SA game Rooks Keep hits Steam Greenlight

SA game developer RuneStorm has been hard at work on its brutal action game, Rooks Keep, and the game has made it to Steam’s Greenlight program.

Rooks Keep is an Unreal Engine-powered single and multiplayer deathmatch arena game, which is described as “Unreal Tournament with swords”, as it takes the traditional elements of multiplayer games, and cuts the head right off with some sheer brutality and gore.

Players will go head-to-head in a number of different game modes over a selection of maps.

The list of game-modes includes traditional Deathmatch and Team-Deathmatch, Conversion (kill your enemy to get them on your team), Combat and Classic Chess, and more. Players will get control of two factions of six characters each, based on traditional Chess archetypes (Pawn, Knight, etc) and engage in battles using a diversity of offensive and defensive abilities and skills.

Games can be played solo against AI opponents, in LAN or online multiplayer, or a combination. Up to 32 players are allowed in all non-Chess modes.

The game has got the nod to be included in the Steam Greenlight line-up, so if you vote for Rooks Keep it can then be included on Steam.

To find out more about Rooks Keep, check out the Steam Greenlight page and watch the trailer below:

About RuneStorm

RuneStorm is an independent game developer based in South Africa. RuneStorm sprung into the gaming scene with the release of the “Ballistic Weapons” mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, which turned into one of the games most popular and acclaimed modifications. RuneStorm then went on to win various prizes in the “Make Something Unreal Contest” for Unreal Tournament 3, including 1st prizes for Weapons And Characters, as well as 2nd places for weapons. In all, we won ten prizes throughout the contest. We are currently working on our first UDK based game, Rooks Keep. – www.runestorm.com

Thanks to hideinlight for highlighting Rooks Keep.