Reign is a free browser-based multiplayer online game hosted online at reigngame.com. It was designed and developed by Ty Kauffman from April 5 to April 9, 2004. Since then, Ty, Mark Caudill and David DiBattiste have built on to the game by adding new features and improving the code. Reign was, and still is, developed using Notepad and Photoshop exclusively. It is a PHP / Javascript web-based strategy game that a MySQL database for data storage.
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Reign is a free browser-based multiplayer online game hosted online at reigngame.com. It was designed and developed by Ty Kauffman from April 5 to April 9, 2004. Since then, Ty, Mark Caudill and David DiBattiste have built on to the game by adding new features and improving the code. Reign was, and still is, developed using Notepad and Photoshop exclusively. It is a PHP / Javascript web-based strategy game that a MySQL database for data storage.
Reign exists as a series of "rounds", each typically lasting approximately one calendar month, generally with one to three day recesses between each consecutive round. At the conclusion of each round, the game is reset, and an entirely fresh cycle of gameplay begins.
From April 2004 until September 2006, Reign was in Beta mode. During this time, new features were continually added to Reign. Player feedback greatly influenced the Developers' decisions on what aspects of the game to update each round.
This extended state of "beta" triggered much...
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