Indie Project Resurgence - cRPG inspired by Fallout and Arcanum

[ArchAngel]

The guy behind the project is a big personality on Twitch and you can expect this to be funded probably within few days.

 

[epeli]

Jul 2015:

Maybe I am just more optimistic than average Codexer.

Jan 2016:

I want to apologize to the Codex for ever opening this topic and talking about this

Your transformation to average codexer is complete.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Has there been any ´episodic` cRPG kickstarter that has delivered anything?

Also

• Switch freely between Turn-Based and Real-Time Combat modes when violence breaks out. Change modes at any time to always handle danger at your preferred pace.

Why, just fucking why?

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

• Switch freely between Turn-Based and Real-Time Combat modes when violence breaks out. Change modes at any time to always handle danger at your preferred pace.

Why, just fucking why?

inspired by Fallout and Arcanum

 

[ArchAngel]

Jul 2015:

Maybe I am just more optimistic than average Codexer.

Jan 2016:

I want to apologize to the Codex for ever opening this topic and talking about this

Your transformation to average codexer is complete.

Well I was willing to give them benefit of the doubt until the KS. But this KS is pretty terrible so..

 

[Keldryn]

That running animation is painful to watch. Seriously, it's not that hard to adjust the characters' movement speed in the world to match their run/walk animations. Or just use root motion; Unreal Engine supports it. In the grand scheme of things, it's really not a difficult change to make -- why not fix it before showing the game off to the public?

 

[vonAchdorf]

O.K. the first glance looked interesting, but I think they got some very wrong ideas.

Create your custom hero, choosing from a variety of options to specify Sex, Gender (preferred pronoun), Tribe, Background, Quirks, and Appearance.

Lumen is a land of diversity, with many backgrounds and beliefs intermingling throughout it and people of all types calling it home. Reflecting the design of Lumen itself, we want to give players the freedom to create a character wholly like them, unlike them, or anywhere in between.

Players choose their character’s tribe, sex, gender identification, and skin tone. We also hope to achieve a respectful representation of characters through appropriate functional clothing and armor design. We’re planning for a variety of romance options and relationship choices to represent all walks of life.

With Project Resurgence, we want to create a game that everyone can explore and lose themselves in. And allow everyone to create a character that they feel best represents them in the world.

I don't mind the "diversity" angle per se, but it feels, that it's merely done to check off some bullet points. It could actually be interesting to reintroduce the long missed "sex" along the standard "gender", but not if it's just to ensure the LARP'ing player's preferred pronouns are used. Also why does a character have to "represent" the player?

 

[kwanzabot]

honestly it doesnt look good at all lol, doubt i'll ever play it

 

[aeternalis]

No need to read any further than "Switch freely between Turn-Based and Real-Time Combat modes"

 

[Neanderthal]

It could actually be interesting to reintroduce the long missed "sex" along the standard "gender", but not if it's just to ensure the LARP'ing player's preferred pronouns are used. Also why does a character have to "represent" the player?

Erm i'm an old dog and an ignorant fuck but when did gender stop meaning sex?

 

[Catfish]

If you’ve read this far [...into the feature list/pitch], hopefully you’re frothing at the mouth to get your hands on this little project of ours. (c) Robert Buchheit, creative director

Gives an insight on how "inspired" the production is, eh?

Also, what's with the Jeff Goldblum epigraph? https://youtu.be/5yFmwCZ6Bws?t=6s

Best of luck to the devs, though. I will be genuinely surprised if this turns out half decent.

 

[Shin]

For some reason I think it's tasteless that such a non-existent development company fills up their KS page with hundreds of tiers and social media integration for unlocking rewards and whatever. I liked how Larian (for example) just had a main goal for Divinity 2 and only got to adding fancy additions -after- they reached their goal, despite already having funded a huge successful kickstarter.

But yea, project looks okayish I guess. Not going to back it but it'll probably turn out better than SCS (reminds me the most of that tbh). One thing I'm wondering about is who those 'industry veterans' are that they're talking about. Do they include people who worked in heavy industry (factories and steel mills)?

edit: nvm the ks page has some names on it

Chris Jones: art team for Fallout 2 and Planescape: Torment. He has also worked for Shiny and Double Helix
Seth Black: joining shortly after leaving Timegate (Kohan RTS, FEAR FPS, Alien: Colonial Marines FPS)
Kelly Herreid: Lead Writer (can't find any studios/projects she worked on)
Nik Hagialas: lead Concept Artist (can't find any game projects he worked on, did find his portfolio, he likes elvish bewbs)

 

[Immortal]

That running animation is painful to watch. Seriously, it's not that hard to adjust the characters' movement speed in the world to match their run/walk animations. Or just use root motion; Unreal Engine supports it. In the grand scheme of things, it's really not a difficult change to make -- why not fix it before showing the game off to the public?

Is the transform speed the problem?
The walk animation looks spastic and jerky as fuck but the movement speed didn't seem too bad.. It was hard to judge because the scenes were so quick. I only saw a few loops.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

I backed it yesterday on a whim. Come at me, you hateful CISgendered Codexians.

 

[Keldryn]

Is the transform speed the problem?
The walk animation looks spastic and jerky as fuck but the movement speed didn't seem too bad.. It was hard to judge because the scenes were so quick. I only saw a few loops.

It looked to me like the movement animations (at least the running animation) had the characters' feet hitting the ground too quickly compared to the speed at which the model was moving across the screen. So it had that detached "skating" look to it. I think it was more noticeable in their Kickstarter pitch video. But it makes the game look amateurish, and it's the sort of thing that should be fixed for a public presentation, even if you end up doing a quick-and-dirty hack that you'll discard when the presentation is done. The party members were also following too closely at times, nearly running into each other. But getting pathfinding and follow behavior working smoothly isn't the most trivial of tasks.

 

[Immortal]

It looked to me like the movement animations (at least the running animation) had the characters' feet hitting the ground too quickly compared to the speed at which the model was moving across the screen.

I was giggling maniacally when I was watching them run. They slam their feet down and jerk around as if they deleted 20 keyframes randomly in the animation before exporting.

 

[Catfish]

I was giggling maniacally when I was watching them run. They slam their feet down and jerk around as if they deleted 20 keyframes randomly in the animation before exporting.

I don't understand why this is the thing that caught everyone's eye when the big cringeworthy part of this whole pitch is the lore.

 

[Immortal]

I was giggling maniacally when I was watching them run. They slam their feet down and jerk around as if they deleted 20 keyframes randomly in the animation before exporting.

I don't understand why this is the thing that caught everyone's eye when the big cringeworthy part of this whole pitch is the lore.

As Keldryn said, these are systemic issues that speak to the quality as a whole. Anyone can sit down and pen a story, if they can't even take the time to do some quality assurance on their own trailer (the best foot forward bullshot) what possible quality can you expect after they have your money?

TL;DR I watched the video on mute just to see the fucked up walk animation everyone was talking about.

 

[Keldryn]

I don't understand why this is the thing that caught everyone's eye when the big cringeworthy part of this whole pitch is the lore.

I said my piece on the lore several months back. I skipped over it completely this time because I remember how cringeworthy it is.

As Keldryn said, these are systemic issues that speak to the quality as a whole. Anyone can sit down and pen a story, if they can't even take the time to do some quality assurance on their own trailer (the best foot forward bullshot) what possible quality can you expect after they have your money?

The word "systemic" has been forever ruined for me thanks to the various -isms that view everything as a social construct.

 

[Immortal]

The word "systemic" has been forever ruined for me thanks to the various -isms that view everything as a social construct.

I actually felt the exact same way when I wrote it.. but then I said "you know what? fuck it.. I'm actually using it in the right context"

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Look what I found in stretch goals section :

Guys started with a good faux pas. Now we know how quickly they are expecting to be funded

 

[Keldryn]

I actually felt the exact same way when I wrote it.. but then I said "you know what? fuck it.. I'm actually using it in the right context"

You mean they appropriate different terms and concepts and then use them incorrectly? Huh, imagine that.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Huhn, durned thing might actually get funded.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Stopped reading at episodic. Not a fan of that at all.

 

[Jools]

O.K. the first glance looked interesting, but I think they got some very wrong ideas.

Create your custom hero, choosing from a variety of options to specify Sex, Gender (preferred pronoun), Tribe, Background, Quirks, and Appearance.

Lumen is a land of diversity, with many backgrounds and beliefs intermingling throughout it and people of all types calling it home. Reflecting the design of Lumen itself, we want to give players the freedom to create a character wholly like them, unlike them, or anywhere in between.

Players choose their character’s tribe, sex, gender identification, and skin tone. We also hope to achieve a respectful representation of characters through appropriate functional clothing and armor design. We’re planning for a variety of romance options and relationship choices to represent all walks of life.

With Project Resurgence, we want to create a game that everyone can explore and lose themselves in. And allow everyone to create a character that they feel best represents them in the world.

I don't mind the "diversity" angle per se, but it feels, that it's merely done to check off some bullet points. It could actually be interesting to reintroduce the long missed "sex" along the standard "gender", but not if it's just to ensure the LARP'ing player's preferred pronouns are used. Also why does a character have to "represent" the player?

Mhm mhm.

TBH this seemed a cute little project, until I've read a number of details that made quite a few alarms go off in my head:

+ All of that stuff tha vonAchdorf also quoted and pointed out.

+ Episodic: I have little tolerance for DLCs, let alone "Episodic" games. Furthermore, I can't think of a single "episodic" game so far that didn't turn out to be utter shit. Last, normal game tend to suffer from "great beginning, ok mid-game, rushed ending" syndrome already, and this usually gets REALLY bad with episodic games (inb4 some genius mentions some TellTale shit as a counterpoint LOL).

+ "Inspirations: Arcanum, Planescape: Torment, Baldur’s Gate, Fallout, The Witcher, Fullmetal Alchemist, Legend of Korra, and The Dark Tower. "



We need a new thread tag for this kind of releases, called "torrentware" "trybeforeyoubuyware" or something like that.