Demons Age by Bigmoon Studios - turn-based RPG "highly inspired" by Chaos Chronicles

[insukk]

Stolen from Neogaf.

Bigmoon Entertainment today announced Demons Age, a brand new title that brings together the characteristics of a classic turn-based roleplaying game with modern graphics and a gripping atmosphere. Demons Age takes console and PC gamers on a thrilling adventure in either single character or party mode in which they must explore ancient ruins, mystical places and mysterious dungeons while battling dangerous opponents along the way. Demons Age is slated to launch on Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC in Q1 2016. For more information about Demons Age, please visit: www.demonsage.com.

“We are all fans of dark fantasy and role-playing games, so many voices and ideas have gone into making Demons Age a game that fans of this genre will really enjoy”, said Paulo J. Games from Bigmoon Entertainment. “We didn’t limit ourselves to building just a classical turn-based RPG game, but wanted to create a game with the features and gameplay that we look for in a console or PC title, too”.

About Demons Age

Moragon has once again been invaded by Demons. The corrupted soldiers of the “Order” along with orcs and demons have swept the Peninsula of Moragon from north to south in a violent and bloody war against Elves, Dwarves, Halflings and Men. The adventure begins when the player washes ashore along the coast of this war ridden peninsula and is thrown into intrigue full of tragedy and betrayal. In line with classic turn-based roleplaying mechanics, Demons Age first tasks players to set up their character and later allows them to hire a party of diverse characters to help them on their adventure.

Each hired character has their own secrets and back-story, so players must choose their party wisely and beware of potential betrayals. Players can level-up their characters playing through the main story and also side quests, receiving rewards as they help the citizens of Moragon all the while searching for the cause of the mysterious event that has plunged the kingdom into evil darkness. Solving puzzles allows players to progress through the game, and they can find and equip a host of different weapons to defeat foes. Combining a lavish look with the dense atmosphere of a classic dungeon crawler, Demons Age is designed to appeal to new and old fans of turn-based fantasy role-playing games, and true to the genre. There is danger lurking around every corner.

About Bigmoon Entertainment

Since its foundation, BIGMOON has set a simple goal: “Develop the best games possible”. Immersive stories, fantasy world exploration, innovative challenges and great characters are in our DNA as we focus our drive and passion on developing Core RPG, Action-adventure and Strategy games for Core gamers. BIGMOON is an authorized developer for all major game platforms, including Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. BIGMOON also developed “Trapped Dead: Lockdown” and “Space Empires V: Battle for Artemis” as well as produced art for well-known racing games, such as “WRC 5”, “WRC 3” and “MotoGP 13”. For more information on BIGMOON, please visit: www.bigmoonstudios.com.

Trailer:

 

[Excidium II]

Looks eerily like Chaos Chronicles

 

[Excidium II]

Wait a minute...

 

[Infinitron]

HobGoblin42 WTF

 

[ArchAngel]

So they got the source code from Chaos Chronicles and turned it into a full game?

 

[Shadenuat]

What is dead may never die?

 

[HobGoblin42]

Oh that looks very familiar. I'd heard about that game the first time right here at the codex.

They even adopted my debug character names for the default party

 

[Excidium II]

So they got the source code from Chaos Chronicles and turned it into a full game?

Looks like it. A glance at the developer's page shows they've done work with bitComposer on some projects like linux/mac port of JA BiA. bitComposer isn't credited on the page/trailer so I guess they bought the CC assets? It did seem like the CC devs had a lot of stuff done already.

 

[HobGoblin42]

bitComposer filed for insolvency early this year, they are out of business. It seems, Bigmoon studios bought some 'Chaos Chronicles' assets from bitComposer before (I fear bC didn't inform Bigmoon about the legal dispute regarding the copyright).

And according to this trailer, the 3d engine (no lightmaps?) and the combat system are totally different to CC. I highly doubt latter is D&D 3.5e; looks more like D&D 5 to me.

 

[Excidium II]

I highly doubt latter is D&D 3.5e; looks more like D&D 5 to me.

It's probably still OGL since it has fort/ref/will saves on the character tooltips. They might just have streamlined your system a bit

 

[Zed]

"a fascinating RPG."
fascinating?
how could I refuse.

your game looks really good hobgoblin.

 

[Zed]

Wait a minute...

they moved the carpet at least.

 

[Alchemist]

Looks like it has some potential but could the name be more generic / derivative? Demons Age? Looks like they saw that Dragon Age and Demons Souls were popular - so they mashed them together.

And... Paulo J. Games? Seriously?

 

[kaizoku]

HobGoblin42 I've seen that you are working on Spellforce 3.
When will Grimlore Games start working on a "Chaos Chronicles" type of game? 2016?

 

[getter77]

I am utterly at peace with however many Frankenstein's offerings are conjured up with the remains of Chaos Chronicles it takes to get it out there even as a warped, but hopefully still fantastic, spirit of the original thing even if not quite the pristine form it would've theoretically ultimately assumed had things not gone so depressingly wrong.

That said, this is such a weird year for projects coming out of nowhere and old ones springing to life again---even if the bulk still wind up delayed to 2016.

 

[ArchAngel]

Well it certainly seems to be better than SCL, even if it is only D&D look alike.

 

[Andhaira]

Is this going to be turn based?

And are you sure the system being used is 3e or any iteration of d20?

If both the above are true i will definitively follow the game and hope it is worth playing.

 

[Excidium II]

Is this going to be turn based?

And are you sure the system being used is 3e or any iteration of d20?

If both the above are true i will definitively follow the game and hope it is worth playing.

Read the thread nigga

 

[Abu Antar]

I have no expectations but will remember this just because of TB combat.

 

[Sothpaw]

xbone and ps4

 

[Roguey]

This is a pretty good time for a Portuguese company to shovel some wares on an unsuspecting public.

 

[Andhaira]

Still don't know what the system is. It can't be 5e because 5e is not OGL.

 

[Excidium II]

Still don't know what the system is. It can't be 5e because 5e is not OGL.

Chaos Chronicles used the OGL rules as baseline. Looking at the tooltips on that trailer it still has D&D statlines so it's fair to assume it's the same but tweaked

 

[Azalin]

?
(hopefully)

 

[octavius]

I wonder if the end of game boss will be a Demon Sage?