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Title: Original de Blob Developers Announce WiiWare Title
Post by: Nick DiMola on August 19, 2008, 03:49:24 PM
The team responsible for the concept of de Blob and its original creation has announced their latest venture, a side-scrolling strategy title called Swords & Soldiers.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=16576

 Ronimo Games, known best for their creation of the de Blob concept, has announced their latest venture, Swords & Soldiers, a side-scrolling strategy game for WiiWare. According to Ronimo Games' co-founder, Fabian Akker, "[de Blob] definitely gave us the opportunity to start our own company," and it showed us "that we can make cool games and function as a good team."    


Their latest effort will feature three factions who battle for the powers of the gods through side-scrolling real time strategy. The game will feature a single player campaign as well as a competitive split screen multiplayer mode, amongst other modes currently unannounced.    


Swords & Soldiers is due out for release in America, Europe, and Australia late 2008.    


Sharpen your weapons: "Swords & Soldiers" is coming!    


Ronimo Games announces their studio and the first competitive strategy game for Wii Ware: Swords & Soldiers.    


UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS – August 15, 2008 –  The developers of the original version of "de Blob" announce their new game studio Ronimo Games and their first title: Swords & Soldiers.    


Ronimo Games is founded by seven developers in Utrecht, the Netherlands. As students the team was responsible for the original pc game "de Blob". Being an innovative and fun game, "de Blob" became popular on the internet and was eventually picked up by THQ. The publisher bought the IP and will soon release the new version of "de Blob" for Nintendo Wii.     Fabian Akker, one of the co-founders: "de Blob was the eye opener for us, that we can make cool games and function as a good team. The game definitely gave us the opportunity to start our own company".    


The team is developing a new game for Wii Ware: Swords & Soldiers. Swords & Soldiers is a sidescrolling real time strategy game, in which three distinct factions battle for the powers of the gods. The game will feature a single player campaign and a competitive splitscreen multiplayer mode as well as several other game modes. Three screenshots are included with this press release.    


Akker: "We always dreamed of designing an RTS and when Wii Ware came out we immediately figured that this was our chance."    


Swords & Soldiers will be the first competitive strategy game on Wii Ware and is scheduled for European, Australian and American release in Q4 2008.

Title: Re: Original de Blob Developers Announce WiiWare Title
Post by: KDR_11k on August 19, 2008, 02:56:37 PM
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Three screenshots are included with this press release.   

So where are those?
Title: Re: Original de Blob Developers Announce WiiWare Title
Post by: Nick DiMola on August 19, 2008, 03:13:09 PM
Heh, whoops...

Check them out here (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/media.cfm?artid=16577&MedTID=1).

Looks gorgeous IMO.
Title: Re: Original de Blob Developers Announce WiiWare Title
Post by: Stogi on August 19, 2008, 03:20:43 PM
Holy crap this looks purdy. I love the style.
Title: Re: Original de Blob Developers Announce WiiWare Title
Post by: KDR_11k on August 19, 2008, 03:24:56 PM
Those vikings remind me of Hägar a bit... I wonder how one-dimensional strategy plays out, seems like something that would reduce strategy to melee and short range in the front, long range and arty in the back...

Oh and BMW HAMMER!