''Mudcraft'' is a web-based
shockwave real-time strategy
Real-time strategy (RTS) is a Video game genre, subgenre of strategy video games that does not progress incrementally in turn-based game, turns, but allow all players to play simultaneously, in "real time." By contrast, in Turn-based strategy, tur ...
single player game developed by students at
Michigan State University
Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State o ...
. In the
RTS genre, it uses gender-neutral gameplay designed for both core and casual gamers. Players control mud people, attempting to create structures and more mud people, as well as stay alive despite the elements and animals. The gameplay is similar to games such as ''
StarCraft'' and ''
Warcraft'', thus the "craft" suffix. The biggest difference is a lack of violence.
''Mudcraft'' was nominated for the 2005
Independent Games Festival Competition,
[ 2005 Independent Games Festival Entrants] won the "Future Game Talent Award" at the Future Play 2005 International Conference, the "Outstanding Media Project in Games" and "Best of Show in Games" at the DMAT Showcase 2005, May 6, 2005 and 2nd place "Best Game Award", 2005 Indiana IDEAs Festival, April 23, 2004.
A downloadable version and an expanded pay-to-play "full" version is also available from the official site.
External links
Official site
References
2004 video games
Browser games
Real-time strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games
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