Frequently Asked Questions

How do I install King's Revenge?
How can I unlock the higher levels in King's Revenge Dark Realm?
What Operating Systems does King's Revenge support?
What are the System Requirements that I need to know?
How do I submit a high score for the roster?
Can multiple players play their own games?
How do I get game hints?
Are there more levels available?
Can my school/club obtain site licenses for King's Revenge?
Is King's Revenge offered in languages other than English?
How can I get technical support?
About King's Revenge and Idea Labs
About the art, and why isn't it COOL 3D rendered art?
About the background music for King's Revenge.

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How do I install King's Revenge?

King's Revenge is very easy to install:If your system has restricted users, make sure the person installing King's Revenge is the Administrator or has an administrative account. Normally home users don't have this worry. King's Revenge saves its files \My Documents\My King's Revenge. Each player has his/her own folder under there. .

To download and install:

To install the CD:

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To download and install:

Go to the Download page at www.kingsrevenge.com/download/download.htmClick Download King's Revenge Dark RealmWhen you are asked to open or save, choose save, and save to your desktop (the files should be named something like KRDR3210.zip)After successful download, go to your desktop and, double click on the KRDR3210.zip icon (picture of King Vindictus).This will open the zip folder. Double click on KRDR3210.exe. This will auto unzip the King's Revenge CD image.Advanced Hint:[ If you wish to write this image onto a CD, just make sure you keep track of where you saved the unzipped information, and then after the installation write all the unzipped information to a blank CD-ROM.]Choose all the default answers, and the King's revenge installer will automatically launch.From there choose all the default answers and press NEXT> when asked.When installation is complete you are done. King's Revenge Dark Realm is installed.
You will find an icon on your desktop for King's Revenge Dark Realm. You may delete KRDR3210.zip now.

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To install the CD:

Place the CD in your CD-ROM Drive, and wait for the installer to automatically launch.From there choose all the default answers and press NEXT> when asked.From there choose all the default answers and press NEXT> when asked.When installation is complete you are done. King's Revenge Dark Realm is installed.
You will find an icon on your desktop for King's Revenge Dark Realm.

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How can I unlock the higher levels in King's Revenge or King's Revenge Dark Realm?

Highlight this Registration Code with your mouse and copy this text by using the Edit/copy menu option:

6FEQC-IS7FS-5GEGN-SMF3

.While running King's Revenge, go to the Help menu and choose "Register King's Revenge". A dialog box will pop up. You will see the Registration Code Entry text box. Click inside this text box, and press the Ctrl and V buttons at the same time. Ctrl-V is the PASTE function, so this action will paste your Registration Code into the Registration Code Entry text box. Now press the Verif Code button.You have successfully registered King's Revenge, and now all your levels are unlocked!

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What Operating Systems does King's Revenge support?

King's revenge is a downloadable chess arcade strategy game for the Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000, NT, ME, and 98SE Operating Systems.

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What are the System Requirements that I need to know?

A system with at least Media Player 7.0, or a compatible MP3 CODEC is required to hear the background music.

Most new operating systems are much better than this.

You can download the Microsoft Media Player by clicking here.

On Old Win98SE, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater is required, because that install updates certain functions of the operating system. It also makes it easier to surf the web.

You can download Microsoft Internet Explorer by clicking here.

The minimum system we recommend is a Pentium II 300MHZ with 128MB of RAM. The faster the system, the better the Artificial Intelligence response time. Again, 24 bit color video with 1024X768 screen resolution support. A sound Blaster 32 or compatible with its latest drivers is recommended for clear overlapped sound effects.If you have an older system:King's Revenge will run on Pentium 120MHZ PC with 64MB of RAM, with a 24 bit color SVGA video that supports 1024X768 screen resolution. Just don't expect the Artificial Intelligence to respond really fast when a Dragon, an Inquisitor, and a Queen are attacking you all at the same time :). A Sound Blaster compatible sound card will do as long as it has drivers updated after 2001.

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How do I submit a high score for the roster?

To be eligible to submit a high score for King's Revenge Dark Realm, you must be a registered, licensed user.High Scores of FINISHED games (meaning that you defeated the Red King in level six, and went on to the next level) are accepted via email at highscores@kingsrevenge.com.
There are two ways to submit your scores:

1) On the CONGRATULATIONS screen, there is a submit button. Pressing this will automatically attach your final score file to an email and send it.
2) If you want to submit a High Score file afterwards, this is how you do it:Go to "MyDocuments\My King's Revenge" in your explorer. Under each player's folder you will find a FinalScore directory. Within this directory are all the High Score Files that player managed to make. The name of these files will be something like this:

"FinalScore 2007-1-31-51.kff"

From your favorite email program attach the file you want to submit and send it to highscores@kingsrevenge.comWe will evaluate each received high score file for authenticity, and add the top high scores to our roster. We may have high score contests from time to time and will announce them on the web site.

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Can multiple players play their own games?

King's Revenge Dark Realm : Education Edition is designed with schools and groups in mind.
It allows each individual player to save games, preferences, and options. It is also designed to work with computer lab network security.
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How do I get game hints?

We will try to answer game hint questions as time permits. Please write to support@kingsrevenge.com with your game hint requests.

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Are there more levels available?

King's Revenge Dark Realm offers 18 levels plus one tutorial level.

If you would like to see more levels, you might concider donating to the "King's Revenge Maintenace and New Level Fund".

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Can my school/club obtain site licenses for King's Revenge?

Yes you can. King's Revenge Dark Realm is free to use to any non-profit school, library, club, or group. For corporate or for-profit groups and organizations, please send all site licensing requests to sales@kingsrevenge.com.

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Is King's Revenge offered in languages other than English?

Currently it is only available in English. We have plans for a Spanish version. Other language versions will be made available as demand for that language grows. If you would like to see King's Revenge in another language, please consider donating to our maintenance and development fund.

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How can I get technical support?

CONTACT IDEA LABS INC.
Email Us at:

support@KingsRevenge.com

Please include your Installation Key or Registration Code with any correspondence. Include your Name, email address, telephone number, and your shipping address.

For purchased licenses, we offer free email upgrades if the upgrade is small enough to email. If not we will send a free upgrade CD, charging you only for shipping and handling free.

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About King's Revenge and Idea Labs

Idea Labs is a small corporation devoted to researching, developing, and marketing inventions.

Idea labs was founded by Duane Warrick and J.E. Steven Flores as an avenue to market their inventions and intellectual musings. Idea Labs is currently working on marketing various inventions that delve into Mechanical, Electronics, and Software engineering projects. Our Patented "Spin-N-Sift" self-cleaning cat litter box is one of our plastic molded products.

Steven, President of Idea Labs Inc., conceived of King’s Revenge. His love for chess and old fashioned arcade games gave him a spark to design the game.

Steven Flores and Jim P. Stack programmed the original King's Revenge. Everything in King's Revenge was designed from scratch, from the Aritficial Intelligence Engine, to the user interface. We programmed at night, and slept at our real jobs during the day :)

King's Revenge Dark Realm has grown from the original King's Revenge code. Steven Flores has solely upgraded, enhanced, designed new levels, and maintained the game as well as designed the web site and promoted the game.

A great thanks to Michael Nauman (GraphicFx) for the great Macromedia Flash art work for the two front pre-pages of the website.

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About the art, and why isn't it COOL 3D rendered art?

Steven created the artwork while rocking his new baby boy to sleep, holding an iPAQ Pocket PC, using PocketPaint and photographs from his trips to Europe. OK, OK, we COULD use COOL 3D rendered artwork and King's Revenge would have more market appeal, but that takes a REAL artist, with a REAL budget. Steven does not profess to be a graphic artist:)

A big thanks to Kelley McDonald for the plethora of photographs from his trips to Italy and Croatia. Several images from these photos also were used for the game.

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About the background music for King's Revenge.

The background music for King's Revenge is a collection from Steven's own compositions created over a period of many years before King's Revenge was conceived. Steven loves to compose New Age and Classical Music, as well guitar pieces and children’s songs. He plays the piano, guitar, and viola. He has recorded and produced two CD's of his own music: "Eclectic Compositions" and "Strange Quark". His next CD will be a collection of children’s bedtime songs. The sound track CD for King's Revenge is available for sale on this web site. If you are interested in more of Steven's music CD's just email a request via sales@kingsrevenge.com. The King's Revenge Soundtrack was composed on a KAWAII Midi keyboard using an EMU Systems Proteus-I with the orchestral expansion option. The compositions are sequenced using CakeWalk Professional on a Windows PC. Recordings are made straight from the original WAV tracks at full CD-Quality. The MP3's included in King's Revenge are compressed versions of these recordings with the sound volume reduced by 50% to produce fidelity good enough for a background sound track. Please respect composer's copyrights, and support the arts.

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Frequently Asked Questions How do I install King's Revenge? How can I unlock the higher levels in King's Revenge Dark Realm? What Operating Systems does King's Revenge support? What are the System Requirements that I need to know? How do I submit a high score for the roster? Can multiple players play their own games? How do I get game hints? Are there more levels available? Can my school/club obtain site licenses for King's Revenge? Is King's Revenge offered in languages other than English? How can I get technical support? About King's Revenge and Idea Labs About the art, and why isn't it COOL 3D rendered art? About the background music for King's Revenge. To Top How do I install King's Revenge? King's Revenge is very easy to install:If your system has restricted users, make sure the person installing King's Revenge is the Administrator or has an administrative account. Normally home users don't have this worry. King's Revenge saves its files \My Documents\My King's Revenge. Each player has his/her own folder under there. . To download and install: To install the CD: To Top To download and install: Go to the Download page at www.kingsrevenge.com/download/download.htmClick Download King's Revenge Dark RealmWhen you are asked to open or save, choose save, and save to your desktop (the files should be named something like KRDR3210.zip)After successful download, go to your desktop and, double click on the KRDR3210.zip icon (picture of King Vindictus).This will open the zip folder. Double click on KRDR3210.exe. This will auto unzip the King's Revenge CD image.Advanced Hint:[ If you wish to write this image onto a CD, just make sure you keep track of where you saved the unzipped information, and then after the installation write all the unzipped information to a blank CD-ROM.]Choose all the default answers, and the King's revenge installer will automatically launch.From there choose all the default answers and press NEXT> when asked.When installation is complete you are done. King's Revenge Dark Realm is installed. You will find an icon on your desktop for King's Revenge Dark Realm. You may delete KRDR3210.zip now. To Top To install the CD: Place the CD in your CD-ROM Drive, and wait for the installer to automatically launch.From there choose all the default answers and press NEXT> when asked.From there choose all the default answers and press NEXT> when asked.When installation is complete you are done. King's Revenge Dark Realm is installed. You will find an icon on your desktop for King's Revenge Dark Realm. To Top How can I unlock the higher levels in King's Revenge or King's Revenge Dark Realm? Highlight this Registration Code with your mouse and copy this text by using the Edit/copy menu option: 6FEQC-IS7FS-5GEGN-SMF3 .While running King's Revenge, go to the Help menu and choose "Register King's Revenge". A dialog box will pop up. You will see the Registration Code Entry text box. Click inside this text box, and press the Ctrl and V buttons at the same time. Ctrl-V is the PASTE function, so this action will paste your Registration Code into the Registration Code Entry text box. Now press the Verif Code button.You have successfully registered King's Revenge, and now all your levels are unlocked! To Top What Operating Systems does King's Revenge support? King's revenge is a downloadable chess arcade strategy game for the Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000, NT, ME, and 98SE Operating Systems. To Top What are the System Requirements that I need to know? A system with at least Media Player 7.0, or a compatible MP3 CODEC is required to hear the background music. Most new operating systems are much better than this. You can download the Microsoft Media Player by clicking here. On Old Win98SE, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater is required, because that install updates certain functions of the operating system. It also makes it easier to surf the web. You can download Microsoft Internet Explorer by clicking here. The minimum system we recommend is a Pentium II 300MHZ with 128MB of RAM. The faster the system, the better the Artificial Intelligence response time. Again, 24 bit color video with 1024X768 screen resolution support. A sound Blaster 32 or compatible with its latest drivers is recommended for clear overlapped sound effects.If you have an older system:King's Revenge will run on Pentium 120MHZ PC with 64MB of RAM, with a 24 bit color SVGA video that supports 1024X768 screen resolution. Just don't expect the Artificial Intelligence to respond really fast when a Dragon, an Inquisitor, and a Queen are attacking you all at the same time :). A Sound Blaster compatible sound card will do as long as it has drivers updated after 2001. To Top How do I submit a high score for the roster? To be eligible to submit a high score for King's Revenge Dark Realm, you must be a registered, licensed user.High Scores of FINISHED games (meaning that you defeated the Red King in level six, and went on to the next level) are accepted via email at highscores@kingsrevenge.com. There are two ways to submit your scores: 1) On the CONGRATULATIONS screen, there is a submit button. Pressing this will automatically attach your final score file to an email and send it. 2) If you want to submit a High Score file afterwards, this is how you do it:Go to "MyDocuments\My King's Revenge" in your explorer. Under each player's folder you will find a FinalScore directory. Within this directory are all the High Score Files that player managed to make. The name of these files will be something like this: "FinalScore 2007-1-31-51.kff" From your favorite email program attach the file you want to submit and send it to highscores@kingsrevenge.comWe will evaluate each received high score file for authenticity, and add the top high scores to our roster. We may have high score contests from time to time and will announce them on the web site. To Top Can multiple players play their own games? King's Revenge Dark Realm : Education Edition is designed with schools and groups in mind. It allows each individual player to save games, preferences, and options. It is also designed to work with computer lab network security. To Top How do I get game hints? We will try to answer game hint questions as time permits. Please write to support@kingsrevenge.com with your game hint requests. To Top Are there more levels available? King's Revenge Dark Realm offers 18 levels plus one tutorial level. If you would like to see more levels, you might concider donating to the "King's Revenge Maintenace and New Level Fund". To Top Can my school/club obtain site licenses for King's Revenge? Yes you can. King's Revenge Dark Realm is free to use to any non-profit school, library, club, or group. For corporate or for-profit groups and organizations, please send all site licensing requests to sales@kingsrevenge.com. To Top Is King's Revenge offered in languages other than English? Currently it is only available in English. We have plans for a Spanish version. Other language versions will be made available as demand for that language grows. If you would like to see King's Revenge in another language, please consider donating to our maintenance and development fund. To Top How can I get technical support? CONTACT IDEA LABS INC. Email Us at: support@KingsRevenge.com Please include your Installation Key or Registration Code with any correspondence. Include your Name, email address, telephone number, and your shipping address. For purchased licenses, we offer free email upgrades if the upgrade is small enough to email. If not we will send a free upgrade CD, charging you only for shipping and handling free. To Top About King's Revenge and Idea Labs Idea Labs is a small corporation devoted to researching, developing, and marketing inventions. Idea labs was founded by Duane Warrick and J.E. Steven Flores as an avenue to market their inventions and intellectual musings. Idea Labs is currently working on marketing various inventions that delve into Mechanical, Electronics, and Software engineering projects. Our Patented "Spin-N-Sift" self-cleaning cat litter box is one of our plastic molded products. Steven, President of Idea Labs Inc., conceived of King’s Revenge. His love for chess and old fashioned arcade games gave him a spark to design the game. Steven Flores and Jim P. Stack programmed the original King's Revenge. Everything in King's Revenge was designed from scratch, from the Aritficial Intelligence Engine, to the user interface. We programmed at night, and slept at our real jobs during the day :) King's Revenge Dark Realm has grown from the original King's Revenge code. Steven Flores has solely upgraded, enhanced, designed new levels, and maintained the game as well as designed the web site and promoted the game. A great thanks to Michael Nauman (GraphicFx) for the great Macromedia Flash art work for the two front pre-pages of the website. To Top About the art, and why isn't it COOL 3D rendered art? Steven created the artwork while rocking his new baby boy to sleep, holding an iPAQ Pocket PC, using PocketPaint and photographs from his trips to Europe. OK, OK, we COULD use COOL 3D rendered artwork and King's Revenge would have more market appeal, but that takes a REAL artist, with a REAL budget. Steven does not profess to be a graphic artist:) A big thanks to Kelley McDonald for the plethora of photographs from his trips to Italy and Croatia. Several images from these photos also were used for the game. To Top About the background music for King's Revenge. The background music for King's Revenge is a collection from Steven's own compositions created over a period of many years before King's Revenge was conceived. Steven loves to compose New Age and Classical Music, as well guitar pieces and children’s songs. He plays the piano, guitar, and viola. He has recorded and produced two CD's of his own music: "Eclectic Compositions" and "Strange Quark". His next CD will be a collection of children’s bedtime songs. The sound track CD for King's Revenge is available for sale on this web site. If you are interested in more of Steven's music CD's just email a request via sales@kingsrevenge.com. The King's Revenge Soundtrack was composed on a KAWAII Midi keyboard using an EMU Systems Proteus-I with the orchestral expansion option. The compositions are sequenced using CakeWalk Professional on a Windows PC. Recordings are made straight from the original WAV tracks at full CD-Quality. The MP3's included in King's Revenge are compressed versions of these recordings with the sound volume reduced by 50% to produce fidelity good enough for a background sound track. Please respect composer's copyrights, and support the arts. To Top