Parallel Kingdom MMORPG coming to iPhone and Android

March 19th, 2008, 2:34 pm · 1 Comment · posted by Sonya Smith

A medieval-themed MMORPG game that uses GPS is being developed for both Google’s Android and for Apple’s iPhone.

Earlier this week we unveiled lists tracking both Android apps and iPhone apps under development, and CEO and Director Justin Beck let us know about this knightly game called “Parallel Kingdom” from his Madison, Wisconsin-based company with the same name as the game.

Parallel Kingdom (demo screenshot from company at right) is a medieval role-playing game that allows people to play in a virtual world that is overlaid on top of the real world. Beck has said that GPS or other positioning technology, locates a player and intertwines the virtual and real worlds — although it’s a little unclear exactly how the two worlds interact.

Players can attack, trade, mingle with nearby people or pick on friends, build kingdoms, go on raids, wage wars or establish economic empires.

The game is in a beta stage and is only for Android, but Beck says they will be developing a version to run natively on the iPhone. He also explained why his company is developing for both the iPhone and Android:

“The iPhone and Android are doing something quite unique; they are opening up development platform for phones that target broad demographics, not just businesses. This is huge, because now you have a variety of applications that are wanted and millions of people around the world who want them. Couple that with technology innovations, like giving phones an internet connection, good horsepower, and the ability to know it’s location, you have a killer platform. But the platform is just the first step, software innovation is the key. There now exists an opportunity to innovate in pretty much every domain of mobile applications, search, document management, blogging, photos, scheduling, education, games, you name it.”

That sentiment about the the iPhone platform was echoed and this mobile MMO was pointed to by WoW Insider and Massively “co-lead” Mike Schramm when he mentioned Parallel Kingdom in an article about what the iPhone SDK means to MMOs.

“Games like Parallel Kingdom depend on mobility, and that makes the iPhone (which will not only give an application its real-world location, but also stay connected to the internet via Edge) the perfect kind of platform for that development.”

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