14 DAY TRIAL // NextGenBooks.com and author Darren Reid have just announced that they are bringing an all new point-and-click fantasy adventure to practically all platforms out there. Darren Reid's The Half Broken Crown: The Broken Kingdoms is a new game based on the best selling author's upcoming novel with the same title. The point and click style adventure incorporates MMO elements which allow all online players to communicate and solve puzzles through collaboration and cooperation.
"Of all my upcoming projects this is perhaps the one I am most excited about," admitted Reid, "It is a unique opportunity for me to expand upon the [upcoming] book and to tell new stories."
The Broken Kingdom sees players working in the same world as Reid's upcoming novel The Half Broken Crown, decades after the events in the book, sporting a first-person perspective, being heavily based on puzzle solving (less man-to-man combat), requiring players to work together in order to solve a series of scenes and puzzles. Neat huh?!
The Broken Kingdoms is slated for a June release and will be free to play with optional micro-transactions available to enhance the player's experience. The main game however (co-developed by James O'Hara), will feature over 100 unique screens and making it a complete and total self contained experience.
Add-ons will open up episodic content that will exponentially increase the size of the game over the course of 2007 with episode prices ranging from $2.50-$5.00, depending on the coolness of the content. The game will be playable through internet browsers with specific and individual versions designed for Wii, DS, PS3, PSP, PC and Mac. The console and computer versions of the game will not lack features, but the DS and PSP editions will not immediately support the multiplayer components of the game.
That's all for now. Remember, Darren Reid's The Half Broken Crown: The Broken Kingdoms will launch in June 2007 and will be updated with regularly added episodic content throughout the year.