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Sanctum is a total conversion mod for Unreal Tournament 3. It is being developed during a ten week long school project by Coffee Stain Studios, a group consisting of eleven university students at Högskolan i Skövde, Sweden. Sanctum is a first person tower defense game where you take on the role as Skye, a female elite soldier. Your sole purpose is to defend your hometown, Elysion One, from the invading force of mysterious alien creatures. Choose from different defensive formations and upgrade deadly gatling turrets to aid you in the defense of the city. Use hand held weapons to give you an advantage.
The underlying reason for developing Sanctum was to take the popular tower defense game mode and get it into a first person perspective. We also developed a quite unique and outstanding art style and feel of the game, being communicated through choice of colours, musical theme and design on world objects. The style is in distinct contrast to the overall look and feel of Unreal Tournament 3 and thus proves that something very different can be produced by the popular engine.
The decision of making a total conversion was made so that we could produce all original content instead of re-using the content by Unreal Tournament 3. This means that all the models, textures, sounds and music is or will be developed by us. We are planning on further developing Sanctum in a direction where we add Co-op, different game types and additional turret, enemy and weapon types.
Linar Fetcoolov
linar@igromania.ru
Linar Fetcoolov
Hello!
My name is Linar Fetcoolov. I am previews junior editor from Igromania
- Russia's biggest gaming magazine (second in Europe).
Our monthly circulation is 230K and readership is about 1800K.
Every issue is accompanied with a standalone DVD-video magazine and a
regular DVD with demos, patches, etc.
If you want to know more about us - please visit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igromania .
The reason I am writing to you is because we want to write a preview
about your game in the upcoming issue, because it looks really
promising to us.
Is it possible to do a Q&A session with the team and provide us with
some exclusive graphic assets?
We are happy to pretty much any exclusive information we can get from you!
Please let us know if it is possible.
Thanks in advance!
Henrik Niku
Thanks for the positive feedback.
Feel free to elaborate your criticism about the character concept, Robert Riedel. Just stating that it's less cool doesn't help us at all. The main character Skye has a different style and we understand that it might not be to everyones liking. We have however chosen to go with a mix between eastern anime and a more western commercial style.
As for a testable version, we have both applied for a public version through SGA, but I'm not very updated on how that will work. Other than that we're about to release a public beta in the next few weeks.
If you have any further questions, feel free to either comment here or contact me directly at Henriknik (at) hotmail.com
Robert Riedel-Karlsson
Looks cool, will there be possible to test it?
Except for the character concept... that was less cool.
Marcus Lindmark
The graphics looks impressive... I is clear that you have put alot of work into it.