STORMGATE - A new RTS. Hyper-responsive gameplay, a powerful editor, co-op, campaign, 1v1, and more
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From StarCraft II & Warcraft III developers, a new RTS. Hyper-responsive gameplay, a powerful editor, co-op, campaign, 1v1, and more.
Cinematic trailer made entirely in Unreal Engine. This is only the first look at the kinds of stories waiting to be told in the world of Stormgate.
Welcome to the Future of RTS.
To support the project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stormgate/stormgate/description
Website: https://playstormgate.com
Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2012510/Stormgate
From StarCraft II & Warcraft III developers, a new RTS. Hyper-responsive gameplay, a powerful editor, co-op, campaign, 1v1, and more.
Cinematic trailer made entirely in Unreal Engine. This is only the first look at the kinds of stories waiting to be told in the world of Stormgate.
Welcome to the Future of RTS.
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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - Hello and welcome to the Stormgate Kickstarter.
00:09 I'm Tim Campbell, I'm the Game Director and President
00:11 here at Frost Giant Studios.
00:13 And we are here assembling some of the world's greatest
00:17 RTS developers who've worked on some of the biggest
00:19 franchises in the genre to come together
00:22 to build the next evolution for the real-time strategy
00:26 genre.
00:27 Welcome to Stormgate.
00:28 (dramatic music)
00:31 - Fight.
00:40 (dramatic music)
00:42 Power.
00:43 (dramatic music)
00:45 Either way, your world will fall.
00:47 - Our vision is to make the most fun RTS of all time.
00:55 And to us, that means a lot of different things.
00:58 First, it starts with core gameplay.
01:00 We're opening up the RTS experience to new players
01:02 through new modes, new ways of playing.
01:04 Whether you like story or you enjoy cooperative experience
01:07 or you wanna get right in the ladder
01:08 and play hardcore competitive,
01:10 we have content for you in Stormgate.
01:14 To build this vision, we had to start first
01:16 with the technology and tools to bring it to life.
01:19 - I'm James Anhalt, the Chief Architect here at Frost Giant
01:21 and I'm here to show you the custom tech
01:23 we built for Stormgate.
01:24 It transforms Unreal Engine 5 into the most state-of-the-art
01:27 real-time strategy game engine.
01:29 Get ready for Snowplay.
01:31 (dramatic music)
01:34 Snowplay plus Unreal Engine 5 makes Stormgate
01:55 a truly next-gen real-time strategy game.
01:59 And we can't wait for you to get your hands on it and play.
02:02 - At early access, we will have three distinct
02:05 asymmetric factions, each with their own unique gameplay,
02:09 their own unique identity, and core mechanics
02:12 that are unique to them.
02:13 We began developing Stormgate by focusing
02:16 on our 1v1 mode initially.
02:17 And this allowed us to make sure that the game
02:19 was responsive, units felt good, and the game blew us away.
02:23 The response to our earliest pre-alpha test
02:25 was that it was already incredibly fun.
02:28 And so we've carried that with us forward into other modes.
02:31 - Discovery, this is Command.
02:33 - We're kicking off early access with the first few chapters
02:36 of an epic sweeping campaign that will allow you
02:39 to experience the story of Stormgate
02:40 either solo or cooperatively with your friends.
02:44 As an extension to our universe,
02:47 we're building an expanding roster of hero characters
02:51 that you can use in the single-player campaign
02:53 or co-op as you're exploring the story,
02:55 but that you can also lead into battle
02:58 in the three versus AI cooperative mode
03:01 or in the 3v3 team mode that we're building
03:04 after early access.
03:05 We're then taking the technology and the tools
03:08 that we've used to build all of these modes
03:10 and we're bundling them up to release to you
03:12 so that you can really unleash your creativity
03:16 and introduce the world to your own stories,
03:18 your own characters, and your own mods.
03:22 Storytelling is near and dear to my heart.
03:24 It's why I got into the games industry
03:26 and began developing this time it came in the first place.
03:29 I was the lead campaign designer on Warcraft III
03:32 and the Frozen Throne, where I contributed
03:34 to some of the epic chapters in Warcraft's history.
03:37 Together with the designers here at Frost Giant,
03:40 we're working with Mickey Nielsen,
03:42 a multiple award-winning, best-selling author
03:45 who helped contribute to Warcraft and StarCraft
03:47 working over 23 years at Blizzard on those franchises.
03:51 Additionally, early on, we partnered
03:52 with Chris Metzen himself, the War Chief,
03:54 and one of the key creatives who came up with the vision
03:58 for Warcraft and StarCraft originally.
04:01 Together, we've created a framework for storytelling
04:03 that's going to enable us to tell an ongoing narrative
04:06 for years to come.
04:07 So let me tell you a little bit
04:10 about the universe of Stormgate.
04:11 We're bringing together some of the best elements
04:13 of both fantasy and sci-fi
04:15 into a new post-apocalyptic setting.
04:19 We're set in the near future,
04:20 inside the midst of this apocalypse,
04:22 where an alien race of infernal, demonic invaders
04:27 has swept into the world and destroyed civilization
04:30 as we know it, subjugating all of humanity.
04:32 And in the middle of this, we mix together
04:34 post-apocalyptic settings with survivors
04:37 and ragtag militias and marauders
04:39 and all these desperate circumstances,
04:41 along with hard sci-fi elements like battle mechs
04:44 and spaceships and cybernetics.
04:47 And then we introduce, through the others,
04:50 these fantasy elements with dark magic
04:52 and sorcery and rituals.
04:53 At the end of the day, what we really want to do
04:56 is be able to have a mech punch a dragon.
04:59 I had the pleasure of working
05:03 on the StarCraft II version of co-op,
05:05 and it was a mode that I loved dearly.
05:07 We see Stormgate's highly replayable three-player co-op mode
05:10 as an evolution of that mode
05:12 in which there are even more replayable missions.
05:16 There are more opportunities to cooperate.
05:18 In addition, enemies will be more varied.
05:20 There will be more dynamic occurrences in every given map.
05:24 One of our primary design goals with Stormgate co-op
05:27 is that it'll be a new experience every time you play.
05:30 A large part of what makes Stormgate co-op very exciting
05:33 is the heroes that we have planned for you all.
05:35 The Stormgate hero is not only
05:37 just a unit on the battlefield.
05:39 It's also a brand new array of global abilities
05:42 you can use anywhere on the map
05:44 and new units that are very specific to the hero itself.
05:48 Let's take our first co-op hero,
05:50 Blockade, from the Vanguard faction.
05:52 Blockade is known for being a resilient fighter
05:56 supporting his teammates with heals and buffs.
05:59 But Blockade's not just about defense.
06:02 As one of the most grizzled fighters in the Vanguard army,
06:05 he'll be able to jump into the battlefield
06:07 and swing his hammer around to strike fear into enemies.
06:10 And in a pinch, he'll be able to help his allies
06:12 from across the map with his ability to teleport
06:15 not only himself, but his units across the battlefield.
06:18 Co-op in Stormgate is really a mode for everyone,
06:23 and we can't wait for you to try.
06:25 For more than 20 years, real-time strategy games
06:30 have been a leader in the world of competitive gaming.
06:33 With Stormgate, we want it to be easier than ever to compete.
06:36 Our goal is to reduce the points of friction
06:38 to enter events and play with your friends,
06:40 find out who the best player in your school,
06:43 in your town, in your city is.
06:45 If you follow a content creator,
06:46 if you're part of an online community,
06:48 we want you to be able to play with your friends
06:50 and other people in that same group.
06:52 We want you to be able to spin up a tournament
06:53 and just be competing immediately
06:55 and removing any obstacles that prevent you from doing that.
06:58 At Frost Giant, we see competition
07:00 as more than just esports.
07:02 It's about community.
07:03 It's about empowering and facilitating the community
07:06 to do what they love and to let them do what they wanna do
07:09 without dictating it to them from the top.
07:11 Just so much damage over time on the high ground here.
07:14 Gaunt's trying to snowball,
07:15 but they're just gonna take a massive shot.
07:17 We've already gotten the game into the hands
07:18 of some of the most skilled players in the world,
07:20 and the results have been phenomenal.
07:22 It's been fun to watch, it's been super interesting to play,
07:24 and it's been incredibly exciting to see.
07:26 The RTS genre has a long and glorious history
07:31 with editors being released to the community.
07:33 We've seen entire new genres spring out
07:36 of the Warcraft editor, for example,
07:38 with Tower Defense and MOBAs.
07:41 That started out as RTS mods and maps,
07:44 and then grew into entire new genres
07:46 that have dominated the gaming industry.
07:48 We aim to continue that tradition.
07:50 Our team worked directly on the editors
07:53 for Warcraft and for StarCraft.
07:54 We built content with them,
07:55 and we actually helped build the tools themselves.
07:58 We're rolling all of that knowledge and experience
08:01 into the tools for Stormgate to release to you.
08:05 One of the powerful new innovations we've done
08:07 is that the editor and the tools are not a separate client.
08:09 They're built directly into the game itself.
08:11 So with the press of a button,
08:12 you can switch between gameplay and editing mode
08:15 in order to make it fast and a tight loop
08:17 to be able to create and test your own content.
08:20 These tools will be usable to build mods,
08:22 they'll be used to make maps,
08:24 and tell your own stories and build your own campaigns.
08:27 Our four Cs, the campaign, the co-op, the custom games,
08:32 and of course, the competitive gameplay,
08:35 are at the heart and soul of what we're building here.
08:38 So why are we doing a Kickstarter?
08:40 We felt that this was the best way to give the community
08:43 what they were asking for.
08:44 We've received a lot of requests for physical merchandise.
08:47 Also, we've received an overwhelming number of requests
08:50 for how players can get into the beta.
08:53 Online multiplayer testing is really expensive,
08:55 and we haven't made any money to date yet.
08:58 Through Kickstarter, we can expand the beta pool
09:01 and allow more players to get into the game
09:03 while supporting Stormgate.
09:05 One of the great things about Kickstarter
09:08 is it allows us to deliver
09:09 a Stormgate Physical Collector's Edition.
09:12 Vulcan online.
09:14 The Vulcan mech is one of the defining units
09:16 of the Vanguard army,
09:18 and we decided to make the Vulcan mech
09:20 the centerpiece of our Collector's Edition.
09:22 Here, you see a fully painted prototype
09:25 of our six and a half inch Vulcan statue.
09:27 (dramatic music)
09:30 We're really excited to build Stormgate with you
09:36 and for you, and to have you be a part of this journey
09:39 and help shape the game that we're creating.
09:42 This is the beginning of the next 10 years
09:44 for the RTS genre.
09:46 I want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts
09:48 at Frost Giant for being a part of this process
09:51 and helping to bring this game to life.
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