Broken Roads - turn-based Australian post-apocalyptic RPG with "unique morality system"

[Dishonoredbr]

Release date is set to November 14th!

Damn shame that's coming out so close to Rogue Trader..

 

[Jrpgfan]

This game is triggering Cleve on the news section so it's D1P for me.

 

[Infinitron]

"Crux" is part of the Broken Roads soundtrack, written, recorded and produced by Drop Bear Bytes' Audio Lead and Composer, Tim Sunderland.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.brokenroadsgame.com/dev-blog/environment-design-process-ardath-hotel

ENVIRONMENT DESIGN PROCESS: ARDATH HOTEL​

The Ardath Pub is a characterful establishment where a motley crew of artists, thieves, and thugs congregate to drink, play darts and get up to mayhem. To bring this place to life, Sara Laubscher, Lead Environment Concept Artist, worked closely with our Narrative Director, Leanne Taylor-Giles, in order to maintain an authentic ‘Aussie vibe’. Through pokie machines and a pool-table-turned-impromptu music stage around the back, we aimed to demonstrate the rowdy charm of the Ardath way of life.

We heavily referenced the real-life Ardath Hotel pub, which Leanne had personally visited. Sara created the concept that served as our blueprint, using isometric illustration techniques and photobashing renders of props we had already made for the game, in order to get the main ideas, mood and structure of the environment across as efficiently as possible.

Here are some images of the real Ardath pub:

Art Lead Bianca Roux expertly translated this room’s design into a 3D model using Maya and ZBrush to add the sculpted details:

Following this, Sara textured the scene in Adobe Substance Painter, maintaining the game's painterly style by applying gestural paint strokes in the grotty corners of the room, peeling paint and some graffiti on the walls for added authenticity.

Finally, Ryan Gee brought it all together in Unity, meticulously set dressing the scene to match the concept art and infusing it with additional environmental storytelling and mood-enhancing lighting. This collaborative process ensured that our interior scene not only remained true to the unique charm of the game’s narrative but also added depth to our post-apocalyptic Australian world as a whole.

We’ll have more to show soon in the September 2023 Update. You can also catch the Drop Bear Bytes art team on a live stream as part of the Melbourne International Games Week Steam Event live at the following times on Wednesday, 27 September :

5:00pm (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane)
3:00pm (Perth)
9:00am (Cape Town, Johannesburg, Barcelona, Warsaw)
8:00am (London)
3:00am (New York)
12:00am midnight (Los Angeles, San Francisco)
Thanks for reading. We hope to catch you on the live stream and answer any questions you may have!
- The Drop Bear Bytes team

 

[DemonKing]

New interview on the game development process here:

https://www.well-played.com.au/made-in-australia-we-talk-broken-roads-with-drop-bear-bytes/

 

[Verylittlefishes]

did they fixed ambient occlusion thing?

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.brokenroadsgame.com/dev-blog/hired-gun-origin-story-trailer

HIRED GUN ORIGIN STORY TRAILER​

We’ve just published the first of four trailers, each showing off one of the different origin stories you can choose when creating your character in Broken Roads. Enjoy!

And if you’re wondering ‘hey Drop Bear Bytes, where’s your October update?', we’ve been non-stop busy making the game, adding polish, fixing bugs, closing out quests, wrapping up loose ends, recording videos, conducting media interviews, playtesting the game, and so on. There’s your update - now let us get back to it!

- The Drop Bear Bytes team

 

[Phinx]

Just a couple of hundreds in each reviewers pockets, sprinkle some thumbnails with mouth wide open, and you got yourself a masterpiece.

 

[Infinitron]

Oh my: https://www.brokenroadsgame.com/dev-blog/were-delaying-broken-roads-for-a-few-more-months

BROKEN ROADS DELAYED UNTIL EARLY 2024​

Hi everyone.

Since 2019 the Drop Bear Bytes team has been pouring their hearts & souls into Broken Roads, spending countless hours designing, troubleshooting, and adjusting to player feedback. While Broken Roads is still coming, we’ve made the decision to delay the release to allow for additional polish time and QA manpower plus resources to ensure a higher quality bar for the thousands of permutations that can arise. While the game is now content complete, it is also coming in longer than we originally anticipated at ~30 hours of gameplay and nearly 400,000 words of dialogue. As you can imagine, it’s extremely time-consuming to properly test all of these.

This was not an easy decision, however the teams here at Drop Bear Bytes & Versus Evil have decided that to ensure we deliver the highest quality product, it would be best to delay the games launch just a bit longer until early next year.

We’d like to thank the community for your continued support and patience with us. We are committed to delivering a game that will exceed the communities expectations, and we believe this move will help us do just that.

- The team at Drop Bear Bytes

 

[jackofshadows]

 

[Tyranicon]

Did they... did they seriously postpone the game days from launch?

Bruh.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Such a douchebag move to delay shortly before the release of the game.

 

[GloomFrost]

Literally like a week before release?? Oh well..... more play time for Colony Ship then

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Literally like a week before release?? Oh well..... more play time for Colony Ship then

Damn I totally forgot I have that waiting.

 

[Nm6k]

Amusing that they announced their delay same day as Urban Strife. Well I still have Colony Ship and Rogue Trader for this end of year

 

[Elhoim]

Literally like a week before release?? Oh well..... more play time for Colony Ship then

Yep, only two hours until launch.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Will you do Nasa ish countdown somewhere? Pretty please?

Edit: WTF wasn't that The Colony Ship thread?!?!? fug...

 

[Infinitron]

Did they... did they seriously postpone the game days from launch?

Bruh.

 

[likash]

Now watch Rogue Trader get delayed to fuck up the holidays.

 

[Tyranicon]

Honestly, the only thing I got out of this entire thread is that I wish I got government funding.

Without the strings attached, of course.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Yeah, from the demo last next fest it still has a LOOOONG way to go. This either eill delay the inevitable or give them time to fix it more.

 

[quixotic]

Delaying AFTER you gave the game to journos?
I can’t tell if that’s retarded or based. Maybe both.

 

[GloomFrost]

Or maybe they actually realised all of a sudden that releasing a turn based RPG in between Colony Ship and Rogue Trader was the dumbest idea ever. And postponing it is by far the only way to make some money. Just thinking out loud...

 

[cyborgboy95]

 

[Kem0sabe]

Do they actually want to sell their game? Because everything they have shown, the reactions to the "release build"...