Dungeon Defenders: Coming to PSN with Move & 3D Support

That guy was my grandfather

Definitely will be a demo on PSN a couple weeks prior to the full release!

Cool, one unique aspect of how the multiplayer works is that you can drop-in/drop-out additional split-screen players into online (or local) gameplay dynamically at any time, simply by pressing “START” on additional controller, and then selecting or creating a hero. You can also use heroes saved on different PSN profiles among splitscreen players, so for example your little brother doesn’t have to mess up your carefully-leveled heroes/items :)

We’ll hopefully get more chance to go into detail regarding the Move (maybe a live demo) in subsequent updates, but basically the mouse acts like a aiming cursor, allowing to to aim anywhere in 3D space. With just the gamepad, your hero uses some intelligent autoaiming, but with the Move you get to pinpoint your attacks exactly (with the option for some autoaiming still so that it’s not too challenging). It also helps for the placement of Towers, so that you can quickly move and rotate them in 3D space. Finally, it makes all the UI’s “cursor-driven”, so that you can interact with them a bit more naturally.

It’s been a lot of fun working with the Move, and is the Trendy team’s preferred method of playing the game… on a 3D TV too :)

We’ve been thinking about this too. It’s do-able, we have it prototyped at the studio — but probably not in the initial release since it would need more testing (don’t want to delay the game for that :)

The Move isn’t required, DunDef is fully playable with gamepad. There is a level cap of 60, to prevent the game from getting tooo crazy until we generate more content for yet higher-level heroes to face. Indeed there is an INSANE mode unlocked after you complete one of the normal difficulty modes, which switches up the enemies and drops much rarer loot. There are also a set of Challenge missions which alter the game rules and provide different objectives, very difficulty oriented towards the highest-level heroes. Tasty rewards tend to be the result of completing these Challenges (the best familiars, etc)…

You won’t be sorry… 3D + games = win :)

Yup, camera zoom levels are fully customizable, and save to your profile. You can play from a behind-the-character 3rd person view like in much of the trailer footage, or from a zoomed-out RTS style view, or various settings in between. We realized not everyone would like the same value, and also different zooms are often useful in various circumstances.

Move is a combination of the (already-released) PlayStation Eye and an (upcoming) Move Controller, which enable the PlayStation to fully interpret the Move as an object/pointer in space, both for in-game controls (full 3D position and accelerations) and augmented reality (overlays onto the camera footage), among other things. It’s pretty crazy, check out Sony’s demos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ybHddDMgM

See you online this winter then! Look out for a purple-yellow Squire named “Drayowin” ;)

There are some online persistence aspects, but no subscription fee :)