We are very busy at the moment so excuse us for not posting more news about DotE. The Amplitude team has been working very hard on Endless Legend, and also gaming events like the Game Developers Conference, Eurogamer Rezzed and PAX East coming next week.
Last week-end, while Stéphanie was once again on a trip for a gaming event, some of us were doing a game jam... We promised we would give you the results this week:
Dungeon of the Endless: Dawn of the Dust
In case some of you had never heard of the concept before, the goal of a game jam is to make a game in a certain period of time. Here, we decided to do this over the course of the week-end and on a simple theme: Dungeon of the Endless. As you heard, the development of DotE has been slow because of the temporary departure of our one and only programmer. We decided that if we had to work on a game (or break it), we'd do this on a new project and that's how Dawn of the Dust was born!
The game is a Doom-like, First Person Shooter set in the Endless universe and something we want to continue for a few months now while DotE is on standby...
With Dawn of the Dust, we are taking our first steps into the action genre. However, at Amplitude, we make strategy games so you will indeed need to manage Dust, as a resource and its uses. As you progress into the game, you will strive to find the origins of the Dust, as well as its dangers...
PREVIEW
Here's also a quick preview of a very early footage. Hopefully, we'll be able to release the game by this summer! As for the platform, pricing, etc, we still need to finalize some details but we're thinking about PC and a web version for sure.
Etheon