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Online-gaming publishers Koramgames have just released Indomitus, an exciting new free-to-play browser-based MMORTS with a focus on massive battles, city building and heroic leadership. Confirmed for beta release today (June 13th), Indomitus promises a unique guild system, more combat features than other games on the market, and is well worth your time.
The game is set in the shattered lands of ancient Europe, allowing you to unleash your inner barbarian by choosing one of nine allegiances to join while storming through the continent in a conquest for absolute domination.
Oh how we love a good free-to-play MMORTS!

Indomitus is aiming to stand apart from other browser games by offering a refreshing new player experience. Koramgame are saying there’s more ways to battle than any previous strategy game of the same ilk. Real time city sieges, historical battles, bandit raids, PvP face-offs, Guild battles and more are lying in wait for you and your troops.

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While classic adventure titles like Monkey Island and Sam & Max are getting the 3D rendering treatment in that new-school episodic format that all the kids are into these days, it’s refreshing to see a game harken back to the artistic 2D visuals that used to be the staple of point-and-clicks. But Daedalic’s latest release, A New Beginning, does much more than just sit there looking pretty. If you don’t mind the environmental message that it drills into you, A New Beginning is a joy to play, from its graphic novel aesthetics to its well-executed plot and its deep characterisation. If there’s an adventure game you’re going to play this year, make it this one.

Daedalic Entertainment are clearly concerned about the environment; if Al Gore had made an adventure game, well, this wouldn’t be it because he’s a politician and knows diddly squat about making games, but it’d be similar! Billed as an ‘eco-thriller’, a phrase that conjures up images of trees toting machine guns, A New Beginning tells the story of a dying Earth far in the future. Our blue planet has been ravaged by climate change, making the air unbreathable and the land pretty much uninhabitable.

Even worse is that a band of surviving scientists have discovered the world will be slapped around by a solar flare in two weeks time, destroying everything. Not being fans of a slow and painful death, the hardy bunch of individuals decide to send a select few back in time to sort the environment out before this can happen – opening up another splendid time paradox that the media seems to love.

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In this column, we’ve heard a lot of advice from various fields, including: programming, art, and design. We tend to think of these roles as the core of video game development.

At the end of the day, though, there is a group of people who ensure that the work gets done. These guys and gals work tirelessly to make sure the studio has the resources it needs to deliver games on time. They fall under a category called Operations Management.

No one knows the guts of operations better than Karen Clark. Her current role as Director of Studio Operations at Loot Drop Inc., a start-up social gaming company, gives her broad insight on what it takes to fill this understated, but always needed, role.

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