Armada is the working title for the “couch” real-time strategy game from Monaco developer Pocket Watch Games.
Pocket Watch Games' team of one is developing a multiplayer RTS that is challenging enough for the core RTS fan, but accessible to those who have not yet been initiated into the genre.
Most notably, developer Andy Schatz said in the announcement that, unlike most RTS games, Armada will use a controller instead of the traditional mouse and keyboard.
“With apologies to those devs who have tried, no one has ever made an RTS that played well on a dual analog gamepad. We’re gonna be the first to do it right.” Schatz wrote.
With only a month into development, Schatz briefly laid out how Armada will facilitate a controller. Firstly, players will control a single character while three classes of AI troops -- defenders, harvesters, and attackers -- perform their predetermined duties. However, a group of mixed troops will follow the player's character to help with advances on the enemy. The player will be the "primary attack force," the army defensive, and "economy management happens in traditional RTS ways."
Schatz said he doesn’t know if the development for Armada will take six months or three years, but when a projected release date is announced, expect to see it here on IGN.
Miranda Sanchez a freelance writer for IGN. You can get in touch with her on Twitter.
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