Hello Everybody, it’s Sandro, Sport Designer at Digital Kingdom. In the present day 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 seems 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 capturing and numerous water. The sport is all about utilizing ability and precision to not solely dodge enemy hearth, however trick them into taking one another out.
To grasp Swordship, take into consideration Into The Breach combined with Wipeout. You’ll discover the tactical gameplay and the rogue-like construction of Into The Breach on the velocity of Wipeout. Now we have designed the sport so that every run presents a distinct problem from the earlier one. Whereas the sport may begin off with easy enemies, as you enhance your excessive scores, new options will unlock. This consists of climate, energetic powers in your Swordship, new enemies attacking with hearth and electrical energy and different surprises that can increase 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 could 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 dropping 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. Preserve them for your self and also you enhance your possibilities of finishing the sport. Give them away and also you enhance your possibilities of reaching the highest of the leaderboards. What is going to you select?
With Swordship we need to give you a tough however honest expertise. In fact, the sport is not going to do you any favors, however it’ll all the time reward you in your dedication.
We hope you’ll have as a lot pleasure taking part in the sport as we had making it. See you on the leaderboards!
Swordship
Thunderful Publishing
☆☆☆☆☆
1
★★★★★
$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 means via 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 convey you superb victory towards tyranny, injustice, and develop into a logo 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 greatest weapon: The Swordship’s manoeuvrability means that you can outwit the enemy by tactically positioning and dodging enemy hearth
Ship Talents: Accumulate power-boosting elements and experiment with totally different play types 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 can suit your play model
Climate: Study to grasp the totally different climate situations to get via 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 house, barely survive on the burned lands. In the meantime the megacities trade hundreds of 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, with a view to ship them to the banished.
Some are extra profitable than others.