KickStarter Mechajammer (formerly Copper Dreams) - cyberpunk RPG from Whalenought Studios

[CryptRat]

The soundtrack's going to be great.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Alienman]

Where is the color?

 

[Jimmious]

Also the video is pretty choppy for me, especially in the beginning... Not the best way to show stuff I guess

 

[Lyre Mors]

Holy shit I'm loving how the battle system is coming along! Can't wait to get my hands on it.

Also, Joe said why it was choppy. These guys don't have the systems to run recording software while running the game, which is horrible to think about. Whalenought deserves so much better. I hope Copper Dreams brings some of that well-deserved business their way.

 

[gaussgunner]

Well they said morning their time they would give us the update. It is now morning their time ...

Still waiting...

For developers, morning goes until at least noon. Then they start. Then they encounter unexpected difficulties and don't finish until nightfall, or next morning.

 

[ArchAngel]

This update was many kinds of awesome!

 

[Rahdulan]

I love the garbled text if you're illiterate or too low of Logic, but maybe come up with some random text strings made of nonsensical scribbles or something. Unicode symbols just look kinda off to me.

 

[ArchAngel]

Seems the game has received a noticeable art/graphics upgrade since the last showing.

 

[Zombra]

Codexers get free character points for being racist! Not sure I approve but this will make a lot of us happy.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

a noticeable art/graphics upgrade

One that makes it look less charming and more generic.

 

[Avonaeon]

Looking good! Definitely gonna try the alpha when it comes around

 

[Jimmious]

Wait, being racist is a "disadvantage"? What??? REVOLT RPGCODEX!! SJWs! CUCKS! PC!
:kwanzania:

 

[garren]

Hopefully those disadvantages come with humorous descriptions.

Ugly: "No beating around the bush, your face beared the brunt of an ugly stick. Lose x."

Racist: "Your racial awareness makes interaction with different races a bit less.. friendly-dispositioned."

Temper: "World's full of assholes, and you don't have patience for bullshit. Lose x."

Fat: "Your wide girth ain't making you any faster, quite the opposite in fact."

Sexist: "Gender stereotypes are real, and you won't take shit from the other half. Opposite gender interaction affected negatively"

Edit: came up with some better ones.

 

[Junmarko]

Whalenought_Joe, good article from 2013, you might find it interesting given your current focus

Warren Spector's Commandments of Game Design - The veteran looks at his old list of rules for Deus Ex and asks if there's a set of rules games can all adhere to

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

I presume theres going to be funky lighting put in later?

 

[Diggfinger]

I initially hesitated but...turn-based, cyberpunk AND horror?? FUck, that sounds awesome. Horror in RPGs badly needed - only Bloodlines really scared the shit out of me.
The game in general looks very polished. Was initially confused with all the new elements (combat, graphics etc.).

Whalenought_Joe is released still planned/possible for this year? I noticed the Kickstarter originally mentioned March 2017 as possible date...(obviously no longer relevant)

Btw. did you look to Hard Boiled comics for inspiration? High level of violence and cool futuristic world:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Boiled-Frank-Miller/dp/1878574582

- Digg

 

[Grotesque]

Codex should get a fundraiser for a powerful computer to be donated to Whalenought Studios.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Codex should get a fundraiser for a powerful computer to be donated to Whalenought Studios.

Quite certain that Quality Coffee is of higher priority.

 

[Alienman]

Well, could at least buy them a old Nvidia card with shadowplay compatibility so they can record in no fps loss.

 

[dunno lah]

I initially hesitated but...turn-based, cyberpunk AND horror?? FUck, that sounds awesome. Horror in RPGs badly needed - only Bloodlines really scared the shit out of me.
The game in general looks very polished. Was initially confused with all the new elements (combat, graphics etc.).

Whalenought_Joe is released still planned/possible for this year? I noticed the Kickstarter originally mentioned March 2017 as possible date...(obviously no longer relevant)

Btw. did you look to Hard Boiled comics for inspiration? High level of violence and cool futuristic world:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Boiled-Frank-Miller/dp/1878574582

- Digg

So thats where the 10mm Pistol design came from

 

[Diggfinger]

I initially hesitated but...turn-based, cyberpunk AND horror?? FUck, that sounds awesome. Horror in RPGs badly needed - only Bloodlines really scared the shit out of me.
The game in general looks very polished. Was initially confused with all the new elements (combat, graphics etc.).

Whalenought_Joe is released still planned/possible for this year? I noticed the Kickstarter originally mentioned March 2017 as possible date...(obviously no longer relevant)

Btw. did you look to Hard Boiled comics for inspiration? High level of violence and cool futuristic world:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Boiled-Frank-Miller/dp/1878574582

- Digg

So thats where the 10mm Pistol design came from

 

[grimace]

I love the garbled text if you're illiterate or too low of Logic, but maybe come up with some random text strings made of nonsensical scribbles or something. Unicode symbols just look kinda off to me.

Wingdings!

I like this place holder.

 

[ArchAngel]

So this is their (bad) attempt at defending the save system they talked about in the update:

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback!

Some notes comments on save system: This is probably worth going into more detail with another update, but we wanted to strive to make the gameplay have actual consequence. The machine gun saving system encourages a carefree gameplay that lets you just redo challenges to get a desired result, so while you can try new things there’s no consequence to failure, it’s just a meta-game. We want setting off a trap not just be a reason for reload, but a permanent result for lack of spot-checking. So while we’re trying to design more of a p&p style game, we didn't want you to have to roll new characters or redo content on death so you can progress throughout it. That’s going to end up with something super gamey, but making it fun is what was important.

Dying then is sort of similar to something like Diablo. Time passes as you wake up (which changes time-of-day events), and you keep the wounds that took you down so you’d maybe want to patch up before progressing. Because a nerve gas agent exploding in your face probably wouldn’t result in your character just waking up in the sewers with a headache, we’re not trying to overthink the simulationist aspects to it and overall let it be gamey to hopefully result in more p&p like dungeon crawling gameplay.

The alpha will include this, and we’re open to more ideas to develop the best roleplaying gameplay systems we can with you guys.

I am for one not satisfied with this. If a game breaks immersion this badly it affects my enjoyment a lot.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

So this is their (bad) attempt at defending the save system they talked about in the update:

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback!

Some notes comments on save system: This is probably worth going into more detail with another update, but we wanted to strive to make the gameplay have actual consequence. The machine gun saving system encourages a carefree gameplay that lets you just redo challenges to get a desired result, so while you can try new things there’s no consequence to failure, it’s just a meta-game. We want setting off a trap not just be a reason for reload, but a permanent result for lack of spot-checking. So while we’re trying to design more of a p&p style game, we didn't want you to have to roll new characters or redo content on death so you can progress throughout it. That’s going to end up with something super gamey, but making it fun is what was important.

Dying then is sort of similar to something like Diablo. Time passes as you wake up (which changes time-of-day events), and you keep the wounds that took you down so you’d maybe want to patch up before progressing. Because a nerve gas agent exploding in your face probably wouldn’t result in your character just waking up in the sewers with a headache, we’re not trying to overthink the simulationist aspects to it and overall let it be gamey to hopefully result in more p&p like dungeon crawling gameplay.

The alpha will include this, and we’re open to more ideas to develop the best roleplaying gameplay systems we can with you guys.

I am for one not satisfied with this. If a game breaks immersion this badly it affects my enjoyment a lot.

So it's now "save & exit" kind of game where mistakes you made will carry over.
Fuck, as a rogue like fan I kinda like the sound of that.