, cinematic, along with the already proven excellence of the environmental editor it has now.. this really could be a game that last forever… it just needs to be done right.
P.S.
Halo wars’ stars idea was golden and in my opinion would fit great into this game
don’t lose the balance br1 has that would i fit in a “clan mold” so the models could fit into what ever mold the designer picks.
i really like the zen master idea too… came up with it at least 6 years ago. but this idea is supposed to be limited to one trainable zen master. i guess it could be in the options to have more than one that would be cool.
also if custom clans were really a thing it would be a pain in the ass to have a custom model for both the regular unit and its zen master version, if theirs a will theirs a way.
May I suggest putting this on Kickstarter? And not to mention crowdsourcing advertising as well. You guys have a lot of fans just waiting to unleash their “fandom” once you guys give the word.
Release something about battle realms 2. i know 20 people waiting to pre-order.
Hey,
Are you still working?
Please post something new about the game.
And one tip from my side:
Keep the asiastyle alife.
Sorry for the long radio silence. We’ve been hard at work on the game and will continue on it until it’s released. We are keeping quiet because a number of developers are working on card games and we don’t want them to find out about the special parts of our game. We are doing some really cool stuff, but in this space unique features are easy to copy. In order to keep Battle Realms Genesis special we’ve had to go silent. We will probably have to stay quiet for a little longer to please hold on and we’ll be back with you as soon as we can. Also, we’ve renamed Battle Realms Genesis to Battle Realms Legends. We think it’s a much better name and hits more to the core of our Zen Master focussed gameplay.
Thanks Ed I´ll calm down, it was just because ur so silent, but its really cool to know that u are still working on this epic game.
Me and my frinds enjoy this game still on lan-partys and we are really interested what you will do with Battle Realms.
I´m looking forward to hearing from you Arcoun