SturmFront - The Mutant War Übel Edition (August 11th 2017)

[Andrade-Games]

Hello shooter friends,

I have good news for you regarding my new game.

SturmFront – The Mutant War: Übel Edition is a remake of Andrade Games’ debut game that aims to enhance every feature imaginable: Doubled content, enhanced gameplay, more graphics and more blood!

This is the ultimate version of SturmFront and a love letter to the arcade genre!

• - Purge the mutant with your flamethrower.
  - Fight from Mannheim to the vile heart of the mutant world.
  - 10 Stages with 5 epic boss battles.
  - Use the flamethrower to convert enemy bullets into gems.
  - Find all the hidden souls to uncover the truth about the mutant war and its origin!
  - Slay gigantic enemies! Show them no mercy!
  - A classic arcade game with a touch of bullet hell.
  - Play with mouse and keyboard or with your Xbox controler (Twin Stick).

The German Crust Metal band Hellknife releases a new music video in cooperation with the German indie game developer Sebastian de Andrade.

Both are living in the area around Mannheim and both are into uncompromising art. While Hellknife is playing hardcore Heavy Metal, the game studio Andrade Games is producing classic shooting games in the style of the 90s arcade machines.

Indie developer Sebastian de Andrade tells:
"I saw Hellknife at the Rhein Neckar Metal Festival X and was instantly enthusiastic about that we are speaking the same artistic language. Their newest cover artwork shows the Mannheim water tower, skulls and a heavy tank, and I immediately realized that we had to carry out a joint project, because one level of my current game "SturmFront - The Mutant War: Übel Edition" takes place in Mannheim.”

"SturmFront The Mutant War: Übel Edition" is the 2nd game by developer studio Andrade Games, set to release on August 11th. It is a sequel to the 2016 shoot 'em up game "1917 - The Alien Invasion DX", which is also available on Steam.



In addition Hellknife singer Ralf Keitel:

"Arcade action games and Crust / D Beat music match perfectly through the energy and hardness of the two art forms. When Sebastian asked us if we would make our music available for his new game, we were like fire and flame. Our expectations have been surpassed: it is a perfect symbiosis of handmade music and handmade graphics. "

Hellknife is active since 2015 and publish their music on Bandcamp.de. Their newest album is even available as vinyl: https://hellknife.bandcamp.com/

Regarding Heavy Metal, Sebastian de Andrade said:
"I love Heavy Metal and classic action games, but since I do not have the talent to play a guitar, I
am developing my very personal kind of Heavy Metal as a programmer and comic artist."




GAMES:

SturmFront The Mutant War: Übel Edition Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/50153 ... l_Edition/
Classic Shoot 'em Up 1917 The Alien Invasion DX: http://store.steampowered.com/app/47006 ... vasion_DX/
Presskit SturmFront: https://andrade-games.jimdo.com/sturmfront-presskit

TRAILER:

Gametrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d5ZgnP28k4
Heavy Metal music trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie7jIFCx988

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AndradeGamesArcade/

[Andrade-Games]

My shoot em up "1917 The Alien Invasion DX" is 80% off this week (end: August 7th). It is also the predecessor of "SturmFront - The Mutant War: Übel Edition" and takes place in the same universe.

• Features
  
  - Fight from Verdun to the heart of the alien world!
  - Majestic and extravagant pixel art inspired by the golden age of arcades.
  - Accessible with a fair difficulty curve.
  - Intense action and highly polished gameplay
  - 8 stages with huge boss encounters.
  - Bloodshed and gore.
  - Psychedelic soundtrack.
  - Full Xbox controller support.

Instead of 4.99 USD it costs now 0.99 USD. You may try it out and look if you like my kind of shooting games.



Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiUv8G55dPQ
Shop: http://store.steampowered.com/app/47006 ... /?l=german

[Necronom]

The music fits perfectly...wie die Faust aufs Auge;-)
Definitely on my wishlist!
Will the music in the game be instrumental only or with vocals?

[Andrade-Games]

Hi Necronom,

the Hellknife song is not in the game, it was just a cooperation for the video because they are from my local area. (Schnapsidee?)
But "SturmFront The Mutant War: Übel Edition" features a heavy metal soundtrack composed by Erzen Luboja.

Check this trailer to listen to one song from the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d5ZgnP28k4

[antron]

FYI there is a well known white supremacist website called stormfront. Your game's title is basically a German variation on that (unintentionally I assume)

But a storm front as a term is its own thing. maybe it's good that people reclaim it as a non-hate metaphor.

[Andrade-Games]

Hi antron,

I know this since the first release in the year 2015. Many from the US told me. But I am keeping stubborn with the name with exactly that reason:

" maybe it's good that people reclaim it as a non-hate metaphor."

They dont own the language and I dont want to give them credits for a word that means basicly that:



SturmFront: It shows the upcoming chaos (The Mutant War) and it describes the game mechanic perfectly: Charging/running/ storm attacking and creating by this movement the frontline (basicly because the enemies are shooting towards your position.)

And even if the game trailers are very martial and bloody, the narrative and worldbuilding has an anti war, anti facistic tone.
While you fight through the world you reveal the truth about the mutant war by reading souls from these who fought and died.
It shows a blunt society that was driven to kill - humans had no longer any value ( the result of facism) - and are used as canon fodder.
The gouverment used cities as giant brothels to keep the moral of the soldiers sustained. Women were just used for the sexual satisfaction of the soldiers.
You see the result of an war against innocent civilians: men, women, children. I didnt want to show a nice version of a war:
Civilians are those who suffer the most.

The hero of the game is a cyborg, its your medium to travel to this war torn world. You, the player, are the witness of that chaos. The cyborg cant understand anything, he is stupid and is just able to aim and to pull the trigger. He is just a machine with the purpose of mass destruction like the humans once were in this world.

Now you know more about the game. But thanks for telling me. It can easily happen on a global market to offend some cultures because they associate names and pictures with something terrible.

[Bananamatic]

this is my favourite game right after galaga 88

[Andrade-Games]

Hi Bananamatic,

I actually had to look up 1988 version of Galaga and yes: It looks fantastic. To be honest, as i just raised up with the PSX my contact with Galaga was Ridge Race. I liked it a lot even as a kid, but with these new graphics Galaga is on a new level. Thanks for the tip and many thanks for your kind words.

[Perikles]

I strongly doubt he meant that in relation to the game itself and rather as an implication regarding the number 88 and its betimes political connotation. For what it's worth, while I find it excessive to immediately insinuate the worst, it is somewhat ambiguous in this case since what you describe as the natural phenomenon is a "Gewitterfront", "Sturmfront" is a neologism (wouldn't make that much sense either since "Sturm" refers to gale whereas a "Gewitter" involves the dark clouds you're invoking with the picture above). As such, you won't find results for a "Sturmfront" outside of the aforementioned negative context, making people who are not aware of the malleability of the German language skeptical, even though there's no reason to. What I will certainly say, however, is that I always wince when composites get capitalized more than once, that's an unseemly custom which becomes uncomfortably common these days.

[Andrade-Games]

You may be right, that this is called a "Gewitterfront" - what would make also a great game title, if my game had anything to do with thunder and lightning.

"...you won't find results for a "Sturmfront" outside of the aforementioned negative context..."

But I have to disagree: The term "Sturmfront" is often used and not just with the negative political context:
Examples from my 1 minute google search:

http://www.wetteronline.de/wetterticker ... st_4147931
and here are both terms used:
https://www.az-online.de/uelzen/stadt-u ... 22704.html
and here:
http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/ni ... -1.4290466

I agree with you that the terms "Gewitterfront" makes more sense to describe a natural phenomenon that involve dark clouds. But to say "Sturmfront" is a word that works only in an political context is wrong. Yes, the name creates associations with the NS regime, like the FPS Wolfenstein and UberSoldier, because the national socialists in Germany used a martial and simple language ("Volkssturm", "Wehrwölfe", "Blitzkrieg" etc.). And you know that, you are from Germany and we both have investigated the past.
Keep in mind: My game is about a blunt anti human society. Not particular about the NS regime, but about a facist gouverment.

For me it is important to show that as the horror as it would be. My game "SturmFront" does never glorify war and mass murdering - like most AAA war games. But it does not fear controversial topics like the handling with homosexuals: On the one hand you have a masculin, army driven society who worships strong naked man and on the other hand you have homosexuals killed by the gouverment. I investigate topics like that in my current game.

Anyone who just want to kill and get a highscore should look for a different game developer.

[Perikles]

Just to reiterate my initial point: I'm not accusing you of any political meaning whatsoever (whether explicit/open or implicit/surreptitious) with the title, no need to be defensive. However, "Sturmfront" is not a real term, even if some sources may use it incorrectly. In the meteorological context, a "Front" describes an air mass that's portentous for it heralds things to come, in conjunction with the "Gewitter" this would apply to the clouds. Since a "Sturm" is an ongoing process you cannot have a "Sturmfront". While you can easily find "Gewitterfront" in the Duden (or any other comprehensive dictionary), you won't have the same success with "Sturmfront" - because it does not exist as an established term.

Since the German language is stupendously flexible in this one instance, one can simply create this word, of course. And from a mere poetical perspective, it's a rather mellifluous conception, too (classic trochaic meter which is incredibly fitting for this word). I was merely pointing out that the fact that "Sturmfront" is a neologism is the most probable explanation as to why most people will associate this term with a context that has little to do with the weather, the wondrous protean capabilities of the German tongue or the emphasis on syllables.

[Zen]

So, will there be any Steam Dailys on this Sturmer?

[Andrade-Games]

@Perikles: I get now what you mean.

@Zen: Somewhere in the future: Yes. As typical for Steam, the game will launch with a first week discount. Then you should always put an eye on it at the major sales (Summer Sale etc.)
1917DX is currently at sale for just 0.99 USD. Thats less than a coffee