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KickStarter Studio FOW's Subverse - Explore a wacky galaxy full of hot alien babes! - now on Early Access
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Melcar
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They will probably just masturbate instead.
How else are they going to review it?
That's not an intended part of the Subverse gameplay experience?
Good idea. The alien babes will have no effect on me, so I can just focus on whether the gameplay is good or not.
Melcar
Arcane
But don't they have alien gays?
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Melcar
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They have dicks.
Zer0wing
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Cool. And I can write specifically about the waifus.
New Update
Update #26
Dev Diary #7 - Wrist Deep in Pandora's Box
Posted by FOW Interactive
August 28, 2019
Creator
Dev Diary #7
Greetings once again to our loyal backers! I'm happy to be bringing you the most important dev diary yet.
By the way, Fortune says hello.
Closed Beta Release Date
We're delighted to announce the closed beta will begin for all Big Bang Theorists (backers that pledged £75 or more) on September 28th, 2019! Make sure you have your keys retrieved and activated in your Steam libraries so you can access it.
As previously mentioned, this first build will include the SHMUP tutorial and the first mission of the game. However, we're also adding an endless combat mode for testing purposes. If you're eligible, Make sure you drop by our Discord server and sign up for the Beta Oasis room so you can give us feedback and report any bugs there.
Model Teases
Here's an updated WIP of Taron Kraask's model, which includes her color scheme. We're putting the finishing touches on her fur textures to make sure she's extra fabulous before her first appearance on the cat walk.
For all you Studio 69 VIPs, we're pleased to reveal the club itself in all its glory! Now that it has had a final pass done on the lighting and assets, it's up to the quality we first envisioned for it. We hope you all look forward to chilling, having a drink and playing a few bar games with your favorite waifus here.
WELCOME TO PANDORA!
And now, at long last, we are proud to present our unique and powerful system of customized hand-holding in Subverse - PANDORA!
Pandora is a tech tree that allows you to send your lap rocket on a fucktacular journey into the black hole of your choice. Remember how we talked about the XP capsule system (aka PP/Pooter Points) last week? Every time your waifu levels up, you get one PP. You can insert your PP right here.
There are three pools of hand-holding from which you can unlock scenes:
CAPTAIN - 1v1 fun with the panty-faced protagonist, both in POV and cinematic poses.
CREW - The ladies of Subverse get to have futa fun with each other courtesy of Dr. Lillian Margaliss's insta-dick technology as well as some group poses involving other Mary Celeste denizens.
XENO - Big old sloppy 100% certified organic Manticore meat monster hogs for your waifus to enjoy. You can look forward to fiends of both the bi and quadrupedal variety to play with.
All of these options also contain categories hand-animated by our artisan fucksmiths, and our animations are tailored to each waifu's unique personality, i.e. Killi will be more dominant with her teases.
Here are the categories below:
TEASE - (Pre-meal Cocktail) Good old fashioned animated pinups.
FOREPLAY - (Appetizers) Basically any kind of lewd act ending with "-job."
SEX - (Entree) The meat and potatoes course of the night where you can enjoy a variety of orifices.
AFTERS - (Dessert) The creamy, cuddly icing on your waifu. A great way to end the night.
You can insert the scenes you've unlocked into their corresponding Pandora Player slots (e.g. unlock a TEASE with Lily, it goes into the TEASE slot). This allows you to essentially assemble your very own custom short movies. Different scenes from different trees can be mixed and matched to create a smorgasbord of depravity. You can even save presets of your favorite combinations or just hit randomize and go to town on whatever Pandora has in store for you!
While you will gain enough PP throughout the course of Subverse to unlock every single scene, you are free to specialize in just a single tree if you wish. This gives you unlimited power over your own fetishes.
TL/DR:
- Spend PP to unlock scenes of your choice
- Assemble the scenes in Pandora
- Generate scene and hit play to enjoy!
New Roadmap, New Strategy
We are so thrilled to announce that two full-time software engineers with AAA gaming experience have joined the Subverse team. They're already making a huge impact on production, and we couldn't be happier to have them here.
During the past few months, we've also been in contact with several world-renowned game producers that have been acting as mentors for us during this process.
Their advice, along with that of our new engineers, have caused us to audit the current release strategy and pipeline. This brought us to the conclusion that Early Access would not be beneficial for Subverse.
Please note: THIS DECISION WILL NOT EFFECT THE CLOSED BETA IN ANY WAY.
The other good news is that this decision will actually allow us to significantly speed up production of the full release because it won't be necessary to constantly update and maintain the numerous Early Access builds. We're currently ahead of our internal production schedule and we see no issue with maintaining this pace.
This decision wasn't taken lightly. Subverse is currently 13th global on the Steam Wishlist, We could've easily taken the cash grab route and put out the unpolished Early Access chapters, but Studio FOW has always been committed to creating products that we are proud of and we know the fans will thoroughly enjoy.
Why is Early Access not viable for Subverse?
1) Single-player, story-driven RPGs don't tend to do early access. Early Access is typically utilized by FPS games, rogue-likes, and MMOs that have gameplay loops and dynamic online components that need to be thoroughly tested.
2) One of our advisers made the excellent point that we have almost 4,500 eligible closed beta testers. This is a huge pool that we can tap into to make gameplay tweaks, thus nullifying the whole point of Early Access for the general public.
3) Subverse is a story-driven game meant to be experienced as a whole, not in the stop/start fashion that is forced by Early Access. Having to wait potentially up to a month for the next chapter to be released will really hurt the momentum of the overall game.
4) Internally, we've seen the difference between a fully completed section of the game and an Early Access one, and it's night and day in terms of quality. We feel it would be a disservice to you guys and the project to release it before the quality you deserve can be achieved throughout the game.
SO WHAT'S NEXT?
We'll be releasing public gameplay footage following the start of the closed beta and keeping you guys in the loop with our Youtube channel, so please don't feel left out even if you don't have closed beta access. We'll make sure everyone has a ticket aboard the hype train for the duration of the project, and we're extremely excited to take the trip with you.
Sincerely,
Mr. Kristoff
Senior Producer
GentlemanCthulhu
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I am so ready to
"Explore a wacky galaxy full of hot alien babes!"
"Explore a wacky galaxy full of hot alien babes!"
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Dev Diary #7
Greetings once again to our loyal backers! I'm happy to be bringing you the most important dev diary yet.
By the way, Fortune says hello.
Closed Beta Release Date
We're delighted to announce the closed beta will begin for all Big Bang Theorists (backers that pledged £75 or more) on September 28th, 2019! Make sure you have your keys retrieved and activated in your Steam libraries so you can access it.
As previously mentioned, this first build will include the SHMUP tutorial and the first mission of the game. However, we're also adding an endless combat mode for testing purposes. If you're eligible, Make sure you drop by our Discord server and sign up for the Beta Oasis room so you can give us feedback and report any bugs there.
Model Teases
Here's an updated WIP of Taron Kraask's model, which includes her color scheme. We're putting the finishing touches on her fur textures to make sure she's extra fabulous before her first appearance on the cat walk.
For all you Studio 69 VIPs, we're pleased to reveal the club itself in all its glory! Now that it has had a final pass done on the lighting and assets, it's up to the quality we first envisioned for it. We hope you all look forward to chilling, having a drink and playing a few bar games with your favorite waifus here.
WELCOME TO PANDORA!
And now, at long last, we are proud to present our unique and powerful system of customized hand-holding in Subverse - PANDORA!
Pandora is a tech tree that allows you to send your lap rocket on a fucktacular journey into the black hole of your choice. Remember how we talked about the XP capsule system (aka PP/Pooter Points) last week? Every time your waifu levels up, you get one PP. You can insert your PP right here.
There are three pools of hand-holding from which you can unlock scenes:
CAPTAIN - 1v1 fun with the panty-faced protagonist, both in POV and cinematic poses.
CREW - The ladies of Subverse get to have futa fun with each other courtesy of Dr. Lillian Margaliss's insta-dick technology as well as some group poses involving other Mary Celeste denizens.
XENO - Big old sloppy 100% certified organic Manticore meat monster hogs for your waifus to enjoy. You can look forward to fiends of both the bi and quadrupedal variety to play with.
All of these options also contain categories hand-animated by our artisan fucksmiths, and our animations are tailored to each waifu's unique personality, i.e. Killi will be more dominant with her teases.
Here are the categories below:
TEASE - (Pre-meal Cocktail) Good old fashioned animated pinups.
FOREPLAY - (Appetizers) Basically any kind of lewd act ending with "-job."
SEX - (Entree) The meat and potatoes course of the night where you can enjoy a variety of orifices.
AFTERS - (Dessert) The creamy, cuddly icing on your waifu. A great way to end the night.
You can insert the scenes you've unlocked into their corresponding Pandora Player slots (e.g. unlock a TEASE with Lily, it goes into the TEASE slot). This allows you to essentially assemble your very own custom short movies. Different scenes from different trees can be mixed and matched to create a smorgasbord of depravity. You can even save presets of your favorite combinations or just hit randomize and go to town on whatever Pandora has in store for you!
While you will gain enough PP throughout the course of Subverse to unlock every single scene, you are free to specialize in just a single tree if you wish. This gives you unlimited power over your own fetishes.
TL/DR:
- Spend PP to unlock scenes of your choice
- Assemble the scenes in Pandora
- Generate scene and hit play to enjoy!
New Roadmap, New Strategy
We are so thrilled to announce that two full-time software engineers with AAA gaming experience have joined the Subverse team. They're already making a huge impact on production, and we couldn't be happier to have them here.
During the past few months, we've also been in contact with several world-renowned game producers that have been acting as mentors for us during this process.
Their advice, along with that of our new engineers, have caused us to audit the current release strategy and pipeline. This brought us to the conclusion that Early Access would not be beneficial for Subverse.
Please note: THIS DECISION WILL NOT EFFECT THE CLOSED BETA IN ANY WAY.
The other good news is that this decision will actually allow us to significantly speed up production of the full release because it won't be necessary to constantly update and maintain the numerous Early Access builds. We're currently ahead of our internal production schedule and we see no issue with maintaining this pace.
This decision wasn't taken lightly. Subverse is currently 13th global on the Steam Wishlist, We could've easily taken the cash grab route and put out the unpolished Early Access chapters, but Studio FOW has always been committed to creating products that we are proud of and we know the fans will thoroughly enjoy.
Why is Early Access not viable for Subverse?
1) Single-player, story-driven RPGs don't tend to do early access. Early Access is typically utilized by FPS games, rogue-likes, and MMOs that have gameplay loops and dynamic online components that need to be thoroughly tested.
2) One of our advisers made the excellent point that we have almost 4,500 eligible closed beta testers. This is a huge pool that we can tap into to make gameplay tweaks, thus nullifying the whole point of Early Access for the general public.
3) Subverse is a story-driven game meant to be experienced as a whole, not in the stop/start fashion that is forced by Early Access. Having to wait potentially up to a month for the next chapter to be released will really hurt the momentum of the overall game.
4) Internally, we've seen the difference between a fully completed section of the game and an Early Access one, and it's night and day in terms of quality. We feel it would be a disservice to you guys and the project to release it before the quality you deserve can be achieved throughout the game.
SO WHAT'S NEXT?
We'll be releasing public gameplay footage following the start of the closed beta and keeping you guys in the loop with our Youtube channel, so please don't feel left out even if you don't have closed beta access. We'll make sure everyone has a ticket aboard the hype train for the duration of the project, and we're extremely excited to take the trip with you.
Sincerely,
Mr. Kristoff
Senior Producer
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Lithium Flower
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Surprised no one mentioned this recent tweet showcasing one of Killision's scenes:
This design-your-own-porn system actually sounds pretty cool. I think that is a nice middle ground between an entirely prefabbed experience like in most story-driven porn games and the kind of crazy shit you can do in Illusion's hentai sandboxes or the likes of SFM. Sure you can do interesting stuff in the latter but it involves so much, ahem, dicking around and the individual animations typically have a lot more clipping and a lot less dynamicism than in a more designed experience. What the pandora system appears to be trying to achieve is higher-quality sex scenes tailored to each character (so ideally a lot of personality and minimal visual bugs ie clipping) with some limited customization in the way of outfits and structure - seems pretty good to me, as long as the animation variety is good.
This design-your-own-porn system actually sounds pretty cool. I think that is a nice middle ground between an entirely prefabbed experience like in most story-driven porn games and the kind of crazy shit you can do in Illusion's hentai sandboxes or the likes of SFM. Sure you can do interesting stuff in the latter but it involves so much, ahem, dicking around and the individual animations typically have a lot more clipping and a lot less dynamicism than in a more designed experience. What the pandora system appears to be trying to achieve is higher-quality sex scenes tailored to each character (so ideally a lot of personality and minimal visual bugs ie clipping) with some limited customization in the way of outfits and structure - seems pretty good to me, as long as the animation variety is good.
Update #27
Dev Diary #8 - Get Your Joysticks Ready
Posted by Mr. Kristoff
September 14, 2019
Collaborator
Dev Diary #8
Welcome back to another thrilling addition of the Subverse dev diaries, a series of creator updates with dirty words and even dirtier space girls.
What's New, Pussycat?
Meow!
As you can see, we've put the finishing touches on our catgirl infiltration specialist - Taron Kraask! Taron was one of the first stretch goals for Subverse, and the whole team was super excited to bring her to life.
Taron's species is known as the nikith (nigh-kith), which are obviously the Subverse equivalent of the feline humanoids so prevalent in the hentai world. Most nikith are content remaining in the hunter-gatherer phase of their society, but Taron fell in love with technology as soon as she had a fateful close encounter with an alien vibrator.
Since she is still relatively young and doesn't have much experience with culture outside her primitive planet, this can cause Taron to come across as socially awkward in many situations. However, her radiant positivity, eagerness to please and genetically inherent addiction to the pheromones of solar males like the Captain make her a shiny beacon of endlessly horny hope aboard the Mary Celeste.
That previously mentioned and almost inconveniently powerful reaction towards the protagonist of Subverse leads to all sorts of hilarious and fun interactions in the game, especially during her recruitment missions. But don't worry...despite her seemingly whimsical characterization, this kitty has claws and sick ninja moves that will allow you to stealthily shred through the opposition in both grid and space combat. She is voiced by StudioFOW legend Milly Stern, who also voiced 2B in our most downloaded movie ever: Nier First Assembly (yes, even more popular than K3).
BETA BEGINS
As we previously mentioned, the closed beta begins on Saturday, September 28th!
To make sure you are ready to go, use the following checklist:
1.) Have Big Bang Theorist backer status (donation of £75 or more).
2.) Redeem your Steam key that was previously provided so that Subverse is in your Steam library.
3.) Join the Studio FOW Discord server and access the Beta Oasis room.
4.) Send a DM to the bot "Masterbeta#1202" after it is launched on Saturday, September 21st, and follow the instructions to receive your beta key.
5.) Redeem that secondary key on Steam to add the beta download branch to Subverse.
6.) Download the update when Steam states it is available on the 28th.
7.) Open the first closed beta build and have fun!
Bug reports and feedback forms are available in-game and will be sent to Studio FOW's internal servers for review. It is immensely helpful if you can provide the context of what happened when you experience any bugs so we can potentially recreate these situations and analyze them, so please be sure to include as much specific information as possible!
ENTER THE DRAGON NEBULA
On that note, we're starting the party with our SHMUP-tacular gameplay! The first closed beta build will include three sections:
1.) SHMUP tutorial level, administered by DEMI
2.) The first space gameplay mission of Subverse
3.) "Endless mode" for testing purposes
While the first two sections are obviously intended to give you a gentle introduction to how space combat works in Subverse, the third is our little gift to the community that will allow you to play to your heart's content and hopefully uncover some bugs for us to fix in the process. The first pool of enemies is limited to pirates but we'll add more dickheads to the builds as beta progresses.
For now, you will be playing the game mode that we refer to as ANNIHILATION (kill everything = victory). As we continue development, we will also make additional modes playable such as the previously revealed DEFENDER where you are responsible for protecting objectives.
So how exactly does space combat work in Subverse? Here's a mini-instruction manual and rundown of the gameplay:
MOVEMENT
Your ship is guided with WASD movement. Subverse is primarily one of those rare free-roaming SHMUPs that allows you to wreak havoc all across the map rather than forcing you in one direction.
Hitting the shift key will activate cruise mode, which gives the F3N1X a speed boost to help you dodge attacks, flank bad guys or get to a defensive position much faster.
WEAPONS
Aiming is accomplished by moving a targeting reticle around the screen with the mouse. You can open fire on any targets acquired using the left mouse button, which is the trigger for the F3N1X's basic repeating particle cannon. It has unlimited ammo, so you can blast away and kill things real good all you want.
You'll also have access to the first special attack of the game, which is a precision-strike missile. It can be fired with the right mouse button. Should the projectile collide with anything, it will instantly detonate. However, you can also manually detonate it in the middle of clusters of enemies for a big sexy multi-kill. Note that this weapon reduces your ship's energy, so you must wait for it to recharge before it's ready to fire again.
Speaking of energy, the F3N1X has access to another attack tied to the space bar called the charge drive. This will send your ship speeding forward at lethal velocity, either destroying or causing heavy damage to any enemies dumb enough to not get the fuck outta the way. The charge drive can also be used to dodge enemy projectiles in a pinch.
RESOURCES
With two attacks tied to the energy resource system, you're likely to run out fast if you spam them. However, lucky for you, energy pickups will be available from fallen enemies.
Note that there are two levels of ship integrity in Subverse - shields and hull. Shields regenerate automatically after a period of time when no additional damage is taken, whereas hull does not. You can pick up health packs to get your hull back into shape.
BAD GUYS
You'll be throwing down with the pirates, which are the first enemy faction in Subverse. We guarantee these guys are all complete assholes, so don't feel bad about reducing them to wreckage and racking up points in the process.
You can increase your score in Subverse by defeating enemies, and each enemy has a different score value attached to them. There are currently five unique rival vessels in the build, and each of them can be found in escalating levels of difficulty (distinguished by color schemes).
Each one will require a different strategy to defeat. It's when you have multiple different classes of enemy on the screen coming at you at the same time that Subverse really shines as an arcade shooter that rewards quick-thinking, resource management and defensive movement combined with aggressive attack patterns.
We're all thrilled to see how the initial gameplay is received! However, please keep in mind that we are still barely in beta (its more like an alpha) and we have a long way to go before the game reaches its potential.
Calendar & Artbook
More excellent news! We are very confident our digital art rewards will be ready on time for their estimated release dates (End of 2019 for the calendar, early 2020 for the art book). Both projects are turning out even better than we imagined, and we can't wait to send them out to our loyal supporters! Expect a few teases here and there as more dev diaries are published.
Until Next Time
We're working around the clock like usual to finish up the last few waifu and main character models, so we'll have updates about those soon.
We hope you all take care and look forward to working with you throughout the rest of Subverse's development!
Sincerely,
Mr. Kristoff
- Senior Producer
Dev Diary #9 - Beta Bombardment
Posted by FOW Interactive
Sep 28, 2019
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Dev Diary #9
It was a busy September here at StudioFOW and it’s the first full month where I could see all the new additions to the team fully integrated into Subverse’s workflow, and I have to say – I like what I’m seeing. We’ve been careful and recruited very intelligently to make sure we have the right personnel in place to deliver the game. As a result, everyone is gelling and we seem to finally have a nice little indie studio vibe going on. There’s even a token gimp leashed to Yagskie’s desk who refills his coffee. Who needs a $5000 espresso machine?
Squidgirl Model
Next up on the waifu conveyor belt is another one of the promised Kickstarter stretch goals, the infamous “Huntress” aka squidgirl. She is a departure from our usual bevy of stacked femme fatales, offering a... flatter alternative for the discerning Captain. Don't let her cute looks fool you, she's a relentless space combat boss that hunts you throughout the game, and we took great pains to integrate her into the main storyline so that she doesn’t feel like a tacked on KS reward. As a result, I think you guys will enjoy her recruitment mission which is an exciting riff on 80s action movies all the way through. We’re applying the finishing touches on the model now and she will be viewable on the StudioFOW website in October.
Mangaka
Another promised reward was the delivery of the Subverse hentai doujin. Over the last few months I’ve been working closely with several prominent mangaka in order to bring this to life and I’m thinking you guys will enjoy the fruits of our labor. The doujins play to each artists’ established strengths, whilst keeping with the themes of the game...meaning that both fans of the mangaka and fans of Subverse will be hype for it. And if you're fans of both...well, then you're in for a real treat. Another great thing about these doujins is that they allow us to explore darker content we are not able to in the game. As we get closer to releasing the manga next year I am getting more and more excited to share snippets with everyone. And of course, the reward will be free to all StudioFOW fans and backers.
Script finished
At long last the entirety of the script is locked and ready to be recorded by the sultriest VAs we could find. Clocking in at over 400 pages, this is about 5 movies worth of galactic debauchery - full of twists, turns, romance, drama and more toilet humor than you could shake a Chutt’s dingleberry at. We split the writing into three phases
1) Main script including all the new cinematics
2) All onboard dialogue including post-mission conversations and reactions to galactic events
3) Loyalty quests and side missions for each waifu
As you can see, there is a LOT to record. Normally I would have liked to save this until the end, but due to the massive lead-times associated with recording a script of this size, we will start recording sessions as soon as October in order to get as much voiced content ready for 1.0 as possible. I’d rather be slightly inefficient than to miss the 1.0 build being voiced, because the performances really bring everything to life.
Beta Commencement
The long awaited beta of the space shooter is live this weekend – right on schedule as promised. Eligible backers (£75 and up) need to head on over to the Discord and register your key with the awesomely named “Masterbeta” bot which will assign you a key. Once you have your key you’ll be able to opt into the beta on Steam if you own Subverse in your library. Remember, this is just a bare-bones build so whilst aesthetic feedback is noted, we are honestly looking for feedback on mechanics e.g. does it feel responsive, are you having trouble with a particular enemy type, do the hitboxes feel right for you
Testers have an important role, but it’s also important to be laser-precise with your feedback. Because there are so many of you, it will take some time to sift through all the feedback and get to the critical issues, therefore patience is appreciated. Heading into the Fall we are really excited to be finishing up the last few remaining waifus and getting deeper into the gameplay elements, working together with our 4000+ testers to create a worthy adult game for pervs everywhere to enjoy.
-DC
catfood
AGAIN
Gameplay of the shmup section. Great music. Perfect for a space porno.
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