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11 developers from Media Molecule, Lionhead, and Criterion have formed the indie outfit Ambient Studios in Guildford, where it's debuted its maiden project Death, Inc. on Kickstarter.A mix of RTS, god game and business simulation, Death, Inc. is described as "a combination of every Bullfrog title you liked mixed with Katamari and Pikmin" by lead artist Jon Eckersley. It will put you in the cloak of freelance reaper Grim T. Livingstone as he spreads the bubonic plague throughout 1660's England. The quirky premise reimagines the bubonic plague as basically a zombie virus with your terminally ill horde set to want to infect anyone and anything that they can get their grubby little germs on.
Interestingly, you'll control your units by "painting" brush stroke i.e. drawings paths. This is meant to avoid the drudgery of painstakingly selecting units and telling them where to go. Instead you can split your army up to attack a mob in a pincer-like movement with a mere two strokes. You'll also be able to draw small circles to tell your units to scatter - a command more RTS games could use.
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