[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]
Hamburg, February 27, 2013.
InnoGames just opened 3D online game
Kartuga to the first round of players in a closed
beta. The keys for the closed beta are given out by lotteries
amongst all users who registered via
www.kartuga.com, but players can also visit
InnoGames’ Facebook page and
Kartuga’s Facebook page to grab keys to
enter the game. InnoGames will start with a small group of
dedicated fans and then expand player numbers as the beta proceeds
for testing and feedback. The closed beta begins in English, with
several more language versions to follow.
InnoGames CEO Hendrik Klindworth announces the launch, stating:
“We are bringing out a very high quality product with Kartuga
– with gameplay that is a bit unexpected from us. The game
focuses on multiple cooperative PvP modes with a lot of action, and
the detailed and colorful 3D graphics will change your notions
about what online games are really capable of.”
The action-packed MMOG is based on Unity 3D and focuses strongly
on cooperative PvP (player versus player) gameplay with several
role-playing elements. As a purely free-to-play online game, users
only need a Unity 3D plugin which is available for all current
browsers. Kartuga is InnoGames’ first partnership with
subsidiary company,
Ticking Bomb Games, who is responsible for the
development of the title.
Kartuga players choose one of three customizable classes of
ships to sail through a series of quests and missions. Last
week, InnoGames announced that Players can already try out two
PvP-modes in the beta: Domination, a variation of classic
king-of-the-hill, and Destruction, a mode where a bomb has to be
detonated in the enemy team’s base. Next to four PvP maps,
five areas of the large open world of Kartuga are accessible,
enabling players to encounter NPCs and solve various quests in
between PvP-matches.
About InnoGames:
With more than 100 million registered players, InnoGames is one
of the world's leading developers and providers of online games.
The Hamburg-based company has scored major successes with games
such as
Tribal Wars,
Forge of Empires and
Grepolis.
About Ticking Bomb Games:
Marco Schultz and Tobias Severin founded
Ticking Bomb Games in 2008. Since 2011 they have
been developing games exclusively for InnoGames. The development
studio, which boasts over 30 employees, won the coveted Deutschen
Entwickler Preis (German Developer Award) for its browser title
Europe 1400. Their greatest expertise lies in the area of
Unity3D.
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