Great Winter

Team: Steam Powered Studios
Theme: Norse Gods
Genre: Multiplayer Team Game
Engine: UT2K4
Cohort: Cohort 05, Mar '07

Great Winter is a multiplayer team-based mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 that combines Norse mythology with Steampunk technology. Each session pits two opposing races - the stocky dwarves and the gangling trolls - against each other in a constantly shifting battle for domination. To gain final victory, teams must infiltrate their enemies base and destroy their god. The god cannot leave his chamber, but he is a deadly force within it.

To gain added powers necessary to defeat the enemies god, players must carry runes created by their own god to alters on the battlefield. If a player successfully installs a rune in an alter, his team gains the ability to re-spawn or teleport there. Additionally, every player on his team gains a power-up, such as better armor or enhanced speed. This team power-up is in effect as long as the team controls the alter. Players may take over the opposing teams alter by destroying the rune there and replacing it with their own. In order to win the match, teams will need to defend their alters and the god while attacking their opponents alters and god.

Team Steam Powered Studios is: Kim Acuff, Josh Black, Arturo Caballero, Maethee Chongchitnant, David Demaree, Ryan Hanscom, Joo-won Kim, Justin Marcus, Dane Munkholm, Daniel Talaber, Ben Wagley