MarZ: Tactical Base Defense

Release Date:
April 4, 2019
Website:
www.marz-game.com
Platforms:
Steam
Prices:
USD: $21.99
EUR: €19.99
GBP: £16.99
Description
MarZ mixes RTS and Tower Defense elements with the goal of protecting your base from undead hordes, while also uncovering the hidden history of the Red Planet. A game of strategy and tactical defense, careful management of your crew and resources is crucial as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead. In Early Access since September 2017, MarZ: Tactical Base Defense features a story-driven campaign along with a range of skirmish modes, unique Twitch setting (lets viewers help or sabotage the streamer) and a map editor with terraforming level creator and sharing tool.

History

Development and Gameplay
Tactical Base Defense is the debut game of Giant Grey and has been in development since December 2014. Set on a near future Mars, the first human colony planned on the red planet comes across fearsome creatures and mysterious structures.

The player's mission is to ensure humanity’s future on the planet by freeing zone by zone from the hordes of the undead. Reconquering the infested areas requires a strategically built base to fend off the real-time approaching enemy hordes. To start building and upgrading towers the player places energy hubs that generate a power grid and mine resources to produce building material.

Another important ’resource’ is the crew, because all buildings have to be manned to work. Careful crew management, requesting new recruits from the space station and ensuring there are always enough people in play to keep buildings operational and defense intact is crucial to survive. Additionally, with the construction of different research buildings players can research new tower types, produce super weapons and unlock tower specializations to improve the defence.

MarZ combines the Tower Defense and Real Time Strategy genres, within a tactical base defense game. The result is rapid mission-based gameplay that features recourse gathering, time and crew management, plus research, base building and tower upgrade construction.

Early Access
Since launching into Steam Early Access 26th September 2017, MarZ (formerly MarZ Rising) has seen a number of game changing updates, adding new game modes, a full 20 mission story campaign, Twitch integration, huge balancing changes and so much more, ahead of the full launch in 2019.
Since December 2018, a free demo of the first three missions has been available on Steam.

Game content
MarZ contains a single player story campaign localised in nine languages, including intro and outro. The campaign has two alternative endings, while the second and real ending is unlocked after collecting all monoliths (story elements) during the 20 mission campaign. As a goal, each mission has three main tasks. If the player completes the mission to 100% he unlocks a perk as reward, which can be used to modify the next levels.
Furthermore, MarZ has a global achievement system to gather even more rewards. The collectors progress is shown in a player profile.
Players can also get creative and shape their own levels in Marsform, the ingame map editor, and share their creations via Steam Workshop. In Skirmish mode, created Marsform maps and all campaign maps can be played with new user or random generated waves.
Lastly, the new Skirmish mode includes the Outbreak setting, which brings an immense zombie horde instead of the usual waves.
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense is about securing the right front with the right tactics.

Press releases

19/04/04 Sci-fi RTS MarZ: Tactical Base Defense launches today
19/03/07 Sci-fi RTS MarZ: Tactical Base Defense gets release date / review codes available
18/12/07 Tactical base defense game MarZ Rising gets free demo, available now on Steam
18/11/07 Tactical base defense game Marz Rising gets huge free Skirmish Mode update
18/07/18 Gamescom appointment: Interested in hands-on time with MarZ Rising?
17/09/26 MarZ Rising launches today on Steam
17/09/19 MarZ Rising: Press Copy + Game Release Date
17/08/16 New Indie Game: MarZ Rising

Features

• New and challenging mix of gameplay mechanics (TD/RTS).
• 20 mission single player campaign with 2 alternative endings.
• Three difficulty levels and perk system.
• Player profile and achievement system.
• Skirmish mode to set up procedurally generated levels.
• Outbreak mode for Skirmish.
• Twitch integration in Skirmish.
• Marsform: terraforming level generator.
• Steam Workshop integration to share own Marsform maps.
• Impressive graphics and unique Mars landscapes.
• Localization: English, English (US), German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Polish.

Trailers

MarZ: Tactical Base Defense - Out Now (Apr2019)
Marsform - map editor (Apr2019)
Release Date Announcement (Mar2019)
Skirmish Update (Nov2018)

Quotes

• MarZ Rising – A la conquête de Mars
  Game Guide
• Taktische Tower Defense mit Crew-Management gegen Mars-Zombies
  4Players
• Mars Rising
  Kotaku
• You’ve heard of moon Nazis? Now hear about Mars Soviets
  Hooked Gamers
• Roter, untoter Planet
  Radio Fm4
• MarZ Rising – Preview
  3rd Strike
• MarZ Rising – PC (P)Review
  The Drastik Measure
• Wiener Zombies starten Early Access
  Games24 (OE24)
• MarZ Rising, Survival-RTS enters Early Access on September 26th
  One Angry Gamer
• Gamescom 2017: Tower Defense done different
  Hooked Gamers

Additional links

• Steam Community
• Indie DB
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Discord
• Youtube

Credits

• Marc Egli
  Development Lead, Programmer, 3D Artist
• Miriam Egli
  Creative Lead, Game Designer, UI/UX Designer, 2D Artist, PR+Marketing
• Alex Chinchen
  PR

Gallery

Flavourit

Release Date:
July 10, 2014
Website:
yourflavourit.com
Platforms:
Google Play Store
Apple App Store
Prices:
Freemium
Description:
flavourit - new Food App for all kitchen heroes - Those who like to cook and enjoy a great meal can now taste the brand new Food App flavourit.
The young Viennese Startup doorfortyfour throws an elaborated and well-shaped Recipe App on the market. As the title suggests it is high time to flavour your own favourite recipes. From now on all kitchen heroes can save their cooking secrets in a mobile diary – regardless of whether food-, sweet- or drink recipes. That means, you will not find any ready-made recipes but rather fill your pocked-sized cookbook according to your taste.In order to keep things nice and easy the developers puzzled over a new structure that allows for a quick input of your recipes: Instead of writing detailed cooking instructions, you rather pin intuitive icons on ingredient-slots which tell you straight away what is next. This is not only useful but it is also good-looking. After that, just take a nice photo of your freshly conjured culinary delight to finalise the recipe input. Done! Having entered the very first flavourit recipe, you probably find yourself standing in the kitchen with a big smile on your face.
To share this joy, answer the question 'what's your flavourit?' by exchanging your beloved 'flavourits' with friends. This way, your own hand-picked recipes become another person’s pleasure. Since that makes you happy as well the initially empty flavourit grows bigger and bigger so that you will never go without it again. Obviously, the innovative flavourit App is definitely a must-have for those of you who are still searching for the right place to put their culinary creations. In this case flavourit turns from a little kitchen helper to a great tool that can cause a lot of fun.
flavourit is available in German and English language and can be downloaded for free from the AppleAppStore or GooglePlay.
Further information on: www.yourflavourit.com.

History

• version 1.2
  March 04, 2014: simplified recipe input - ingredients list, new shop and prices, minor bug fixes
• version 1.1.1
  October 15, 2014: iOS8 Update, bug fixes
• version 1.1
  September 18, 2014: iPad release, iCloud support, new feature - portion converter, new feature - set temperature units (Fahrenheit and Celsius), bug fixes
• version 1.0.1
  August 08, 2014: saves last view setting (list- and full screen view), textcolour changes, bug fixes
• version 1.0
  July 10, 2014: first publication on Google Play and Apple App Store
• The idea
  doorfortyfour has been working with passion on flavourit since September 2013.
  The idea of flavourit is based on Miriam's little handwritten cookbook. (CO-founder doorfoortyfour OG). She intuitively structured her recipes a little different than usual. It proved to be instructive and timesaving to group ingredients with some instruction keywords. Based on this recipe layout flavourit was developed, further features were integrated and the result is an extensive App which is still easy and clear to use.

Features

• Intuitive, quick and easy recipe editor to create own recipes
• Simple adjustment of existing recipes
• Storage into 3 main categories (food,sweets,drinks) and 46 subcategories
• Access to camera and photo album to add recipe photos
• Search and filter recipes by categories, particular ingredients, marked favorites and veggie or vegan
• Browse through the recipe collection in fullscreen-mode or scroll through list-view
• The editable shopping list adds all ingredients of a chosen recipe automatically
• Portion converter
• Print, email or share gorgeous recipe cards
• Export/Import functions - Recipes can be loaded directly from the Facebook-App or by scanning the QR code
• Choice of ten flavourit covers
• Backup the recipe collection via Dropbox or iCloud
• Temperature units: Fahrenheit, Celsius
• Languages: English, German
• No registration required
• No internet connection required. (except for using the share functions)

Trailers

Official Flavourit Trailer

Quotes

• Best Android App of the week
  Android Geek
• Flavourit looks to set itself apart from the rest with a few unique features...the ability to just instantly create a good-looking and informative graphic is super cool.
  Android Police
• 22 Best New Android Apps(7/1/14 - 7/15/14)
  Android Police
• Flavourit has streamlined the way recipes are read and written, which, as a kitchen enthusiast, is pretty damn neat.
  appszoom
• This app lets you create your own recipes quick and easy.
  Finest Android
• Best free Android apps releases from last week (July 2014)
  Get Android Stuff
• It's a well-designed app...everything is neatly laid out on screen, from ingredients to cooking methods.
  msn
• With flavourit, you can effortlessly create a visually appealing cookbook to assist you in the kitchen when making delicious meals or treats.
  peachmac
• Best new Android apps from July 2014
  Phandroid
• The recently released flavourit – my cookbook comes to users with a visually impeccable interface.
  Tech PP
• ...this is the app that you should download. It has a very beautiful UI that makes it easy to see exactly which ingredients are needed and when.
  The Android Soul
• 20 best Android apps and games this week
  The Guardian
• flavourit lets you quickly and easily create and store recipes as attractive, interactive cards
  TUAW
• flavourit ist das zeitgemäße Werkzeug zur Erstellung Ihres eigenen Kochbuchs und regt zum Teilen der eigenen Kreationen an.
  Chip
• Rezepte in ansprechender Form überall mit hinzunehmen ist einer der vielen Vorteile der schönen neuen17 Welt und wurde jetzt noch etwas schöner.
  N-Droid
• Optisch ist die App ein Leckerbissen, und auch die als Bildkarten verschickten Rezepte machen Appetit... Wer gern kocht und eine Möglichkeit sucht, seine eigenen Rezepte zu sammeln, wird flavourit genießen.
  PC Welt
• Der kleine Küchenhelfer kann nämlich eine große Hilfe sein und darüber hinaus eine Menge Freude bereiten.
  Check App

Credits

• Marc Egli
  Development Lead, Programmer
• Miriam Egli
  Creative Lead, UI Designer, 2D Artist, Marketing