Dungeon Defenders

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Just found this game from the Impulse weekly email:

http://dungeondefenders.com/


It certainly looks like interesting from the video on their main page. It looks like its going to be a Tower Defense style game, with elements of third person shooting/hack&Slashing thrown in. No demo out as of yet, has anyone else heard of this or been following it? It has store pages on Impulse and Steam though the steam page doesn't have a pre-order button.

For the pre-order price of £6.29 (£6.99 normal price) it certainly seems good value with multiplayer and co-op included.


EDIT:


Well, its been over a year! But now its finally over! £9.99 for the game or £29.99 for the 4 pack (though there's currently 10% off if you pre-order). Release date is the 19th October, and if you buy it on Steam, you get a portal gun as well as 4 TF2 familiars, the Heavy, Engineer, Medic and Pyro.

There are 3 dev diaries which display lots of the game elements here:


Its available to pre-order now on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/65800/

Steam info blurb:

Dungeon Defenders is a Tower Defense Action-RPG where you must save the land of Etheria from an Ancient Evil! Create a hero from one of four distinct classes to fight back wave after wave of enemies by summoning defenses and directly participating in the action-packed combat!

Customize and level your character, forge equipment, gather loot, collect pets and more! Take your hero through multiple difficulty modes and challenge/survival missions to earn more experience & even better treasure. Join your friends with 4-player online and local (splitscreen) co-op to plan your strategies together or compete in PvP Deathmatch.

Key Features
4-player Online and Local Co-Op - Team-up with up to 3 friends to defend cooperatively, with character classes that support each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Dynamically combine local (splitscreen) and online players and leave/join any time, so that the game’s always full.
Tower-Defense Meets Action-RPG - Choose your class, customize your character & equipment, strategically assemble your defenses, and participate directly in action-packed battle to preserve your castle against the invading horde!
4 Distinct Character Classes - Each character class has a different skill tree, set of towers, and even basic attacks! You can choose if you want to play stealthy, turn invisible, and plant traps behind enemy lines with the Huntress or go all out, block off choke points, and brutally beat your foes into submission with the Squire!
Loot and Level-Up - Grab the mounds of money and items that your defeated foes drop and trade them or store them for later use in your Item Box! Getting kills and completing waves earns you experience points, which can be used to upgrade your characters, skills, equipment, and towers on a per-statistic basis. Do you want to enhance Hit Points, Attack Rate, Damage, etc? The choice is yours... Store your massive overflow of money in the 'Mana Bank' and then spend it to improve your equipment or trade with other players. Proudly show off your best equipment in your own 'Adventurer’s Tavern', without fear of item theft!
Tons of Enemies and Huge Boss Fights - Over 100 simultaneous enemies will attempt to tear through your defenses and gigantic Boss Monsters will appear to rain down havoc upon everyone. Only by employing the most effective defensive strategies, teamwork, and strong characters will you defeat such devilish foes! Many enemy types run the gamut from big dumb Orcs swinging huge axes, to lithe Dark Elves that strike from the shadows, to crazy kamikaze goblins! Can you defeat the epic boss battles and collect the special loot while still defending your crystals?
Mission & Game Play Variety - Each level has a different visual setting, layout, enemy types, traps, and distinct surprises. To collect all the loot and reach the highest levels you must take your character through 4 difficulty modes, survival missions, challenge maps, and more! Some maps force you to have mobile defenses, guarding a crystal which warps around the map. Others have YOU attacking enemy encampments!
Collect and Trade Pets Online - A variety of pets exist to assist you in the land of Etheria, each with distinct behaviors. These pets can be leveled-up and customized to match your unique play-style. They can even be traded online with other players!
Secure Trading System - Afraid another player won't live up to their word? Use our secure trading system to trade your precious weapons, armor, and pets with other players online! Watch your name and fame spread online, as people seek out the best pet raisers or item forgers!
A Mountain of Stats - Every shot you take, kill you make, and defense you build is logged and recorded for posterity. Pore over the voluminous charts and graphs at the end of each session to analyze your team’s performance, quickly review your best statistics for each level, and compare your data online with other players to see who is the greatest hero of all. Furthermore, your Achievements are visible for all to see within your very own Adventurer’s Tavern, and the highest scores for each of your heroes are ranked on the worldwide leaderboards!
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Updated the OP slightly with more info as nobody seems to really have heard of it :p

Edit: Booze, that seems exactly right, its the same developers, guess they made it into a full game then. I wonder if that means its still running on the UE3 engine, its certainly very versatile if that's the case.
 
Glad I grabbed the iPod touch version of the game, it was only £1.69 I think, and from a quick play its great, there's a few niggles down simply to the lack of screen space and playing with a touch screen, deffinately looking forward to the proper PC release! :D
 
http://store.steampowered.com/app/202522/

Dev kit is available for download there now!

The Dungeon Defenders Development Kit is a robust set of tools for players to modify all aspects of the Dungeon Defenders source and create their own content and games. Packaged with the game’s complete source code and art assets, the Dungeon Defenders Development Kit is one of the definitive Unreal reference codebases for anyone looking to create their own Unreal games.
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Should expect to see some awesome things come out of this!
 
7.12 Update Notes
Additions
* PvE: Added new 8-player "Über Monster Fest!" challenge mission as part of the 'New Heroes Pack'
* All: Players can now to create their own "Hero Shop" with Items they own, set prices on those Items, and then specifically list their game as an "AFK Shop" game. Added button to view the available DefendersStore.com Items along with the active "AFK Shops".
* All: Added a "Add to DefendersStore.com" button to the Item Box and Hero Shop, which enables you to post/updates your items to DefendersStore.com directly from within the game! Also the Items automatically remove themselves from DefendersStore.com when they get sold from your shop!

Changes
* All: You can now hold "Alt" and click on another Hero Icon in the Hero Selection or Swapping UI to swap those two hero positions, so you can more easily organize your heroes into sets.
* All: Score indicator collapses the same-type labels onto each other, so if you kill 100 goblins before the score indicator has caught up, you get a "Killed 100 +100" message rather than 100 goblin kill messages. This makes the score indicator much more useful and timely.
* All: Every slower swinging melee weapon now deals proportionally more damage! (as listed on their Damage Stat too). Is retroactive.
* All: Raised Mana Bank non-shop earnings Cap to 100,000,000
* PvE: Adept "Instant Upgrade" can now also be used in the Build Phase, useful for time-limited missions, and reduced the cost of "Purity Bomb" to 200 Mana. Also, Instant-Upgrade can be used beyond Upgrade Level 5 to do an Instant Repair, at a high cost of Mana.
* PvE: Dark Elf Warrior Damage to Towers reduced by 50%, and their Targeting Desirability to Towers reduced by 40%.
* All: Monk Weapons retroactively buffed 33% Melee Damage, Monk Ranged Damage Exponential Ramp nerfed 20%, Monk Hero Boost upkeep cost increased 20%.
* All: Redesigned the Adept animations.
* All: Upgrading Projectile Speed now has a minimal impact on resale value.
* All: All Chicken Pets standardized to 80 Upgrade Levels.
* All: Countess "Joust" damage scales better (increased damage stat ramp by 20%), and "Joust" now does scaled Weapon Elemental Damage as well. Countess "Call To Arms" radius raised and ally damage buff ramp increased 15%
* All: Definitive Chicken-Pet 33% damage buff.

Fixes
* All: Fixed bug where you could get someone else's Tavern dropped items in YOUR Tavern.
* All: Keyboard-lockout after naming your game when using a Gamepad is fixed
* All: Likely fix for weapon-not-appearing-on-character issue under lossy-network conditions
* All: Another Countess "Joust" client issue fixed,
* DDDK: Total Conversions can now use custom Materials.
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For those who missed the patch notes, ~1Gb to download.
 
Personally, I don't really care much about the balance. I mean, me and my friends have been playing it loads together, and we're only in the Lv30s, and we're having a blast. We aren't out there to grind out the best loot in the game, who cares about that? We just want to have fun, and this game is tons of fun.

We've also been trying out the PvP, decided on a level cap of 10. You can pick any character and any equips you like, no pets allowed. Then we just split up into teams and enjoy some CTF. There aren't 16 of us, but its still a good laugh, and suprisingly good fun.
 
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