Dungeons Interview

Realmforge's Christian Wolfertstetter addresses a selection of questions about Dungeons in a new two-page interview about the strategy/RPG on Hooked Gamers.
Hooked Gamers: Dungeons has a truly unique resource system, in that you must torture the hero's you capture for their soul energy, but to what end? How do you use this energy and what purpose does to further your dungeon development?

Christian Wolfertstetter: First of all you have to entertain the heroes, before torturing them! Entertain 'em and then drain 'em as we say.

Soul energy is important to the player because it allows him to upgrade several things and so on. The most important aspect is that you can use it to build prestige gimmicks which give you prestige.

Prestige is quite important to you as it is a requirement for new building options but also makes your Dungeon Lord mightier. As the game goes on, the heroes increase in level. To still have a chance against them you need prestige so that your Dungeon Lord becomes stronger as they do.

Also prestige gimmicks have a big influence on how heroes wander through your dungeon. With many of those gimmicks to see, heroes stay happy and don't think much about attacking your dungeon heart. If there are no prestige gimmick at all, they will become somewhat bored and after a while start to take a shot at your heart.