Game News Age of Decadence January Update

[Infinitron]

Tags: Age of Decadence; Iron Tower Studios; Vault Dweller

This first Age of Decadence monthly update for the new year is up. This one might inspire some Codex rage. It turns out Vault Dweller tried to submit the game to this year's Independent Games Festival and, well, just read the update:

Welcome to 2013, boys and girls. Should be an exciting year.​

As I'm sure you know, Steam has kindly greenlighted us and we're in the process of signing paperwork and such. They seem to be a bunch of friendly and helpful people, which is always nice. The "greenlighening" has attracted a lot of attention and increased the number of pre-orders, so we already feel the effect.​

In unrelated news, we entered the demo into IGF 2013 in Oct. I've never thought that we would win, obviously, but hoped for a nomination. Didn't happen, sadly. The judge couldn't get out of the town and felt that the demo was "seriously limited". I explained but I guess the damage was already done. Oh well...​

Working on a location aptly named Inferiae - (Rom. Antiq.) Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends. Greatly expanded the main character's dialogue file, almost to the point of getting lost in the branches myself. You have a lengthy chat with this character and if she doesn't like your answers, you'll be offered as the aforementioned sacrifice.​

Added another path there. Kinda tried another angle to see if it works and it worked. Added two more options if you do end up becoming a sacrifice and tied one of the options to another location, which fixed one of the issues in that location as well. So, all and all, I'm very pleased with this month's progress.​

*sigh* Indies gonna indie.

In addition to the above, the update also contains the usual collection of new screenshots. This particular set shows the beginnings of a convoluted House Aurelian sidequest.

 

[St. Toxic]

You mean there was a way to leave town?

 

[Excidium]

You mean there was a way to leave town?

Map travel? How did you get to the mine and bandit camp?

 

[St. Toxic]

The what?

 

[Dorateen]

I suspect the IGF judge's mental capacity is "seriously limited".

 

[St. Toxic]

The word is "Majestic", just like royalty.

 

[Hellraiser]

I assume the judge in question had an unexpected visit from Lithuanians some time after he made that statement.

 

[evdk]

The word is "mentally deficient after several succeeding generations of inbreeding", just like royalty.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

The "greenlighening" has attracted a lot of attention and increased the number of pre-orders, so we already feel the effect.

These people obviously have no idea how long it will be until next Thursday.

 

[Koschey]

The judge couldn't get out of the town and felt that the demo was "seriously limited".

People like that are the reason why we can't have nice things.

 

[Silellak]

The judge couldn't get out of the town and felt that the demo was "seriously limited".

 

[Excidium]

The what?

 

[FeelTheRads]

First image to pop up on that indie festival site. All you need to know about that and indie games in general.

 

[Zeriel]

Yeah, not sure you'd want to win their "approval".

 

[evdk]

Yeah, not sure you'd want to win their "approval".

It would be good publicity.

 

[St. Toxic]

The what?

*mind blown*

 

[Zeriel]

Yeah, not sure you'd want to win their "approval".

It would be good publicity.

FILTHY PROLETARIAT NEWSRAG WILL ONLY TARNISH STREET CRED OF GLORIOUS TURN-BASED REVOLUTION.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Looks so nice. How big is the world map, number of locations, etc, when compared to something like BG2?

 

[Lancehead]

The judge couldn't get out of the town and felt that the demo was "seriously limited"

Well, seems like the judge has a FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED NO UNDERSTANDING of map travel.

 

[dnf]

Mainstream indies are just like AAA games minus cost production. Shit like Braid, Limbo, Super Meat Boy are the same shit as AAA(in fact, more shitty). Where is mondblut to bash indie turds?

The meat of good indie games are in the modding community( Wing commander, Half-life) and stuff like AOD. Flawed games yes, but a much better effort at quality than AAA games(indie or mainstream).

 

[piydek]

Mainstream indies are just like AAA games minus cost production. Shit like Braid, Limbo, Super Meat Boy are the same shit as AAA(in fact, more shitty). Where is mondblut to bash indie turds?

The meat of good indie games are in the modding community( Wing commander, Half-life) and stuff like AOD. Flawed games yes, but a much better effort at quality than AAA games(indie or mainstream).

You are an idiot.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Meh, excited but I want the game already.

 

[dnf]

If you fap to indie games while shitting on AAA games you are a hypocrite. They both share the same design philosophies. In fact, indies take a step further in taking the gameplay out. What was the last indie darling of the media? To the moon, Dear Esther . I was hoping to enjoy Hotline Miami, but i discovered that the game is a buggy mess. PCtards like to bash console ports because of unoptimization, but forget the indie darlings that are way worse in this department. Most indies don't even let you configure controls, graphic settings, don't have modding, etc...

 

[Infinitron]

dnf Learn from the best: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...-so-dumb-looking-sounding.66585/#post-1866736

Indie games suck it's nothing new.

Many retards here just support them because in their minds liking indie games means opposing mainstream despite them playing every single AAA game that's coming out.

But it's impossible to find as much shit in mainstream as in indie gaming.


In other words - fuck indies, fuck AAAs, support good developers.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Looks so nice. How big is the world map, number of locations, etc, when compared to something like BG2?

Twenty. Big enough.