Blizzard veterans want to develop the next big strategy game.
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Uncapped Games is a studio founded in 2021 by Chinese publisher Tencent. Many experienced developers of games like Starcraft, Warcraft, Dawn of War and Company of Heroes with the aim of creating a new real-time strategy game. Nothing less than a “paradigm shift” in the genre is planned.
New strategy game from genre experts
In a documentary from Noclip, a crowdfunded YouTube channel specializing in video game reports, various developers from Uncapped Games explain their vision of the RTS project.
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David Kim, the former Chief developer of Starcraft 2explains: »Our game focuses on the core of this genre and brings players the fun of RTS faster than ever before.«
According to Kim, the common RTS motto “Easy to learn, hard to master” doesn't apply to many genre representatives. Uncapped Games therefore does not want to develop a game that is about Build order and as many actions per minute as possible goes to be successful.
The game should be clear become more accessible than, for example, a Starcraft 2 and, according to Kim, “presents the player with strategic decisions from moment to moment”. There shouldn't be any “tedious clicks that are required to even experience the game.”
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What kind of game is this exactly?
That's why Uncapped Games is still doing it right now quite a secret. There is neither a trailer nor the first images, not even a rough description of the gameplay. What exactly the “genre revolution” consists of is still unclear.
The colleagues of PC gamers were already allowed to watch and even play the project behind closed doors. Editor Lincoln Carpenter only reveals that he is impressed by how well thought out Uncapped Games' strategy is in reshaping the genre. He definitely sees potential in the still unnamed title.
It will take a while until the reveal. Uncapped Games wants the game at this year's Summer Games Fest on June 7, 2024 presented to the public for the first time.
Do you agree that many real-time strategy games lack accessibility? Which newly released game from this genre has impressed you in recent years? Feel free to write it to us in the comments.