Deck Builder Launches!

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Today is an exciting day in the development of Last Days of Old Earth. The first of our four major updates over the Early Access period, the Deck Builder, launches today! The Deck Builder allows you to have full control over the Units and Heroes that will make up your deck for use in Single Player Skirmish mode, as well as Multiplayer, which further opens up the tactical possibilities that the game has to offer.

In addition, we’ve added a new card, per faction, as part of the update. Check out the Clanship and VN Walker cards and let us know what you think!

Alongside the exciting new update, this version also contains numerous bug fixes and tweaks;

  • Deck Builder added

  • Custom deck selection for Skirmish & Multiplayer game modes

  • New 'Sudden Death' game mode, triggering a new Victory Condition based on territory under Supply

  • Two new cards! Clanship for Skywatchers and VN Walker for Automata!

  • Option to Tab through units that have not exhausted their movement

  • Fixes for various Card UI issues

  • Sprite changes for abilities

  • Fixes for issues around hero-only army engagement

  • Hang on engage overlay after engaging AI owned hero-only army (single player)

  • Various changes for Multiplayer Lobby UI

  • Movement AP cost display on tile displayed now removed after paying cost

  • No longer possible to start an empty skirmish by cancelling custom deck select for the first opponent

 

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Auroch Digital

Marketing and Community Managment for Auroch Digital in Bristol, UK.

Last Days of Old Earth now out on Steam Early Access!

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We're incredibly proud to announce that our latest project, Last Days of Old Earth, is now available on Steam's Early Access program.

Last Days of Old Earth is a tactical, hex-based strategy game set on the freezing remains of our planet, as humanity fights for survival against the mysterious, mechanical Automata, as well as nature itself.

Published by Slitherine, the game focuses on exploration and combat, as well as resource management to ensure players have the means to hold their own in the face of overwhelming adversity.

The plan over the Early Access period is to introduce new gameplay systems such as Stealth, Facilities and Aircraft, plus a full Deck Builder and Campaign Mode. All of this will be introduced over the coming months and will be free of charge for those that have already purchased the game.

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Auroch Digital

Marketing and Community Managment for Auroch Digital in Bristol, UK.

Endgame: Syria Featured on Top 50 List

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Back in 2012, Auroch Digital's newsgame initiative, GameTheNews, released Endgame: Syria, a news game commenting on the civil war in Syria and almost four years later, it's still making waves! Earlier this month it was listed in The Guardian's 'Fifty Apps that are Reinventing Mobile Gaming'. 

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It is an honour to be listed amongst such other amazing games and projects, and to be credited for making a difference in the gaming world.  

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Nina Adams

Our Initiative GameTheNews tackle the US Elections

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The Auroch Digital initiative GameTheNews has teamed up with American satirical net stars Wonkette to bring you the chance to run for the presidency of that great country across the pond. 

It's fairly obvious that we love games and we know that you do too, so we've decided to branch out from the digital world and create a card game which combines that love of games with everyone's favourite hobby, laughing at those crazy Yanks racing for the White House.

Elections of US America Election: The Card Game is currently live on Kickstarter, check it out to see what we've been working on and support us if you can! 

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Nina Adams

The Last Days of Old Earth announced!

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We’re proud to announce our latest title, The Last Days of Old Earth. The project is a hex-based tactical wargame with a rich single player campaign and deep multiplayer mode, developed in partnership with Slitherine Publishing.

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The Last Days of Old Earth comes to Steam Early Access in Early 2016. Wishlist it now to keep it on your radar!

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Auroch Digital

Marketing and Community Managment for Auroch Digital in Bristol, UK.

Sharpen Your Game Design Skills - 'Chainsaw Warrior' New Card Competition

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We are offering the chance to leave your own footprint in the tale of Chainsaw Warrior, by designing a card to be used in his latest adventure, ‘Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night’. We are looking for your best idea for a weapon, item of equipment, zombie, monster or trap. Our favourite of the entries will actually get added to the game, and the creator will be given a special design credit!

If there was one weapon or item you could equip him with to aid him in his mission, or a trap or monster to slow him down, what would it be? Chainsaw Warrior relies heavily on his kit when he's off saving the world. From his trusty 'saw, devices like the Heat Detector warning him of approaching threats, all the way to the bullet-spewing chaos of the Reaper, his loadout has saved what skin he has left more than once. Perhaps you want to make this tough game even tougher? Can you design a new opponent or trap to mash, stab or eviscerate Chainsaw Warrior?

Whether you choose to design an aid or an obstacle, it has to be fair so that the challenging and entertaining balance of Chainsaw Warrior is not disturbed. In the same way that the powerful Laser Lance only has limited ammo, we want your entries to enhance the gameplay in a plausible and unbiased manner (so no Laser-Reapers!)

Get creative, send us some sketches if you have an idea of how you would like it to appear, and we will design and implement the card into the game! It can be a hand-to-hand, light or heavy weapon, an item such as a piece of technology or transport, an item of clothing or armour, a trap card, or a new enemy for Chainsaw Warrior to overcome.

To apply simply submit your design work to gtn@aurochdigital.com before the 31st August. This competition applies to 'Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night' only.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on Facebook or Twitter too! 

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Auroch Digital

Marketing and Community Managment for Auroch Digital in Bristol, UK.

The End is Nigh: Games Workshop's cult classic 'Dark Future' returns heralding the beginning of the end

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Dark Future, the cult Games Workshop board game of clashing highway warriors, set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that was once America, is getting a reboot from Auroch Digital.
The Bristol-based indie developers are known for their acclaimed version of another Games Workshop classic, Chainsaw Warrior, as well as for GameTheNews, an initiative that blurred the lines between reality and gaming, and included titles such as NarcoGuerra.

Auroch’s Dark Future: Blood Red States is supported by the Wellcome Trust, and will be a turn-based strategy game, played out in simultaneous real-time action. The gameplay is a furious mix of hammering chain-guns, tactical high-speed manoeuvres and the ripping of metal as vehicles smash into one another. All the action is conducted against a dark background of the decline of humanity; too wild to be true and too close for comfort. The game is due Spring/Summer 2016.

Dark Future was originally released as a board game in 1988, and later expanded into a series of books. The world it inhabits is a very different reality; cyberpunk more weird than wired.
It's an alternative, bleak, hollowed out America, in 2023. The major cities are either corporate controlled high-tech gated communities (Patrolled Zones, or PZs) for those who can pay, or lawless shanty towns for those who can't (NoGos). Between these is 'The Big Empty', the polluted, wasted Red States of America where vicious gangs hunt and fight. The atrophied state has all but given up trying to impose law and order here and instead relies on a new breed of bounty hunter come highway warrior to keep the roads open, the Sanctioned Operative.

Into this fractured new world the player must make their fortune. The player runs a Sanctioned Ops agency; taking on missions for bounty outside the PZs. As well as the tactical action on the road, the player must also manage both the vehicles and drivers – from upgrades to the front-mounted HMGs to booking a driver into the clinic for a new set of bionic eyes.
More information about our descent into darkness can be found at DarkFuture.info and @DarkFutureNews. Stay in the loop with Dark Future: Blood Red States by following Auroch Digital on Facebook and Twitter.

 

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Tomas Rawlings

Chainsaw Warrior Review Contest

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COMPETITION NOW CLOSED - WE HAVE A WINNER! 

Join us on an epic journey with Chainsaw Warrior for an opportunity to win a boxed copy of the classic (and long out of print) 1987 board game from Games Workshop, by writing a player review of the existing games in the style of an 80s action movie.

To win your very own boxed copy of the game, all you’ve got to do is to get your cliché on! Up for grabs is Stephen Hand’s seminal single player board game, Chainsaw Warrior, an instant classic upon its release in 1987, and Auroch Digital’s digital adaptations have only added to the legend. In a world where 80’s nostalgia reigns supreme, one man is fighting the forces of Darkness with a chainsaw! Hold on to your tropes, things are about to get clichéd...

We’re looking for short reviews of Auroch Digital’s ‘Chainsaw Warrior’ or ‘Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of the Night’, packed with as many action movie clichés as you can manage. Auroch Digital only have a single copy to give away, and it’s going to the player who crams the mostest and bestest into their review: “In a world…” “one man…” and anything you can think of that transports us back to 1987: If your review could be describing a Van Damme/Arnie/Stallone movie you’re on the right track. Extra points for recording yourself reading it in a Don La Fontaine voice!
 

PS. We should add we don't need it to be a positive review to enter; as long as it's creative, funny and in an 80s style then you can enter it and it might win! If you've already written a review and don't want to change it, you can submit it to us in another way!

WINNER - Doctor X

We asked you for entries that would transport us straight back to 1987 and Doctor X, AKA Captain Defenestrator, AKA Jim (he's very mysterious) went above and beyond by resurrecting the voice of the 80s action movie himself, Don LaFontaine! His review was left on the Chainsaw Warrior 1 Google Play page.

Well done to him, and massive thanks to everyone for their contributions. His copy of the original board game will be sent out today. 

Click on the image to see the extended screenplay for Chainsaw Warrior: The Movie, directed by the visionary Doctor X

Click on the image to see the extended screenplay for Chainsaw Warrior: The Movie, directed by the visionary Doctor X

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Tomas Rawlings

Auroch Digital's Dr Tomas Rawlings Delivers Keynote at PLAY15

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Auroch Digital's Dr Tomas Rawlings was invited to deliver the opening keynote for Hamburg's PLAY15 Festival of Games. Tomas spoke on the topic of games and democracy, talking about how video games, as simulations of complex systems help both engage and understand the democratic process. Auroch Digital wishes to thank the organisers of PLAY15 for their hospitality!

Dr Tomas Rawlings at PLAY15. Image courtesy of Games Ringvorlesung.

Dr Tomas Rawlings at PLAY15. Image courtesy of Games Ringvorlesung.

For further information on the talk; there is a video of it online (thanks to Elbe Studios) and also more links on Tomas' blog.

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Tomas Rawlings

Ballot Bots Game Launches for BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat

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Auroch Digital, through it's innovative newsgame initiative GameTheNews has been working with BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat to produce a game tied in to the upcoming UK general election. The final result is 'Ballot Bots', a light-hearted game aimed at engaging an audience facing it's first election. The game itself is a fun, puzzle-style game in which you have to pair up the Politician bots with their respective Voters, collecting bonuses along the way which allow you more moves, and answering questions for bonus points. These questions both inform and challenge the player to take up an interest in the world of politics. The player works their way towards Downing Street through various different zones which have been highlighted as key points within this election. They are; Education, Immigration, Housing, Cost of Living and the NHS. The game features politicians from all the main parties and the regions plus has a special Northern Ireland themed level. The game is available on the BBC's new interactive Taster service, which aims to promote digital and technology content.

Play the game here.
See Newsbeat's coverage of it here.

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Tomas Rawlings