Awesomenauts, a 2d platformer from the Utrecht Ronimo Games, will be out in February for Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. The studio is known for the strategic Swords & Soldiers, that originally appeared on the Wii.
With Awesomenauts is the Dutch Ronimo Games on the road with Swords & Soldiers is smashed. The Utrecht studio, that the game in February 2012 on the market for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, has again opted for a colorful two-dimensional setting and a game made with a strategic slant. Awesomenauts looks like an old-fashioned 2d platformer, but plays more like a multiplayer online battle arena, or moba, a genre that is mainly known by the Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients. Ronimo to play in on the popularity of the genre. In addition to Ronimo’s Awesomenauts, there are still two games in the genre on the stack. Valve is working on Dota 2, which is also somewhere on the market in 2012 would have to come out, and Blizzard is working on Blizzard Dota, a mod for StarCraft II, perhaps even before the turn of the year comes on the market.
Swords & Soldiers, the first game under the name Ronimo Games appeared, had a lot of credit a lot of praise because it is smart, strategic gameplay with a 2d sidescrolling environment combined. After the version for the Wii appeared the game also for the PlayStation Network, Windows, OS X and iOS. The founders of Ronimo Games were, however, all earlier success. As students at the HKU, they made a game around the renovation of Hoog Catharijne. The concept of that game would later form the basis for The Blob, a Wii game by THQ on the market.
