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Chroma Squad - New kickstarter by the Knights of Pen and Paper guys

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Behold Studios (Knights of Pen and Paper) have started a new kickstarter for Chroma Squad.
A sort of management turn based combat mixup where you manage a Super Sentai (think Power Rangers) tv studio.

Some of the features of the game:
  • Hire and customize your actors.
  • Choose their jumpsuit color and their roles on battle.
  • Select skills and make your own build of abilities. Each color has its own skill tree of possibilities.
  • Buy equipment for your studio, such as cameras, microphones, chromakey carpets and lights to improve your gameplay experience.
  • Record episodes and complete seasons.
  • Each episode is a mix between tactical turn-based battles, with tons of dialogues, and explosive cinematics.
  • You have the lights, the cameras, and of course, you make the action! You control the movement, attack and skills of each of your chromatic party while recording.
  • Purchase consumable items and improve your abilities. Example: buy fireworks and gain +1 damage to your attack.
  • Create channels and improve your marketing campaigns, sending letters to your fans' mailboxes, chatting on IRC, going to conventions, and releasing comic books.
  • Take care of your fans, in a very cute mini-game, listening to their distinct stories and deciding if they deserve what they're asking for. Like a little boy who asks to visit the studio, but once you let him, you can't tell if he might break anything valuable. ;D
  • Record episodes with other studios online. Fight for audience in cooperative and competitive modes.
Looks like it could be really fun, kinda Kariosoft ish. Lots of potential I think and it has a low funding goal at $55,000.

More info on the games kickstarter page
 
I have no idea whether this is supposed to be a management sim or a strategic campaign, but I'm sold either way on the apparent depth and the animation style. Has anyone had experience with Knights of Pen and Paper who can give some insight on what to expect with this game?
 
Remachinate said:
I have no idea whether this is supposed to be a management sim or a strategic campaign, but I'm sold either way on the apparent depth and the animation style. Has anyone had experience with Knights of Pen and Paper who can give some insight on what to expect with this game?
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I think it's maybe supposed to be a sort of mix of both?
I've only barely dabbled in Knights of Pen and Paper, so can't really say much about it other than the art was nice. I don't think Crhoma Squad is the same type of game though.
 
Remachinate said:
I have no idea whether this is supposed to be a management sim or a strategic campaign, but I'm sold either way on the apparent depth and the animation style. Has anyone had experience with Knights of Pen and Paper who can give some insight on what to expect with this game?
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Knights of Pen and Paper is a very traditionally styled RPG that was made originally for smart phones and eventually ported to the PC. You traverse the world through an overworld map, clicking on various hubs that represent towns or areas. These towns and areas contain quests and monsters. It has a very good sense of humor and interesting upgrade systems. Best RPG I've played on my phone.

I've put maybe 15 hours into it so far and have not finished it yet.

It isn't isometric but instead is from the perspective of 5 players sitting at a table playing D&D.

If they're doing a Kickstarter, I'm throwing money at them. Paradox will eventually pick this up I'd bet, but I'd love early access.
 
No doubt this will be chock full of in-game transactions just like their last offering... it's a pass for me.

EDIT: No microtransactions, that's a good thing! I might consider now :D
 
Considering the final episode of Gokaiger summoned the emotional water from my skull scanners a few days ago, I am fully obligated to back this per all kinds of cosmic laws I abide by and arbitrarily enforce.
 
drgambit said:
No doubt this will be chock full of in-game transactions just like their last offering... it's a pass for me.
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Pen and Paper was in no way chock full of in-game transactions... there was a way you could buy as much gold as you wanted so that you didn't have to go through the traditional upgrade path, but it certainly wasn't forced on you. I haven't spent a cent on the game and my Blacksmith is upgraded to the point of not needing to worry when I upgrade my weapons/armor.
 
haha brilliant, yeah this is a perfect game for these guys.


Knights of Pen and Paper is awesome, it tricks you into thinking they went with the meta premise to make things easier for themselves but it's actually a pretty huge game with tonnes of content and a pitch perfect tone for this kind of experience.


I never used any in app transactions in Knights, I must have played 10-15 hours of that game on the bus.
 
This is my favourite bit:

The beginning of the game will be different for Backers. In the game, you will create your own studio, and for that, you will have a kickstarter campaign to help you fund your first season of sentai heroes. **META ALERT**
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Enjoyed Knights of Pen and Paper and the concept behind this is pretty great. Playing multiplayer to compete for viewers sounds like fun too.

Seems like the kind of game I'd rather play on a tablet, but I'll back for the PC/Mac version anyway.
 
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