Thunderrock Innovations GmbH

Factsheet

Developer:
Thunderrock Innovations GmbH
Based in Börrstadt, Germany

Founding date:
September 1, 2015

Website:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2354330/?utm_source=press

Press / Business contact:
thunderrock.innovations@gmail.com

Social:
Youtube

Releases:

Address:
Zum Petersberg 2
67725 Börrstadt

Phone:
+49 151 28962507

Description

In Keep Keepers, chaotic co-op fun meets deep strategic decisions with high replay value. Night after night, you defend your Keep by preparing and firing the best weapon combinations for the current situation. Invest in new weapons and upgrades during the day and discuss your strategy together to face a variety of enemies and challenges.

History

Daniel and I always loved playing co-op games. Whether it is tower defense games like ‘Element TD2’, roguelites or games like ‘Unrailed!’. We loved the accessibility most co-op games provided. But we still felt like something was missing. We wanted a co-op game that not only allowed to play quick games with your friends but also provided deep strategic decisions and a lot of room to learn and improve. In September 2022 after playing some ‘PlateUp!’ with our friends we decided to work on our own take. A game we would later call Keep Keepers. The idea was rather simple. Let’s take ‘PlateUp!’ and turn it into a base defense game, where you not only have to craft ammunition and kill enemies, but rather have lots of different weapons each with their own crafting recipes and pro’s and con’s. Basically a game which stays very accessible and has a great game flow, but also provides enough deep strategies to fill evenings just discussing different approaches. So, after developing a first prototype we knew we had created something interesting. The first prototype still had a lot in common with ‘Plateup!’, but it already showed that there is a lot of room to grow. We focused on our fighting system and quickly realized there is something very interesting in picking the right weapon for the right situation. We created lot’s of really cool ideas, like a catapult that would be able to throw poison barrels over the frontline, so it could kill ranged enemies while also provide debuffs for oncoming melee units or a magical lightning weapon, that would not be able to target individual enemies, but rather hit random enemies on the field. All this weapons felt amazing and more and more we departed from ‘Plateup!’ and became something unique.

Team & Repeating Collaborator

Daniel Kern
CEO

Daniel Espen
CEO

Contact

Inquiries
thunderrock.innovations@gmail.com