#animus interactive

[vlada-artblog]

Some more work for Ascendancy! I really enjoy fleshing out the fire units, their shape language lends itself to very strong and striking forms.

The idea behind this dude was that it crawls out of a lava-filled hide and scratches at his back until the serrations expel enough lava to create defensive spines. It is filled with a molten rock and lets out heat when enraged or attacking.

Process/ideation and some more views on my artstation.

[vlada-artblog]

I got an OK at work to start showing some concepts from our game, Ascendancy! It is an elemental-inspired world which combines a traditional, competitive RTS with aspects of a “God Game.” I have been doing designs and model sheets for it for the past five months and working with a team of super rad people.

Here’s an earth siege unit. 

[operationrainfall]

One of the games I had a chance to play at PAX East was Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises, a new real time strategy game from Animus Interactive. When I was shown a demo of the gameplay, it brought to mind old school real time strategy classics like Age of Empires, or if you’d like a more current analogy, the Total War series. You can start by gathering resources and building cities, or go straight into the fray with the Army Builder. Up to six players can participate in Team Deathmatch or Free-For-All, so you can create really huge conflicts on Avalon Lords’ 3D maps. The amount of detail I saw was impressive for a strategy game, and I think with some fine tuning and a bit more polish it could one day stand up to other real time strategy classics.

Being Early Access, Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises is very much still a work in progress, but if you’d like to check it out for yourself, we have a gallery of screenshots and a trailer for you below.

Trailer

  Screenshots

Source: Press Release

You can purchase Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises on Steam Early Access here.

PR: Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises Now On Steam Early Access One of the games I had a chance to play at PAX East was Avalon Lords: Dawn Rises, 

[linuxgamenews]

Kingdom of Knights by Indie Development Team Animus Interactive on Kickstarter

Kingdom of Knights, the new massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game for PC, Mac and Linux by Indie developers Animus Interactive seeks additional backers for its Kickstarter campaign to bring the game to the end of its development cycle.

Animus Interactive launched its Kickstarter Project on August the 27th to fund its new video-game title, Kingdom of Knights but is still searching for further backing. Kickstarter is an open and public project funding platform through the Internet on which users can submit support in the form of funds to projects for any reward or additional benefits the project team is willing to offer. In return, the project team gains the money they need to complete the project. People that back a project are therefore called backers. Kingdom of Knights is set to be a massively multi-player online real-time strategy game that will launch on PC, Mac and Linux and will feature cross platform play. Players will be able to control and command their troops manually leading to a greater element of strategic play. In Kingdom of Knights, players will be able to create their own kingdom, forge alliances and destroy their enemies as they see fit in a bid to become the greatest lord of Avalon. The game promises to feature several key warfare elements, including siege warfare, skirmishes and castle-building. Kingdom of Knights will be launching as a free to play title, making use of an in game model of purchase that will allow players to buy aesthetics such as banners for their castle and army and different unit types to use in battle. These units will be carefully balanced so as to not provide an unfair advantage, all units will be counter-able with free to obtain units at launch. Potential players can also sign up for the early access testing phase of Kingdom of Knights on the main website. Animus Interactive is searching for additional financial support to bring the game to a complete and playable state through the aid of so-called backers from kickstarter. Those who are interested in becoming a potential backer can find Animus Interactive's kickstarter project here. Special offers for backers include exclusive in-game rewards such as banners, extra store credit, posters, t-shirts and more. For more information, you can visit the official website at kingdomofknights.com, or contact Animus Interactive's Public Relations Manager.