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Greed Corp

Turn-based strategy at its finest

Greed Corp is a turn-based strategy released on Xbox LIVE Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC in 2010. In this board game-like downloadable game, players are literally standing on top of their resources. They need to find the delicate balance between harvesting the land to build an army with and preserving it to have something to stand on. Whoever survives the longest within the ever shrinking environment, no matter the cost, will be victorious.

Greed Corp

Greed Corp is the first game developed completely independently by W!Games (now Vanguard Games) and set within its Mistbound universe. In Greed Corp, players occupy hex-shaped tiles in a playing field and try to remove all their opponents from that map. Walkers are built inside an armory and ussed to claim neutral and enemy tiles. That building can also create carriers, capable of transporting walkers across the entire map. Players can build cannons, which can then be loaded with ammo to fire at tiles and walkers in the distance. But the most prominent building is the harvester, which turns layers of the playing field into credits you can spend on building your army. This eventually destroys the very land you stand on, even more and quicker if you use the harvester’s self-destruct. The unique land collapsing mechanic creates a new layer of strategy and turns every match into a dynamic race for survival in which the pressure keeps increasing.

Responsibilities

As one of the two main game designers on this project, I’ve been involved in almost every aspect of the game. Some specific tasks I’ve worked on are:

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Links & files

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Features

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Critical acclaim

Greed Corp won big in the 2010 Dutch Game Awards. The game both won the Control Industry Award and Best PC/Console Game. That officially makes Greed Corp the best game released in 2010 by a Dutch developer. It was also nominated in the categories Best Original Game Design and Best Audio Design. These awards were handed out during the Control Industry Dinner on November 18 2010, as part of Game in the City in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Greed Corp was also nominated for the European Innovative Games Awards 2009.

Greed Corp also got some great reviews. Here are some highlights:

"Priced at $10 for consoles (PC version coming soon), Greed Corp is easily one of the best titles found on Xbox LIVE Arcade."

NeoSeeker: 9.0

"Greed Corp. is an excellent, user-friendly turn-based strategy title. Both the single-player and multiplayer portions of the game are great fun and boast loads or replay value."

Cheat Code Central: 8.6

"The pro-environmental message in Greed Corp is easy enough to grasp, but the inner workings of this surprisingly complex strategy game are not so easily understood. But once you figure out how to properly balance your insatiable need for money with the earth's penchant for crumbling under your money-grubbing desires, a world of destructible possibilities reveals itself."

GameSpot: 8.0

"Greed Corp is a wonderful little title which is highly addictive and quite original in its style of play. It is a tricky game to start with, however if you stick with it then you will begin to appreciate what a great little game it is."

The Sixth Axis: 8.0

"Greed Corp has been a welcoming surprise. While it’s not considered to be part of the ‘Xbox House Party’ line-up (probably due to being multiplatform) in many cases it deserves far more attention than those that are. With a lengthy story-mode, on and offline multiplayer and endless replay-value, for 800MSP/£7.99 it’s an absolute steal. Even in this busy period of triple-A releases, you could do a lot worse than find a free moment to check it out."

DarkZero: 8.0

Many more can be found on the Metacritic pages for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC version of Greed Corp.