Game News Dungeons of Aledorn, an indie RPG inspired by Krondor and Arkania, now on Kickstarter

[Nihiliste]

This randomly looks pretty good. Pledged, going to try to help get the word out there amongst my friends. Deserves a chance at the price he's asking.

 

[CyberWhale]

Why are you guys constantly referring to the Team21 as a single person? There are currently 12 people working on this project.

 

[MicoSelva]

Good to see this gaining some momentum. 'Trending toward' on kicktraq has moved up from ~30K to ~57K.

Too bad that is still below the funding goal. :-(

 

[mondblut]

Hobbits? I sense a cease and desist letter incoming in 3...2...1...

 

[LeStryfe79]

Once people pull their money from that phony Gold Box successor, I see this gaining even more momentum. I bet this makes it on the last day.

 

[Cadmus]

this kickstarter pitch is the funniest thing I've seen all week
somebody invite the devs to the codex so that we can "question" them!

 

[torpid]

1st person blobber xploration, overhead, grid-based combat And apparently you're not transported to a pre-generated battlefield; the game just switches to overhead view + grid, so it even allows for some pre-positioning.

"Move your characters on the hexagonal map (...) No squares -- we hate squares"

Paper doll in the inventory screen to admire our loot!

Looks like a lot of it is done already; maybe that's why they're asking for only $60k? Polish/fine-tuning.

 

[Tudor von Nirgendwo]

I'm quite fed up with these generic settings, to be honest. The game looks really interesting, but there are only so many elves (dark/wooden/white/special-snowflakes/etc), hobbits (?), dwarves and such that one can ignore before it gets to the saturation point. I wish some of these newer developers would go for something a little bit different... I absolutely ADORED the setting in Banner Saga, so it is possible in my opinion to do something different even in the oft-visited vein of nordic theme-parks (let's be honest here, every single one of these table top games, books and cRPGs steals ideas from or is influenced by parts of that mythology, from Tolkien to the latest Ageing Dragon: Fetchquisition; it all got mixed into this amorphous blob that includes every imaginable cliché, recycled over and over again, probably because it is the "safest" general setting to go with).

First thing the tactical map in the pitch video reminded me of is Expeditions: Conquistadors. That game isn't exactly pretty to look at, but it is something different. In this case however, I can ignore the awkward looking textures and bland graphics (it IS a pre-alpha and they intend to upgrade to Unity 5, in any case), but it is hard to summon even a minimal level of hype for yet another bland, 80s fantasy setting. *sigh*

I'm expectantly waiting for more details on the project. Game mechanics look good (even a bit too ambitious maybe?), so it could turn into something very interesting. If i can resist my urge to cleanse all hobbits/elves/dwarves, that is...

 

[ERYFKRAD]

If i can resist my urge to cleanse all hobbits/elves/dwarves, that is...

Now now, there's absolutely nothing wrong in genociding elves.

 

[karnak]

I'm quite fed up with these generic settings, to be honest. The game looks really interesting, but there are only so many elves (dark/wooden/white/special-snowflakes/etc), hobbits (?), dwarves and such that one can ignore before it gets to the saturation point. I wish some of these newer developers would go for something a little bit different... I absolutely ADORED the setting in Banner Saga, so it is possible in my opinion to do something different even in the oft-visited vein of nordic theme-parks (let's be honest here, every single one of these table top games, books and cRPGs steals ideas from or is influenced by parts of that mythology, from Tolkien to the latest Ageing Dragon: Fetchquisition; it all got mixed into this amorphous blob that includes every imaginable cliché, recycled over and over again, probably because it is the "safest" general setting to go with).

It's not their fault, really. Most human being have trouble gettig out of their "comfort zone", even in gaming issues.

If you make a study you'd be appaled at the number of people who don't get sick of playing with the same gay elves, killing the old ugly, smelly orcs and vanquishing the same old generic evil sorceror/warlord/demon.

 

[MurkyShadow]

I hate Czechs. I hate Indie Developers. I hate Nostalgia even more. I can't eat as much as I'd like to vomit.
I hate Betrayel at Krondor. I despise Realms of Arkania. And Isometric Turn Based Combat...

I... I... will be able to get a kitchen for that new flat when I don't stop donating to crap like this.

Here! Take my gorram money and leave me be.



edit:
See? So anger much, grammar all gets f*cked up too!

 

[JarlFrank]

That fucking inventory system sounds exactly like what I always wanted inventory systems to be like in RPGs.

 

[AbounI]

I've just upgraded my pledge from 9$ to 35$ after seeing the soundtrack teaser



This tune is so sweet

 

[MicoSelva]

They have reached $6K finally, 10% of the goal. The good news is funding keeps accelerating, Kicktraq now reports $62K 'trending toward'.

 

[Lady_Error]

Well, out of all Realms of Arkania titles they were inspired by "Shadows over Riva" - the third one which did not have map exploration. I think it was probably the weakest one, despite having better graphics than the first.

Personally, I could never get into Elder Scrolls/Morrowind/Skyrim. This looks quite a lot like those, so I hope the isometric grid-based combat will make a difference. The generic story does not inspire though.

 

[Watser]

Female nudity.
Someone please inform the SJW horde so this game will get some more media coverage

 

[Zetor]

Backed. Hopefully they hit the "get an editor a proofreader someone who speaks English" stretch goal soon.

 

[cherry blossom]

First person exploration with good environmental 3D art? Turn based isometric combat on a hexagonal grid? Fucking sold.

Not crazy about this dialogue up-close, though.

Don't make us sit through this ugly shit, man.

 

[Nihiliste]

I wonder if we bring this to their attention if we can get some other devs to give this a shoutout.

 

[GlutenBurger]

Heh. They're using different apostrophes for possessive and contractive purposes, and one of them is upside down. Crazy foreigners.

I pledged above early bird, and they didn't even have to send me a message begging me to increase my pledge if at all possible, but it doesn't look like it's going to help.

 

[Viata]

I'd give all my money if they changed the medieval setting to a futuristic one. I just want a blobber with a futuristic setting. Be it cyberpunk or not, I don't care, just want something different(in this subgenre, of course).

 

[JarlFrank]

I'd offer them to proofread their writing for free, cause right now, it just sucks, and I want this to be good because everything else pushes exactly the right buttons.

 

[AbounI]

according to this picture, there will be a voiced narrator

Heather enregistre des dialogues.Heather recording dialogs

 

[Viata]

So it's better someone proofread it before they record some Engrish into the game.

 

[karnak]

So it's better someone proofread it before they record some Engrish into the game.

Warrior: "What happened?"

Ranger: "Someone set up us the spell"

Evil Lich: "AH AH AH!
How are you heroes?
All your dungeon are belong to us.
You are on the way to destruction!"

Warrior: "What you say?"


Evil Lich: "You have no chance to survive make your time"