Hello Everybody, it’s Sandro, Sport Designer at Digital Kingdom. At this time I’d like to take some time to provide you some perception into how we made our recreation Swordship and the issues we’ve discovered to take the idea of dodging to entire new degree…buckle up!
Let’s begin right here, the preliminary thought for Swordship got here from Ben, our artist. He wished to create a recreation that appears like a chase scene in a James Bond film. The participant ought to really feel the strain of being chased by enemies with out the choice to shoot again at them. Let’s make one thing so intense that it makes you maintain your breath and you may really feel the water in your face! 4 years later we’re proud to introduce you to Swordship, a rogue-like with no taking pictures and lots of water. The sport is all about utilizing talent and precision to not solely dodge enemy fireplace, however trick them into taking one another out.
To grasp Swordship, take into consideration Into The Breach blended with Wipeout. You will discover the tactical gameplay and the rogue-like construction of Into The Breach on the velocity of Wipeout. We have now designed the sport so that every run presents a unique problem from the earlier one. Whereas the sport would possibly begin off with easy enemies, as you improve your excessive scores, new options will unlock. This contains climate, energetic powers in your Swordship, new enemies attacking with fireplace and electrical energy and different surprises that may develop the vary of prospects.
One of many key options of Swordship is its supply system. Within the recreation you play as a Robin Hood of the long run. You will need to steal containers from the wealthy to provide them to the poor. What’s necessary for us is to make the participant really feel that giving is shedding one thing. On the finish of every degree, you’ll have to select if you wish to hold your containers to get additional lives and upgrades or give them away for factors. Maintain them for your self and also you improve your possibilities of finishing the sport. Give them away and also you improve your possibilities of reaching the highest of the leaderboards. What is going to you select?
With Swordship we need to give you a troublesome however honest expertise. In fact, the sport won’t do you any favors, however it can all the time reward you in your dedication.
We hope you should have as a lot pleasure taking part in the sport as we had making it. See you on the leaderboards!
Swordship
Thunderful Publishing
$19.99
Swordship is a futuristic lightning-fast dodge’em up which flips the script on the normal arcade shooter. Flip each the tide of battle and enemies on themselves by dodging, weaving and diving your manner by an onslaught of enemies hell-bent on tearing your Swordship aside.
This addictive action-roguelike pushes you to make split-second selections that may both convey you wonderful victory in opposition to tyranny, injustice, and turn out to be an emblem of hope to The Banished, or see your unsung heroics sink to the underside of the ocean. With an adrenaline fuelled soon-to-be a contemporary traditional soundtrack this recreation will transport you to a grim watery future.
Options:
Weapons are cool however dodging is your finest weapon: The Swordship’s manoeuvrability means that you can outwit the enemy by tactically positioning and dodging enemy fireplace
Ship Talents: Gather power-boosting elements and experiment with completely different play kinds in your runs
Danger/Reward Upgrades: Select between risking all of it by banking stolen containers for enormous rating boosts or, play it secure for passive upgrades and additional ships that may suit your play type
Climate: Study to grasp the completely different climate circumstances to get by the randomly generated ranges
Story:
The world after world warming. Humanity has taken refuge in three gigantic underwater cities on the backside of the ocean.
Those that are expelled from the cities, for lack of area, barely survive on the burned lands. In the meantime the megacities trade thousands and thousands of containers loaded with items day-after-day.
On the instructions of ultra-fast boats, a number of inhabitants of the underwater cities began stealing these treasured containers, as a way to ship them to the banished.
Some are extra profitable than others.
