REYKJAVIK, Iceland – 25th June 2020 – After a successful launch in April, the independent Icelandic game development studio Solid Clouds, have not sat idly by as players immersed themselves in the Open Beta for Starborne. Having now developed a brand new faster paced game mode, dubbed Dead Zone, that takes 4 hours to complete or under 3% of the time it takes to complete a regular 10 week game of Starborne. The studio will be previewing the mode this weekend with a tournament that lets the victors contribute to Starborne’s lore.
Some of the new innovations and features that will be previewed:
· 4 hour game rounds
· Four new playable factions; Nightcorps, Les Apaches, Surpasum, Gatos Fritos
· Claiming special hexes now gives unique empire wide bonuses
· New much smaller map featuring 25 player starting locations
· New Cards and card pool overhauled
· New Nebula
· New Station Planner with new buildings and organizations
· Tournament victors will get a unique chance to contribute to the Starborne lore
· Sprawling Radiation pools now appear on the map and must be contained
Commenting on the new game mode, Stefan Gunnarsson, CEO and Lead Designer on Starborne said, “We have been playing Dead Zone a lot in the office and we are incredibly excited about its potential. We have spent the last few years building up our own framework to make large-scale strategy games and Dead Zone is a showcase of how powerful that framework is becoming. Our community has been the cornerstone behind our success so we are excited to reward the victors of this first Dead Zone Tournament with a unique opportunity to contribute to the history of the Starborne universe.”
About Starborne
Starborne is a massively multiplayer real-time sci-fi strategy game where you build your empire alongside thousands of other players and wage war for control of the galaxy. Each individual game is played over a 10 week period across a unique seamless map. Players must strategize and forge alliances to put themselves in the strongest possible position for the intensely competitive endgame that will decide the fate of the galaxy.
Sign up to the Open Beta at https://landing.starborne.com
About Solid Clouds
Founded in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2013 by Stefán Gunnarsson, Stefán Björnsson and Sigurdur Arnljotsson, the original CEO and co-founder of developer CCP Games, Solid Clouds was formed with one goal in mind: take the best elements of 4X Grand Strategy and combine them with the scale of an MMO to create something brand-new and unique – Starborne.
Currently, the Solid Clouds team is eighteen strong. Starborne will be the first of many games that the company will release.
For more on Solid Clouds, visit https://www.solidclouds.com
For additional information on Starborne and Solid Clouds, please contact:
Simon Callaghan
Johnny Atom Productions
E: simon@johnnyatom.com
T: +44 (0)203 176 0139
M: +44 (0)7867 514554
Haukur Steinn Logason
Solid Clouds
E:haukur@solidcouds.com
T: +354 661 6114
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