Travel Back In Time With Conflicks

Being the resident dev on the blog, I might as well share a little bit of what Artifice Studio—The Company I work for—has in store for everyone in the near-ish future.

One of the main goals at our studio is to create games that have unique Universes. This is something you could definitely see with Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves. While the game was grounded in Canadian/Quebec history, the way it blended with our native folktales was distinct and I can confidently say there is no other game quite as Canadian as our own.

Now in comes Conflicks: Revolutionary Space Battles, yet again based in our history—the French Revolution— Instead of just taking this time period for face value, we added a little twist to the history. With our ancestors thrust into the depths of space, waging war amongst each other, who in their right mind wouldn't want to help King Henry the 8th expand his space empire? I know I do! Of course Greater Britain isn't the only faction in Conflicks, have a look at our story trailer for a better idea.

Along with creating unique Universes, we also like to blend game genres and create hybrids. For Sang-Froid we blended action-RPGs with a tower defense style game. We weren't the first to the party with this type of gameplay—Dungeon Defends and Orcs Must Die! both beat us to the punch—but if you go by what they say on the forums, we brought way more strategy to the mix in comparison to the other games in the genre.

With Conflicks, the goal is to blend a top-down real-time strategy with a physics based game. Picture a galactic game of marbles which sees the player flick (get it? Con-FLICKS) his/her units across space to do battle. You colonize planets and slam into other ships like bumper cars while hop-scotching across space shooting lasers everywhere. It's a ton of fun! Unlike in our first endeavor, Conflicks will include a multiplayer component (like every RTS needs to have) on top of what you can expect to be a very entertaining single player.

For more information on Conflicks, you can visit Artifice Studio's website where we've been keeping a dev blog. There you can learn more about the different factions and characters you will see in the game. Also don't forget to follow us on twitter either @artificestudio and while you're at it, show a little love to our own Twitter account @gamerbasement.