KickStarter Arcadian Atlas: FFT/Tactics Ogre inspired RPG

[breakfast]

Vashti (the main character) or Des (the other main character) will be required for all battles but other than that your party will consist of whichever other semi-main characters and customized soldiers you want for any particular battle.

There's an awesome feature that just got posted on RPGWatch about us! Check it out to learn a little bit more about the team.

Also, Ken Levine's got our back!

 

[Abu Antar]

Vashti (the main character) or Des (the other main character) will be required for all battles but other than that your party will consist of whichever other semi-main characters and customized soldiers you want for any particular battle.

There's an awesome feature that just got posted on RPGWatch about us! Check it out to learn a little bit more about the team.

Also, Ken Levine's got our back!

 

[breakfast]

Hahahaha!
I can't.. comment on that...

BUT hey, how about a Destructoid article? That's pretty legitimizing!

Also, today we unlocked enough achievements during our KS campaign to reveal a sneak peek at our NEW job class!
Introducing.... (Work in progress, sprites will be finished via livestream!)

The DRUID



Druids are masters of nature, weaving elemental forces, commanding creatures of the earth, and bending the land to fight for them. Mother nature is a powerful ally, and no one knows that better than the druid.

 

[SwiftCrack]

Voted, shared, followed, etc. on Greenlight for now, I'll hold on to my shekels for a week or two more.

 

[breakfast]

 

[Abu Antar]

Could you talk a little bit about classes and if you can combine job skills and such like in FFT?

 

[Taskityo]

Will keep an eye on this - breakfast. Liking the art style and digging the music.

Taking a guess the oddball class like Arithmetician/Calculator is something ya'll want to add with more funding, mebe. Math Skills baby.

 

[breakfast]

For job classes we will offer the same type of 2 class skill equipment (Current class + one other) system, but the difference is that you won't likely be as inclined to jump around from job class to job class like you would in FFT since our game encourages you to make permanent decisions for your hired soldiers. So you may want a fighter-based character to have something fun and random like summon magic for their second equipped ability, but it wouldn't make for the best combo in battle.

Calculators are a pretty hard job class to design & keep balanced. They were always one of my favorite job classes because of their unique abilities, but I also felt they were one of the ways FFT ran off the Balance Train rails. We're definitely not opposed to implementing a character similar to them, but it's something that would need to be done very cautiously. But the good news is we are still early in the job class design stage so we're always scouting the comments section for clever ideas we can use in the game, so keep these job class and skill ideas coming and we'll soak 'em up like sponges!

In other news: Our composer Moritz has shared an awesome new behind-the-scenes video and AMAZING new song over on our Kickstarter. Give it a listen!

 

[Perkel]

ehem i am ashamed i noticed it THIS late. At least i got late to the party.

Love the UI, conflicted a bit about stat alocation (doesn't see it as + in this type of game) but overall i see this is as great promise.

In for 20$

 

[breakfast]

Thanks for the support Perkel!

Got featured on a couple great websites recently. Check out this Gameranx.com interview to learn a bit more about myself & the project!

 

[Crooked Bee]

Heh, the editor of that website has a... troubled history with the Codex.

Glad you're doing well, though. I hope you make it.

 

[Ninjerk]

I'm certain you're trolling at this point.

 

[breakfast]

Haha I was not aware! Not sure what happened between you guys.. Is RPGWatch ok? There's an interview over there if that's better.

 

[Zdzisiu]

Haha I was not aware! Not sure what happened between you guys.. Is RPGWatch ok? There's an interview over there if that's better.

Haha RPGWatch is like the rival kid in the sandbox for Codex, but they are the kid that always cries and wants to take their toys and go home.

To be honest, Codex has a history with like a half of the games related sites or writers on the internet, don't worry about it :D

 

[vonAchdorf]

I'm certain you're trolling at this point.

Haha I was not aware! Not sure what happened between you guys.. Is RPGWatch ok? There's an interview over there if that's better.

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Nearly half way with your KS, I hope it will get a little boost with these interviews.

 

[Siveon]

Don't worry about our forum feuds, just be glad all this free publicity is getting you cash money.

 

[Ninjerk]

You should see if Jeff Vogel would be interested in giving you a signal boost.

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In all seriousness, you might consider tweeting at Brian Fargo (he's been known to KS a lot of games, I think Josh Sawyer, too, possibly).

 

[vonAchdorf]

Unfortunately, the KS seems to have stalled a bit, if donations to pick up again, they won't make it.

In their last update the linked an interesting, albeit RTwP, game:

 

[Jimmious]

Yeah there's a topic for Masquerada in here too. The Codex Consensus is that it will be shit, linear and not-rpg.

 

[LeStryfe79]

Looks like it's gonna be a tough fight.

 

[SwiftCrack]

Yeah, sadly. I did pledge earlier this week but it's probably not going to get charged to my card looking at the stats.

Can the 'Dex do a minor media push? IDK, it's a genre that needs love on the PC.

 

[Jimmious]

Did the Children of the Zodiarc devs get notified of this? It would be a good push.. Same Genre and very successful KS.
Also the Unsung Story devs would be a nice idea

 

[Zetor]

Did the Children of the Zodiarc devs get notified of this? It would be a good push.. Same Genre and very successful KS.
Also the Unsung Story devs would be a nice idea

Yeah, the Children of the Zodiarcs devs highlighted this KS in one of their recent updates. Otherwise, I don't know what the best way would be to spread the word... maybe try for FFT fan forums?

I'll say, though, so far when I mentioned this KS to others, I was met with heavy skepticism ("two unexperienced developers who only worked on RPG maker games, making another FFT is way more ambitious than that, blah blah blah"). It's like Paper Sorcerer, Telepath Tactics, Serpent in the Staglands, etc etc never existed!

 

[Jimmious]

 

[SwiftCrack]

Can someone call the Donald?