Hello Everybody, it’s Sandro, Sport Designer at Digital Kingdom. At present I’d like to take a while to offer 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 stage…buckle up!
Let’s begin right here, the preliminary thought for Swordship got here from Ben, our artist. He needed 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’ll 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 quite a lot 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 can find 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 special problem from the earlier one. Whereas the sport may begin off with easy enemies, as you improve your excessive scores, new options will unlock. This consists of climate, lively powers to your Swordship, new enemies attacking with fireplace and electrical energy and different surprises that can develop the vary of potentialities.
One of many key options of Swordship is its supply system. Within the recreation you play as a Robin Hood of the longer term. You should steal containers from the wealthy to offer them to the poor. What’s vital for us is to make the participant really feel that giving is shedding one thing. On the finish of every stage, 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 wish to give you a troublesome however truthful expertise. In fact, the sport is not going to do you any favors, however it should at all times reward you to 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 way of an onslaught of enemies hell-bent on tearing your Swordship aside.
This addictive action-roguelike pushes you to make split-second choices that can both carry you superb victory towards tyranny, injustice, and turn into 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 basic soundtrack this recreation will transport you to a grim watery future.
Options:
Weapons are cool however dodging is your greatest weapon: The Swordship’s manoeuvrability permits you to outwit the enemy by tactically positioning and dodging enemy fireplace
Ship Talents: Accumulate power-boosting parts and experiment with totally different play kinds in your runs
Threat/Reward Upgrades: Select between risking all of it by banking stolen containers for large rating boosts or, play it secure for passive upgrades and additional ships that can suit your play type
Climate: Be taught to grasp the totally different climate situations to get by way of 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 alternate thousands and thousands of containers loaded with items daily.
On the instructions of ultra-fast boats, a number of inhabitants of the underwater cities began stealing these treasured containers, so as to ship them to the banished.
Some are extra profitable than others.
