dub3 card · www.kingdomofloathing.com
Kingdom of Loathing (2003)
Stick figures, terrible puns, and a currency made of meat.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 7
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
On reveal: +0 to +4 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 7 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 2003
A browser role-playing game drawn in stick figures and full of puns and parody, where players fight monsters for meat, the game's currency.
Zack Johnson's Asymmetric Publications released it on 10 February 2003 and has kept it free of ads and subscriptions, funded by donations and merchandise. In 2008 it had 100,000 to 150,000 regular players.
In 2003: Released in February; Johnson soon brought in his childhood friend Josh Nite as a writer and designer.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2003 page.
Put it on your site
Run Kingdom of Loathing, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2003, then plays a short scene. Want Kingdom of Loathing in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
