Rooks Keep - An unknown Indie game with mod/level editor -> UDK

[HideInLight]

http://www.desura.com/games/rooks-keep

 

Ok here we have a game developed by 3 brothers which is surprisingly well polished, runs on the latest UDK engine, and has interesting combat and quite some substance to it. It's monstly an Arena Deathmatch based on Chess archetypes. It also has Chess as a gamemode with Chess Combat as it's variant.

On a technical level, it's flawless, even the GUI is much better than in most games and if you play something like team deathmatch , you can choose to have 2-9 teams or whatever your heart desires. It has a lot of customization.

 

But the most interesting part of the game is the mod potential. It runs on the UDK, basically the latest version of the Unreal Engine 3. There has been drastic improvements to the UDK over the years, yet Epic themselves haven't released any games for it that has modding capabilities since UT3. UT3 was released back in 2007...

 

This little Indie Game everyone has been ignoring has that, if you ever wanted to work with the UDK, this game could be the perfect candidate.

You can literally open up the editor, select a level, make some adjustment like adding more trees or whatever tickles you fancy and then proceed to play it in game. Or if you already have Unreal Engine experience you can jump in and feel right at home.

 

It has bots, LAN, gamepad support, online yet no one seems to care. that's what I don't get, here's a game with amazing mod potential, unlimited possibilities and no one seems care?

Edited June 26, 2013 by HideInLight

[LordPariah]

http://www.desura.com/games/rooks-keep

 

Ok here we have a game developed by 3 brothers which is surprisingly well polished, runs on the latest UDK engine, and has interesting combat and quite some substance to it. It's monstly an Arena Deathmatch based on Chess archetypes. It also has Chess as a gamemode with Chess Combat as it's variant.

On a technical level, it's flawless, even the GUI is much better than in most games and if you play something like team deathmatch , you can choose to have 2-9 teams or whatever your heart desires. It has a lot of customization.

 

But the most interesting part of the game is the mod potential. It runs on the UDK, basically the latest version of the Unreal Engine 3. There has been drastic improvements to the UDK over the years, yet Epic themselves haven't released any games for it that has modding capabilities since UT3. UT3 was released back in 2007...

 

This little Indie Game everyone has been ignoring has that, if you ever wanted to work with the UDK, this game could be the perfect candidate.

You can literally open up the editor, select a level, make some adjustment like adding more trees or whatever tickles you fancy and then proceed to play it in game. Or if you already have Unreal Engine experience you can jump in and feel right at home.

 

It has bots, LAN, gamepad support, online yet no one seems to care. that's what I don't get, here's a game with amazing mod potential, unlimited possibilities and no one seems care?

I've actually played some of their mods - Ballistic weapons, Crucible. All pretty cool.

[HideInLight]

 

http://www.desura.com/games/rooks-keep

 

Ok here we have a game developed by 3 brothers which is surprisingly well polished, runs on the latest UDK engine, and has interesting combat and quite some substance to it. It's monstly an Arena Deathmatch based on Chess archetypes. It also has Chess as a gamemode with Chess Combat as it's variant.

On a technical level, it's flawless, even the GUI is much better than in most games and if you play something like team deathmatch , you can choose to have 2-9 teams or whatever your heart desires. It has a lot of customization.

 

But the most interesting part of the game is the mod potential. It runs on the UDK, basically the latest version of the Unreal Engine 3. There has been drastic improvements to the UDK over the years, yet Epic themselves haven't released any games for it that has modding capabilities since UT3. UT3 was released back in 2007...

 

This little Indie Game everyone has been ignoring has that, if you ever wanted to work with the UDK, this game could be the perfect candidate.

You can literally open up the editor, select a level, make some adjustment like adding more trees or whatever tickles you fancy and then proceed to play it in game. Or if you already have Unreal Engine experience you can jump in and feel right at home.

 

It has bots, LAN, gamepad support, online yet no one seems to care. that's what I don't get, here's a game with amazing mod potential, unlimited possibilities and no one seems care?

I've actually played some of their mods - Ballistic weapons, Crucible. All pretty cool.

 

The the weapons were simply brilliant and there were al lot. A lot! Saw someone who posted a youtube vid about it, that was 50 minutes long, and it consisted of a person just quickly showing each weapon.

Still my most favorite flamethrower of all time, using the secondary to spill oil everywhere and then setting it on fire.

 

Wonder why they, killing floor and Chaos devs never teamed up.

Edited June 27, 2013 by HideInLight

[LordPariah]

 

 

http://www.desura.com/games/rooks-keep

 

Ok here we have a game developed by 3 brothers which is surprisingly well polished, runs on the latest UDK engine, and has interesting combat and quite some substance to it. It's monstly an Arena Deathmatch based on Chess archetypes. It also has Chess as a gamemode with Chess Combat as it's variant.

On a technical level, it's flawless, even the GUI is much better than in most games and if you play something like team deathmatch , you can choose to have 2-9 teams or whatever your heart desires. It has a lot of customization.

 

But the most interesting part of the game is the mod potential. It runs on the UDK, basically the latest version of the Unreal Engine 3. There has been drastic improvements to the UDK over the years, yet Epic themselves haven't released any games for it that has modding capabilities since UT3. UT3 was released back in 2007...

 

This little Indie Game everyone has been ignoring has that, if you ever wanted to work with the UDK, this game could be the perfect candidate.

You can literally open up the editor, select a level, make some adjustment like adding more trees or whatever tickles you fancy and then proceed to play it in game. Or if you already have Unreal Engine experience you can jump in and feel right at home.

 

It has bots, LAN, gamepad support, online yet no one seems to care. that's what I don't get, here's a game with amazing mod potential, unlimited possibilities and no one seems care?

I've actually played some of their mods - Ballistic weapons, Crucible. All pretty cool.

 

The the weapons were simply brilliant and there were al lot. A lot! Saw someone who posted a youtube vid about it, that was 50 minutes long, and it consisted of a person just quickly showing each weapon.

Still my most favorite flamethrower of all time, using the secondary to spill oil everywhere and then setting it on fire.

 

Wonder why they, killing floor and Chaos devs never teamed up.

 

I love the staffs personally. Just something so cool about them...

And my god, KF and these guys?

Poor Zeds.

[HideInLight]

Here's me messing around with the UDK following some tutorial about post processing. It just feels great to have an actual game instead of tech demo to play around with.

 

http://i.imgur.com/VHL1m8P.jpg?1

[HideInLight]

I see their new game in alpha, Viscera Cleanup Detail made quite the noise.

 

But Rooks Keep is still unknown...

anyways, they've released the source code for Rooks Keep

http://www.indiedb.com/games/rooks-keep/downloads/source-code-v101

 

Game is now fully open to all kinds of modding. The download includes the source, some basic tutorials and an example mod.

The example mod can be compiled just like that and already contains the code for the configuration menu etc

So it's pretty easy to get started.

 

But with the little reception Rooks Keep received, don't know if it'll ever get the greenlit or the playerbase for the developers to continue developing for it. At least it spawned Viscera Cleanup Detail, which looks like it's gonna get all the attention from now on.

 

Rooks Keep is still a pretty polished games, and now that it's fully open to modding, well it's time to have some fun with it. Just a shame about the whole Greenlight, being ignored by mainstream media thing. I thought people would be interested in it because of the Rune-like combat, but apparently not.

 

PS. Long term goal, dark souls type combat mod. Mechanically the combat is close to Dark Souls already.

Edited July 29, 2013 by HideInLight