Tripwire Interactive Releases Dwarfs!?

[hal]

Tripwire Interactive is really on a roll. Having built their foundation on the Red Orchestra series, co-developed and published Killing Floor, and published The Ball, they are now venturing into publishing in the casual genre.

Dwarfs!? is a title that borrows a little from Lemmings and mixes in its own unique action/puzzle twists. It's packed with game modes, achievements, and leaderboards, but best of all - to me anyhow - is a thoroughly entertaining take on the Tower Defense genre called Base Defend. I've spent several hours with that mode alone already and find it hard to put down.

While the game isn't developed with the Unreal Engine, it does comes from Tripwire which has made a name surrounding itself with Unreal Engine games. The developer, Power of 2, is an indie outfit comprised of (hence the name) two people. In the TWI tradition there is plenty of free content on the horizon and you can always try the demo. Help support the good guys and enjoy a great game!

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[GreatEmerald]

Yay, news getting less and less relevant every time JK, it's a little bit relevant to me.

Watched a stream of it yesterday, and it looks somewhat like Dwarf Fortress with prettier graphics, less content and including objectives. The worst part of it is probably management - dwarves just won't go where they're supposed to. The catchphrase of the stream was "Pathfinding? Where we're going, we don't need pathfinding! *drowns*"

But I only saw challenges, so yea.

 

[hal]

Other than the fact there are Dwarves it's really not like Dwarf Fortress at all.

The Tower Defense mode is the real hidden gem here, imo.

 

[GreatEmerald]

Well, from what I could see, you dig stuff, you gather resources, you build dwarves, you risk flooding all your settlements, you build fortifications, you defend against occasional enemies... Pretty similar to DF in my opinion.

 

[hal]

Well, from what I could see, you dig stuff, you gather resources, you build dwarves, you risk flooding all your settlements, you build fortifications, you defend against occasional enemies... Pretty similar to DF in my opinion.

DF is more of a civilization-building game. This is nowhere near as complex and is much more similar to an action-puzzler like Lemmings.

Play the demo because I don't think you understand the gameplay. Or hey, watch the video I have on the front page.

 

[GreatEmerald]

Of course, I never said it was nearly as complex as DF, I'm just pointing out that it has more similarities than just the name

 

[Interbellum]

Yay, news getting less and less relevant every time JK

No JK, we're so far 'beyond unreal' it's not even funny...

 

[GreatEmerald]

I guess it's better this way than nothing at all, seeing how Epic has abandoned/classified all the information about the future Unreal titles...

It would be awesome of they went out to release something like Unreal III demo entirely out of the blue, though. But knowing how easily information leaks, that's probably not going to happen...

 

[Spiney]

I don't mind the offtopic news. Makes you come back more often if anything.
Besides, Epic probably won't be revisiting their Unreal IP any time soon.

And a MSUC winner releasing a non UE game isn't THAT offtopic either, they're still MSUC winners.

 

[elmuerte]

Blasphemy

 

[Hideinlight]

Well this is beyondunreal afterall.

 

[Kantham]

No JK, we're so far 'beyond unreal' it's not even funny...

I can't imagine this place holding still strictly with UT News content and topics.

 

[GreatEmerald]

Well this is beyondunreal afterall.

But you could also say that this is beyondunreal

 

[StalwartUK]

I'm suprised that this place hasn't morphed into a more general gaming-related website by now. Other than the fact the games usually feature Unreal tech from Epic they have nothing in common.

Then again the main real I still hang around here is the off topic forum.

 

[elmuerte]

beyondignunreal

 

[Sir_Brizz]

I am crying inside right now.