Dark Meridian

[likaq]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/967856643/dark-meridian

Dark Meridian is an exciting new fusion of RTS, RPG, and 3rd person shooter. It gives you a persistent RPG-like character with attributes, skill trees, and equipment, and lets you take that character into battle as a fighter, a squad leader, and a commander.

Characters gain levels and are given points that can be used to increase their abilities and attributes. Weapons and armor are awarded to players according to their actions in each battle. How you play and the choices you make when leveling your character will allow you to build a character that best fits your play style, whether that be a hand-to-hand fighter, a ranged marksman, an arcane mage, an efficient commander, or some combination of those.

Players can choose to be in the midst of battle as a combatant and squad leader or they can act as a commander, building their town and defenses. Players are free to switch between commander and combatant as the battle dictates. It is up to the commander to place buildings, decide which technologies to research and which units to recruit. As a combatant, players join the battle from a close 3rd person perspective; they can ride mounts, man siege engines, and command a small squad of AI characters.

Why Kickstarter

We need some money to finish our game so we can release it and you can play it. We have tried the traditional publisher route, fighting the “small unproven studio” stigma and months and months of red tape and false starts, only to get nowhere with the game so close to being finished.

Funding our game through Kickstarter is the perfect solution. As a backer, you would be preordering a copy of our game at a discounted price (and you could get additional rewards depending on your contribution). As a developer, we would get to finish building the game that we want to build and that you want to play, rather than a game that a publisher has molded into one of its unimaginative money- making templates.

We have already done a tremendous amount of work on the game with no outside funding, but we have reached the point where we need some funding to finish it. We need your help to generate $250,000 , which will give us enough funding to finish our game and release it. Of course, we would love to raise more money than that so we could add some additional depth to some of the game play elements, but $250,000 would be enough to finish and deliver a great game.

Check out the trailer we put together from in game footage. It should give you a glimpse of the incredibly fun gameplay and a decent idea of how far along the game is. We are so close to having a fun, finished game; we just need your help to get us over the last hurdle.

Thanks,
Talus Studios

Incline or decline?

 

[mikaelis]

M&B medieval and Elder Srolls fantasy and Derek Smart "do everything everywhere anytime anyhow" and WoW "kill shit and level"?

I will pass for the next 50 years.

 

[Angthoron]

Ah, to be young and wish to work in game dev...

 

[Father Walker]

We need some money to finish our game

250,000

 

[Burning Bridges]

This sounded vaguely familiar, so I googled a bit.

According to http://www.diygamer.com/tag/talus/ the game is "almost" finished and

It’s been in development for several years now at the hands of indie developers Talus Studios, established in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2005. Since then, the development process has been fraught with foibles and snafus of all shapes and sizes, with Talus citing uneasiness on the part of potential publishers and the unstable global economy as the main factors behind the stop-start process the game has been going through since its conception.

of course this will now all change with the 250,000$ financial bonus provided though kickstarter for bullshit development chaos indie game startup

Perhaps the most appealing of these pre-order perks is the limited edition e-book and additional in-game content, temporarily available for $16 while stocks last. As of this writing, only 16 of 1,000 such copies were available, so you’d be well advised to get cracking if you’re interested in capitalising on the offer.

hurr