Information Telepath Tactics Kickstarter: Video Q&A, Last Stretch Goals and 42 Hours Left

[Galdred]

The game looks promising, and I liked Telepath RPG, so I backed, even though I still disagree about your stance on randomness . The pixel art makes the game look much better.

 

[Minttunator]

$41,259 pledged of $15,000 goal
Congratulations, Craig!

 

[Craig Stern]

Thanks, guys!

Now awaiting twitch.tv livestream of Craig hanging about pressing the reload button a lot...ok, maybe not.

Heh. Not me; I need my beauty sleep! (I've got a full day of work ahead of me now.)

 

[MicoSelva]

That's a nice result.
I did not back this because T:ToN and D:OS have left me impoverished and I have to be realistic about my free time (90% chance I wouldn't be able to play Telepath Tactics anyway), but I'm glad the campaign was that successful.

 

[Elthosian]

Hell yeah, congrats Craig! Can't wait to get my hands on the early access version of the game

 

[Craig Stern]

Thanks a bunch, guys! I'm looking forward to getting the alpha into your hands. ​

 

[deamento]

Thanks a bunch, guys! I'm looking forward to getting the alpha into your hands.

i played a lot of your demo now, i really love it!
it's games like this that give me hope for videogame quality
goodluck!

 

[GarfunkeL]

Good to see this being so successful, even if it isn't my cup of tea. The demo was pretty good.

 

[Craig Stern]

Much appreciated, guys.

By the way: I just added equipment into the game last night. I'm not sure how much the main campaign is going to use it, but the engine now supports items equipped to the weapon hand, off hand, head, neck, back, torso, and feet, plus a miscellaneous accessory slot.

 

[deamento]

could it be fully implemented into the main campaign? adds some more variety

 

[Craig Stern]

It could be, but the main campaign is planned to be a fairly focused affair--I don't want to bog down the proceedings too much with fiddly inventory management. I expect I'll use maybe three or four types of equipment at most (say: weapon hand, off hand, torso and accessory). The rest will stay in there for the modders.

 

[deamento]

oh goodie, that reminds me, what exactly can you do with the modding tools? new maps? new classes? seperate campaigns?

 

[Craig Stern]

Yes, yes, and yes! You can also mod in new attacks, items, destructible objects, tilesets, dialog, character graphics, and so on. Pretty much everything in the game can be altered.

 

[deamento]

that is freaking awesome!

 

[Humanity has risen!]

I've been pretty burned by the emotional engagement and other such Japanese game tropes in the latest Fire Emblem.

I hope your game will take the tactical game mechanics of this franchise, but not all the cringe worthy aspects.

 

[Craig Stern]

I've been pretty burned by the emotional engagement and other such Japanese game tropes in the latest Fire Emblem.

I hope your game will take the tactical game mechanics of this franchise, but not all the cringe worthy aspects.

I'm skipping the support / romance systems and instead focusing on interesting combat mechanics. To the extent that there's player-controlled character development, it'll be primarily through branching dialog (and possibly some alternative battle objectives).

 

[visions]

The demo crashed on me when I got the healer chick injured in the weapons depot fight. First I got what I assume to be her standard response when permanently injured (saying she should have had stayed on the farm), then I got another message along the lines of "The player should not see this something something", after which the game crashed and I had to close it with task manager.

Thanks for the bug report; I'll look into that!

Tried the weapons depot fight again. This time no one from my side fell, but when I killed the enemy leader I ran into a similar problem. First I saw his death line, then I saw the familiar "player should not see this" message. His model remained in place, showing negative hitpoints. I could still choose my fighters but the buttons in the first row in their actions menu had vanished (combat action buttons in the second row didn't vanish). I could end my turn and the AI would pass its without doing anything. Was able to quit the game normally this time though.

I'm on 32 bit XP if it makes any difference.

 

[Craig Stern]

Thanks for the report. I haven't been able to replicate this just yet, but I'll definitely keep an eye open going forward.

 

[visions]

Tried again, this time I was able to defeat the bandit leader without getting the bug. Difference between this and the last time is that last time I killed him with an attack on my turn, this time he drowned at the start of his own turn. No idea whether it's relevant.

 

[Craig Stern]

Quick heads-up: I updated the demo with a bunch of bug fixes last night, including a few which would freeze the game under certain circumstances. To update your install, just download the updated demo, run it, and hit Replace.