KickStarter Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness - Tales of the Moon Cult expansion on the way

[Jenkem]

this game is almost funded and there's still 21 days left

 

[agris]

i wonder if porting their mod to the poe2 engine will slow development?

 

[Mustawd]

 

[Sykar]

What came to my mind when I read the game's title:

 

[Infinitron]

Maybe this will finally push them over the top:



https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grapeocean/black-geyser-couriers-of-darkness/posts/2184425

Gameplay video with combat

Ho there adventurers,

Below is a video from our ongoing walkthrough, taking place in the forest near Isilbright as we advance in the subquest 'The Cult of Zoria'. Our dwarven protagonist just switched his enchanted lightning hammer to a brand-new volcanic warhammer and cannot wait to try it. This is an early stage of the subquest, so the enemies are no match for our adventurer party.

We hope you enjoyed this glimpse into the Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness gameplay. Your feedback and interaction on Kickstarter is already making the game better than we could have ever imagined.

While we set our sights beyond the finish line and prepare to enter our final development phase, we realize some of you may be entering early stages of CRPG withdrawal, waiting for Black Geyser's official release... Don't worry, we got your back!

Black Geyser's contributing Story Consultant and Narrative Designer, Nick Macari, co-developed the story and took the role as lead script writer on Tower of Time–a fantasy CRPG recently available on Steam. Combining old school, text intensive fantasy RPG elements and a modern real-time combat system, this game is kicking butt and taking names in both user and critic reviews. If you need a gaming fix in the coming months, as we finalize and polish off Black Geyser, Tower of Time just might be the game for you.

 

[Mustawd]

Well they're only $450 from their goal, so I'm guessing they'll cross it sometime this weekend.

I'm sure the fact that PoE2 was released this week has hurt their KS donations a bit, seeing that it shares a lot of the same gameplay/setting origins as well as UI aesthetics.

 

[Abu Antar]

Maybe it helped.

 

[ArchAngel]

WTF those looters appeared 5s later... were they waiting all day and night in a near by bush or something?!

 

[Mustawd]

WTF those looters appeared 5s later... were they waiting all day and night in a near by bush or something?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highwayman#Robbing

Highwaymen often lay in wait on the main roads radiating from London. They usually chose lonely areas of heathland or woodland. Hounslow Heath was a favourite haunt: it was crossed by the roads to Bath and Exeter, England.

 

[Tigranes]

What a fine geyser you have there

 

[Alienman]

The bows fires as fast as machineguns. That ambush looked like the storming of omaha beach.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

And it's funded! The show will go on :D

e: If I get the update right the release of Black Geyser is only a few months away. In the meantime they suggest you play Tower of Time. Are they completely oblivious to the release of Deadfire?

If you need a gaming fix in the coming months, as we finalize and polish off Black Geyser, Tower of Time just might be the game for you.

Hmm, in their kickstarter pitch they are targeting Q3 2019 as release date.

 

[vazha]

They are delaying the release because they are in advanced negotiations with Avellone as a story consultant. We might end up with philosophical questions like what can greed change in a man. If you gaze into black geyser long enough, it will gayze you back.

 

[Mustawd]

Spoiler

FUNDED!!

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grapeocean/black-geyser-couriers-of-darkness/posts/2185589

We are funded!

THE BASE GOAL IS FUNDED! This is amazing! The first goal was hit quicker than anyone expected. Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness is going to be a reality because of you!

Our next Stretch Goal is for modders (anyone who creates custom content for the game) and for those who play the game in a language other than English. Check out Update #3 for details on the Language Pack and Advanced Moddability stretch goal.

 

[Mustawd]

OMG I wish I could rate you old Infini.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

OMG I wish I could rate you old Infini.

Done on your behalf.

 

[RNGsus]

Spoiler

FUNDED!!

Great work, men!

Where is the codex fundraiser? That was your queue, Infinitron

 

[lophiaspis]

Game looks good, just the title could be better.

How about Brown Geyser?

 

[Bumvelcrow]

Still not sure whether this is an elaborate joke, but 16 Euros doesn't set off my reflexpledge warning alarm so. Did we permanently scare off GreenMagicSpell ?

 

[hello friend]

GreenMagicSpell has promised to offer her face

she promised

 

[ArchAngel]

WTF those looters appeared 5s later... were they waiting all day and night in a near by bush or something?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highwayman#Robbing

Highwaymen often lay in wait on the main roads radiating from London. They usually chose lonely areas of heathland or woodland. Hounslow Heath was a favourite haunt: it was crossed by the roads to Bath and Exeter, England.

Does not explain why they waited all day and night right next to some cult entrance lol

If this shit is going to be normal for every encounter this is going to be most hilarious shit game ever.

 

[ArchAngel]

So in the combat video comments they said this:

A general reminder to all of us (not just to you ): Black Geyser development is close to the finish line, but haven't yet crossed it. So, A FEW things are not yet implemented

But we know they are using some bad Unity store enemy models and animations. How will they implement proper ones if there are only a few things left to implement ?!

I think this KS will become one of those future lessons to people about not risking their money on unproven devs and projects.

 

[Tigranes]

What do you mean, Archangel? Surely all Codexers are smart enough to assess the pitch and the evidence, and figure out whether these guys are actually capable of making a proper game, instead of just throwing money because somebody said isometric? I mean, nobody paid money up front for Sword Coast Legends either, right?

 

[PrettyDeadman]

I would say that the models and animations are good enough.
How about other aspects of the game? Do you have hope for Black Geyser?