KickStarter Vampire Syndicate: Gangs of MoonFall

[Alienman]

Combat looks very nuXcom. Not that I mind, though, it's fast and smooth. The animations are looking good already, too.

 

[santino27]

Looks good, even on a barebones grid.

 

[MjKorz]

Steam page when?

 

[Tyranicon]

Steam page when?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1833570/Vampire_Syndicate_Gangs_of_MoonFall/

You'll have to be logged in to see it though.

 

[MjKorz]

Steam page when?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1833570/Vampire_Syndicate_Gangs_of_MoonFall/

You'll have to be logged in to see it though.

"This item is currently unavailable in your region."

Did you ban it in Germany or something?

 

[Tyranicon]

Steam page when?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1833570/Vampire_Syndicate_Gangs_of_MoonFall/

You'll have to be logged in to see it though.

"This item is currently unavailable in your region."

Did you ban it in Germany or something?

Games with sexual content are banned by default for Germany on Steam.

Try the itch.io page instead. Unfortunately that page is very outdated with screengrabs from the old engine:

https://amemoryofeternity.itch.io/vampire-syndicate-gangs-of-moonfall

 

[Caim]

Steam page when?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1833570/Vampire_Syndicate_Gangs_of_MoonFall/

You'll have to be logged in to see it though.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

I wish you luck, dude, but I don’t envy you. I wish there were more creators even a fraction as driven as you are, particularly for underrepresented genre spaces like “magical creatures living in post-industrial periods.” Bloodlines came out 20 years ago this Halloween season, but nobody has yet to create memorable follow ups. We’ve gotten medieval fantasy crpgs by the thousands, but somehow the post-industrial period has been almost completely ignored.

Yeah, trying such projects without programmer/coding background sounds like a disaster, you are a writer / designer / creative lead kind of a guy. Tyranicon are you outsourcing writing code?

I know a little bit of coding and Unreal is mature enough at this point with visual scripting (blueprints) that it's not like I'll ever need to be writing C++ in Sublime. But yes, I can't use blueprints for everything and I'm already working with some coders to make the battle system, which will be the hardest part.

Most of the reason I feel confidant in making a game on Unreal is because I have enough experience to know how a game is put together. This is just a bigger iteration of what I've been doing so far.

Caveat to all that is that you might face some issues optimizing your game for performance without some decent programming fundamentals. Try not to allocate / deallocate too many objects every frame.

 

[Tyranicon]

Getting some nice traction with the teaser. I'm not familiar with YouTube at all, but it's my first video with over 10k views that didn't take 9 years lol.

Here's another lore video:

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

Freaking love that kind of artstyle:

 

[Tyranicon]

I will immediately undercut myself by saying a lot of the images in my videos are AI-generated.

But I do have a certain style I'm going for.

I'd rather have real artists but gotta make do until money comes in.

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

Personally, I'm ok with AI generated art, provided it's clearly labeled as such. You should probably put the fact that this has AI created content on your steam page, afaik it's a requirement. And I've seen many angry nerds in the discussions for other games bitching about unlabeled AI content.

 

[Tyranicon]

Personally, I'm ok with AI generated art, provided it's clearly labeled as such. You should probably put the fact that this has AI created content on your steam page, afaik it's a requirement. And I've seen many angry nerds in the discussions for other games bitching about unlabeled AI content.

I do have it labeled for my AI art parody project, despite it not even using that much AI.

Vampire Syndicate will have very little in the way of AI visuals in-game, at least on my end. It's getting harder to make these promises since a lot of assets come with generative AI bits, and even 2D artists use AI for their stuff now.

 

[Alienman]

Freaking love that kind of artstyle:

The darker Kraftwerk.

 

[Caim]

Freaking love that kind of artstyle:

The darker Kraftwerk.

Kraftwerk after the robot uprising.

 

[S.torch]

Did you really hire an expensive female narrator for this? Going all out.

 

[Alienman]

Did you really hire an expensive female narrator for this? Going all out.

I have a feeling it's an AI.

 

[Abu Antar]

It's his wife/girlfriend (cyborg AI).

 

[MerchantKing]

It's his wife/girlfriend (cyborg AI).

Personally I would have just used the female version of microsoft Sam.

 

[Tyranicon]

Working on combat maps.

 

[Abu Antar]

Is it XCOM style 2AP, or more like Underrail?

 

[Tyranicon]

Is it XCOM style 2AP, or more like Underrail?

It's a completely homemade system so it's hard to describe. In more mainstream places I describe combat as "XCOM + BG3" but that's entirely because of their brand recognition and not because it's an accurate descriptor.

To my knowledge I can't recall of another system similar enough to mine for me to namedrop, but it'll be very familiar to turn-based enthusiasts.

AP as a resource can be increased.

 

[Alienman]

It's probably early in development, but please make the UI stylish, fitting to the theme of the game.

 

[AdolfSatan]

Yeah, make all the buttons nipples and the inventory a pale, cyanotic scrotal sack.

 

[Harthwain]

Is it XCOM style 2AP, or more like Underrail?

It's a completely homemade system so it's hard to describe. In more mainstream places I describe combat as "XCOM + BG3" but that's entirely because of their brand recognition and not because it's an accurate descriptor.

To my knowledge I can't recall of another system similar enough to mine for me to namedrop, but it'll be very familiar to turn-based enthusiasts.

AP as a resource can be increased.

Screenshot is giving me Phantom Doctrine vibes. To be clear, I liked Phantom Doctrine. And the AP system instead of 2-point system is obviously

. King Arthur: Knight's Tale proved this can be done and liked by people even today.