Choice of Games announced today that their text-based pro-wrestling RPG, “SLAMMED!” is now available on Steam. The game is entirely text-based-without graphics or sound effects-and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
It’s available for 26% off during launch week.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/343370/
SLAMMED! is a 250,000-word interactive professional-wrestling novel by Paolo Chikiamco, where your choices determine how the story proceeds. The game is entirely text-based-without graphics or sound effects-but driven by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
In SLAMMED!, you’ve always dreamed of becoming pro wrestling’s biggest star…but the wrestler’s world is fraught with hardship and betrayal, in and out of the ring. Become a powerhouse, a technician, a high-flier, or focus on your promo skills. There’s more than one road to success.
But none of those roads will be easy. This is a world where your biggest fans are your harshest critics; where the front office is more dangerous than the squared circle; where friends can become enemies with a single heel turn; where, sometimes, the only way to win is to lose, spectacularly.
This is professional wrestling. And you’re about to change it, forever.
“Paolo Chikiamco has written an epic,” said Dan Fabulich, co-founder of Choice of Games. “His story conveys love for professional wrestling in a way that even non-fans can appreciate. In pro wrestling, even if the outcomes are scripted, the athletics-and the risks-are real. No one has complete control of what happens, and that’s where wrestling’s mystique lies. Someone might get really angry and turn a scripted match into an unscripted ‘shoot.’ Somebody might get hurt. SLAMMED! is about the blurred lines between reality and ‘kayfabe,’ the industry term for portraying scripted matches as genuine.”
There’s never been a professional wrestling game like this, a game where the outcome of your final match, your choice of opponent, and your relationships affect the ending. When’s the last time you played a pro-wrestling RPG with a “kayfabe” stat?-or where your trash-talking “promo” ability is as important as your core strength and wrestling technique?
• Enjoy a 250,000-word personal tale of friendship, competition, and revenge.
• Develop not only your physical abilities, but a favored wrestling style.
• Become a heroic face, or a villainous heel-or even turn heel.
• Turn a scripted match into a real fight-and vice versa.
• Decide when to keep kayfabe, and when to break it.
• Play as male or female, gay or straight.
https://www.choiceofgames.com/slammed/