Gaslamp Games announces Clockwork Empires

Gaslamp Games Inc., an independent game developing company and maker of Dungeons of Dredmor, is announcing a new title, Clockwork Empires for Windows, OS X and Linux platforms.

The game lets you take on the role of a Junior Bureaucrat (Colonial Grade) sent forth to seek fame, promotions and natural resources to feed the ever-hungry maw of industry and commerce. Build mighty colonies, fill them with magnificent factories and tortured machinery, and harness the power of steam and energies brought forth by determined, unregulated men and women of Science!

Gaslamp Games is working on Clockwork Empire

Herein, the folk of Gaslamp Games present a small selection of their “penny dreadful” game development features, demonstrating wonders never-before seen in plebian entertainment:

• Dynamic city-building and citizen-simulating action. Every imperial subject has a purpose and agenda of their own, and their interactions are rich, exciting and often lethal!
• New “procedural extrusion” technology lets you design your colony the way you want! Buildings are procedurally generated and extruded directly from the aether to your specifications!
• Tame the uncharted continents by land, sea and air! Set forth in mighty Zeppelins to do battle with Sky Pirates or take to the seas in search of fortune and probably sea serpents!
• Create magnificent acts of plumbing, link together mighty gears and build ominous Megaprojects!
• Tangle with the machinations of malevolent entities! Scry the legacy of the Invisible Geometers, fumigate the baleful moon-fungus of the Selenian Polyps and cleanse the scuttling creepiness and poor personal and moral hygiene of your everyday, average cultist.
• Losing is still fun! When your colony fails miserably, earn medals, promotions and titles as befits a true politician and scion of the Empire!
• Multi-player mode, with up to 4 players, lets you co-operate with your closest friends to build a glorious city… or fight a horrifying economic battle to total annihilation!
• Round-Robin mode lets you share your Clockwork Empires with friends! Take turns running a colony directly into the ground then argue for fun-filled hours about whose fault it was! (Like Monopoly but with more exploding Zeppelins!)Rendered in glorious GaslampVision! Thrill as the colours are brought to life by Gaslamp’s team of caffeine-addled artists labouring under the technical specifications of our elite programmers* to bring you a game that is rendered in Each of the Three Dimensions! New multi-core technology by Actual University Students lets you use every last ounce of power in your computer to run a thrilling and vivid simulation!   (* We’ll see about that, Nicholas. Soon. – David)
• Featuring the new Dynamic Soundtrack Orchestra – the Soundtrack that Adjusts to Your Gameplay! (Mr. M. Steele, conductor)
• No always-online DRM requirement, unlike certain other games we don’t want to mention. You know who you are and your mothers are very disappointed.
• Comes complete with the Gaslamp Games Quality of Excellence that you know and love, and if you don’t like something you can mod it yourself in the best tradition of Empire Craftsmanship!