14 DAY TRIAL // Black Forest Games turned to Kickstarter to fund their acclaimed atmospheric platforming adventure Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, the grandchild of the old Super Mario clone.
The game was a smashing hit, and now the studio is looking to Kickstarter once again, attempting to raise the necessary funds to make a 1-to-4-player high-octane fuel-induced side-scrolling carnage game that features customizable motorguns, mechanized knight armor, randomized levels and a resounding title: Dieselstormers.
Dieselstormers is a fast-paced run-and-gun game that takes place in the medieval-meets-machine city of Ravensdale, where armor is powered by roaring engines, and where princesses wield wrenches in oil-stained overalls.
The players take control of brave knights and are tasked with taking back the city from the rampaging ork horde that has taken it over, in a range of different missions with varying difficulties and objectives.
Players will be able to tackle the ork infestation either by themselves or together with up to three other team-mates, in a cooperative multiplayer mode that will enable various team strategies such as energy arcs between players, complementing shot patterns, and parallel use of environmental objects.
Gamers can assemble their own weapons out of a wide range of parts, constructing them from a constantly growing pool of loot drops, combining various properties like rebounding, creeping, eruptive, incendiary and more with different shot patterns in order to achieve an incredible array of results.
The enemies themselves will be generated in much the same way, with exchangeable weapons, gadgets and body parts, in order to create different combinations of movement, attack and special abilities, such as berserking on a certain trigger condition, propagating elemental hazards like goop and fire and others.
The missions are generally guerrilla warfare-themed, typically involving the player in various sabotage and assassination scenarios, as well as liberating certain key characters or locations in ork-occupied territory, complete with optional mission goals that will net players extra rewards.
Missions have a strong procedural element to them, combining primary and secondary goals with special mission parameters that are unique to each location in order to provide a different challenge and experience with every playthrough.
The developers have also put together a prototype, consisting of various testing areas they used while experimenting with the gameplay, allowing a taste of the upcoming solo and local co-op adventures, with only a fraction of the content they intend to deliver in the final version.
Dieselstormers will be released on Windows PC, followed by Linux and Mac versions on Steam. Developer Black Forest Games also intends to deliver the game on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Wii U at a later date, provided, of course, that the Kickstarter campaign is successful.