Well, if you localize it for Siberia, you can tell them that it is summer. Because, frankly, those screenshots actually look kinda warm. If you can still pee without having it freeze before it hits the ground, it's warm out.
That's not a problem. We can handle some little girl criticism if that means getting 10'000'000 sales.
Fact is that most lands are completely iced, it's impossible to live in most areas where many people lives today, like all northern Europe or, in general, any place too far from the equator. So there are just a few people, but they have a smaller area to fill.
That's not one of those game, despite what my inaccurate english may have communicated. Settlements are something like small villages that rarely host more than 50 people, with people living in harsh conditions. I'll put here some in game artworks to get you a better idea of those sedentary people.
We found an editor, but the texts you can see in the screenshots are still writing of mine, he hasn't already started working on the dialogues. In the final game we'll have a better and clearer english, that is of the utmost importance in a dialogue based game.
We have ugly people too.
Sorry, made a mess with the quotes.
Be sure to present that very clearly through the opening so everyone get it.
How about just calling them nomads too? without that spoilery distinction of being "bandits".
Oh i understood that fine. Thats ok.
Of course it won't be that simple. Sometimes the player will be attacked in some random events, but such events are quite rare and are useful to simulate the fact that anyone could be an enemy. In all the dialogues people use the term "bandits" to generically refer to aggressive people, just like we may use the term "criminal" to refer to some social strata, but there won't be any generic bandits faction. So the player may hear from an NPC that some people are bandits, but maybe they just had a fight with that NPC, there won't be stupid categorizations and we'll try to offer a story without good and bad people. For example, the player will have to choose among different endings and each ending is related to some people whose personalities are built to be human, complex and full of contradictions.
I used technical terms in the news, but I tried to used more post-apocalytpic words while writing the game, aiming to recreate a world where our actual culture is getting slowly forgotten. Dialogues are already written to avoid the unpleasant feeling of playing in an inconsistent post-apocalyptic setting. For example nomads have lots of ways to refer to their favourite activity: travelling around. And they have different words to refer to the frozen planet and to their everyday life. What we want to recreate that particular feeling of facing a decadent culture that lacks the means to comprehend the legacy of the past.
