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FACT SHEET

  • Developer: NovaBox Studios; Based in Boise, Idaho
  • Release Date: TBA
  • Projected Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
  • Website: www.novaboxstudios.com
  • Current File Size: ~150MB: PC Installer, ~180 OSX and Linux files


DESCRIPTION

Inspired by XCOM and a legion of brilliant authors this game puts you in the shoes of the newly appointed Overseer of the SCP Foundation, an extraterritoral organization charged to secure anomalous artifacts around the world, contain public knowledge, and protect the world's existence from the hazards these items possess.

You must Secure. Find anomalous events and SCP entities. Customize your armed forces and research powerful new technologies. Dispatch task forces to lock down and retrieve it. Fight off others interested in the same prize.

You must Contain. Suppress public knowledge of the events. Recruit governments, agents, and organizations to fund and support your goals.

You must Protect. Build bases and secure areas to store anomalous items. Stop the spread of anomalous effects. Beware of dangerous containment breaches.

As time passes the beginning hastens the end. Something nearly destroyed the Foundation once. It won't make the same mistake again.


FEATURES

  • GLOBAL CONTROL: Build a secret extra-territorial organization that spans the globe. Interact and negotiate with rival organizations and governments to contain anomalous threats.
  • TACTICAL SQUAD COMBAT: Control squads of soldiers to contain or destroy anomalous entities.
  • BASE DEFENSE: Contain hazardous anomalies for study in custom built containment facilities. Your base becomes the battle map. Design defenses to keep your collections in and rival organizations out.
  • OPEN ENDED UNIVERSE: Over 2000 different anomalies can appear in game. Connections to the SCP Wiki, a peer reviewed collection, allows for access to new and improved anomalies as they are added to the wiki.
  • MODDING: Designed for modding from the ground up. Plain text content allows non-technical players to still change the game as they wish. 


HISTORY

NovaBox Studios is an independent game company started in 2010 by two guys with a passion for game mechanics and the art of game design. Dedicated to gaming since our first pixels we set our sights on creating clever and enjoyable games. We strive to create our own line of brilliant, exciting games that will keep you coming back to see what we are working on next.


VIDEOS

Administrator Trailer: Download


SCREENSHOTS

Get the full media kit in a zip file here (Contains more images than shown): Download

The following is a simple C# function used to read a config file into a dictionary. I'm making it available on here in part for others, but mostly for our own future use.

This function requires that System.Collections.Generic, and System.IO be included in the file where it lives. Config files must contain a single setting per line in the format of: "key:value"

Please code responsibly :P


Dictionary<string, string> ReadConfigFile(string path) {
        Dictionary<string, string> configs = new Dictionary<string, string>();

        int counter = 0;
        string line;

        System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader(path);

        while ((line = file.ReadLine()) != null) {
            string[] words = line.Split(':');
            configs.Add(words[0], words[1]);
            counter++;
        }

        file.Close();

        return configs;
    }