A veteran of Battlefield and Star Wars Battlefront development has founded a fresh studio to launch Heart Electric, a new take on the hero shooter genre.
Niklas Fegraeus, who served 15 years at DICE, announced the founding of Stockholm-based startup Modoyo last month. Now, the first gameplay footage of its debut project has also been revealed.
Heart Electric – whose immediate look is bright and fun, if basic – hopes to stick a defibrillator to the embattled hero shooter genre, which recently saw the failure of Concord even as Valve’s own effort Deadlock waits in the wings.
How does it all work? Well, the idea is that each Heart Electric match begins with four teams of four heroes in their own base with a set amount of revives. You can go all out and simply take down opponents, which adds to your revive pool, or work more tactically to storm another team’s base and steal their revives from them.