KickStarter Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones - a Lovecraftian Computer RPG

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Thanks a lot guys!!!



You feedback was very valuable from the beginning and your approach made us strengthen Stygian in numerous ways.



We also would like to thank you for being the most active and reactive forum community we interact with.



It was and will be a pleasure.



You'll learn more on our thoughts concerning expansions in today's update!



Our Best Regards,

 

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Still no update?

 

[CryptRat]

Still no update?

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ecraftian-computer-rpg/posts/1619912?ref=dash

 

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Thanks!
CryptRat
EDIT:

Stygian is Happening!

Greetings Supporters of the Infernal Cause!

As most of you know Stygian has been funded!
Please accept our deepest gratitude.

You made this happen!

Please allow us to share some of our plans and projections concerning the future of Stygian.

From the beginning, Dreamlands has always been a concept that thrilled us. We definitely want to set sail for the realm of sleep to witness the wonders and horrors waiting beyond the wall of sleep.

We are well aware of the fact that we've completed our campaign very close to the Dreamlandsstretch goal. Therefore we wanted to reward your decisive efforts to see the Dreamlands in Stygian. Even if time and resources won't allow us to implant the whole Dreamlands content to the core game in spite of making Stygian as polished as it can be, we'd like to assure you thatour first major expansion will include the Dreamlands and it will be considerably cheaper for our backers whose pledges include a copy of the game.

In addition to that, there is going to be at least one Dream Quest in the core game, in which we'll be laying the foundations of the Dreamlands mechanics.

Also, as Stygian's backers, you will be the first to play the demo version of the game and you'll have the priority of being among our first beta testers.

It's been an intense year for us. Now is the time to have some rest, regain some of our sanity (we don't need that bar full, don't worry) and start making the best possible game!

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Still no update?

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ecraftian-computer-rpg/posts/1619912?ref=dash

We are well aware of the fact that we've completed our campaign very close to the Dreamlands stretch goal. Therefore we wanted to reward your decisive efforts to see the Dreamlands in Stygian. Even if time and resources won't allow us to implant the whole Dreamlands content to the core game in spite of making Stygian as polished as it can be, we'd like to assure you that our first major expansion will include the Dreamlands and it will be considerably cheaper for our backers whose pledges include a copy of the game.

In addition to that, there is going to be at least one Dream Quest in the core game, in which we'll be laying the foundations of the Dreamlands mechanics.

I wonder what they do with Dunwich?
Possible later DLC if they sell enough to stay afloat?

 

[Morality Games]

Still no update?

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ecraftian-computer-rpg/posts/1619912?ref=dash

We are well aware of the fact that we've completed our campaign very close to the Dreamlands stretch goal. Therefore we wanted to reward your decisive efforts to see the Dreamlands in Stygian. Even if time and resources won't allow us to implant the whole Dreamlands content to the core game in spite of making Stygian as polished as it can be, we'd like to assure you that our first major expansion will include the Dreamlands and it will be considerably cheaper for our backers whose pledges include a copy of the game.

In addition to that, there is going to be at least one Dream Quest in the core game, in which we'll be laying the foundations of the Dreamlands mechanics.

I wonder what they do with Dunwich?
Possible later DLC if they sell enough to stay afloat?

New Vegas style DLC seems to be the new model based on trends and press releases.

 

[lightbane]

So this thing is funded, you say? Time to wait and see if they deliver.

 

[Cyberarmy]

This picture reminded me an ye'olde Turkish RPG, İstanbul Efsaneleri:Lale Savaşçıları. ( Legends of Istanbul: Tulip Warriors)

 

[ragnor]

Ok, is there some sort of turkish invasion going on here? If so, why i'm not informed?

Pity that game was too much localized so you can't enjoy it without living in Turkey .

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

I will be whetting my appetite by reading all of Lovecraft's works in chronological order. I have to admit that I haven't read much to this point.

For the interested, audiobooks for all of Lovecraft's Public Domain works:
https://librivox.org/collected-public-domain-works-of-h-p-lovecraft

 

[Prime Junta]

as epub http://arkhamarchivist.com/free-epub-complete-works-lovecraft-nook/

 

[Nael]

I will be whetting my appetite by reading all of Lovecraft's works in chronological order. I have to admit that I haven't read much to this point.

For the interested, audiobooks for all of Lovecraft's Public Domain works:
https://librivox.org/collected-public-domain-works-of-h-p-lovecraft

If you read any HP Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" is IMO his best work by far. I was also very fond of "The Colour Out of Space." I just liked his more "sci-fi" type stories than the overwrought "DEEP FOREBODING CREATURES FROM THE FOREBODING DEEP THAT ARE CRRRAAAAAAZZZYYY"

 

[Prime Junta]

Call of Cthulhu is rad, up to the point Cthulhu shows up anyway. Also liked Pickman's Model, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and Herbert West, Reanimator. And... what was it called again... The Shining Trapezohedron? Something something Darkness? Anyway the one where they fished something out of a harbour which made people go insane and ate their souls. (Stupid ending on that one though.)

But if you're only reading one HPL, At the Mountains of Madness or The Colour Out of Space are very very good picks. "Colour" is also unusual in that it suffers from few of HPL's usual flaws; the adjectives are kept mostly under control, the collision of rustic backwoods with cosmic horror is superbly executed, and... well, it basically scared the willies out of me when I first read it as a teenager.

 

[Riskbreaker]

I will be whetting my appetite by reading all of Lovecraft's works in chronological order. I have to admit that I haven't read much to this point.

For the interested, audiobooks for all of Lovecraft's Public Domain works:
https://librivox.org/collected-public-domain-works-of-h-p-lovecraft

Narrators are pretty mixed bag, as is oft the case with group project on Librivox.
I recommend readings from ye olde "Dagon and Other Macabre Tales" audiobook, all of them available on YT right now:

Said audiobook also included a variety of lesser known works, and a couple of Dream cycle tales, so it's a pretty nice sampling of HPL's work.
Speaking of Dream Cycle, this here free reading of "Dream Quest":
http://legamus.eu/blog/?p=559
is first class.

The Shining Trapezohedron? Something something Darkness? .

"The Haunter of the Dark".

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Thanks for that.

 

[Darth Roxor]

For some reason I've always preferred the shorter stories to the longer ones generally recognised as his best (Charles Dexter Ward, Mountains of Madness, etc, although I really liked Reanimator). The Doom that Came to Sarnath, The Outsider, The Temple (one of my favourites cuz i love u-boots) and the like are seriously great.

Actually, I don't remember the last time I've read Lovecraft now that I think about it. Perhaps it's time for a re-read.

 

[tormund]

I recommend readings from ye olde "Dagon and Other Macabre Tales" audiobook, all of them available on YT right now:

This is cool, looks like same guy also read his famous Supernatural Horror in Literature essay and it seems to be unabridged judging from the length of the recording



BTW I rarely see people talking about aforementioned Haunter of the Dark, but it's one of my favorites. Part where that young artist first visits old abandoned church is legit scary.

Longer stories I really like are Color out of Space and Dunwich Horror. First is p depressing and creepy and its depiction of wholly alien influence on farm family and their land is great.

The Shadow over Innsmouth is a must read. That seems to be one of most recommended ones, alongside CoC and At the Mountains of Madness, and IMO it is much better than either of those two.

 

[Prime Junta]

Yeh, The Shadow over Innsmouth is up there with Colour and Mountains.

Personally I didn't care much for the Dreamlands stories. Thought there were a bit dopey. I'll be interested to see what Cultic makes of them however, so keeping my fingers crossed for the expansion!

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

Weirdly, my two favorite Lovecraft novels are some of his shadow writer works. Nobody gave a damn about his work, and at the same time, he was so passionate and eager about his craft, loved it, that he helped a lot of other writers.
Incredible shadow writer works:
"The mound", "Medusa's coil".
Of course, it's a hundred percent Lovecraft.
Also "The diary of Alonzo Typer", a masterpiece of understatement (I think that it could be my favorite novel of his).

 

[Infinitron]

They're not generally considered good, but I find all of Lovecraft's stories that are about people degenerating into beasts to be a guilty pleasure.

The Lurking Fear has the best Lovecraftian description porn ever:

Shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined corridors of purple fulgurous sky … formless phantasms and kaleidoscopic mutations of a ghoulish, remembered scenes; forests of monstrous overnourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannibal devils; mound-like tentacles groping from underground nuclei of polypous perversion … insane lightning over malignant ivied walls and daemon arcades choked with fungous vegetation …

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

I am not a dumb hippie mystic, but there are weird things.
Lovecraft, who was xenophobe and antisemite, married a jewish girl because they had the same dreams, and that she could go further than the point at which he woke up.
There are casual dreams (killing your boss, nailing your sister, your dog dying, dumb excremential stuff like that), and there are travel dreams.
William S. Burroughs described seven dream cities in "Cities of the red night", and me and one of my friends have absolutely visited one of these through our dreams.
Lovecraft has the same ability to visit the dreamlands (like everybody) but especially to remember these visits.
I'm sure of that, and I hate new-age mystic wiggan celtic crap and people who think that the're the reincarnation of a pharaoh, of a saint of whatever stupid shit.
But the dreamlands exist, I think.

 

[Nael]

I've often thought of "Dream Lands" insofar as a shared dreaming experience between separate people as a bond shared through a genetic memory that most of us have. Same as all of us are born with autonomic functions like breathing I think the shared dream is related to our ingrained ability to learn written language. You can especially see these things on hallucinogens if you have trouble remembering dreams.

 

[screeg]

Interesting thing about Re-animator is that it was written as a serial. You can tell that each of the six chapters comes to a mini-climax/cliffhanger. After the five story build-up, that ending is one of a kind.

 

[Trias_Betrayed]

Gotta agree with most here that the mountains is fantastic, on topic however I like the idea for the sanity system I just hope it does it better than darkest dungeon tried to. Then again this in general looks better so far since it doesn't appear to be a grindfest.

 

[Prime Junta]

I've often thought of "Dream Lands" insofar as a shared dreaming experience between separate people as a bond shared through a genetic memory that most of us have. Same as all of us are born with autonomic functions like breathing I think the shared dream is related to our ingrained ability to learn written language. You can especially see these things on hallucinogens if you have trouble remembering dreams.

If you're into hand-wavey unfalsifiable psychobabble explanations, I prefer Jung's collective unconscious.