The Cat is Out Of The Bag, Ready At Dawn Announce De-Formers
Last week we reported The Order: 1886 Developer Ready at Dawn was working on a project. Today we learned more about this project. After inking a deal with GameStop’s publishing arm GameTrust, The Order: 1886 developer Ready at Dawn announced its new game today – De-Formers.
In De-Formers, up to eight players can beat each other up as cute funny looking creatures known as Forms. Players body slam and shoot each other in arena combat.
“It might not be what you expect out of our studio,” said Ru Weerasuriya, co-founder and chief creative officer of Ready At Dawn, during the game’s unveiling. “I think that’s been the first reaction for everybody who’s laid their eyes on this game.”
Weerasuriya explained that De-Formers started as a small project, driven by internally-developed soft body physics technology, and eventually “grew to a whole team working on a passion project that we play every single day over here.” Around 20-25 staffers are working on the game, while the rest of Ready At Dawn works on other, unannounced things.
Freedom to pull off a ton of different moves to get the upper hand on the opponents. It’s also possible to consume elements of the environment and even defeated enemies in order to increase one’s power.
The game includes both local and online multiplayer but does not have a release date yet.