What is Kingdom of Loathing?
Kingdom of Loathing (KOL) is a text-based adventure game available free online. The game involves your quest to defeat the Naughty Sorceress who has overthrown the good King Ralph IX. KOL’s appeal is based largely on wordplay and puns, and has become a successful online game. Designed in 2003 by Asymmetric Productions, Kingdom of Loathing is the creation of Zack Jonson and writer Josh Nite. Game play involves pop culture references, obscure movie quotes and surrealist humor. Since its beginning, KOL has attracted more than 100,000 players. Characters in Kingdom of Loathing are ruled by either muscle, mysticality or moxie. Each trait offers two sets of characters. The muscle avatars are Turtle Tamers and Seal Clubbers. Mysticality governs Pastamancers and Saucerors, while Disco Bandits and Accordion Thieves are ruled by moxie. There is no real game play difference between character classes, but specific armor and some quests are tailored to specific classes. After completing the tutoria
It’s a web-based multi-player role-playing game. It’s free, nothing to download, no software; it’s all played in a browser. It’s kind of a parody of the traditional high fantasy role-playing genre. All the art is just stick figures and little line drawings done by me, and I’m really not an artist, so it kind of shows through but I think that’s also part of the charm. That’s pretty much it – it’s relatively straightforward. The biggest difference between it and other stuff like it is that there’s lots of single-player content and that it’s designed to be funny – it doesn’t take itself seriously at all. What’s the game’s setting like? The setting is the Kingdom of Loathing, a kingdom which has no king because we never put one in there. We never thought about it. It’s got areas in it that you move around in that are parodies of the typical area in other RPGs – there’s the dungeon full of dungeons where you randomly wander through dungeons, there’s the Spooky Forest and the Mountain Newb w
