Boof Games

Factsheet

Developer:
Boof Games
Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Release date:
Q1, 2014

Platforms:
Steam
IOS and Android

Website:
oberonscourt.com

Regular Price:

USD

$4.99

Description

Oberon's Court is a fantasy themed RTS/Adventure game where you take on the rol of a newly arrived soul in the underworld. No longer a human being but a shadow, a memory of your former self. You will meet Oberon, who is bound and held by greater forces, but apparantly still a force in the underworld. He has found you to be of use in his plans and tasked you to find him. To do this you will need to marshall an army of shadows, however most shades you encounter are so lost in memories that they are basically only the feral remains of their living selfs. You will need to find suitable newly arrived shadows and chain them to your command, to have a chance of surviving and reclaiming something of your former humanity.

History

Oberon's Court started out as a concept for a fully fledged tile based RTS. Along the way both the gameplay and visual design have changed considerably. In the current version the tile-based nature of the maps is hidden away from the user. Freeing up both the controls and visuals to become more of a classic 3D RTS. At the same time the world itself has become more important to the gameplay and narrative. As a player you are no longer confined to a single game-map, but get to travel between maps whenever you encounter a portal, and you can enter any keep,dungeon or other ruin on the map. These dungeons will allow the player to perform rituals on their shadows, meet elder shadows and explore another secondary layer of the gameworld. In this sense some of the game is taking on a more adventure/rpg/roguelike nature. Development is now in the final stages before a beta release. With the main focus on creating many dungeon's and variation, fleshing out the storyline,campaign and NPCs (elder shadows). Public Beta testing (keep up to date on the beta at http://www.facebook.com/Oberonscourt) is planned for very early 2014, with a focus on PC and Android 4.3+ tablets)

Features

Fully 3D RTS/adventure for mobile devices
Created using 3d art without any textures, anywhere in the game
Fully Voiced Characters
First release will feature the "Shadow Chains" campaign, worth several hours of gameplay
Visit 3 unique settings in the first release, with many maps each
Enter any structure, keep or dungeon on the main maps to visit the dungeons of the elder shadows.
Upgrade your units and squads over time, persistant units throughout the campaign
Upgrade your units with special abilities, such as beserk, Lightning spells, Sacrfice and more
Capture lost souls on the battle field to supplement your army
Discover Oberon's true intentions, and the nature of the underworld
Non-linear campaign, backtrack and sidestep through directly connected maps

Videos

Gameplay footage (pre-Beta Build) YouTube

Trailer(2013 YouTube

Teaser(2012) YouTube

Creature Teaser YouTube

Images

Logo & Icon

Selected Articles

"Everything’s better down where it’s deader."
- Owen Faraday, www.pockettactics.com
" If this is Sala’s idea of fancy I’d hate to see his notion of “gritty”"
- Owen Faraday, www.pockettactics.com
" The first videos and screenshots to come out of early production work shows the agreeably restrained art style"
- Tom Senior, PCgamer.com
"It really looks and sounds to be a very interesting project and one that will hopefully birth a new ultra stylized RTS game"
- Alex Wilkinson, IndieGameMag.com
"Since I am not an artist or designer, I am just going to say if it continues to look like it does in the video, then he may be on to something."
- Danny Harper , Xfire.com