Musketeer

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PRESS RELEASE: Students building game with depth (June 1st 2004)

Hilversum – A group of five MA students of the Utrecht School of the Arts is currently developing a game called The Musketeer. The goal of their project is not only to create fancy looking graphics, the students are focussing at making the game more emotional engaging than most of the games published today. The project is the practical outcome of the research the students are doing during their thesis writing. “Some of us research shadows or narrative structures, others are looking into intuitive fight systems.” Says one of the group members. “It is the combination that makes this game work, we hope.”
The Musketeer game is a modification of the Unreal Tournament 2004 game, but as the Unreal game is a shooter in a sci-fi setting, the students are creating a so called Adventure Hack 'n Slash game situated in the 17th century France.
The project is inspired on the tales of d'Artagnan and the three Musketeers. “The light of candles, the clothing and manners of that age set a great mood for our game” declares one of the students. The game will be released in september and is downloadable for owners of Unreal Tournament 2004 at http://musketeer.hku.nl

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Dukatiers

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Dukatiers is a multiplayer adventure - and communication game, made by the students of the HKU for the Starchild foundation.

The objective of this game is to get chronic sick children out of their social isolation, there they frequently not able to play (outside) with other contemporaries. The game Dukatiers approaches this by offering a game system where communication is stimulated. Players become star creatures in the game (avatars which the children know already of the Internet site), disguised as pirates.
The aim of the game is finding a treasure. A player has, at the beginning of the game, only one bit of the treasure card and must communicate with other players to complete treasure map. This can exchange by means by trade or defy.
At exchanging two players hand over a copy of one of their tickets to the other. At defying an attacking player the victim end lying on the ground and loses its ticket.

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