GUG delivers a world of infinite possibilities (and creatures) to Steam as the roguelike battler brings its first playable demo to Gamescom!
Bristol, United Kingdom, August 13th, 2024—Martian Lawyers Club (MLC) today announces that its innovative roguelike creature collector and battler, GUG, will launch on Steam this winter. Featuring the developer’s unique gug creation system, which allows the game’s code to be rewritten and adapted as you play, GUG offers near-endless opportunities to create all manner of ‘gugs’ to use in tactical turn-based battles. For MLC, every word has the potential to become a gug, and players will soon be able to turn the dictionary’s worth of words into an army of powerful gugs.
Each gug possesses unique abilities and appearances, and no two gugs are ever the same, ensuring an endless well of bizarre and powerful creatures to collect and unleash on your enemies. Even GUG’s developers don’t know what wacky attacks or abilities each gug will have the power to harness! Make and claim new gugs, encounter gugs created by the imagination of other players, and gradually build up your Gugopedia as you battle gugs old and new. Once a gug is unleashed on the world, players will have the chance to encounter them again, with gugs from previous runs and those generated by other players popping up to take you down in gug on gug warfare!
“We’re gugging overjoyed to share our first game, GUG! We’re jumping headfirst into new gaming frontiers, using machine learning to create game mechanics dynamically. This can give players unique, whimsical game experiences, which we think are qualitatively different to anything currently out there,” said Sam Roads, Growth Marketer at Martian Lawyers Club, “In GUG, the player can generate a team of unique creatures in real-time, each totally different. It’s a lot of fun trying to win seemingly impossible battles with often broken combos!”
Every gug is initially created with a randomised set of abilities, stats, appearance, and name based on the player’s chosen words, with an emphasis on being as whimsical and creative as possible. At which point, the gug’s abilities are turned into playable code, which is then compiled and injected into the game itself, making an all-new gug playable in GUG! MLC have created an applet that will allow players to starting making gugs ahead of release and then share them with the world, no matter how wacky!
GUG is getting ready to release this winter on Steam, but the developers will be at Gamescom 2024, exclusively showcasing the game to attendees for the first time in the main indie Hall 10.2 at stand F027g.
About Martian Lawyers Club:
Martian Lawyers Club is building games that mod themselves. We’re a team of game developers, designers, and researchers united by our passion to create innovative and experimental games. Using our new technology, Language-Enhanced Modification, we’re developing video games that offer the freedom of choice traditionally found only in tabletop role-playing games. GUG, a roguelike creature-battler, is our first major release.
