Rooks Keep

Primary to Rooks Keep is the 3rd-person combat system involving quick and slow attacks, blocking, parrying, dodging and a selection of upgradeable skills.

Each character also features their own unique ability. In addition, a basic character skill system allows asymetric fights, eg: The Queen is more powerful than the Pawn. Players can spend skill points to either use a more powerful piece or upgrade their current one.

Rooks Keep features a selection of game-modes, from free-for-all and team based modes, to Chess variations: Deathmatch: Free-for-all combat; killed or be killed.

Team-Deathmatch: Any number of teams duke it out for victory .

Conversion: Teams attempt to convert members of other teams to their own side by killing them.

Last alive on the team becomes the Warlord! Combat Chess: It's Chess, but with a chance for the victim of an attack to fight their way out of certain death. Classic Chess: Classic Chess mode; the victim does not fight back..

Last Man Standing: You have a set number of lives; be the last man standing after the dust settles.

Last Team Standing: You, and by extension your team, has limited lives; fight to be the last team standing.

Rooks Keep currently features two unique factions; the forces of the Kingdom and the beasts of Darkspawn.

The game is set in a varierty of detailed fantasy environments, featuring maps for both deathmatch and Chess modes.

Players will get control of six characters per side, based on traditional Chess pieces (Pawn, Rook, Queen, etc) and each is uniquely animated and ready to commit hideous acts of carnage.

Rooks Keep also features an extensive blood and gore system for particularly messy battles.

Singleplayer, Online and LAN is supported for all game-types, where up to 32 players can fight it out in all the non-Chess modes. AI bots can be added to all deathmatch game-modes and we even have support for 3rd party AI Chess engines (such as Stockfish)! Alternatively, players can simply play on the same computer in the traditional Chess mode.

Rooks Keep is running on Epic Games™ excellent Unreal® Development Kit™. With this in mind, we absolutely intend to do as much as we can for mod support.

-Fixed pickup highlighting on bucket water surface.

-Fixed pickup highlighting when not using hands.

-Turned the ‘GRAPHICS TO WASTE’ knob down from 11 to 3 on the incinerator fire effects.

-Also optimized the fire effect for burning objects.

-Added extra fire effects for open incinerator doors.

-Moved non-common classes and references to sub-package to prepare for mod support.

-Added new Dig-Site map.

-Added the Sandtrap actor.

-Added new tool: The Shovel.

-Added new sand mechanics.

-Spare tools now show on back of janitor.

-Implemented janitor gibs.

-Increased mop and bucket saturation limits (yay!).

-Decreased bucket and bin machine jam rates (yay!).

-Movable dig site light actors.

-New crates.

-Bloody worker body textures.

-Removed slippery areas from Evil Science…for now.

-Fixed med-pack lids behaving oddly after loading.

-Improved Trophy system to store anything you personally put in there.

-Improved janitor trunk to carry over skeletal viscera properly.

-Removed unused ‘Use’ Key from input bindings.

-Improved punchout system to punish you more accurately. (Doesn’t apply to old saves) -Implemented some extra optional/bonus janitorial tasks [Stacking Areas] -Fixed fires causing scorch marks underwater.