Today we are proud to announce the release of the alpha demo of Gnoblins. You can download it directly from our homepage over here or from IndieDB:

Gnoblins is a 3d dungeon crawler game, a rogue-like in its heart,  with a lightweight RTS part. You need to save the world of Amunlak from an upcoming peril. You,  a former novice of the destroyed secret society of the guardians, found yourself in unknown underground world inhabited by the unimpressive appearing people, who call themselves the Gnoblins. But with the help of these people, you must find a way to save the world from its own greed and hate.

The demo features the  first underground world consisting of several levels which contain randomized parts. You are able to explore the underground world in first person perspective and to seek hidden treasures and secrets which might be helpful in your quest. Additionally the Gnoblins will lead you a helping hand, at least for a small obolus. With their help you will be able to craft better equipment and build your own dungeon to survive the dangers hidden in the darkness.

The game is still in the alpha stage, therefore expect some bugs and glitches and consider that most, but not all features have been  implemented yet (details). But if you like the game, please consider supporting us. Just mentioning our game on twitter, facebook or your blog would be really help to us. If you need some footage take a look at the screenshot section (including a small press-kit). Although vote for Gnoblins on Greenlight and on IndieDB. If you have some questions, take a look at our FAQ section or post your comments on either Greenlight, IndieDB or our own forum.

Here’s a small trailer to the demo version:

Here’s the new trailer of the alpha demo version. Have fun and stay tuned !

We plan to release the alpha demo at 28.Feb., in the meantime I have updated the FAQs. Stay tuned !

Always looking to improve the non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) look of Gnoblins, here are two images showing off different rendering approaches, including two new cell shader. Currently the warp approach is in the game.

What do you think ?

Here is a new ingame video of the current alpha version 0.0.12.

Update: running again

Download is currently disabled due to maintenance.

The closed alpha version is coming along nicely. But we will need some more time to stabilize it enough before releasing a public version. In the meantime we are participating at the Steam Greenlight Project. If you own a steam account and like our game, why not went over to steam and vote for us Further on you can join our new steam Gnoblins group.

Additionally I’ve uploading 12 new screenshots from the alpha version and created a new title screen:

The Gnoblins Survival Guide is out.

Today the closed alpha test has been started. All alpha tester have been informed  and got access to the current developer alpha version. If you like to participate in the closed alpha test, and are able to play the prealpha version (0.0.3) flawless from a technical point of view and are able to give some feedback, then send us a short email to admin [a t ] gnoblins [d ot] net.

This is the first tutorial video for the upcoming alpha version.

The tutorial videos present an insight in the alpha version and will help new players to get into gnoblins more easily. Each video will be about 1 minute long and explain one major game feature. For now this video deals with the luring and managing of your minions, the next videos will introduce combat, crafting, and dungeon development.