User blog:Thane Mantis/Clone - I found something curious...

Just in case...

Original Post:
So recently me an Axel were discussing all things KIXEYE in the PM's and at some point the convo turned to the all things KIXEYE, and more specifically the  KIXEYE Corp. Site , as I found it has recently been re-done at last. Anyways, hidden amongst the various lies about how much they give a damn_ and so on about their games, and their dedication to good products, there's one thing that stands out. They have a section dedicated to the various top members of the company, including its founders, Paul Preece, and good ol' David Scott.

Whats interesting particularly however is not David's bio, but Paul's. Here's what is has to say.



PAUL PREECE Founder Affectionately known as the "Godfather of Tower Defense," Paul Preece was the driving force behind the Facebook mega hit Battle Pirates and creator of the legendary Desktop Tower Defense. He currently works across studios overseeing game design and feature development for VEGA Conflict, War Commander: Rogue Assault, and a soon to be announced mobile title.

Hmm, a soon to be announced mobile title you say. How curious? I wonder... might this be related to those trademarks and whatnot I dug up awhile ago and discussed  here ? Could this be Kingdom Maker taking shape? Thoughts everyone?

Update/Comment #1:
My search for information is yielding more information, and hidden secrets along the way. I stumbled upon the  original thread  that helped me learn of Shadow Forge, and whilst it may not be entirely relevant anymore, it did give me an idea. Since the link in that thread remained valid ( https://www.kixeye.com/game/shadowforge/ ) I decided to replace the /shadowforge/ part with /kingdommaker/ and it seems to be a functional link of sorts, as I was redirected  here .

Considering the lack of content on that page, I'd dismiss this almost entirely and immediately, if it weren't for that aforementioned functional redirection of that initial link. It seems that KIXEYE might already have some back-end framework of sorts in place for Kingdom Maker to give it a full place on the site down the line.

And just to be sure this wasn't necessarily a fluke of sorts, I tried entering the other two names in between those slashes, /wildlanders/ &amp; /wildorn/ and even tried adding "home" after the last slash for both URL's (since the Kingdom Maker page has "home" written after the last slash in the URL) and none of them take you to a hidden page, they redirect you to your profile page instead. So this might lend a little bit of credit to possibility of this game being full steam ahead in development perhaps? Thoughts everyone?

Oh, and on a somewhat unrelated note, whilst the game does seem to be dead, I did find what may have been the first and/or last official status post on Shadow Forge. CM Scarlett prior to his vanishing from the forums did seem to at least confirm this was a thing  here  in this thread. I wonder what happened to it to cause it to seemingly get cancelled.