In the midst of Chinajoy, UK game developers representatives have shown many of their masterpieces in the UK gaming sessions. Unlike the previous year, UK game developers not only showed their once impressive masterpieces but also showed their future development plans including mobile games and even working towards the VR platform.
Chronicle: RuneScape Legends and two new RuneScape games
Jagex, being the creator of Europe’s most well knowing MMORPG
RuneScape, had announced their newest cross platform (PC, mobile, tablet) card game,
Chronicle: RuneScape Legends. The first impression that many had when being introduced was that it is quite similar to Hearthstone. However, the playstyle of this card game is very similar to chess game whereby players will have to drop their cards strategically for their heroes to battle out on the way. In the end players will be pitting themselves against each other and a victor will be decided. Game media had also reviewed the game as a perfect improvement from the traditional collectible card games and differ very much from Hearthstone concept. The game is already released on PC platform and mobile platforms will be released soon.
RuneScape: Idle Adventures is another game that was said to be able to provide players to experience the best in game content in just 90 seconds. The progress of the game follows the player and it requires not much of effort and time to play this game. However, due to the details provided in the session being limited, we are unable to know the exact gaming experience that the game will provide.
RuneScape had been chosen as the world’s hottest f2p MMORPG game by Guinness. Jagex also revealed their plans on releasing 2 more different genre of games which are
RuneScape: RPG Battle (2017) and a web game RuneScape Remastered MMO (2018).Micro Machines
Codemasters, having at least 30 years of gaming development experiences, had produced many popular games from racing games DiRT rally and Race Driver: GRID to tactical shooting games such as Operation Flashpoint and also RPG games Overlord or even the famous formula one racing games: F1 2016.
Codemasters have showcased a racing car game that has the concept of toy cars that we once played as a child named Micro Machines. Players will be racing in maps such as study table, couch, dining table, pool table and even kitchen’s sewer earning rewards to gain chance to obtain the spare parts of the toy cars. By equipping the spare parts, it can be formed into models such as muscle car, fire truck, police car, racing car, tank and even hovercraft. Players can enter PK mode and compete against one another and bear in mind that the AI difficulty in this game is not that easy to win against. You will need more practices to collect all the available cars.
Skara – The Blade Remains
Skara – The Blade Remains is an action RPG MOBA game, ranging from 1v1 to 8v8 battles. There are many types of weapons provided to players and each type of weapons has different playstyle offered to them.
Although the game is MOBA genre, it is more similar to MMORPG as players can upgrade weapons, gain skills throughout the game. Fret not, players need not worry about the progress gap between new and experienced players since there is no levelling system in this game and the only differences will be the amount of options to wield more weapon types.
It is also worthy to mention that there will be a crossover platform card games Skara Lore: Legends being released soon.
Coffin Dodgers
Milkytea, specializes in developing its very own games including VR games and mobile games, announced the release of the game Coffin Dodgers a racing game that is available in PS4, Xbox One and PC platform. Rumor has it that Milkytea will be announcing the release of Coffin Dodgers in the domestic gaming platform FUZE. Mobile version of Coffin Dodgers will also be releasing soon.
Extinction
Extinction is based on a space survival VR-FPS game which runs on Unreal Engine 4. The developer plans to develop the game similar to Life is Strange, The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. In this game, every decision made by the players will affect the storyline and thus creating their very own storyline in the game.
Soccer Manager Arena
Soccer Manager Ltd once released MMO game world soccer manager and soccer manager 2015 which garners 150 million users. They will be releasing a slightly faster paced multiplayer competitive PvP mobile game, Soccer Manager Arena. In this game, users can collect cards to use in matches and the competition style of the game is almost like a soccer version of Clash Royale.
Fractured Space
Edge Case Games is a very experienced game developer and publisher, with their headquarters being located at UK Guildford. The team consists of experienced and professional team members with an average of 20 years of experience. After their first development of VR supported game Strike Suit Zero, they are now focusing on developing Fractured Space. Fractured Space is a sci-fi MOBA game which is currently in its Alpha stage.