Game History

Reign Classic
The original Reign (Reign Classic or R1) was designed and developed by Ty Kauffman from April 5th to April 9th, 2004. Since then, Ty and Mark Caudill have built on the game by adding new features and improving the code. In early June 2005, a former player, David DiBattiste (In game as blahity), joined the development team and created the GM Tools, later leading to an Administration Suite, allowing the game to be managed easily by Non-Developers. Reign was originally developed using Notepad and Photoshop exclusively. Reign is a PHP-driven web-based strategy game that uses a MySQL database for data storage. It was hosted on Fortyeight.net. Fortyeight.net server statistics showed that R1 has received hits from the following nations: United States of America, Canada, Finland, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Philippines, Hong Kong, Belgium, Brazil, Poland, Lithuania, Chile, Denmark, Mexico, Austria, Spain, Turkey, France, Estonia, Netherlands and more locations are added every month.

Beta
From April 2004 until September 2006, Reign was in Beta mode. During this time, new features were continually added to Reign. Player feedback greatly influenced the Developers' decisions on what aspects of the game to update each round.



This extended state of "beta" triggered much criticism from players, who sometimes grew annoyed with the frequent, often unannounced, changes in features and the glitches that seemed to accompany any major alteration. Many players left or threatened to leave the game and return only when Reign was no longer in beta mode.

See Also: Reign One Hall of Fame Beta Rounds

Reign One
As of January 2007, the game is in version 1.2.5. It is no longer active or in development.

Reign 2


Reign 2 was developed jointly by Ty and Mark and was released on 07/07/07. It is no longer active or in development. It be found here. Reign 2 development officially ended after Round 35, when Reign 3 was released publicly.

See Also: Reign Two Hall of Fame

Reign WS
For those who wants to learn more about Reign 3's game history, you may look at Reign 3 Hall of Fame.

Reign WS (R3) is the current version of Reign. It is developed exclusively by Ty in 2010. Development began in January 2010. For the first 9 months, the game only had a mobile interface. On September 5, 2010, Ty created the full interface overnight. On September 16, 2010, Ty posted the game on Reddit/r/WebGames which kicked off the beta phase of the game. The player Azarath was made into a developer during R3 and is credited with balancing unit values as well as creating the GM Tools.