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

[Alienman]

Corpse color, bit macabre. I like it.

 

[Luka-boy]

Kind sir, may we have some more please?

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

I was trying to play Sinking City again last night and it was just. Unplayable. Such beautiful graphics and environment. Open world Lovecraft. It seemed like nothing could possibly go wrong. Yet the game was just a lost opportunity. All that superb atmosphere and you can't find any gameplay in it.

This game looks so Amigaish and it has fantastic retro blobber graphics. Great genre and already you can see how good it could be. Please consider making it turn-based because if it is real time I just won't be interested in playing and will have so much trouble getting engaged in it. Otherwise it looks like it could be awesome. If it is turn-based I will buy it first day.

 

[fuzz]

Every art posted so far reeks of great atmosphere!
Loving the color palette and the choice of using "in-era" synthesizers.

Spoiler

Random screenshots from mobygames.com:

Can't wait to see this come to fruition. Are the level layouts randomly generated?

 

[hrokgames]

Pixel Dead Space? Sign me up

 

[Mary Sue Leigh]

Love the look. However I am not that fond of this jerky "slideshow" like movement. I find it so disorienting.
I know that's how it was "at the time" of "Beholder" and such probably, but still. Didn't like it back then either. A bit of animation added always felt like a sensible improvement.

 

[Jasede]

I love the art style.

 

[dbx]

Looking forward to this.
Somewhat reminds me of Black Down for Amiga (mostly Black Down Rebirth) for the visuals, mechanically I think that game is vastly different from this one though.

 

[lightbane]

Finally, more pics! I was missing this legit old-school that looks readable, instead of the fake blurry textures of lazy devs, or worse a "PSX filter" that makes everything look hazy.

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

Now awaiting launch on Kickstarter.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

It's a really good art style. I gotta repeat that.

 

[Viata]

Oh yeah also regarding sound/music - aside from using mostly real hardware from the era synthesizer-wise (Akai AX80, Casio CZ-1, ESQ-1, Roland D-5, Korg Poly 800, etc etc) I also make my own synthesizers and do some circuit bending.

Here's some of the self built gear I've been messing with for the Strangeland soundtrack and other projects, and will feature in Hibernaculum to some degree depending on what I do with that.

I'd ideally like to buy some vintage soviet synthesizers to fit the theme better - but that shit is PRICEY. This stuff I built because I couldn't really afford the fancy gear.

EDIT) I have even cooler stuff too but the pics are too large to upload and I have me some Wolfenstein ET to play

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I think this is the coolest shit in this very thread and perhaps among the best shit I have seen posted in this forum.

 

[Infinitron]

Oh my, I forgot about this game.

 

[Tacgnol]

Been following this since Victor started posting in the trenchmouth thread early last year.

Looks great and I really hope the KS goes well.

 

[Jermu]

Looks great going to buy it when it's available

We're thinking real time combat

 

[Morgoth]

Looks better than Colony Ship.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Ohhh, me likey. Feels like Darkseed and Space Hulk mash up.

Edit: I think Pyke loves this kind of stuff too.

 

[unseeingeye]

Wow, I don't even particularly like sci fi but this looks like the perfect video game! I can't believe I've somehow missed this thread all this time.

 

[SpoonFULL]

Well when will the Kickstarter become live?

Also will this play like Space Hulk (the DOS original)?

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Oh my, I forgot about this game.

Track reminds me of something that was on Amiga.

 

[ghostdog]

Well when will the Kickstarter become live?

Also will this play like Space Hulk (the DOS original)?

I think Victor talked about Dungeon Master style combat?

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Well when will the Kickstarter become live?

Also will this play like Space Hulk (the DOS original)?

I think Victor talked about Dungeon Master style combat?

It's a shame because if it was turn-based it looks like it would be the greatest blobber of ALL time when it is ready.

Something that has achieved this dream-like graphic quality is best complemented with turn-based combat instead of real-time.

I really wish my post-apocalyptic blobber would look half this good with a similar style but I don't think I could source the art.

 

[Lady Error]

The real-time vs turn-based question was addressed last year:

If you're not doing turn-based, people here will riot. Just sayin'.

I mean I just never got into the Might and Magic (those were the turn based ones right?) games much - Eye of the Beholder, Lands of Lore, Elvira, Waxworks - those are the games I loved and they're also just almost untouched by current gaming trends.

Like I dunno if anyone has made modern turn based ones like Might and Lagic - the type Codex wouldn't riot over? I seem to recall new games like that already exist... Riot if they must but yeah, we're trying to make something that really hasn't been touched upon much at all since
the Westwood heyday. I actually prefer turn based combat in general though so i wouldn't straight up rule this out, it seems unlikely though at this point.

Yeah I'm familiar with Grimoire definitely - for me (massive graphics whore) though I want something that like, also really visually calls to mind the Horrorsoft, Westwood titles too. And that means lower resolution and "fake" 3d, with 2d sprites. Plus of course does it's own thing and is yeah, sci fi as well which was pretty rare for these titles.

The few I can think of are Whale's Voyage, Hired Guns... Fuck um... Oh - Perihelion - that's one I just go nuts over the graphics of. That's a weird hybrid though. Sci fi dungeon crawlers just seem to be pretty thin on the ground back then even.

As much as I'd love to go a bit camp because yeah - Elvira 2 Jaws of Cerberus is my number one all time favourite game... I'll just say - I'm saving that for if and when we licence the Elvira brand and make an ACTUAL spiritual successor to those two gems. Which is something that is, if not in the works (waxworks haha) on the table. Just maybe up the back of the table.

 

[Sardine Dev Poster]

Here is a dungeon crawler survival horror Michael Faragher and I are working on atm

It has a bunch of cool shit in it. You will see it for sale at some point.

That is all.

I have an important question for you. Is this game going to be an Eye of the Beholder real-time style game or a turn-based joint like Wizardry?

Oh very much Eye of the Beholder/Westwood inspired. The idea (in really generic terms) is a game with an upgraded EoB, LoL engine, but with the survival horror elements and atmosphere of a System Shock 2.

Please for the love of FUCK do not be real-time

EDIT: also it looks like its single character, which...

Well, look that's not set in stone yet. We have been considering a party system similar to Fallout too - wherein you would equip and set the "aggression" of party members but not directly control them.

The reason we're mostly thinking single party member though, is isolation and immersion. I love party members but a key idea here is the atmosphere and I honestly am drawing inspiration from the Horrorsoft games too, as well as the Westwood ones.

Well, that "bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk!" is already 10 times better than millennial's writing.

Joke aside, I suppose it's not Turn-Based and party based with good combat mechanics?
From the screens, seems to be single character.

We're thinking real time combat - or whatever passes for that in the Westwood titles, anyway. Party would be great but yeah - see above. Not set in stone yet though, I mean *I* want party members too.

So are you going to finish the fucking game then, or are you going to stay on Twitter crying about how Elon ruined it like you were before?

Hey bud I can't tell if Twitter is how you advertise your >>>>>game<<<<<< or not, or if it's an outlet for you to keep ranting about your alcoholic daddy for your fairy faggot fucking friends forever. Reminder this guy here wants woke points on there and now he's here pretending like he wasn't just sobbing like a bitch like the terminally online loser he is back on Twitter.


Also this game looks like it's going to take forever to finish and then it's going to be barely passable, just go play world of horror, that's everything this game wishes it could be.

 

[Viata]