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Hadron’s Forge Announced
San Francisco, July 30th, in the year of our Lord 2013:
Start-up games developer ‘Arcane Logic’ is proud to announce the
development of their PC launch-title, ‘Hadron’s Forge’, an
out-of-this-world Sci-Fi inspired space exploration adventure.
Blending real-world actual science with an immersive
procedurally generated sandbox environment featuring mining,
building, and almost endless space exploration, ‘Hadron’s Forge’
offers to gamers a chapter-based single-player adventure and
multiplayer experience in which participants have the
opportunity to explore an entire star system at their leisure!
Virtually everything in the game, including the terrain itself,
is customizable by players. Fill a periodic table inventory as
you mine ore and refine it down to its base elements! Forge
parts and items from pure metals, alloys, carbon composites,
advanced nanostructures and even paradoxium, the rarest material
in the universe. Build bases on asteroids, moons or planets
using truss, plates and utilities. You can even customize your
very own interplanetary space ship!
‘Arcane Logic’, a Washington-based startup games developer
spearheaded by Michael Beerman and John Savage, a duo of former
aerospace engineers, are on a mission of their own; their
objective is to complete the development of this highly unique,
incredibly realistic, and open-ended universe. Created using a
proprietary game engine developed from the ground up, ‘Hadron’s
Forge’ is scheduled to include several unique modes of play,
including ‘Story-’, ‘Survival-’, ‘Sandbox-’ and several
Multiplayer-Modes.
In the games primary ‘Story-Mode’, you take on the role of
Hadron, an aspiring young "tele-op" with a mysterious past, and
an unquenchable desire to uncover the secrets hidden among the
planets and asteroids of Epsilon Eridani. In this campaign-like
experience, players complete segments of a larger adventure
beginning with a prelude and continuing through multiple
chapters. You are tasked with mining, construction, trade,
exploration and espionage missions as you progress through the
story line. You will also encounter many challenging
construction, circuit and terrain puzzles on your journeys
across the star system, which you must solve in order to uncover
the secrets of ancient Eridanian technology. ‘Survival-Mode’ is
an experience in which players hone their skills in
short-duration scenarios that happen outside of the main
‘Story-Mode’ campaign. For instance, players may find themselves
trapped in a Mining Pod on an asteroid or planet surface and
they must use their skills to gather resources and fabricate
power supplies to maintain life-support and escape! And finally,
in ‘Sandbox-Mode’, players are invited to exploit their
creativity; build asteroid bases, star ships and planetary
colonies in a peaceful setting with a near limitless inventory.
However, you will need to earn achievements in ‘Story-Mode’ and
‘Survival-Mode’ to unlock starting maps, materials, items and
structures that then become available in ‘Sandbox-Mode’. This
mode also allows players to build unique challenging puzzle
rooms that you can share with your friends.
Several multi-player modes are planned as well, including
‘Cooperative’ and ‘Competitive’ modes. ‘Cooperative Mode’ allow
players to work together on a Sandbox or Survival map.
Head-to-head (PvP) ‘Competitive Mode’ challenges may be
peaceful, such as a race to gather enough resources to fulfill a
trade contract, or destructive, such as a pitted battle on an
asteroid to take out the other guys Mining Pod. Additional
information on multi-player modes will be announced soon.