After creating a portfolio of 25 flash games, clocking up over 50m million plays worldwide, (with over 25m on Kongregate alone) and requests from many fans, Nerdook is releasing his first full fat PC/Mac release on GOG & the Humble Store – May 20th for $5.
Vertical Drop Heroes HD is an epic, procedurally generated down scrolling platformer with RPG/Roguelike elements.
GOG press review codes (or full builds) are available now – if you would like to review the full version of Vertical Drop Heroes HD please send a mail to Nick@digeratidistribution.com to request a code. Otherwise, if we have already been in contact, you will be receiving your code/build shortly!
Game Info
Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage, until you face the final boss and uncover the truth behind the game!
Features randomly generated stages, enemies and bosses, resulting in a very replayable game, all coded and drawn by one person in that unique Nerdook style. Bring a friend and try the split-screen local co-op or play multiplayer games over a network. Also has full controller support! There are 20 Traits, 15 Abilities and 15 Powers in the game, 16 possible weapons
Format – PC/Mac
Genre – Platformer/RPG
Price – $5
Portals available on – GOG, Humble Store, Greenman Gaming
Some fun facts about unique hero combinations – so large that the numbers are pretty meaningless, but still fun.
Possible unique names = 82 x 63 = 5,166 names
Possible unique costumes + weapon combos = 3 x 6 x 13 x 29 = 108,576 combinations
Possible unique skill combinations = 20 x 19 x 15 x 15 = 85,500 combinations
Total possible unique heroes = 47,957,259,168,000With everything unlocked, you need to generate 48 TRILLION heroes before you find two identical ones.
What the press have said about Nerdook’s past flash projects;
•RockPaperShotgun – http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/nerdook/
•IGN- (this is the original free version of the game releasing on GOG on my 20th-Vertical Drop Heroes HD) -http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/09/09/free-bytes-vertical-drop-heroes