Republique

[fizzelopeguss]

Funding for the project has gone into the kind of freefall nose-dive that'd make an Ace Stuka pilot shit his flightsuit.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/486250632/republique-by-camouflaj-logan

Smug hipster much? As far as i'm aware it was hideo kojima's coffee bitch and now his name's being thrown about various rags/sites like he's mr big bollocks..

Gimp, touch controls.

Teeny bopper "i neeeeeeed yooouuuu" slut protagonist called "hope".

Fighting big brother from your fucking iOS device of all things.

And about six mentions of his game being an "experience" on that KS page alone.


Dude....

 

[Jaesun]

And we care because.....?

 

[fizzelopeguss]

it's a discussion forum, i don't know if you've noticed but we tend to ponder gaming related shit in GG.

And if you've got a problem with me, then say so.

 

[Kz3r0]

Fighting big brother from your fucking iOS device of all things.

Read better, YOU are Big Brother in that game.

 

[Angthoron]

Well at least they're giving copies of their game for people kickstarting it (presuming it gets made) unlike that other one with the kids and the lawyer bills.

 

[Astral Rag]

-$500,000.

-iOS.

 

[hoopy]

So why has the funding gone into freefall?

 

[Kz3r0]

Well at least they're giving copies of their game for people kickstarting it (presuming it gets made) unlike that other one with the kids and the lawyer bills.

And this what does it mean?
They already have a publisher, the Kickstarter is the condition the publisher set, the estimate cost is 1M$, they have to raise half of it.

 

[Angthoron]

Well at least they're giving copies of their game for people kickstarting it (presuming it gets made) unlike that other one with the kids and the lawyer bills.

And this what does it mean?
They already have a publisher, the Kickstarter is the condition the publisher set, the estimate cost is 1M$, they have to raise half of it.

I meant http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...lopers-did-with-your-kickstarter-money.71274/

And wow, so first publishers demand Metacritic scores, now they demand Kickstarter funds? They catch on fast!

 

[Kz3r0]

I meant http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...lopers-did-with-your-kickstarter-money.71274/

And wow, so first publishers demand Metacritic scores, now they demand Kickstarter funds? They catch on fast!

I know of that thread, my point was that this is an AAA developer, not garage kids with a dream or an indie with
an unmarketable niche project.

 

[Spectacle]

I suspect we'll be seeing more kickstarters like this in the near future. It's like a dream for publishers, they get to offset production costs and gauge consumer interest in one package. Time will tell if the public will ever play along or if they'll all end up like republique and police warfare.

 

[Jaesun]

Any one who would fund a game that is then going to be funded by a publisher is completely an idiot. It's no difference other than yes, the dev cost is cut down. But it will still be a shit game. The publishers and their marketing departments ARE the problem.

 

[IDtenT]

Mass Effect 4 to have a $5 Mil kickstarter.

 

[Cassidy]

Any one who would fund a game that is then going to be funded by a publisher is completely an idiot.

And that is a natural resource the world is overflowing with.

 

[Jaesun]

Any one who would fund a game that is then going to be funded by a publisher is completely an idiot.

And that is a natural resource the world is overflowing with.

IF a game like that gets funded..... I will lose all faith in humanity. heh

 

[fizzelopeguss]

So why has the funding gone into freefall?

That's a good question, i'd like to think the rest of the world has a hatred for purple jackets, flat caps and thick rimmed glasses like i do.

Anyone here buy games on iOS?

 

[Infinitron]

So, this just got released, and has turned out to not be such a disaster, at least for the world at large. Kenneth likes playing iOS games so he's written about it: http://wtfblog.ultimacodex.com/2013/12/19/republique-launches/

Republique Launches

I backed Republique, which is out as of today, on Kickstarter back in May of 2012. I’ve been waiting a long time to see it come out, and…well…here it is:



Initial reviews at Polygon and TouchArcade are highly positive, with both seeming to agree that the finished product does in fact deliver on the promise made during the Kickstarter campaign, namely that Republique would be a AAA-quality game designed for touch-input devices. Being a proponent of mobile gaming, and of smartphones as significant, powerful gaming platforms in their own right, I simply had to back the project during its crowdfunding campaign; this was — is, now, and hopefully will be going forward — a keen demonstration that smartphones could be used for so much more (gaming-wise) than manipulating farm animals or flinging birds at pigs.

What’s on the Apple App Store right now is just the first chapter in a series of five.Exordium tells the story of Hope, a young woman imprisoned in a dystopian surveillance state, who with the help of a hacker named Cooper attempts to escape captivity. The player doesn’t control Hope directly; she responds to directives from the player, but the player mainly controls doors, cameras, and other systems that can be hacked into. These, in turn, can be used to plot out routes and action plans for Hope, among other things.

And it sounds like the developers are just the right kind of cheeky, as well:

Exordium has an unexpected, quirky sense of humor. This is most obviously displayed in Cooper, who talks (using text-to-speech and elaborate emoticons) about being a reclusive nerd that gets picked on for having an extensive video game collection. Throughout the game, you can collect Cooper’s “game cartridges” — all of which are real-life iOS titles — that come along with a brief explanation of Cooper’s infatuation with them. It’s a funny, weird and kind of clever bit of character building, and cartridge even comes with a link to the app store if you’d like to download the game. The fourth wall shattered further when Cooper started talking about how episodic gaming is the best — and when I discovered a collection of popular Kickstarter campaign posters in his office.

Polygon does note that this Unity-powered game occasionally experiences AI and control issues, although not so often as to be game-breaking. The length of the campaign is, according to different reports, between 3 and 6 hours long, and has lots of bits of content to acquire along the way that add to the story of Hope and the 1984-like world she is trapped in.

The voice cast is pretty excellent, too.

Windows and OS X versions are on the way in the near future, but if you have an iOS device (iPad 2/iPhone 4S or better), I’d encourage you to spend the $4.99 and pick this one up. More than most, it’s a keen demonstration of just what kind of gaming is possible on a mobile platform.

 

[taxalot]

Trailer stopped looking interesting at "one touch gaming".

 

[Tigranes]

If people can start making mobile games that aren't dumbed down stimuli injection candy crush shit then it can only be a good thing. I'll try it once it goes to Android at some point.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Fruity game no matter what, not interested.

 

[Bitcher1]

Experience 112, anyone? So the players get to stroke their dicks with one hand while protecting their waifu (who we can already see will make sure to express her gratitude at every turn) from harm with the other. One touch gaming indeed.

Exordium has an unexpected, quirky sense of humor. This is most obviously displayed in Cooper, who talks (using text-to-speech and elaborate emoticons) about being a reclusive nerd that gets picked on for having an extensive video game collection. Throughout the game, you can collect Cooper’s “game cartridges” — all of which are real-life iOS titles — that come along with a brief explanation of Cooper’s infatuation with them. It’s a funny, weird and kind of clever bit of character building, and cartridge even comes with a link to the app store if you’d like to download the game. The fourth wall shattered further when Cooper started talking about how episodic gaming is the best — and when I discovered a collection of popular Kickstarter campaign posters in his office.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Oh dear, horrible meta humor overload. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

 

[Kz3r0]

Oh dear, horrible meta humor overload. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

More advertising.

 

[Kz3r0]

So, this just got released, and has turned out to not be such a disaster, at least for the world at large. Kenneth likes playing iOS games so he's written about it: http://wtfblog.ultimacodex.com/2013/12/19/republique-launches/

Republique Launches

I backed Republique, which is out as of today, on Kickstarter back in May of 2012. I’ve been waiting a long time to see it come out, and…well…here it is:



Initial reviews at Polygon and TouchArcade are highly positive, with both seeming to agree that the finished product does in fact deliver on the promise made during the Kickstarter campaign, namely that Republique would be a AAA-quality game designed for touch-input devices. Being a proponent of mobile gaming, and of smartphones as significant, powerful gaming platforms in their own right, I simply had to back the project during its crowdfunding campaign; this was — is, now, and hopefully will be going forward — a keen demonstration that smartphones could be used for so much more (gaming-wise) than manipulating farm animals or flinging birds at pigs.

What’s on the Apple App Store right now is just the first chapter in a series of five.Exordium tells the story of Hope, a young woman imprisoned in a dystopian surveillance state, who with the help of a hacker named Cooper attempts to escape captivity. The player doesn’t control Hope directly; she responds to directives from the player, but the player mainly controls doors, cameras, and other systems that can be hacked into. These, in turn, can be used to plot out routes and action plans for Hope, among other things.

And it sounds like the developers are just the right kind of cheeky, as well:

Exordium has an unexpected, quirky sense of humor. This is most obviously displayed in Cooper, who talks (using text-to-speech and elaborate emoticons) about being a reclusive nerd that gets picked on for having an extensive video game collection. Throughout the game, you can collect Cooper’s “game cartridges” — all of which are real-life iOS titles — that come along with a brief explanation of Cooper’s infatuation with them. It’s a funny, weird and kind of clever bit of character building, and cartridge even comes with a link to the app store if you’d like to download the game. The fourth wall shattered further when Cooper started talking about how episodic gaming is the best — and when I discovered a collection of popular Kickstarter campaign posters in his office.

Polygon does note that this Unity-powered game occasionally experiences AI and control issues, although not so often as to be game-breaking. The length of the campaign is, according to different reports, between 3 and 6 hours long, and has lots of bits of content to acquire along the way that add to the story of Hope and the 1984-like world she is trapped in.

The voice cast is pretty excellent, too.

Windows and OS X versions are on the way in the near future, but if you have an iOS device (iPad 2/iPhone 4S or better), I’d encourage you to spend the $4.99 and pick this one up. More than most, it’s a keen demonstration of just what kind of gaming is possible on a mobile platform.

I will never take this game out of the brown, no matter what people says.

 

[Kz3r0]

And this is AAA+ journalism level of defamation and servirude:

Polygon does note that this Unity-powered game occasionally experiences AI and control issues, although not so often as to be game-breaking.

Yeah, all Unity's fault, choke on doritos retard.

 

[Zed]

Trailer stopped looking interesting at "one touch gaming".

so you can literally play it with your dick

wow

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/02/05/republique-pc-release-date/

PC version coming February 26th, upgraded to Unity 5 engine.

République Remastered will be sold as a season pass sort of thing, launching with the first three episodes and receiving the last two when they’re done. It’ll cost $19.99 (£13) for the first week after launch, then go up to $24.99 (£16-ish). Windows and Mac; Steam, Humble, and GOG.

Oh hey, G oh G.


Comparison screens (iThings vs PC)