Shakes and Fidget

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Shakes and Fidget is a German-language webcomic . The creators are Oskar Pannier (story, text) and Marvin Clifford (story, drawings). The online role-playing game Shakes & Fidget - The Game , also known as sfgame , emerged from the comic and was released on June 22, 2009 and developed by Playa Games . According to the game's website, over 40 million players have registered for the game. It was published in 25 languages.

Comic

The main characters are the human warrior Shakes and the gnome magician Fidget. The comic began as a parody of World of Warcraft , but since the browser game of the same name was published , the comics have been played in a separate world and parody various other fantasy worlds in addition to World of Warcraft . The comics started with the blue season . In this reference was often made to World of Warcraft and increasingly parodied game mechanics and the game world. In the last season of Boon Stories , the action shifted to the small town of Steinfels, where u. a. a battle arena, tavern, mount stable, post office, Shakes' gun shop, and Fidget's magic shop. The webcomic series was discontinued on November 16, 2012.

The first printed volume was published in 2007. In 2015, a new comic book was published by Verlag Zauberfeder under the same name.

game

Game mechanics

For the game, the player creates a character, whereby one can choose between eight races (orcs, humans, elves, dark elves, dwarves, goblins, gnomes or demons). In addition, you have to choose a class, you can choose from warriors, mages, scouts, assassins, battle mages, berserkers and demon hunters. In contrast to the breed, however, you cannot change it after registration.

In the game you can accept quests in the tavern , the fulfillment of which brings the player experience points and money (possibly also an object or a mushroom), but costs him a thirst for adventure. Furthermore, the player can drink beer in the tavern to increase the thirst for adventure (using a mushroom) and play for gold and mushrooms with the shell player. Furthermore, from level 100 you can unlock the toilet, which increases the quality of the items.

In the arena you can attack other players and win or lose honor and gold. You can work for the city watch for a fee or go shopping in Shakes' or Fidgets stores. In Shakes' shop from level 90 there is a blacksmith who improves items, and in Fidgets from level 66 there is the witch who gives twice the value for items and can also enchant them. In the stable it is possible to rent mounts, which reduce the duration of the quests, which means that more quests can be completed for the spirit of adventure. At the mushroom dealer , the player can buy mushrooms for real money, which serve as currency in the game.

In guilds, several characters can ally themselves and benefit from gold and experience bonuses as well as wage wars against other guilds. In addition, the guild chat offers a possibility for communication between players. Since October 2010 there have been so-called guild raids. These run similar to guild wars, but only take place against computer opponents. The guild receives increased gold and experience bonuses for won guild raids up to raid 50; every participating guild member receives experience points (the remaining 100 only give experience points). The guild leader must be level 50 or above to host a guild raid.

In the dungeons, as soon as you have reached a certain level (e.g. level ten for dungeon one) and the respective dungeon key in a quest, or e.g. T. has also bought it in the shop, seek a fight with stronger computer opponents and get additional experience points as well as better equipment or gold by defeating them. There is also a demon portal at the dungeons; in this the opponent heals himself by 10% every day, when defeating a demon you get percentage bonuses on the life points. Such a portal also exists for the guild, but here the bonus affects the damage.

With the update from April 2016 you can now find so-called pets under certain conditions, with which you can fight against pets of other players and thereby receive fruits that make a pet stronger. The more pets you have and the more pets have the maximum level 100, the more bonuses the player's attribute corresponding to the type of pet receives.

You can build a city in the fortress, among other things you can find gems in the gem mine that improve items that have a socket for gems. Since October 2017 there has also been an underworld in which the gladiator trainer gives you damage bonuses. There is also a hall of honor, where you can see which player is the best (including pets, the fortress and the underworld) and which guild has the most honor.

There are different game worlds in the game, in Germany alone there are currently 39 main and 7 partner worlds. The maximum of 500,000 accounts per game world has now been lifted. To join a game world, you first need an account. If you want to play on several worlds at the same time, you need several accounts. Multiple accounts of a player on one game world can lead to blocking.

Development and publication

It was originally a flash - browser game from which it since 2010 specially adapted mobile versions for smartphones and tablets running Apple iOS , Android and Windows Phone 8 's. Shakes & Fidget has also been on Steam since 2016 and is playable as an HTML5 version.

Shakes & Fidget is continuously being developed. At the end of 2012 the fairytale tower was introduced, with which there are numerous new computer opponents. New companions that can be equipped in a similar way to the player character help here. December 2013 the witch update appeared, which u. a. Introduced item enchantments.

With a complete reprogramming of the client at the beginning of April 2015, for the game version 2.0.632, an extensive update appeared. It should also pave the way for far-reaching updates to be implemented in the game more easily. This is what happened in September 2015 when the big fortress update came out.

The shadow dungeon update was released in mid-December 2015. There you can complete the previous dungeon opponents with your tower companions in an increased degree of difficulty. The pet update came to the servers in April 2016. It is now possible to find 100 pets in five different habitats. With them you can fight other pets as well as defeat habitat opponents to unlock more pets. Each pet brings the player additional attribute points for the main hero, each 1% on an attribute depending on the element of the pet.

reception

The game has won four prizes so far:

  • German Developer Award 2009 in the Best German Casual Game category ,
  • Best browser game 2009 ,
  • BÄM Award 2010 Best Browser Game and
  • GameStar Game of the Year 2010 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oskar Pannier, Marvin Clifford: Shakes & Fidget. In: German National Library. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .