KickStarter Hibernaculum - sci-fi survival horror dungeon crawler from Wormwood Studios' Victor Pflug - coming Q4 2025

[Victor Pflug]

 

[Victor Pflug]

 

[Victor Pflug]

You guys are gonna *crucify* me later if inventory doesn't both massage your every UI dream and desire aren't you?

..IT's so weird - all the push back like "oh it isn't turn based" well, you guys don't realize how much it's *based* on turn based. It's very... Based. In essence.

Anyway - long story short was testing with our programmer last night and all this brutal shit happening - combat logs are flicking past literlly like Eye of the Beholder on crack while still maintaining (what I WANT) from it's purely ADnD2e roots.

I actually look forward to Codex feedback more than anyone else - I know I'll get shitcanned but I did make what I set out to (and promised) and it VERY MUCH DOES tickle every nerve I wanted it from my own gaming experience perspective - something I've held in highest regards, after our backers and actual delivery of a product of course... Every test play now has at least one "holy shit" moment and that's something I'd only tell you guys and not brag about? Because I know the feedback here is nothing less than honest, if nothing else. Which allows me a certain honestly - as you've all seen regarding everything I make (WINK).

But the main impetus has *always* just... Been. The numbers - and how they make the game feel; brutal, experiential. Rooted in DnD & ghoulish as all get out.

Sigh.

I look forward to being lambasted regardless :D

 

[Victor Pflug]

 

[Victor Pflug]

 

[Victor Pflug]

 

[Victor Pflug]

Well I say "we"...

It's just me on that design actually lol

 

[Victor Pflug]

Story of my life lol

 

[Victor Pflug]

 

[Victor Pflug]

DOES IT STILL LOOK LIKE A FAKE GIF AND NOT AN ACTUAL GAME, GUYS?

Who said that again?

Show yourself lol

 

[Beastro]

DOES IT STILL LOOK LIKE A FAKE GIF AND NOT AN ACTUAL GAME, GUYS?

Who said that again?

Show yourself lol

 

[Victor Pflug]

 

[Victor Pflug]

Human will never have utopia without honesty...

 

[Grauken]

Human will never have utopia without honesty...

Utopia is an impossible ideal by definition, what works is improving quality of life, as the last 100 years have shown, except maybe if you were born in some shithole third world country (like the USA)

 

[Anthedon]

I like how Infinitron is even posting news in a thread constantly spammed by the developer himself.

 

[Victor Pflug]

The Horror of Survival (and save scumming blobbers).

 

[Victor Pflug]

In short - I won't *let* you die like other RPGs I'd prefer you to suffer, per se? :D

 

[Victor Pflug]

Human will never have utopia without honesty...

Utopia is an impossible ideal by definition, what works is improving quality of life, as the last 100 years have shown, except maybe if you were born in some shithole third world country (like the USA)

If you imagine a world truly built on honesty - that is the foundation of Nirvana IMO.

 

[Victor Pflug]

Can't imagine the love of your life until you meet her BUT you can put things in effect to help you meet her is what I'm sayin'.

 

[Grauken]

Human will never have utopia without honesty...

Utopia is an impossible ideal by definition, what works is improving quality of life, as the last 100 years have shown, except maybe if you were born in some shithole third world country (like the USA)

If you imagine a world truly built on honesty - that is the foundation of Nirvana IMO.

Lying is an in-built function of humans and without it our society would not work. So you're quite right, the only humans that are a 100% honest are in nirvana, aka they are all dead

 

[lightbane]

When's the game supposed to be launched, again?

 

[Grauken]

The Horror of Survival (and save scumming blobbers).

The whole save scumming discussion is interesting but I have seen few solutions that really manage to stop people from doing it. Some devs have tried the motivational approach (if you don't save scum, you get some extra resource you wouldn't get any other way), some go for punishment (either cumbersome GUI, making save scumming really annoying, or autosave while not giving players the ability to manual save) which usually don't work. The best solution I've seen is really using a save point system that's spaced enough apart that it becomes part of the gameplay. Will be interesting to see whether you manage to get people not to save scum.

 

[Luka-boy]

In short - I won't *let* you die like other RPGs I'd prefer you to suffer, per se? :D

Thanks, that's kind of my (videogaming) fetish.

"How far can I push this increasingly fucked up situation and actually succeed/reach a safe spot?" etc.

 

[Durq]

When's the game supposed to be launched, again?

Only 147 days until the game and all of the promised physical products are in backers' hands.

 

[Victor Pflug]

This is a reference to a Michael Mann film.

Guess which one.