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[roytheone]

First thing that came to mind was a game where I could massacre furries and I thought that sounded like a great idea.

This looks really cool too, though.

With furries, do you mean anthropomorphic animals, or the people in the Fandom? That will drastically chance how this post sounds.

 

[jblank83]

giggle

With furries, do you mean anthropomorphic animals, or the people in the Fandom? That will drastically chance how this post sounds.

I just want to watch furries explode in high definition computer animated detail. I don't want to hurt real people. Don't judge me.

It really is nice looking. I hope it pulls through with a highly polished, fun game.

 

[Octavianus]

This looks really cool.

 

[Purkake4]

This also kind of seems like a game I'd imagine Obsidian has always wanted to do but was never allowed to.

Torment could have been this, but it looks like they're going both ways with it.

 

[More_Badass]

This also kind of seems like a game I'd imagine Obsidian has always wanted to do but was never allowed to.

Torment could have been this, but it looks like they're going both ways with it.

The way Torment describes its crises - only a few in the game, narrative-driven hand-crafted scenarios - is how the confrontations sound in this game. Scripted dialogue-driven encounters that are affected by your actions, choices, and inventory

 

[Purkake4]

The way Torment describes its crises - only a few in the game, narrative-driven hand-crafted scenarios - is how the confrontations sound in this game. Scripted dialogue-driven encounters that are affected by your actions, choices, and inventory

Yeah, It is very interesting to see someone do away with combat altogether, but keep the RPG bits and failure conditions.

 

[Fahzgoolin]

wow the art is hotness. gonna watch this one.

Thanks OP

 

[LightningXCE]

I just want to watch furries explode in high definition computer animated detail. I don't want to hurt real people. Don't judge me.

HEY

Jokes aside, this looks freaking beautiful, and the magic they're pulling off with the lighting and shaders in unreal.

 

[Aureon]

Here's their devlog post breaking down their shaders
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=52246.msg1228888#msg1228888

And lighting
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=52246.msg1218869#msg1218869
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=52246.msg1221467#msg1221467

It's pretty impressive honestly. Touched up 3d renders are perhaps my favourite art style - and dynamic light on that is nothing short of amazing.

 

[Ragnar Blackmane]

"No truce with the furries" definitely would be a game I would be willing to play.

 

[StrangeRoboMemory]

No truce with the furries is possible, in any case...their fell spirits will pursue you to the end of your days.

 

[GavinUK86]

I really like their sarcastic tone on the site.

Well I hope it's sarcasm.

A new genre of setting developed for over 15 years in absolute secret. Neither fantasy, alternate history, nor any type of -punk, a novel set in the same world has been dubbed fantastic realism.

A realistic skill system lets you develop original ideas using Conceptual Thinking, tune your nervous system with Electrochemistry, and become a disgrace to the uniform with Composure, a skill that lets you don your disco outfit to the maximum effect.

Exactly one hundred and twenty eight times more choice and consequence than previously thought possible in a role playing video game. This is a world where even the smallest things you say matter.

Inspired by “Planescape: Torment”, “Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare” and “Kentucky Route Zero”.

The game looks and sounds cool. Going to keep an eye on this one.

 

[Purkake4]

I really like their sarcastic tone on the site.

Well I hope it's sarcasm.

The game looks and sounds cool. Going to keep an eye on this one.

That first one reminds me of Tales of Game's motto:

Not for TREND. Not for CORPORATE ATTITUDE. Not for STONER. Only true DOOM-MURDER HEADS

 

[More_Badass]

I really like their sarcastic tone on the site.

Well I hope it's sarcasm.





The game looks and sounds cool. Going to keep an eye on this one.

At the very least, you'll be able to learn what your character sees, smells, hears, etc., and use that knowledge to your advantage

Concept art and early placeholder of the mechanic

 

[More_Badass]

Concept art to final area art
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=52246.msg1260127#msg1260127

 

[Purkake4]

Nice, I wonder if they'll ever do a kickstarter or early access or anything, would love to help out.

 

[Possumowner]

Looks fantastic to me,love this style of game...that name though is err difficult

 

[Bluth54]

This game looks great, I'm looking forward to it.

 

[Altazor]

Concept art to final area art
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=52246.msg1260127#msg1260127

impressive... most impressive.

 

[Mr. Tibbs]

Concept art to final area art
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=52246.msg1260127#msg1260127

Very impressive. Absolutely loved Age of Decadence, so I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for this one.

Their latest dev log about implementing the writing.

While engaged in just that, we’ve encountered a little problem with Articy: Final Draft, the program that usually helps us tackle those thousands of branching endings. Sometimes it doesn’t. It seems possible that the size and complexity of our dialogues has reached the limit of Articy’s traction. It’s developers probably didn’t expect interactive literature to sprawl explosively like a borderless field of text (as it exists in the writer’s mind in its proto-being). And now we’re in a situation where we sometimes have to wait for the letters to appear on the screen with excruciating slowness. Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 is almost capable of rendering reality in real time, but Articy has some disagreements with it. We generally hope for Articy’s very flexible team to offer us their helping hand at some moment (and we are well aware it won’t be easy).

Another option is to rework our plans and start working on a dialogue editor instead of the game. You the public wouldn’t like this and you have every right to presume that we will not. However, it certainly couldn’t happen before the thousand ends of No Truce With the Furies have converged into a single concrete mother-node and made accessible to you.

 

[Purkake4]

Very impressive. Absolutely loved Age of Decadence, so I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for this one.

Their latest dev log about implementing the writing.

Wow, that looks crazy, reminds me of the Torment: Tides of Numenera dialogue design (below), which gives me quite a bit of hope.

 

[More_Badass]

Very impressive. Absolutely loved Age of Decadence, so I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for this one.

Their latest dev log about implementing the writing.

Now that's impressive. Definitely makes the scope they have planned for this seem much more like a reality than just a pie-in-the-sky idea

 

[Purkake4]

Now that's impressive. Definitely makes the scope they have planned for this seem much more like a reality than just a pie-in-the-sky idea

Yup, also goes to show what the potential is when you have a tight focus on this kind of gameplay. If this works out, I'd really like to see some other developers try their takes on it.

 

[More_Badass]

http://orangebison.com/fortress-occident-developer-interview-no-truce-furies/

You’ve described the game as “neither fantasy or any kind of punk” i.e. not any recognisable genre and instead have called it “fantastic realism,” could you elaborate on that? Why avoid those genres?

The worldbuilding we’ve done is, honestly, beyond sane. We’ve been working on it since… 2001? When we were 15. First we started out with something I would maybe call bronze punk. Bronze age punk? Early history meets high fantasy stuff. Then, year after year, we started adding: classic era, renaissance era, industrial era elements. But we kept all the previous versions too, those became previous historical eras in the history of this world.

The last thing we put in was postmodernism. So now we have a history of ideas and technology spanning 6000 years of civilization. This means we’re not static. Not a comment on a specific era of human development, like for example high fantasy is for middle ages, but for… well, all of it.

I love the sound of that! Ok you’ve cited Planescape: Torment, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Kentucky Route Zero influences; the Planescape inspiration is obvious but how did the others inform how the game was made?

The writers all have “Planescape: Torment” as a point of reference for how video games could (maybe) salvage what’s left of literature in our time. The game that first showed it’s possible.

For our artists, “Kentucky Route Zero” is a reference point for how far you can get from being a “regular game” with ambitious art. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare was a stupid joke. I don’t know who put it in there. (I lie. I did. I put it in there.)

 

[Purkake4]

http://orangebison.com/fortress-occident-developer-interview-no-truce-furies/

Aww man, should have just gone with magical realism, that's a real thing that already exists.

 

[Nzyme32]

Wow, very interested in where this one goes. Bookmarked!

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Also read furries and now want an RPG taking on the furry infestation.

 

[Ricky_R]

It reminds a bit to the Commando games. Looks nice!

 

[SJRB]

This looks awesome!

 

[RPG_Fanatic]

I thought that said Furries but this looks cool too.

Oh good, I wasn't the only one. This game seems right up my alley. Now do I go on a complete blackout at this point so I can jump in blind, or do I follow the development. Decisions, decisions.

 

[Purkake4]

Oh good, I wasn't the only one. This game seems right up my alley. Now do I go on a complete blackout at this point so I can jump in blind, or do I follow the development. Decisions, decisions.

I don't think there's any actual story spoilers anywhere at the moment, it's mostly discussing the gameplay, setting and themes.

 

[Mister_Bubbles]

"Not to many fans of late 20th century Welsh poetry here"

You don't say? Lol.

This is shaping up really nicely. So cool that isometric RPGs are back in such a (relatively!) big way.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Looks great, I'll keep an eye on this one. Like the idea of heavily personalized dialogue based combat

 

[Shadowheart]

YES! Finally, one of those smaller budget games that looks good. They've got my interest. Reminds me of the Commando games back the late 90's.

 

[OniBarubary]

YES! Finally, one of those smaller budget games that looks good.

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[exmachina64]

Y'know, I think I'm going to love this game. Good luck to the developers.

 

[Jonneh3003]

I was looking for hordes of furries in the screenshots, then I read through the thread and found out I'm not the only one.

 

[Mister_Bubbles]

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Age of Decadence is drowning in player choice and dialogue, but you have to admit it looks pretty rough.

Edit: I'm assuming that's what Shadowheart means

 

[Purkake4]

I was looking for hordes of furries in the screenshots, then I read through the thread and found out I'm not the only one.

Come for the furries, stay for the great-looking Planescape Torment influenced game.

 

[Zambatoh]

For a second there, I thought this was a game about kink shaming.

 

[Purkake4]

Age of Decadence is drowning in player choice and dialogue, but you have to admit it looks pretty rough.

Edit: I'm assuming that's what Shadowheart means

Presentation is quite important these days, especially for indies. Gotta stand out somehow from the many many games.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Presentation is great and the premise is interesting. Looking forward to hearing more about this.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

So, not a game about slaughtering care-bears.

 

[Shrike Alvaron]

I find it amusing that as a furry myself I did not read the title as furries when it seems everyone else did.

Game sounds cool though, subbed and will be keeping an eye on it.

 

[komplanen]

That name is going to be a problem.

 

[speedpop]

Looks great!

We all need story-driven games in our lives. Furries be damned.

 

[butalala]

Aww man, should have just gone with magical realism, that's a real thing that already exists.

Nah, magical realism is a very close to real-world setting with a few magical elements mixed in, like maybe a talking bird or something. I'm not as well-versed in the various subgenres as I could be, but you could probably get away with calling it high fantasy in an early 20th centuryish setting.

That name is going to be a problem.

Or it's going to be what gets everyone's attention, like it did here.

This game looks awesome.

 

[John Kowalski]

We need more games with longer titles.

 

[More_Badass]

We need more games with longer titles.

I seriously love titles that are phrases and sentences

Gods Will Be Watching
The Flame in the Flood
House of the Dying Sun
Everybody's Gone To The Rapture
A Knife Made Of Whispers
The Sun Also Rises
We Shall Wake
I Shall Remain
That Which Sleeps
The Last of Us
All Is Dust
Beneath A Steel Sky
The Static Speaks My Name
My father's long long legs
No Truce With The Furies

Titles like that have almost an elegance to them, the sense of a thematic subtext

 

[Purkake4]

I seriously love titles that are phrases and sentences

Gods Will Be Watching
The Flame in the Flood
House of the Dying Sun
Everybody's Gone To The Rapture
A Knight Made Of Whispers
The Sun Also Rises
We Shall Wake
I Shall Remain
That Which Sleeps
The Last of Us
All Is Dust
Beneath A Steel Sky
The Static Speaks My Name
My father's long long legs
No Truce With The Furies

Titles like that have almost an elegance to them, the sense of a thematic subtext

I only allow it as long as it has some relevance to the context of the game, otherwise it's just pretentious sounding.