Vapourware Zodiac Legion - X-COM and dungeons

[PrettyDeadman]

Is this game going to be released?

 

[Galdred]

Is this game going to be released?

It will, when it's ready!

 

[Galdred]

The plan is to release a combat demo in winter (or a combat prologue demo. Steam is becoming a bit arcane...). Then we'll assess stuff from there ("full prologue" by August, then EA probably end of 2021).

 

[baud]

on that subject, I don't think you had shown those pictures here

 

[Galdred]

Indeed! The first one is still a WiP. The second was a title screen that ended up not being selected. I think I already posted the third.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[Darth Roxor]

Ah, sir Skellington. Good to see you've made it.

 

[Ninjerk]

Nazi temple?

 

[Galdred]

Oh, I forgot to replace the base sprite with the new one...
:facepalm

 

[Abu Antar]

You seem upset.

 

[Galdred]

You seem upset.

Apparently, some don't want to let other take pictures

 

[Galdred]

So, I added mission start from the campaign map (but you still cannot go back to it!), and we took quite a few screenshots lately.
Here are some of them:

Fireproof carpet

Spoiler

crowded river crossing

Spoiler

loot

Spoiler

Taurus holding the door while his companions Libra, Ophiuchus and Aquarius try to figure out the lever puzzle, and the two unnamed soldiers wonder how long they will last here.

Spoiler

 

[Galdred]

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The art & animations are very well done, professional quality rather than typical indie faux-retro stuff.

This reminds me of something but I can't quite place my finger on it.

 

[Galdred]

Our composer made the soundcloud page for his work on the game.

 

[Harry Easter]

Looks really good. How about the story or writing general? Already finished or do you want to add it after completing the map and the encounters?

 

[Galdred]

Looks really good. How about the story or writing general? Already finished or do you want to add it after completing the map and the encounters?

Thanks! The lore is not set in stone as we ended up revising the world history a lot over time. It is hard to tell when it will be really finished.

We plan the game to be as open-ended as X-COM, so the structure will be mostly :
launching missions to get benefits (like recovering artifacts from ruins), to deal a resounding blows to the opponent (ie, reactive missions, like the terror missions or UFO on the ground mission), until you get an opportunity to advance to the "next stage".
The stages themselves are not 100% decided yet either.

We started with a ton of mission writing actually, but as lore revisions piled up, making some obsolete, we moved away from it and focused on making maps . I also planned to have COYA parts to introduce missions, but I still haven't coded the scripting part, and it is terribly hard to do it right, (and not "pick the correct option or fight with a handicap", like it is the case in Mechanicus).
So we "froze" writing until we will be sure of the final form "mission planning" phase, except for the short descriptions and victory/failure texts for the maps we have right now.

 

[Darth Roxor]

the lore better be sufficiently deep

 

[MRY]

The loremeister delved too greedily and too deep.

 

[Harry Easter]

The loremeister delved too greedily and too deep.

Ssshhh, that's a plottwist! No spoilers!

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Is it really lore if you can't make porn out of it?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Is it really lore if you can't make porn out of it?

That is a big if.

 

[Galdred]

Is it really lore if you can't make porn out of it?

What kind of settings wouldn't work actually?
Apart from abstract games like Tetris I suppose...

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Is it really lore if you can't make porn out of it?

What kind of settings wouldn't work actually?
Apart from abstract games like Tetris I suppose...

I got bad news for you about Tetris...