What are the basics of our game ?
Choose your faction, build your team and jump into battle to climb ranks, promote your faction or challenge your friends.
You can look forward to:
- Players will able to choose from one of four factions to put together team of 5 champions from range of available characters.
- Each faction provides different gameplay experience with different strengths, source of their power and ways to utilize it. This means they will require different approach to work with resources essential to attain victory.
- Factions will provide options to build team from variety of characters each possessing unique skills that can change flow of the battle or shape overall strategy.
- Opposing teams will clash on broad battleground which provides plenty of space to outmanoeuvre your opponent and prepare battle plan.
- Each detail can be crucial to victory ranging from initial unit placement to which way they are facing during battle.
- Players can challenge others, take part in online ranked combat, or they can also compete with their friends in hot-seat mode.
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How is Theater of Carnage played
At the start of each match there is preparation phase when players have option to place their units within designated area of the battlefield. This allows them to position units according to their initial battle plan. Once the battle starts turn order is decided based on each unit's initiative. Acting unit has certain amount of action points which can be spent moving, attacking, using tactical option or special skills. Special skills additionally require usage of faction resource which is unique for every faction with different ways how to gain or deplete it. Players have variety of options how to best spend action points while considering details like how to deal most damage, prepare their position for next turn or simply to prevent hits from rear. They need to cleverly navigate their characters across the arena to protect their vulnerable pieces and exploit weakness of opponent's units. Game ends once one side is annihilated.
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Background
Different factions all inhabit lands of the Empire. They are fighting others in the Arena to pursue their own agenda. Victor is promised audience in Emperor's palace to present their claim, which could greatly improve their position and strength.
Factions
Children of Celix
Religious faction that worships supernatural entity known as Celix as the supreme god. Their aim is to spread their faith to promote his glory and divinity as superior compared to any other deities. Children of Celix group’s proselytism adheres to the idea that end justifies the means which corresponds with their rather shady origins. The Church has plenty of trained devoted believers, in plenty of cases with their faith bordering on fanaticism, ready to lay down their lives for divine cause. Chosen warriors have vast fighting experience from skirmishes with other organizations and purging heretics within their region. Thanks to that they are well versed in armed combat. This fact together with their affinity to channel divine power of their god makes them fearsome foes.
Bloodsworn
Bloodsworn represent special fighting organization whose ranks are filled with criminals and oath breakers. Members come from union of clans known as Clans of Oro based on the codex Oro they are sworn to adhere to. Men and women from these clans that violate their pledge to the codex can escape punishment and strive to regain their honour by enlisting in Bloodsworn. They make new pledge of blood that they will wash away their sins with blood of the enemies or their own. Thus, this military faction consists of battle crazed maniacs, vicious sadistic killers and deadly silent warriors. Their approach is to fight with no regards for their own life with sole purpose of reclaiming their honour no matter the cost. As such life expectancy within Bloodsworn is usually very low and only the toughest stay alive longer. These seasoned fighters represent Clans of Oro in the Tournament. Their strength lies in pure art of war, combination of weapon mastery and various techniques and tricks.
Maharama
Maharama is by far the most elusive organization within the empire. This ancient secretive order with unknown powers is mostly shrouded in mystery. Members of Maharama rarely act in the open. They spend most of the time behind walls of their Towers. When acting outside their whole bodies are covered in dark clothes bulging in suspicious shapes. This often raises questions about their humanity. Not surprisingly, their agenda is a guarded secret known only to the highest-ranking members of the order. They are said to be able to perceive very threads of life of any living being and have the ability to manipulate it at will. This is not far from truth and is due to their special connection to the Void. Needless to say, their powers are a terrifying sight making them seem as masters of life and death.
Arisen
Arisen represent underground organization whose activities are officially banned within the Empire. This is due to deviant nature of their operations and goals, which has also led to their brand Corrupted from outsiders. Their ultimate goal is evolution of mankind which they plan to achieve using essence manipulation. In hidden laboratories they abuse dark mutating powers to change very nature of their test subjects tainting it with essence of creatures from different dimensions. In their pursuit of progress, they do not hesitate to experiment on any available victim ranging from unborn children to themselves. Those few who survive the horrific process with their mind mostly intact are irreversibly changed bearing special traits or completely inhuman appearance. As a result, fusion with other entities grants them various potent powers.
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About us
We are small but dedicated indie team from Czech Republic. We deeply enjoy playing games which has eventually led us to start working on our own with passion only true gamer can have. And turn-based strategy games belonged to one of our most played genres since childhood. Therefore, Theater of Carnage is both our tribute to the legendary titles we grew up with as well as our own take on the genre. By taking away almost all of the "management" elements we can truly focus on what we believe is the most enjoyable part - the combat, to face opponents in battle of wits.
Our progress
Over the past year we have been working hard to put together working prototype of our game. We have been able to put together foundation including core mechanics and gameplay so that we can start focusing on adding more content. We aim to bring our game to Steam Early Access by the end of 2019 with first two factions available. Raised funds would be used to improve visual and sound quality of our game and enable us to give it more unique style that would fit our vision. Additionally, it would help us with preparing network infrastructure for online multiplayer part.
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Thanks for your attention,
your Arrow^2 Team
