Driftmoon

Why do you copy stale news from the watch all the time? Why can't you be the one to get the scoop first?

 

I have no idea why, but the trailer made me think of Dink Smallwood.

 

Probably less developers want to send press releases to the Codex than to the Watch.

I can't for the life of me think why.

 

That is the worst camera angle ever.

 

Hmmm, TBH Driftmoon floats the Mod Database for years (since 2009). I thought it was already covered by RPGCodex News at some point in the past.

I must say it looks decent for an indie. Heard some complaints about the perspective here and there, but overall impressions of the people being interested in this game are rather positive. Also, the pathfinding story was a good read. If I wasn't meddling with this on my own recently, I swear I'd hardly understand anything written there at a first glance. I just hope the addition of the priority queue is going to prove itself worthy. After all, Ville's been investing months of his work in this...

 

The perspective makes me nauseous. The last game with a similar perpective that I played (and immensely enjoyed) was Take No Prisoners but that wasn't still very different as you can see.

 

Its old news, and frankly what to get excited about ? The POV is indeed terrible , but more than that i dont see anything worth mentioning in the game mechanisms. Another action rpg with a few dialogue options wich wont change anything in the outcome, probably a classic boring cliche story ala eschalon ( i havent played it, but i am not taking much risks). Another indie game that reeks of mediocrity.

 

I like the dialogue font, but that is basically the only redeeming factor.

Also:

This might quite possibly be the most pretentious description of a second-rate game I have ever encountered.

 

Ah yes that game was quite great, how far did you get in it ? I remember not being able to finish it, got stuck somewhere in a nuclear plant of some sorts..

 

I take it that you don't encounter much.

 

Made me think of Rage of Mages 3...

 

Agreed. Not having an isometric perspective reeks of "too cheap to make proper sprites/textures".

 

Man, the camera angle kills any interest in the game for me. That, and the fact that the PC moves slow as fuck. Whatever happened to the run option?

And no realtime combat? WTF?

 

Topdown view? I don't get why new rpgs aren't at least on the same gfx-level of mass effect 2. Even indies should be able to do this.

Cutscenes will look horrible in that engine. Or even worse; there will be no cutscenes at all. Plus I haven't even read one word about romances. I have the feeling this game will be horrible.

Probably they will come up with gameplay instead of cutscenes and sex and explosions and bloodfountains. Horrible, horrible I say!


Edit:

Ok, the game is shit!

 

Hello everyone!

I'm the second developer of Driftmoon, Anne. Most of the work is by my husband Ville. We've been working on the game almost every day (after our regular jobs) for some time now, and are actually quite happy with it's current stage. It's been a huge amount of work for two people, even though we do have two lovely little toddlers "helping us" with the process.

I want to correct a few details - probably derived from that slightly outdated trailer of ours (the trailer is from April 2011 so there's been some changes since). First of all, Driftmoon is not an action RPG at all. The combat system in Driftmoon has similarities with Dragon Age. In it's core it's really a turn based system, but it runs in real time, and you can pause it. So, although there is some combat involved (more varying than in the trailer), as well as puzzles and character development, the game-mechanics are much more about exploration and interacting with the NPC's. The dialogue options, for example, often make a pretty big difference in the outcomes.

Possibly even more importantly, of course there are romances in Driftmoon! How could we avoid writing a romance or two (or was it three?) in the game, especially since we're a happily married couple ourselves. But fret not, the whole of Driftmoon is not engulphed in a romance, they are only a small portions of the contents, and not really a part of the main plot.

You might be onto something there, Kalin. Not with the second-rate, but about the description. We'll have to get around to changing that, so thanks.

Ps. We do not favor one RPG site over the other. We were simply approached by RPGWatch to tell a little bit about Driftmoon. And we were happy to notice that our labour of love had spiked up some discussion also here at the Codex.

 

Yeah I got stuck there too. You were supposed to do some shit with rods. For the longest time, I thought it was a bug but then I read the solution but didn't play it again.

 

In before shitstorm. There will be tears.

 

oh god

 

oh great, thanks. now the game seems much, much better.

 

the rest sounds alright

 

Two levels of distinction separated by only a single, decaying molecule of air. You guys aren't serious about this, are you?

And I hate to say it, but that camera angle is pretty awful. I'm usually iron-stomached, but watching the trailer was making me queasy.

The engine looks like it has a nice amount of polish on it for an indie game, though.

*Edited to be a little less disckish*

 

well bro perhaps the graphics look the best at that angle



oh man that bit in the video when he's kiting with the bow

looks to be PG rated scripted exploration fantasy overall

 

That's...unfortunate.

 

Thank you for the thoughtful and informative post. Just a word of advice, you're never going to satisfy the people on this site; there is a small but vocal and obnoxious minority of people who hate everything that isn't [favorite game X from late adolescence], so just keep up the good work and pay little attention to this thread or most others about your game. People will curse you for RTwP game play, they will curse you for the camera angle, they will call you a "LARPer fag" because the game is heavy on dialogue that is not about gritty betrayals, hard-boiled tough-guy talk, and pointless grimdark violence. They will will pick apart every figment of content in that trailer and explain why they have already lost interest in your game because obviously you have bad taste in game design and are a terrible writer.

Don't interact with these people, they will only poison what looks like a promising project, and perhaps your life.