Bruce - Tired of games that were never updated, Bruce decided to use his downtime one spring to start a project of his own. In March of 2006, he began developing the online version of KD, then called Knights Divine. Up until May of 2008, Bruce handled all of the coding himself. He currently resides in the United States and is headed off to College in the Fall of 2008. Outside of computers, he enjoys Swimming and Camping in his spare time.
Jack - When searching for a more sustainable server, Bruce found Jack, who was an Administrator at a free web hosting site (www.syxe.com). Jack quickly stepped up to host KD; he currently co-owns the server. He preforms server maintenance and oversees our Chat Server, while helping to administrate (monitor and catch cheaters) the game.
Rob - Also known as Chukie1188, Rob has been with KD since it was just a text command IRC game. He helps to find bugs, administrate, and handles some financial information.
Vin - Vin does all the images for the game. Banners, logos, icons, you name it, he's Photoshopped it! We would still be using Bruce's sad attempts at art if it was not for Vin.
John - Also known as Sniper, John started playing KD in the Spring of 2007. As a web designer himself, he assisted Bruce with small design errors during the creation of Era 3. John joined the team in May of 2008, when he offered to help Bruce create new features for Era 4.
In the Beginning, KD was known as Knights Divine. It actually started as a command line game on an IRC chat network in the Fall of 2004. It evolved into having a User Interface; however, it was still run via the chat network and there were many issues with speed. The game dissolved in the Spring of 2005; the peak number of active players was around 20.
By March of 2006, Bruce decided to create an online (website) version of the failed IRC game. By March 2, 2006, there was a working prototype of Knights Divine. Unfortunately, the project grew out of hand, as we used 99% of the permitted data transfer amount on the free server.
We obtained a new server (And domain name, www.KnightsDivine.net) in early April. Era 1 Time 0 was released on April 22, 2006.
In August of 2006, we had outgrown that hosting package. At this point, Bruce found Jack, who agreed to host the game. After another redesign, Knights Divine was back online by October of that year!
November of 2007 marked the beginning of Era 3; It was a new concept in design: Instead of loading the entire page every time you bought a weapon or attacked a player, the game only transferred a small amount of data. While this implementation was buggy, and the initial page load was very slow, many players enjoy the fast playability. At this time, the game was renamed Kingdoms Divided to obtain the .com domain name.
Kingdoms Divided is currently in Era 4. It was released at the end of June, 2008. Though the layout remains much the same, the concept of Kingdoms has been greatly expanded upon. Many bug fixes and formula changes have also been addressed.
We hope you enjoy playing KD. Please remember We are open to suggestions via the Contact page, Forums, or Chatroom.
A special thanks to FamFamFam.com for the icons that are integrated into the game.