{"id":100301,"date":"2016-08-01T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T09:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100301"},"modified":"2016-08-01T11:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T09:50:59","slug":"the-gd-studio-launches-classic-arena-shooter-diabotical-on-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100301-the-gd-studio-launches-classic-arena-shooter-diabotical-on-kickstarter","title":{"rendered":"The GD Studio launches classic arena shooter Diabotical on Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GD Studio has launched a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/84288219\/diabotical-by-the-gd-studio\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter campaign<\/a><\/strong> for its upcoming classic arena shooter, <strong>Diabotical<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Diabotical is a Quake-inspired competitive arena shooter which aims to deliver high-level competitive gaming, focussing on classic arena FPS mechanics and free-flowing movement.<\/p>\n<p>The game is being developed by\u00a0The\u00a0GD Studio, which is headed up by <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.teamliquid.net\/dota2\/2GD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>James &#8220;2GD&#8221; Harding<\/strong><\/a>, an eSports expert and former professional Quake player who has\u00a0been involved in several top-level eSports events.<\/p>\n<p>Diabotical will be a buy-to-play game and will include cosmetic microtransactions, with Harding stating that the game will not be pay-to-win in any way.<\/p>\n<p>Development of the game has been underway for quite some time and the title is expected to be completed\u00a0sometime within the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Below are a few of Diabotical&#8217;s central gameplay features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enhanced movement system<\/li>\n<li>Seven weapons<\/li>\n<li>Power-ups and gadgets (no loadouts)<\/li>\n<li>Armour and health pick-ups (no regeneration)<\/li>\n<li>Classic game modes like TDM, FFA, CTF, DUEL, CA, IG, Defrag, plus three new game modes including Wingbot (Co-op 2v2)<\/li>\n<li>Lots and lots of maps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The game will also include an intuitive map editor at launch, allowing the community to create a variety of custom game areas.<\/p>\n<p>The game will cost somewhere between <strong>$10<\/strong> and <strong>$15<\/strong> at launch, and is expected to release in\u00a0<strong>June 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Backing the project on Kickstarter for a minimum of <strong class=\"pledge_amount\"><span class=\"money gbp no-code\">\u00a3<\/span><\/strong><strong>7<\/strong> will get you a copy of the game along with various cosmetic perks.<\/p>\n<p>Diabotical will be available on Steam for Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the KickStarter trailer for Diabotical below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/84288219\/diabotical-by-the-gd-studio\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How Mr Robot\u2019s massive Season 2 conspiracy ties into the Matrix, cartoons and South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/100228-how-mr-robots-massive-season-2-conspiracy-ties-into-the-matrix-cartoons-and-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Mr Robot\u2019s massive Season 2 conspiracy ties into the Matrix, cartoons and South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This secret loophole means people can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100224-this-secret-loophole-means-people-can-still-upgrade-to-windows-10-for-free.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This secret loophole means people can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Behind Pokemon GO\u2019s missing footprints and why people are so upset\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/100216-behind-pokemon-gos-missing-footprints-and-why-people-are-so-upset.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Behind Pokemon GO\u2019s missing footprints and why people are so upset<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classic arena shooter developed by professional gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":100307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,20953,1826,20955,20959,20957,2366,20961,6524,143],"class_list":["post-100301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-diabotical","tag-game","tag-gd-studio","tag-harding","tag-james","tag-kickstarter","tag-pay","tag-price","tag-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}