If you’ve been waiting to play Space Bears’ upcoming minimalist strategy/board game Kingdoms, I have good news and bad news. First, the bad news: the game Kingdoms no longer exists, kinda. The game has been renamed to Kindo, as Space Bears explains in a recent blog: “There were two main issues with calling our game Kingdoms. First, it’s very common. … Second, several games companies have an ongoing trademark on the sole word KINGDOMS. And while we weren’t in trouble yet, we didn’t want to take any risk." Trademark controversies are boring and dumb, so it’s good that the game decided to avoid them entirely.
Now, the good news: the game is apparently close enough to release that Space Bears is running an open beta for the game. They’re doing this through the new Testflight, and they’re taking up to 900 players. Just sign up here with your email address (it doesn’t have to be your iTunes account email), and if you’re one of the first 900, they’ll take you. So if you’re interested, get on it! If not, then the game is apparently nearing its release, so you shouldn’t have to wait much longer to play this.
