Tag: march 2015

Blood Alloy: Reborn 

by Suppressive Fire Games.  

An acrobatic 2D score attack shooter coming to all major platforms.  Blood Alloy in its final form is intended to be a full fledged Metroidvania, but for now the developers are focused on releasing a shooter with a smaller scope, which will hopefully be successful enough to support their bigger ideas.

Concept art drawn by Aaron Nakahara.

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That Which Sleeps  

by King Dinosaur Games.  

“A turn based strategy game about driving the world into chaos and darkness by manipulating it from the shadows.”

Instead of controlling a run of the mill hero, you play as one of the “old ones”, where your goal is to weaken the world enough to prepare for your glorious return.

Due to having a very successful Kickstarter, the game is having a graphical overall, and a lot is probably going to change between now and release.  The new faction art (by Richard Luong) is so awesome I broke it into a separate post.

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There’s also a digital art book coming with maps of various areas and scenarios from the game, drawn by Francesca Baerald.

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The Faction Art in That Which Sleeps, by Richard Luong.

I really liked the art and the descriptions from the game, so I thought I would put them in a separate post.  You can see That Which Sleeps here, which is a strategy game about weakening the world so that you may return. 

Each faction plays a bit differently, and these aren’t all of them, just a selection of what I thought looked best.  Sisyphus is the only human faction (top image).

Let’s see what else you can be.

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Limos, Shadow of Creation.  

“An injustice forgotten, a hate without meaning.  Pervert the living, rend your children, and bring this nightmare to an end.”

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Belial, the Shadow Prince.  

“Schemes drip down to a shadowed throne, lies echo in its black chambers. A soothing relief for the dead thing that lays there, a broken lord of the wretched.”

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Karth, the Form of Fury.  

“They wait, persecuted, driven into dark forests and deep caves.  They wait, eager, for their blood burns as omens fall.  They wait, as the drums of war begin to beat.  Their God comes again.”

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Inatha, The Wings of Winter.  

“Fear the mountains for the words that they speak, fear the snows for the horrors they keep, fear in ice the ancient’s deceit.”

Richard Luong (Tentacles and Teeth)  

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Age of Ascent 

by Illyriad Games.  

A massively multiplayer space shooter that you can play right from your browser with no download required (it uses Microsoft’s Azure servers).  The highest number of concurrent players so far is almost 1000, with a much higher potential ceiling.

Currently, every other Saturday you can play the PvP dogfighting aspect, check the website for the countdown timer to see when it opens.

It’s a bit difficult to record nice GIFs for games with realistic-ish graphics (that play nice with Tumblr), so take a peek at the trailer if you like.