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Soma Games Launches Kickstarter Campaign for New Redwall Adventure Game
NEWBERG, Ore — May 1, in
the year of our Lord 2013 — Soma Games, the gaming arm
of the award-winning development company Code-Monkey’s, is
pleased to launch its first round of Kickstarter funding for the
new Redwall Adventure Game, The Warrior Reborn. Soma Games
optioned the rights to make the Redwall video game and is
enlisting the support of the Redwall community to help guide and
develop the game.
Soma Games is working hard to maintain the High-Fantasy
character of the Brian Jacques adventure novels. To being, they
are using the wildly popular game Minecraft as a prototyping
tool for the eponymous Redwall Abbey plus an adventure map and
game server for fans interested in keeping track of progress.
Additionally, Kickstarter backers will be given sneak peeks at
development as it happens. Within the Minecraft framework, Soma
Games can share, communicate and leak news to the people with
the tenacity to follow in Matthias' footsteps across the
sandstone floors of the storied edifice.
Soma Games is partnering closely with Sean Rubin, who has
been the official Redwall artist for several years and is the
unofficial curator of the canon. His participation will ensure
The Warrior Reborn is conveying not only the broad strokes of
the books, but also the fine details.
“We are so excited to bring the Redwall series to life in an
adventure game,” said Chris Skaggs, CEO of Soma Games. “We
originally planned to dive right in and get busy creating the
full adventure game without any preliminary steps. But we
realized we want the most important people, the Redwall fans, to
have a say in making this something that would make Brian
Jacques proud and that meant creating a channel, to communicate
with them."
Soma Games, and its sister company Code-Monkeys, has built over
300 award-winning apps and games on several platforms for
industry-leading clients like Intel, Aruba Networks and Belkin,
including a recent MacWorld Best of Show award and Best UX in
Intel's Ultimate Coder Challenge for 2013.
About Soma Games
Soma Games creates games from a wide range of genres on PC,
online and mobile platforms, including G: Into the Rain, that
was awarded the ‘Best iPhone Game' Award at CGDC in. Soma Games
is the Christian gaming label of Code-Monkeys, an Application
and Web Development company that has been delivering
award-winning solutions to companies like Intel, Fandango,
Mashable, etc. for more than a dozen years. Code-Monkey’s also
developed the highly popular Bok-Choy-Boy game, that has more
than half a million downloads.