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This project is interesting and relative to these forums because they have a transparency policy with their designing of the game. Most everything is designed and voted on by the pledgees of the campaign:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14214732/kaiju-combat-giant-monsters-awesome-fighting-onlin

I've pitched in a monster myself and it's currently being developed. It's fun and it's an excellent opportunity to get your creativity recognized and onto established platforms like PC, XBox Live and PSN.

It's by the dudes that brought you Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, Godzilla: Unleashed and Godzilla: Save The Earth.

After 3 years in development, the game is just about ready to be shown. It's a strange mash-up of Smash Bros., Quake III Arena and Worms. What you get is a 2D multiplayer mayhem shooter.

1,000 ways to frag / 1,000 ways to die.




Any feedback is welcome.

Project Info:

GEM WARS
A 2D platformer/shooter with elements from the fighting/party game genre. The fast-paced action of Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena, and while incorporating the playful platforming of feel of Super Smash Bros. and LittleBigPlanet.

You must equip your character to one-up the other players. You must master the 6 Lethal Arms (as well as the 4 elemental gems that modify your Lethal Arms-- for a total of 24 Lethal combinations), 8 Tactical Arms and 3 different pairs of Power Boots. The game includes various multiplayer game modes, including Deathmatch, King of the Hill, Super Gem (similar to Halo's "Oddball") and Mixed mode.

Experience:

Mega Man Evolution (click here to watch video / click here to download demo)
Deathtojohnny (game designer) and Fenix (programmer) created this short demo many years ago. This small 2-level demo has enjoyed 100,000s of downloads since its release and has received an aggregate score of 4/5 stars.

Chaos Faction 2 (click here to play)
James O'Reilly provided the artwork for this game.

Website/Blog:

http://gemwars.blog.com/

Availability:

A beta version is currently available on the blog (uses placeholder artwork)

The final PC version release is scheduled for early-Summer 2012, while an XBox Live release is set shortly thereafter.

Artwork:

A glimpse at some of the characters currently available:

Any feedback is appreciated!