Welcome to the KINGDOM!

Introduction

Hello Everyone!
Thank you for joining the group and I want to give a heads up that we love you all for supporting our title, TUG. This group is here because I needed something but I will look for moderators if it becomes active. I would be glad to transfer rights to the previous the Unofficial TUG steam group moderators.

Best,
Cambo

About

TUG is a single and multiplayer open-world sandbox RPG using emerging technology and social sciences to directly involve players in the game’s design.

Nerd Kingdom is a collaborative of social scientists, economists, artists, and developers exploring new frontiers in technology and design.

Our Design Philosophy

Nerd Kingdom is a collaborative of lifelong gamers from a variety of backgrounds who believe we can change the way games are made for the better.

One of our goals with TUG is to use the game as an interactive platform for social science research. Many developers gather data on how players interact with each other in a game, but more often than not, these insights are used to manipulate players into spending more money.

We believe this is bad for gamers, and bad for gameplay itself. In addition to its pure academic value in the social sciences, we think there is a better way to leverage social research data: to make better game experiences. We plan to use our ongoing research to focus and prioritize the team's development goals. In doing so, we feel TUG is an experiment in true collaborative game design.

The game is currently in an early phase of Alpha. We still have a lot of work to do, but we are dedicated to the creation of the final product we are all envisioning. We are building the game engine and all its features in-house from the ground up. This gives us a lot of control over how things operate, but also can make development slow.

Official Website[tug.nerdkingdom.com]
Nerd Kingdom Website[nerdkingdom.com]
Nerd Kingdom Community Forum[forum.nerdkingdom.com]