Welcome to Netherforce

Netherforce is a game developed by 6 students as a project in a course at Chalmers University of Technology in Spring 2007. We competed against several other games in the competition Swedish Game Awards, but unfortuanately we did not take it to the final. The game is currently not being developed further, but on request we can release the source.

Story

Netherforce is a team based action game centered around each player controlling and developing a hero in the middle of an ongoing battle. On each side of the battlefield a citadel resides which fuels the battle with an endless supply of troops. The players divided in two teams each take control of a self designed hero. With a wide range of abilities and a low level of control over the allied forces close to him the player strives to turn and force the battle into the enemy citadel. Inside the fortification the citadel general resides, and killing him is the final objective of the game.

Targetted Audience

We hope to gather players from a few different types of games. With the strong teamplay we hope to please a lot of social players that enjoy playing together facing other good teams online or simply playing agianst friends. With the fantasy theme and partial character development mmo players will probably find it to their liking. Just seeing your character get better thinking out different ways to plan skills even players from more action oriented RPG games such as diablo could like Netherforce.

As we do not have any real saved progress between the games and a session of the game doesnt have to take longer than 40 min to 2h we hope that the game will be available for everyone with a bit of free time now and then.

The game will be fairly harmless in terms of violence and blood. We are aiming for anyone of ages 13 and up to be able to play the game.

Download

Download Netherforce

The downloadable version offered here is what we demonstrated as our final product in the course Spelprojekt at Chalmers. It is not complete as we are missing some important gaming elements, and we haven't tested it enough to be sure there are no bugs left. We take no responsibility for what will happen if you decide to run it.

Download Manual

The manual describes the core features of Netherforce such as how to start up the game, and how to play.

Download Report

The report is a group report written by the developers describing the developing process and details about the engine and game.

Media

Video

As we entered in the competition Swedish Game Awards, we made our self a video promoting our game. The video shows off our engine in action, with the troops attacking each other, and heroes using their skills in order to master the enemy. The video can be seen here:

To further advertise our game, we present our impressive level editor. With it you can easily create new levels playable in Netherforce. See the video here:

Screenshots

Here are some in game screenshots:

Contact Us

Game Related Questions

For questions and comments regarding the game, please contact us at:

info(at)netherforce.com

Developers

To get in contact with the developers, please contact us at:

Ola Frid
Lead Programmer | Secondary Lead Tool
olafrid(at)dtek.chalmers.se

Christian Genne
Project Leader
genne(at)dtek.chalmers.se

Peter Johansson
Lead Game Design
x-g(at)monkeyblah.com

Anders Josefsson
Lead Tool | Secondary Lead Programmer
asmodi(at)dtek.chalmers.se

Petter Magnusson
Lead Testing | Secondary Lead Game Design
petter.a.magnusson(at)gmail.com

Lars Rinde
Lead Document | Secondary Project Leader
lars(at)rinde.net