GarageGames today announced its Game Developer's Conference (GDC) showcase of games. The company plans to premiere ThinkTanks a cartoon styled tank game from BraveTree Productions, preview a new release of Orbz with a single player mode from 21-6 Productions and display the highly acclaimed Marble Blast from GarageGames and Monster Studios.
All the titles that GarageGames will show at GDC are built on the Torque Game Engine. GarageGames will have all these games showing in their booth (#940) along with tech demos of Tennis Critters from Nerd Riot Games, Realm Wars the massively multi-player GarageGames community project and Idryonis Studios' Cyberfuge: Second Battalion.
GarageGames will be demonstrating a custom version of Marble Blast in the nVIDIA booth (#1108), designed to showcase the cutting edge rendering capabilities of nVIDIA's latest hardware and Cg programming language. The demo shows off dot3 bumpmapping, per pixel specular lighting, and translucent refraction with dynamic cubic environment mapping.
"GarageGames is known for our great technology and a vibrant independent developer community and that is very rewarding, but bringing independently developed games to market that are addictive and fun to play is what we're all about," comments Jeff Tunnell, President of GarageGames.
ThinkTanks - BraveTree Productions http://www.bravetree.com
“BraveTree is very excited to announce we will be publishing ThinkTanks with GarageGames,” comments Joe Maruschak. ThinkTanks is a single and multi-player cartoon styled, power-up based tank combat game with a simplified play mechanic meant to appeal to the casual gamer. It captures the simple fun of Atari “Combat” (in a 3d environment). Easy to learn and hard to master, ThinkTanks is designed to provide an enjoyable gaming experience for players of all ages and skill levels. (See full Release Attached)
Orbz - 21-6 Productions http://www.21-6.com
"The reaction to Orbz has been extremely positive since it's launch in December, so much so that we are developing an upgrade version with the most requested features including; single-player challenges, Botz
(computer opponents), new courses, and Macintosh and Linux support.", comments Justin Mette, President of 21-6 Productions. Justin will be on hand at GDC to demonstrate this next generation of the action-arcade
title, Orbz.
Tennis Critters - Nerd Riot Games http://www.nerdriot.com/
Tennis Critters from Nerd Riot Games, follows in the tradition of critter driven. “Most importantly, it can be played with up to four players on a single computer or over the internet,” said Doyoon Kim, founder of Nerd Riot Games, “There have been numerous tennis games available for the consoles over the years, but computer tennis games, especially ones with chipmunks, have been few and far between on Windows, Mac and Linux.”
Marble Blast – GarageGames & Monster Studios http://www.garagegames.com/marbleblast
Cyberfuge: Second Battlalion - Idryonis Studios http://secondbattalion.idryonis.com/
Realm Wars - GarageGames http://www.garagegames.com/mg/projects/realmwars/