KickStarter STASIS 2: BONE TOTEM - new isometric adventure in Stasis universe set in deep sea installation

[Infinitron]

I assumed the images on the computers were a way of showcasing some of the game's concept art.

 

[Cohesion]

Fantastic game!
I like beautiful desolation more though.
Any info about your next project?

 

[ScrotumBroth]

I'm playing this very slowly, only in chapter 3 but I'm not sure what you guys mean by blips and guidelines for newbies? Maybe I'm too engrossed to pay attention to the UI's finer details. Maybe I'm lucky not to be spoiled.

Playing a Stasis world game again reminded me how much I can almost smell what I see.

 

[Pyke]

Fantastic game!
I like beautiful desolation more though.
Any info about your next project?

Sorrry gents - been a little swamped!


We may be a little quiet for a while about our next project - but it's VERY exciting. :D

 

[don_tomaso]

I'm playing this very slowly, only in chapter 3 but I'm not sure what you guys mean by blips and guidelines for newbies? Maybe I'm too engrossed to pay attention to the UI's finer details. Maybe I'm lucky not to be spoiled.

Playing a Stasis world game again reminded me how much I can almost smell what I see.

At least to me, the "blip" lines telling you where all the hotspots are get too intrusive and removes the feeling of exploration and instead overwhelms me with a "here is everything in this scene, please read" everytime I enter a new room. The other side of the spectrum is stasis 1 which had some extreme cases of pixel hunting which is not fun either.

Wish there was a perfect solution to this but can't think of any, guess I'm not game designer material I guess more in-world visual hints towards interactable objects instead would be the most satisfying from a gameplay perspective, but I also guess it's not always easy to do.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Has mandalore reviews boost sales for stasis games?

 

[Pyke]

Very muich so. I think it was like a 3X or 4X on our usual sales - which is a nice boost!

 

[negator2vc]

Pyke
Any chance for a Linux version?

 

[Pyke]

Ill give nic and poke and see how thats going. I know he has had his hands full!

 

[ScrotumBroth]

Very strong influence of The Expanse combined with Slither in the lab. Love it. And a subtle nod to Dead Space with the whistling. Me like.

And completed! Worth every dollar and every minute played.

Spoiler

What's with the happy ending? Or am I missing something? I'm super distrustful of the notion that Chris would just let us have a reprieve and allow Charlie and Moses to survive.

 

[Pyke]

Spoiler

Im getting soft in my old age.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Spoiler

Im getting soft in my old age.

Bone Totem 2

Spoiler

Hope goes mad and starts to murder sciencetist in Yellow Leaf till Charlie arrive. At the end she merge with Moses to become ultimate Cyber-Thing.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I have a copy of this in the Giveaway thread if someone has been interested but hasn't gotten it yet.

 

[Jinn]

I have a copy of this in the Giveaway thread if someone has been interested but hasn't gotten it yet.

I am for sure, if no one else has yet!

 

[mediocrepoet]

I have a copy of this in the Giveaway thread if someone has been interested but hasn't gotten it yet.

I am for sure, if no one else has yet!

If I went FCFS, I could just set up a digital pipeline that goes directly to beans' Steam account.

 

[KafkaBot]

This game was phenomenal, but there was one thing I genuinely didn't understand... not sure if it's anwered on a PDA somewhere...

Why the hell was there a FEMALE TORSO spouting breast milk inside a dead brain? I seem to remember those brains being grown in VATs, which explains how that creature was born from it in the first place, but that whole milk thing seemed completely random.

Maybe I'm just pissed it took me a lot of time to understand what I needed to do with that pump, but still.

 

[Ivan]

Also had a good time with this. I suck at these games so I kept the guide pdf handy, but truly I was impressed by how much the game flowed without my resorting to it. The characters were compelling and the voice acting was top notch, I particularly enjoyed Faran. Gonna youtube the deaths I missed.

Also, if memory serves, Stasis 1 used the word viscous as much as this entry uses the word "ejaculate" or "vomit" :D

 

[Infinitron]

Faran is great, but the game made it harder to take him as seriously as the story merited by naming him after a Brian Fargo self-insert from Wasteland.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Faran is great, but they made it harder for me to take him as seriously as the story merited by naming him after a Brian Fargo self-insert from Wasteland.

Gee, thanks! Now I'm forever cursed too...

 

[Pyke]

Faran is great, but they made it harder for me to take him as seriously as the story merited by naming him after a Brian Fargo self-insert from Wasteland.

That was his backer reward - plus, Brian has been such a big supporter of ours!
Faran was originally a much smaller roll. In my original treatment he dissapeared after Chapter 2. I'm forever grateful to Jack for beefing him up and fleshing him out as much as he did!

This game was phenomenal, but there was one thing I genuinely didn't understand... not sure if it's anwered on a PDA somewhere...

Why the hell was there a FEMALE TORSO spouting breast milk inside a dead brain? I seem to remember those brains being grown in VATs, which explains how that creature was born from it in the first place, but that whole milk thing seemed completely random.

Maybe I'm just pissed it took me a lot of time to understand what I needed to do with that pump, but still.

Spoiler

The creature was a 'child' created from the memories that were being imprinted into the brain. The torso was the physical manifesttion of the wife/mother. Plus, for some reason our games always have breast milk in them. I'm sure theres some freudian reason...

Also had a good time with this. I suck at these games so I kept the guide pdf handy, but truly I was impressed by how much the game flowed without my resorting to it. The characters were compelling and the voice acting was top notch, I particularly enjoyed Faran. Gonna youtube the deaths I missed.

Also, if memory serves, Stasis 1 used the word viscous as much as this entry uses the word "ejaculate" or "vomit" :D

So glad you dug it! I think there is also a lot of 'pustules' in there.. :D

 

[ds]

Seems this already made it into a bundle.

Btw, Pyke, any update on the Linux version? Perhaps you could upload the Linux build you do have to a beta branch at least?

 

[fantadomat]

Do i need to have played the first one ?

 

[KafkaBot]

Do i need to have played the first one ?

No, but the game has lots of references to both Stasis and Cayne, so you will enjoy it a little bit more if you play both of them first. That said, it's definitely not a necessity.

The first game is quite good, so I'd definitely recommend it if you like the genre. Cayne is free, but it is also not nearly as good as the two Stasis games and the few essential plot points it has are concentrated at the very end. I don't regret playing it to completion, but will readily admit that I was bored for a significant part of the experience and wouldn't have lost much if I'd just read a summary of the game's plot somewhere.

 

[Jenkem]

I slept on this because I thought Beautiful Desolation was pretty meh, how does this compare? I liked the original Stasis.

 

[HoboForEternity]

I Like bone totem better than BD and stasis. In term of plot it's a lot less cryptic and overall better characterization, but imo beautiful desolation has pretty great world and visual design. Bone totem is also the best in term of puzzles.