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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[The RPG/RTS that Irrational never made: 'Dungeon Duel']]></title><link>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/23/the-rpg-rts-that-irrational-never-made-dungeon-duel/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/23/the-rpg-rts-that-irrational-never-made-dungeon-duel/</guid><comments>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/23/the-rpg-rts-that-irrational-never-made-dungeon-duel/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center; ">
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Back in 2002, the folks leading up development of next year's highly anticipated, high-flying FPS, <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/game/bioshock-infinite"><em>BioShock Infinite</em></a>, were hard at work on a game that never made it off the ground. It was a role-playing game crossed with a real-time strategy title, and it was aimed at consoles. As revealed on the <a href="http://irrationalgames.com/insider/from-the-vault-dungeon-duel/">Irrational Games blog</a>, the game was known as "Dungeon Duel" never got past the concept stage.<br />
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The gameplay seems to be a mix of dungeon crawl and card-based strategy, with cards representing actual monsters and spells rather than operating on a numbers level. Combat was described as both "fast-paced" and "real-time," though the design doc fails to go into too much detail -- it's an early pitch, after all. A handful of concept art shots and in-game artwork were also made available, which you can see over on the Irrational blog.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.joystiq.com"><img src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Joystiq" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/23/the-rpg-rts-that-irrational-never-made-dungeon-duel/">The RPG/RTS that Irrational never made: 'Dungeon Duel'</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com">Joystiq</a> on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/23/the-rpg-rts-that-irrational-never-made-dungeon-duel/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/20050757/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/23/the-rpg-rts-that-irrational-never-made-dungeon-duel/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>2k-games</category><category>canceled</category><category>cancelled</category><category>dungeon-duel</category><category>irrational</category><category>irrational-games</category><category>rpg</category><category>rts</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Gilbert]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:30:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>