After a 5-year-long struggle, the two-men studio Ivent Games finally announced the release of their game on PSN… and… they made up a holiday?
EPIC WIN DAY Trailer
As you can see from the trailer, the two man team over at Ivent games has a rich and interesting story. They also have a goofy marketing strategy which includes making up holidays, releasing a hilarious digital comic ( http://iventgames.com/?page_id=52) -which offers an inside look at the “studio dynamics”, and numbering their first game as a third installment. They elaborate on the latter:
“We’re NEVER going to make sequels to our games. We want to take up different challenges each time around. And getting stuck on a single series doesn’t fit into it. So… we’ll be finishing all of our “trilogies” right off the bat. Like, for Strength of the Sword 3… If we want to revisit the project, we much rather do it through DLC, so that we can just build on it instead of redoing it. Why go through all the boring things again-like tutorials and stuff; when we can just give the players that liked it more of the exciting content like Bosses, Levels, Weapons and stuff…”
In Strength of the Sword 3 players control a “blade-welding, magic-powered war-machine from the heavens and take on the Dark Mechanism and his minions in this Challenge-driven Sword Combat Game.” There is also a crushingly difficult adaptive AI, which will learn the player’s tactics and adjust accordingly. As for the story…well here’s what the developers had to say:
“Story didn’t matter for us as much… we were spread pretty thin as it was… what we wanted to give the player was A CHALLENGING GAME, so that’s what we focused on.”
Strength of the Sword 3 is out now exclusively for the PS3!
