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SteamWorld
''SteamWorld'' is an anthology series of video games created by Image & Form. All games depict the adventures of a race of steam-driven robots in a Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic steampunk world, with different genres for each game, ranging from action and strategy to role-playing and simulation. Story overview The story of ''SteamWorld'' begins in a post-apocalyptic Earth, where human society has fallen into collapse. ''SteamWorld Tower Defense'' tells the story of a huge war between humans and robots for the control of Earth. After a long conflict, the robots prevented the human invasion and the surviving humans took refuge in the underground. Since then the bots began forming a civilization reminiscent of the American Old West, with the upper classes composed of bots running on petrol, while the lower classes run on coal to survive. In ''SteamWorld Dig'', a robot miner called Rusty inherits his uncle's mine and begins digging all the way to the rui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SteamWorld Dig
''SteamWorld Dig'' is a platform action-adventure game created by Swedish video game developer Image & Form. The second installment in the '' SteamWorld'' series after '' SteamWorld Tower Defense'', ''SteamWorld Dig'' has the player control Rusty, a steam-powered robot who arrives at a small Western-Steampunk mining town called Tumbleton after having received a deed for a mine from his long-forgotten uncle, Joe. The objective of the game is to dig through Tumbleton's mine, which also involves solving puzzles and platforming to avoid traps and enemies. ''SteamWorld Dig'' was initially released on the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS in Europe and Australia on 7 August 2013, North America on 8 August 2013, and Japan on 20 November 2013. Later, ''SteamWorld Dig'' was released on 5 December 2013 for Microsoft Windows, Mac, and Linux on Steam, on 18 March 2014 in North America and on 19 March 2014 in Europe for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, on 28 August 2014 for Wii U, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SteamWorld Dig 2
''SteamWorld Dig 2'' is an action-adventure platform video game developed and published by Image & Form. It is the fourth installment in the ''SteamWorld'' series of games and the direct sequel to 2013's ''SteamWorld Dig''. It was first released in September 2017 for Nintendo Switch, Linux, macOS, Windows, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita. It was later released for Nintendo 3DS in February 2018, for Xbox One in November 2018, for Stadia in March 2020, and for Amazon Luna in October 2020. Publisher Rising Star Games released physical retail copies of the game for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in 2018. The game received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its improvements upon the original, as well as its world and gameplay. Gameplay SteamWorld Dig 2 is a Metroidvania game. Carrying on from its predecessor, ''SteamWorld Dig'', the game puts players in control of Dorothy, a steam-driven robot searching for Rusty, the protagonist of the previous game who di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SteamWorld Heist II
''SteamWorld Heist II'' is a turn-based tactics shooter video game developed and published by Thunderful. As the seventh installment in the ''SteamWorld'' series and the sequel to '' SteamWorld Heist'' (2015), the game was released for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X and Series S in August 2024. Gameplay Similar to its predecessor, ''SteamWorld Heist II'' is a side-scrolling turn-based tactics video game. In the game, the player gathers a ragtag crew of Steambots as they venture into the ocean to uncover its source of poisoning. In each turn, each character has two action points, allowing them to shoot, move, or perform other abilities. Players have to strategically place characters in their party in tactical positions, such as hiding behind cover to boost their defense. When attacking, players controls the aiming of all firearms, and can bounce bullets and grenades off the environment for ricocheting trick shots. ''SteamWorl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SteamWorld Build
''SteamWorld Build'' is a city-building dungeon crawling video game developed by The Station and published by Thunderful Publishing. An installment in the ''SteamWorld'' series, the game was released for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S in December 2023. Gameplay ''SteamWorld Build'' is a cross-genre video game. The first part of the game tasks the players to construct and manage a mining town on an alien planet. Players need to construct roads, infrastructure, amenities, and houses for their population. Players need to satisfy the needs of the town's residents and maintain their happiness ratings. As the player progresses, they will be able to unlock new buildings and technologies, as well as upgrading their workforce. The town's progress is measured via milestones, which is determined by the town's overall population, with each inhabitant assigned to one of four different categories, which are gradually unlocked as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SteamWorld Tower Defense
''SteamWorld Tower Defense'' is a tower defense video game by Swedish video game developer Image & Form. It was released digitaIIy on Nintendo DSi in North America, Europe and Australia on July 5, 2010. It is the first game released in the ''SteamWorld'' series. Gameplay In ''SteamWorld Tower Defense'' the player controls an army of steam-powered robots in a tower defense-style gameplay. The aim of the game is to take down wandering troops of human invaders in their attempt to steal gold from the robots' mining facilities. To clear a mission, the player must take down waves of human soldiers by building and strategically placing out attack robots with a range of abilities and weapons. It's possible to play the game on several difficulty levels. Reception ''SteamWorld Tower Defense'' on Nintendo DSi has received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, with a current score of 71/100 on Metacritic. Lucas M Thomas of ''IGN'' gave the game an eight out of ten, praising how pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Image & Form
Image & Form International AB was a Swedish video game developer based in Gothenburg. The company was founded by Brjánn Sigurgeirsson in 1997 and formed the Thunderful group with Zoink in 2017. In 2020, Image & Form was integrated into Thunderful Development. History Image & Form was founded by Brjánn Sigurgeirsson, who acts as its CEO, and an unnamed co-founder in 1997. Sigurgeirsson had collected experience in web design after working in Tokyo and San Francisco, and when he applied for several jobs of the same type in Gothenburg and would have gotten all of them, he established Image & Form as a two-man multimedia and web operation to capitalise on this industry. While Sigurgeirsson intended to call the company Imagenation, his co-founder wished for it to be called Monkey Business; a vote between their friends was to resolve this dispute, though a third suggestion, "Image & Form", received the best reception. The business soon expanded with web-based game production, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunderful Development
Thunderful Group AB is a Swedish video game holding company based in Gothenburg. It was founded in December 2019 through a merger between Thunderful AB ( Bergsala Holding's video game holding) and Bergsala Holding's distribution business, consisting of Bergsala, Amo Toys, and Nordic Game Supply. The former Thunderful had been founded in December 2017 between Bergsala Holding, Brjánn Sigurgeirsson, and Klaus Lyngeled, incorporating Sigurgeirsson and Lyngeled's indie game studios—Image & Form and Zoink—and acquiring the publisher Rising Star Games from Bergsala Holding in July 2018. Thunderful Group has since acquired further developers, the publisher Headup Games, and the consultancy firm Robot Teddy. History Image & Form and Zoink, two independent video game developers based in Gothenburg, developed a close relationship through their founders and chief executive officers (CEOs), Brjánn Sigurgeirsson and Klaus Lyngeled, respectively, became "practically best friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Defense
Tower defense (TD) is a Video game genre, subgenre of Strategy video game, strategy games where the goal is to defend a player's territories or possessions by obstructing the enemy attackers or by stopping enemies from reaching the exits, usually achieved by placing defensive structures on or along their path of attack."Best Tower Defense Games of All Time. Damon Reece. April 27, 2015 This typically means building a variety of different structures that serve to automatically block, impede, attack or destroy enemies. Tower defense is seen as a subgenre of real-time strategy video games, due to its real-time origins, even though many modern tower defense games include aspects of turn-based strategy. Strategic choice and positioning of defensive elements is an essential strategy of the genre. History Precursors The tower defense genre can trace its lineage back to the golden age of arcade video games in the 1980s. The object of the arcade game ''Space Invaders,'' released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steampunk
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and Applied arts, aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th-century Industrial Revolution, industrial steam engine, steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternate history, alternative history of the Victorian era or the American frontier, where steam power remains in mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. Steampunk features anachronism, anachronistic technologies or retrofuturistic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them — distinguishing it from Neo-Victorianism — and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Such technologies may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne. Other examples of steampunk contain alternative-history-style presentations of such technology as steam cannons, lighter-than-ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VG247
Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in London. Founded in 1999 by Rupert and Nick Loman, it owns brands—primarily editorial websites—relating to video game journalism and other video game businesses. Its flagship website, ''Eurogamer'', was launched alongside the company. It began hosting the video game trade show EGX in 2008. ReedPop acquired Gamer Network in 2018 and sold it to IGN Entertainment in 2024. History Gamer Network was founded under the name Eurogamer Network in 1999 by brothers Rupert and Nick Loman. It was formed alongside the opening of its flagship website, ''Eurogamer'', which itself launched on 4 September 1999. Nick Loman left the business in 2004 to pursue a career in medicine and "competitive BBQ". In February 2011, Eurogamer Network acquired American publishing house Hammersuit, alongside its IndustryGamers.com and Modojo.com websites. On 1 March 2013, in line with the internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real-time Strategy
Real-time strategy (RTS) is a Video game genre, subgenre of strategy video games that does not progress incrementally in turn-based game, turns, but allow all players to play simultaneously, in "real time." By contrast, in Turn-based strategy, turn-based strategy (TBS) games, players take turns to play. The term "real-time strategy" was coined by Brett Sperry to market ''Dune II'' in the early 1990s. In a real-time strategy game, each participant positions structures and maneuvers multiple units under their indirect control to secure areas of the map and destroy their opponents' assets. In a typical RTS game, it is possible to create additional units and structures generally limited by a requirement to Resource management (gaming), expend accumulated resources. These resources are in turn garnered by controlling special points on the map or possessing certain types of units and structures devoted to this purpose. More specifically, the typical game in the RTS genre features resourc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
