War for the Overworld

War for the Overworld is itself under development real-time strategy game for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, which is developed by Subterranean games. The game is mainly inspired by Dungeon Keeper, but there were also Overlord, Evil Genius and StarCraft referred to as role models. About a funding campaign on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, the games project received a wide audience publicity and media attention even before publication. It is currently in an early development version for sale purchase and playable, the final release is still pending.

Gameplay

In the game, players take on the so-called "Under Lord " the role of a ruler of a subterranean realm ( Dungeon ). Primary responsibility is to the dungeon to develop and expand in order to defeat traps and creatures hostile heroes. The player typically starts with a barely or non-upgraded room and gears system and has the task, the structure and the structure of the dungeon design itself. The game is played in real time, that is, the player must make quick decisions during fights between his creatures and heroes take place. Armies of subordinate creatures can be trained and performed spells to damage enemies or to support its troops are available. The game is micromanagement - heavy, it must include be a supply of subordinates with food, gold and Entertainment ensure they are otherwise dissatisfied, or even leave the dungeon.

The game will include a campaign, a sandbox mode and online multiplayer mode.

History of development

Concept and financing

Subterranean Games was founded mainly by Dungeon Keeper fans from the modding community to 3 still conceptualized by Bullfrog Productions, but never realized Dungeon Keeper: create War for the Overworld. Since the copyrights belong to the U.S. publisher Electronic Arts, but no direct references to Dungeon Keeper are present, a license has not been purchased.

On November 29, 2012 Subterranean Games launched a Kickstarter campaign for War for the Overworld with the aim to collect 2013 150,000 British pounds, to January 3. For every 75,000 pounds of additional capital the developer of a twelve standing for election " Flex Goals" promised to implement. This extension targets included additional game content, Mehrspielerr modes as well as a dungeon crawler mode in which the player can interact as a hero in the scenarios. Supporters of the campaign in return received commitments about rewards, the scope were depending on the amount of financial contribution. The rewards included, among other things, the access to early beta versions of the game, a downloadable version of the final game, or the soundtrack of the game. The supported platforms, originally for the August 30, 2013 publication targeted games, included Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Should be included with the game, a modding tool called " Dungeoneer " with the cards, game campaigns and new game modes can be created. In the course of the campaign an early demo version has been expanded and made available for download which creatures, Artwork and Design introduces the basic game.

On December 22, 2012 Dungeon Keeper inventor Peter Molyneux Subterranean Games praised dedication and approach to the creation of the game and asked the fans of his two games to support the Kickstarter campaign. On 3 January 2013, the campaign was successfully completed with 211 371 British pounds. At the end of the campaign in addition a PayPal payment option based on has not been established, with the supporters until the game's release may contribute to the additional targets.

Delay in the course of development

Already in May 2013 was made possible against payment of access to early development versions of the game using Steam's Early Access program for interested players. However, the originally announced release date of the end of 2013 could not be met, as the main reason was Subterreanen Games an underestimation of the development effort on. On the part of the developer, the completion in February 2014 was marked with a not more closely defined period of publication 2014.