#HTE

Stage Your Own Epic (Virtual) Battles with the “Totally Accurate Battle Simulator”

While videogames often feature castles, this one was actually developed by people working inside of one. Last week Örebro Castle, a medieval island fortification in Sweden, hosted Castle Game Jam 2016, “a rapid result driven game development event where teams create prototypes over the course of 1 week in a big castle.” Stockholm-based Landfall Games was in attendance, and here’s what developers Andreas Jörgensen, David Norberg and Karl Flodin came up with:

Well, that escalated quickly.

They’re calling it T.A.B.S., for Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, a title that belies some of the game’s more peculiar capabilities. In the following battle, for instance, we see that one of the weapons appears to be a zombie peasant that excretes battle chickens:

Fine, so it’s not exactly Game of Thrones, but it looks diverting enough.

You can sign up for the alpha testing here.

http://www.core77.com/posts/54680/Stage-Your-Own-Epic-Virtual-Battles-with-the-Totally-Accurate-Battle-Simulator