KickStarter Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy - BG1-inspired low fantasy RPG from the ATOM TEAM - now available on Early Access

[Viata]

weight shouldn't be too annoying to manage, like giving weight to money or consumables or ammo for example

Nigga puts a weight system for inventory and forgets that a bag of gold coins weights a lot. It's just a useless mechanics, simple as that.

 

[biffthestiff]

If I saw this kind of art direction in a CRPG I'd probably lose interest before even seeing gameplay. Don't get me wrong, in a metroidvania or visual novel I'd probably think its fine, even great. But for a CRPG I'd rather buy the "generic" looking one.

I didn't mean large 2d visual novel sprites like what I posted, at least not for the gameplay. I just generated it quickly as an example of a more interesting setting than "kill all 10 giant rats that infested Adon's farm". All I did was type something like "egyptian demon, arabian, supernatural" in a Stable Diffusion model designed to make hot chicks. People who spend more than 5 minutes on it will use more game-oriented/appropriate SD models, and have scripts to infinitely generate this style of gameplay sprites: https://civitai.com/images/252430

(Tbf in a 2D game you might still want to generate VN-style large sprites for the cutscenes, at least if you're an indie dev without a talented animator)

 

[Serus]

I like pretty inventories. This one is reasonably pretty. Not Siege of Avalon or even Arcanum pretty but better than Infinity Engine. Which isn't much but this is ok. Just a random though.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The only thing making me feel reserved about this is combining RtwP with TB. Experience has proven that RtwP tends to be inferior for isometric games, and it was a short period in the 90s that happened by accident.

 

[ds]

I like pretty inventories. This one is reasonably pretty. Not Siege of Avalon or even Arcanum pretty but better than Infinity Engine. Which isn't much but this is ok. Just a random though.

It's too pretty. Too clean and undamaged to be precise. Like it has never been used before. Like you just traded a sack of gold for a fancy new inventory. Makes me anxious that my items are going to scratch it. Will need to drags things really carefully with this inventory.

 

[Kaidanovsky]

Atomboy
First of all, I absolutely loved Atom RPG.

I have a question, and I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but there are just too many comments for me to read through. Will this game be as text-heavy as Atom was? Because that's one of my favorite things about it.

 

[Jeskis]

by accident

which was Diablo

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Just signed up to say this looks great. Keep doing what your doing and don't listen to anything anyone here says otherwise you will end up going bankrupt like the makers of Colony Ship.

kill yourself

 

[Lord_Potato]

Just signed up to say this looks great. Keep doing what your doing and don't listen to anything anyone here says otherwise you will end up going bankrupt like the makers of Colony Ship.

kill yourself

Why? Atom Team makes fine games. And they also seem to be doing pretty well.

 

[VerSacrum]

Just signed up to say this looks great. Keep doing what your doing and don't listen to anything anyone here says otherwise you will end up going bankrupt like the makers of Colony Ship.

kill yourself

lmao butthurt

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Just signed up to say this looks great. Keep doing what your doing and don't listen to anything anyone here says otherwise you will end up going bankrupt like the makers of Colony Ship.

kill yourself

lmao butthurt

You should also kill yourself, PoE faggot

 

[AwesomeButton]

by accident

which was Diablo

Infinity Engine was used for an RPG by accident, originally it was developed for an RTS that was never made. If I remember correctly. Baldur's Gate was more influentil than Diablo by far.

 

[Jeskis]

by accident

which was Diablo

Infinity Engine was used for an RPG by accident, originally it was developed for an RTS that was never made. If I remember correctly. Baldur's Gate was more influentil than Diablo by far.

I remember some of BioWare’s founding members said in one of the interviews, that making BG real-time was the decision they made after Diablo’s success.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Also it was the only tech they had on hand, and that preceded Diablo.

 

[santino27]

by accident

which was Diablo

Infinity Engine was used for an RPG by accident, originally it was developed for an RTS that was never made. If I remember correctly. Baldur's Gate was more influentil than Diablo by far.

Yes, an RTS codenamed Battleground Infinity.

 

[cyborgboy95]

 

[Quillon]

a book hm, gonna make illustrated CYOA sections PoE/Pathfinder style too? ps: I don't love nor hate them.

 

[Modron]

a book hm, gonna make illustrated CYOA sections PoE/Pathfinder style too? ps: I don't love nor hate them.

It's not like ATOM RPG didn't have a handful of these.

 

[Quillon]

a book hm, gonna make illustrated CYOA sections PoE/Pathfinder style too? ps: I don't love nor hate them.

It's not like ATOM RPG didn't have a handful of these.

really? I must have forgot about it if they were in the first game, haven't played the second yet.

 

[lvl 2 Blue Slime]

Could be very good, hopefully it's wholesome, magical high fantasy and not grimderp Game of Thrones shit.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Could be very good, hopefully it's wholesome, magical high fantasy and not grimderp Game of Thrones shit.

I think Atom Team's strength lies elsewhere than in the lands of unicorns and high elves.

Fortunately they already said it will be a more grounded, low magic setting, which is fine by me.

 

[*-*/\--/\~]

So if it's BG1-inspired, will they get Michael Hoenig as a composer too?

 

[Moink]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atomrpg/swordhaven-iron-conspiracy

 

[AwesomeButton]

Time for a Codex fundraiser.

 

[Abu Antar]

I wish them the best of luck, but I have three campaigns not released yet. If a Codex fundraiser happens, I might reconcider.