KickStarter Monomyth - A first person action RPG/dungeon crawler - now in Open Backer Beta

[Zombra]

Yeah, good one man.

Hmmm, I missed that part. My bad.

In case it helps, I was inches away from making a very similar post ...

 

[Hobknobling]

Yeah, good one man.

Hmmm, I missed that part. My bad.

The fact remains, RatTower has been posting regularly in this thread from the start of his project. Just go back and read it from the beginning, you can see his first material, gamedev discussion, his mullings on whether or not to try his hand at a Kickstarter, ramblings about setting up a small business in the EU, trying to decide what to name his company... it's all here.

If you clicked my link and got upset because the first post was his Kickstarter notification/advertisement, don't be deceived. He edited that post when the Kickstarter went live. Just skip it and start from post #2, which was from July (I think) of 2017.

I've read most of this thread, been following it since before I had an account here.

I just wanted to see some potentially earlier stuff, like the dawn of the project.

Apologies for getting mad, I thought you were just being a smart ass.

It was in the game development threads of 4chan's /vg/. Old archives for those don't exist as far as I know.

I avoided mentioning the site because someone might get their panties in a twist, but I guess RPGCodex is not really a site for those kind of people anyway.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[Butter]

This game is such steep incline. I got some Dark Messiah flashbacks from the barrel throwing.

 

[Narushima]

I have to say, it does look silly when you can break a huge wooden door by throwing a pot at it.

Everything else looks great.

 

[Zombra]

Finally, baking pies in the middle of a dungeon!

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Thank you RatTower for making what looks like an excellent King's Field spiritual successor. I will buy your game for sure. How can I resist?

 

[Narushima]

Finally, baking pies in the middle of a dungeon!

It's the Dark Souls of Cooking Mama!

 

[JDR13]

One of the few kickstarters that I have zero regrets about backing.

Can't wait to play this...

 

[V_K]

I have zero regrets about baking.

FTFY

 

[Abu Antar]

Time to turn off the lights.

Spoiler

 

[King Crispy]

That lighting looks really great.

Honestly can't wait for this title. Pure incline.

 

[Whisper]

How much content will Beta have?

And how much content is planned for full game?


In hours (full exploration) aprox.?

 

[Whisper]

I gotta admit the project is slightly behind because of the refactor. On the one hand that irks me immensely cause I knew the risk and I still took it. On the other hand, the additional features are definitely worth it. You can roughly tell how far behind the project is just going by the fact that the beta hasn't started yet and probably won't until the second week of June or so. So, unfortunately, your judgment about "a couple of months of delay" is probably quite accurate. I will still do what I can during Q2 but my current guess is autumn. I will go into this in more detail in the coming updates.

At least the codebase is properly re-usable now, so for the next project, I will hopefully be on time.



Twitter probably has one of the worst/most bizarre media APIs I have ever encountered.
Apparently, the quality between mobile and desktop uploads is vastly different. The processing is just so intransparent it could as well be random. For the longest time, the resulting quality was absolute trash to the point where you wondered why video uploads even existed in the first place. Lately, it has become slightly better, but nobody knows anything about upload requirements. It goes so far that people assumed the resulting video quality has to do with your upload speed, which sounds like software voodoo to me (and is probably wrong - perhaps it's true on mobile, but even then it would be completely mad).
If it were not for the followers Monomyth has gathered there I would definitely not use that website (also 90% of the content is whinging about dumb shit nobody cares about).

Either way...



(btw, for me the audio is better on the website than in the embedded widget for some reason - another oddity)

How much content is planned in full version? How many hours for completionist (all secrets, etc).


p.s. Demo is around 5 hours of content, it seems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB32ZwLRB7I

Fully explored in 1 hours 47 min. but he already knows where to look so some exploration was done before it.

 

[RatTower]

RatTower Will all backers have access to the Beta or just those above a certain tier?

Closed Beta Access was part of the Lysandrian Minister backer level.
That's a bit of a dilemma because the more testers the better, but Beta Access generally seems to be considered a mid-tier reward.

How much content is planned in full version? How many hours for completionist (all secrets, etc).


p.s. Demo is around 5 hours of content, it seems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB32ZwLRB7I

Fully explored in 1 hours 47 min. but he already knows where to look so some exploration was done before it.

I have around 20-25 hours of content planned.
As for completionists, I can't really say. I was actually quite (positively) surprised by how much time some people spent with the demo.
Thorough playthroughs took between two and four hours whereas speed runs could be done in less than 10 minutes.

It was in the game development threads of 4chan's /vg/. Old archives for those don't exist as far as I know.

I avoided mentioning the site because someone might get their panties in a twist, but I guess RPGCodex is not really a site for those kind of people anyway.

Spoiler

Oh no!

 

[LudensCogitet]

I have around 20-25 hours of content planned.

This game is starting to sound too good to be real. I've been hurt before, RatTower. Don't let me down.

 

[Whisper]

I have around 20-25 hours of content planned.

Nice, this probably means 50+ hours for explorers and completionists.

How big is explorable area in demo, compared to full game?

 

[Whisper]

I have around 20-25 hours of content planned.

This game is starting to sound too good to be real. I've been hurt before, RatTower. Don't let me down.

I dunno why there is little hype for this game, it is /incline we all waited so much.

 

[RatTower]

I have around 20-25 hours of content planned.

Nice, this probably means 50+ hours for explorers and completionists.

How big is explorable area in demo, compared to full game?

I believe it's a bit more than half of one region. The full game has between 4 and 5 regions, depending on how you count.

 

[Humbaba]

I dunno why there is little hype for this game, it is /incline we all waited so much.

That's because we don't know if it's good yet.

 

[Whisper]

I dunno why there is little hype for this game, it is /incline we all waited so much.

That's because we don't know if it's good yet.

Demo is out there on Steam, you can play it for free.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

This gives me rather Thief: Deadly Shadows vibes, but with Linzer Torte.

 

[Humbaba]

Demo is out there on Steam, you can play it for free.

I'll wait for the full thing thank you

This gives me rather Thief: Deadly Shadows vibes, but with Linzer Torte.

Doesn't look like authentic Linzer Torte tbh

 

[JDR13]

That's because we don't know if it's good yet.

Maybe you don't, but we do.

 

[JDR13]

RatTower Will all backers have access to the Beta or just those above a certain tier?

Closed Beta Access was part of the Lysandrian Minister backer level.
That's a bit of a dilemma because the more testers the better, but Beta Access generally seems to be considered a mid-tier reward.

Are you saying you consider a $600 pledge to be "mid-tier"?

Honestly, that's a ridiculously high bar just to allow Beta access.