Hive Keeper (Project Page)

[The Hive Workshop]

Description
Dig underground tunnels, build rooms and attract creatures at your service, then use your army to annihilate your enemies. Each room has a different use and can attract a specific type of creature, so it's up to you to build the best hive possible. You can even build traps or research new spells to improve your defense capabilities.

This map is freely inspired to Dungeon Keeper 2 but all the game will be transported to the starcraft universe. That means that all DK units, rooms and spells will be converted in SC2 units, giving them similar roles and abilities as they had in the original game.
Some mechanics will be reworked to make the game more modern while others will lack due to some SC2 editor limitations.
For people who don't know, Dungeon Keeper was one of the most in depth strategy game created by Bullfrog in the old '90s.


Game Features
- Use your drones to dig and build your perfect underground hive/dungeon
- Attract different creatures researching and building new rooms types
- Full featured creatures AI that allows them to eat, sleep, train and work autonomously if you provide them the needed rooms
- Each creature has different a different abilities and can level up fighting or training
- Quickly drag and drop your creatures where they are needed, you can even slap them to increase their work efficiency
- Research and build traps to welcome any intruder that dares to step into your territory
- Research and use spells to quickly destroy your opponents or support your army
- Play in different game modes, against waves of invading heroes or against other keepers
- Full featured playable tutorial


How to Play
You can play Hive Keeper on EU/NA/SG/KR servers in single and multiplayer mode, a full ingame tutorial is available to learn the basic game mechanics.
If you don't own Starcraft 2, you can play all the Arcade games for free (including Hive Keeper) downloading the Starcraft 2 Starter Edition at https://us.battle.net/account/sc2/starter-edition/

Media

Some screenshots on version 0.95 beta





Blizzard Arcade Highlight of Hive Keeper

1vsAI gameplay on version 0.95 beta

2vs2 gameplay on version 0.22 beta

Possession showcase

Original combat soundtrack

Few Considerations
I'm working on this project since 2+ years, the game is still in beta but it finally reached a stable release state with good performances and almost all basic features complete. However I want to add a couple more things before goin out from the beta state.
I hope this map can become a good competitive game one day, specially considering it's really deep and complex, even if totally different from starcraft 2.


Useful Links
Project page on moddb: http://www.moddb.com/mods/hive-keeper/
Project page on sc2mapster: http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/hive-keeper/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bibendus83/
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/bibendus83