New hero brawler is basically the Avengers of PvP with devs from League of Legends, Overwatch, Apex Legends, and Valorant
A bunch of developers who've worked on games like League of Legends, Overwatch, Apex Legends, Valorant, Halo, and even Destiny have formed a new studio to make a hero-based PvP game of their own.
Developer Theorycraft Games revealed what's currently known as Project Loki today, alongside an early opportunity to "register your interest in playtesting" on the official site. When that playtest will happen is anyone's guess, but the game looks decently playable in the reveal trailer starring Theorycraft CEO Joe Tung, formerly executive vice president on League of Legends as well as executive producer at Bungie for both Destiny and Halo.
Project Loki has been pitched as a "squad-based hero battleground" blending a mix of genres that draws on its team's design experience. The studio says playtesters have described it as "League meets Apex meets Smash" and is eager to use that phrase for itself. "We love that description and can only hope to live up to it," Tung says. League of Legends' DNA is handily the most visible, so I'm assuming Apex Legends and Super Smash Bros. will come into play in subtler, more mechanical ways.
The reveal footage is "pre pre pre pre pre alpha," and Theorycraft is quick to assure players that the game is "still a work-in-progress" down to "meta-progression, competitive features, hero concepts, environmental design, and final art." That said, the broad strokes are legible here.
Project Loki looks like a brawler with a top-down, MOBA-esque perspective, but its maps seem much more open than the traditional three-lane setup, with quite a bit of verticality, traversal (I spy a glider), plus some hazards and pitfalls in the level design. A whole mess of what look like abilities and items are visible on
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