{"id":94452,"date":"2019-05-31T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/343757"},"modified":"2019-05-31T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T13:37:00","slug":"indie-publisher-raw-fury-has-acquired-the-rights-to-the-kingdom-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/31\/indie-publisher-raw-fury-has-acquired-the-rights-to-the-kingdom-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie publisher Raw Fury has acquired the rights to the Kingdom franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indie publisher Raw Fury has purchased the rights to the Kingdom<\/em> franchise<\/a> from creator Thomas van den Berg for an undisclosed fee. <\/p>\n

The kingdom-building simulation title was the first game published by Raw Fury, and has spawned two sequels including a reworked version of the original and a proper follow-up called Kingdom: Two Crowns<\/em>. <\/p>\n

The series has sold over 4 million copies to date, but after spending the best part of a decade working on the franchise van den Berg is looking to step away and explore new frontiers.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, the developer has sold the rights to Raw Fury so the series can continue. It’s a deal that works well for both parties, with Raw Fury co-founder Gordon Van Dyke having played a key role in developing the series, initially helping out with design and balancing, before taking on the mantle of game director and designer on Kingdom: Two Crowns<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe first pixels of Kingdom I put on digital paper around 2011, it\u2019s been a long and interesting time working on something so dear to me,” commented van den Berg. “But now, I\u2019d like to continue challenging myself and explore different kinds of projects.<\/p>\n

“And whereas most Kingdoms don’t last long, the Kingdom <\/em>series deserves to go on. For that, it\u2019s great that Raw Fury has been so deeply involved in the game for so long, enabling them to take the series somewhere I never could.”<\/p>\n

Moving forward, Raw Fury intends to release “updates, expansions, new platforms, and new games,” and already has a detailed roadmap in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indie publisher Raw Fury has purchased the rights to the Kingdom franchise from creator Thomas van den Berg for an undisclosed fee.  The kingdom-building simulation title was the first game published by Raw Fury, and has spawned two sequels including a reworked version of the original and a proper follow-up called Kingdom: Two Crowns.  The series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}