Radio cure.
2014’s most geekily electrifying game announcement might have been Winning Blimp’s Stratolith, a game about hacking combat drones using an on-screen oscilloscope. I suspect that Winning Blimp may have won some sort of grant from an electrical engineering trade group to pursue this idea; perhaps there’s a soldering iron fencing game or a post-grad thesis advisor sim in the offing.
It’s been quite a while since we heard from Winning Blimp and designer Alex May got in touch over the weekend to correct that. There’s a new video of Stratolith’s gameplay, narrated by May himself who explains exactly how you’ll be hacking enemy units in this sci-fi RTS — namely by creating an oscilloscope wave that cancels out the control signal that the drone is receiving. It’s not as elaborate as the hacking in say, Uplink, but remember that you’re also issuing attack orders to your own drones at the same time — let’s see David from WarGames do that. Punk.
Winning Blimp are currently eyeballing a mid-2015 release date for Stratolith, which is coming to iPad and desktops. Follow Winning Blimp on Twitter and watch the new gameplay video below.
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