KickStarter BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION - isometric post-apocalyptic adventure from STASIS developer

[Pyke]

Do we have an official release date yet (that maybe I missed)? I seem to remember something about the end of January.

I think I might start allowing myself to get hyped up again if its soon. BEAUTIFUL!

We are tentatively set for the end of Feb, barRing anything major. :D

*sorry for the spelling - was on mobile!

 

[Pyke]

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[Anthedon]

Cyberpunk Noir with that kind of art?

 

[vortex]

Cyberpunk Noir with some Stephen King horror twist would be great. Also maybe some king of gameplay similar to cyberpunk ruleset.

 

[Pyke]

I don't know if anyone is interested in this - but here is a small campaign I wrote a while ago. It was my first foray into DM'ing.

 

[Pyke]

Cyberpunk Noir with that kind of art?

Cyberpunk Noir with some Stephen King horror twist would be great. Also maybe some king of gameplay similar to cyberpunk ruleset.

I'd love to do a game thats pretty much a 1:1 remake of the original Syndicate mechanics, but with updated graphics and completely over the top gore.

 

[Abu Antar]

Slowly getting there.


I wonder how long it took them.

 

[Pyke]

His playthrough was 29 hours, but he was SUPER thorough, exploring most of the storylines.

I can speed run the game in 5 hours (skipping large chunks of audio and avoiding the combat element). So I think the average playtime sits somewhere in the middle there. :D

 

[ItsChon]

His playthrough was 29 hours, but he was SUPER thorough, exploring most of the storylines.

I can speed run the game in 5 hours (skipping large chunks of audio and avoiding the combat element). So I think the average playtime sits somewhere in the middle there. :D

Eh, 20-25 hours isn't ideal, but it's still solid. DE was about 25-30, so if it's around the same run time, it should be enough to satisfy players.

 

[Pyke]

His playthrough was 29 hours, but he was SUPER thorough, exploring most of the storylines.

I can speed run the game in 5 hours (skipping large chunks of audio and avoiding the combat element). So I think the average playtime sits somewhere in the middle there. :D

Eh, 20-25 hours isn't ideal, but it's still solid. DE was about 25-30, so if it's around the same run time, it should be enough to satisfy players.

Its a bit of a difficult game to try and tie down a play through time, because there are so many different ways to experience it. Hell, we have an entire section of the game with 2 fully fleshed out voiced races with an entwined storyline - and you can just... never meet them. Or meet them and then never go back to them. Or do something quite horrible to them and skip over their story altogether.

Personally I'm thinking that the average time will be 10 - 15 hours. I hope that people will do a second play through and try out different paths.

 

[ItsChon]

His playthrough was 29 hours, but he was SUPER thorough, exploring most of the storylines.

I can speed run the game in 5 hours (skipping large chunks of audio and avoiding the combat element). So I think the average playtime sits somewhere in the middle there. :D

Eh, 20-25 hours isn't ideal, but it's still solid. DE was about 25-30, so if it's around the same run time, it should be enough to satisfy players.

Its a bit of a difficult game to try and tie down a play through time, because there are so many different ways to experience it. Hell, we have an entire section of the game with 2 fully fleshed out voiced races with an entwined storyline - and you can just... never meet them. Or meet them and then never go back to them. Or do something quite horrible to them and skip over their story altogether.

Personally I'm thinking that the average time will be 10 - 15 hours. I hope that people will do a second play through and try out different paths.

Now a days, there is a common misconception that bigger is always better. A well crafted, tight, story line that might only take a couple hours is far more preferable to a bloated mess that overstays its welcome. As long as what's being expressed to the audience is good, the game will shine.

 

[Pyke]

His playthrough was 29 hours, but he was SUPER thorough, exploring most of the storylines.

I can speed run the game in 5 hours (skipping large chunks of audio and avoiding the combat element). So I think the average playtime sits somewhere in the middle there. :D

Eh, 20-25 hours isn't ideal, but it's still solid. DE was about 25-30, so if it's around the same run time, it should be enough to satisfy players.

Its a bit of a difficult game to try and tie down a play through time, because there are so many different ways to experience it. Hell, we have an entire section of the game with 2 fully fleshed out voiced races with an entwined storyline - and you can just... never meet them. Or meet them and then never go back to them. Or do something quite horrible to them and skip over their story altogether.

Personally I'm thinking that the average time will be 10 - 15 hours. I hope that people will do a second play through and try out different paths.

Now a days, there is a common misconception that bigger is always better. A well crafted, tight, story line that might only take a couple hours is far more preferable to a bloated mess that overstays its welcome. As long as what's being expressed to the audience is good, the game will shine.

Agreed. Some of my favorite game experiences have been just a few hours long. Hell, I used to buy the Call Of Duty games because I could finish their campaigns in a relaxing afternoon with a beer and a bowl of popcorn.

 

[Pyke]

 

[V_K]

Oh, now I can see what kind of apocalyptic disaster befell the world in the game: the return of 70s hairstyles.

 

[Infinitron]

That's some unusual physiognomy for a video game protagonist. More like Beautiful DeTHALation amirite?

 

[Pyke]

That's some unusual physiognomy for a video game protagonist. More like Beautiful DeTHALation amirite?

It was the 70's man - drugs were WAY cheaper.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Two white guys, including one that looks like the poster boy for middle america, beer belly and all, exploring post apocalyptic Africa... i expect there to be some backlash from the usual retarded media outlets and forums.

 

[Pyke]

Two white guys, including one that looks like the poster boy for middle america, beer belly and all, exploring post apocalyptic Africa... i expect there to be some backlash from the usual retarded media outlets and forums.

I'm not too concerned about that. Nic and I wrote a story about 2 brothers because its something we know something about. If we altered their race the story itself would have probably been quite different, and that wasn't the story we wanted to tell.

There is this strange phenomenon around South African creators - and expectation from international audiences - that every story set in South Africa (and probably the continent as a whole) needs to be some sort of morality tale about the history of the country. Honestly, we just wanted to write a cool scifi story with our home country as the back drop.

 

[BlackGoat]

Guy on the left is very John Carpenter's Dark Star

 

[Pyke]

Guy on the left is very John Carpenter's Dark Star

Yes!

 

[Catacombs]

There is this strange phenomenon around South African creators - and expectation from international audiences - that every story set in South Africa (and probably the continent as a whole) needs to be some sort of morality tale about the history of the country. Honestly, we just wanted to write a cool scifi story with our home country as the back drop.

District 9 immediately comes to mind in terms of a sci-fi story set in South Africa that reflects a period in the country's history, i.e. Apartheid.

 

[DeepOcean]

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Cyberpunk RPG with this incline art... . man we really cant have nice things.

 

[Owlish]

There is this strange phenomenon around South African creators - and expectation from international audiences - that every story set in South Africa (and probably the continent as a whole) needs to be some sort of morality tale about the history of the country. Honestly, we just wanted to write a cool scifi story with our home country as the back drop.

District 9 immediately comes to mind in terms of a sci-fi story set in South Africa that reflects a period in the country's history, i.e. Apartheid.

Another whitey bad movie of the perspective that Apartheid systems are the ultimate evil, because it was a system to protect the whites. But when Apartheid fell the lives of the vast majority of South African blacks didn't improve, just a tiny substratum replaced the whites in power namely those with ties to the ANC, with the white farmers slowly being exterminated with implicit state sanction.

 

[toro]

There is this strange phenomenon around South African creators - and expectation from international audiences - that every story set in South Africa (and probably the continent as a whole) needs to be some sort of morality tale about the history of the country. Honestly, we just wanted to write a cool scifi story with our home country as the back drop.

District 9 immediately comes to mind in terms of a sci-fi story set in South Africa that reflects a period in the country's history, i.e. Apartheid.

Another whitey bad movie of the perspective that Apartheid systems are the ultimate evil, because it was a system to protect the whites. But when Apartheid fell the lives of the vast majority of South African blacks didn't improve, just a tiny substratum replaced the whites in power namely those with ties to the ANC, with the white farmers slowly being exterminated with implicit state sanction.

Off topic: District 9 is covertly pro-apartheid. The entire subtext is that "whom you do not let die do not let you live".

 

[DeepOcean]

There is this strange phenomenon around South African creators - and expectation from international audiences - that every story set in South Africa (and probably the continent as a whole) needs to be some sort of morality tale about the history of the country. Honestly, we just wanted to write a cool scifi story with our home country as the back drop.

Say you are from Wakanda, problem solved.