KickStarter Vampire Syndicate: Gangs of MoonFall

[Tyranicon]

Make it punchy.
CYBERVAMPS
I mean geez, I already want to buy a game with that name.

I second this. It effectively gets the concept across

My suggestion would’ve been something like “Cyborg Vampire Gang Wars.”

Didn't the guy behind the game say that vampires can't be cyborgs? It doesn't make sense if so.

It's not that they can't be cyborgs, it's that weird shit starts happening.

If you are too augmented before becoming a vampire, they simply won't make you into one. If you keep augmenting yourself after becoming a vampire, past a certain point it'll trigger a few things:

1. Your lineage immediately disavows you
2. You become a priority target for all the lineages, the Mandate and the Slayer Order to hunt down. Essentially all the factions in the game.
3. Your vampiric curse deepens, creating new (mostly negative) effects.
4. It'll impact the story

Congrats! You've unlocked hard mode!

 

[Technomancer]

It's not that they can't be cyborgs, it's that weird shit starts happening.

Ok but my point is that its weird to advertise cyborg vamps in the title if that is not really a primary intended gameplay feature and more like a challenge mode.

 

[Technomancer]

Your vampiric curse deepens, creating new (mostly negative) effects.

Mostly huh? So what are the positives? Beyond benefits from chrome.

 

[RaggleFraggle]

“Cyberpunks & Vampires”?
Cyberpunk Future: Vampire Wars?

 

[Tyranicon]

Your vampiric curse deepens, creating new (mostly negative) effects.

Mostly huh? So what are the positives? Beyond benefits from chrome.

I'm not too sure how it will translate into gameplay, or if I even have the budget/time to flesh it out.

If I do get the time and budget I need, there will be a separate skill tree for Transgressed Vampires, with new skills and everything.

big spoilers if you care

The curse that governs vampirism comes from the fact that you are transgressing natural law that the actual god of the setting laid down: that only one true immortal should ever exist. Making yourself more immortal increases the effects of the curse. As a vampire, your "soul" is already destroyed, meaning you cannot reincarnate for the Last Day. If you Transgress further, you will transform into a conduit for certain nihilistic lovecraftian entities that want to eat the universe.

Since the player is narratively a powerful extra-dimensional entity that happens to be controlling that character, allowing this to happen will push you out of that body and eventually induce a "bad ending."

 

[culliford]

Vampire Gangs of Moonfall sounds good to me!

 

[Technomancer]

I'm not too sure how it will translate into gameplay, or if I even have the budget/time to flesh it out.

If I do get the time and budget I need, there will be a separate skill tree for Transgressed Vampires, with new skills and everything.

Hope you do. Vampire-cyborg abominations that are broken as shit and are hated by everyone is pretty much powergamer's wet dream. Shit is metal af.

 

[santino27]

Red Dawn: Vampire Gangs of Moonfall.

 

[Zombra]

blah blah blah lore and so forth

Yeah yeah, not caring about any of that right now.

Just say it with me and tell me it isn't bomb.

everyone now, say it with me

CYBERVAMPS

 

[ERYFKRAD]

blah blah blah lore and so forth

Yeah yeah, not caring about any of that right now.

Just say it with me and tell me it isn't bomb.

everyone now, say it with me

CYBERVAMPS

Gay

 

[good fucking shit happen]

I know I'm bad at titles, so I'm thinking of changing Vampire Gangs to something else. What think?

Goth Girl Mooning: Vampire Gang Bang

 

[Herumor]

Just call it BloodNet: Moonfall.

 

[Dwarvophile]

Blood runner ?

Silicon fangs ?

No juice no fun ?

Vain suckers ?



Actually, Gangs of Moonfall sounds good to me. Is there anything with "crimson syndicate" or "crimson chips" already ? If you really have cyber in your vamps, something with bloodied integrated circuits could make for a nice font.

 

[RaggleFraggle]

Just call it BloodNet: Moonfall.

I was going to suggest that, but there are trademark issues. NightDive Studios owns the trademark and they’re retaining it by selling BloodNet on Steam and GOG. You’d have to ask them for a license to use it, or they could sue you for trademark infringement

 

[Tyranicon]

I'm pleased to report that development is going smoothly and I should be able to get an Alpha demo out around March 2023.

 

[Ismaul]

Make it punchy.
CYBERVAMPS
I mean geez, I already want to buy a game with that name.

I second this. It effectively gets the concept across

My suggestion would’ve been something like “Cyborg Vampire Gang Wars.”

Might as well just shorten it to VAMPZ.

Everyone knows replacing S with Z means you're a rebel from the future.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Make it punchy.
CYBERVAMPS
I mean geez, I already want to buy a game with that name.

I second this. It effectively gets the concept across

My suggestion would’ve been something like “Cyborg Vampire Gang Wars.”

Might as well just shorten it to VAMPZ.

Everyone knows replacing S with Z means you're a rebel from the future.

Or you're hardcore on American spelling as against British spelling

 

[lightbane]

Needs a catchier name. What about... Bloodedge?

If you are too augmented before becoming a vampire, they simply won't make you into one. If you keep augmenting yourself after becoming a vampire, past a certain point it'll trigger a few things:

I suppose there's no biological augmentations such as improved organs then?
Something that says tampers with the blood such as adding sci-fi nanomachines and/or better blood production would help with being a vamp.

 

[Dadd]

Last one

Blood Thots (of Moonfall)

You know this is the best one

 

[Tyranicon]

Needs a catchier name. What about... Bloodedge?

If you are too augmented before becoming a vampire, they simply won't make you into one. If you keep augmenting yourself after becoming a vampire, past a certain point it'll trigger a few things:

I suppose there's no biological augmentations such as improved organs then?
Something that says tampers with the blood such as adding sci-fi nanomachines and/or better blood production would help with being a vamp.

It's something I thought about earlier in dev, but I ended up deciding two things:

1. Classic vampires are cooler. They also make a good foil for the all the crazy tech shit that happens in a cyberpunk setting.

2. They would be too OP unrestricted, setting-wise. Vampires are already immortal, have powerful regenerative abilities, superstrength and the best power of all: money. If they could start to improve on their bodies, they would definitely remove all their flaws, such as weakness to sunlight. So I just made it so they couldn't.

A cyber-arm here or there is fine (but just barely). Replacing your skin with something sunlight resistant, or removing your need to constantly consume blood is a no-no.

 

[RaggleFraggle]

Make it punchy.
CYBERVAMPS
I mean geez, I already want to buy a game with that name.

I second this. It effectively gets the concept across

My suggestion would’ve been something like “Cyborg Vampire Gang Wars.”

Might as well just shorten it to VAMPZ.

Everyone knows replacing S with Z means you're a rebel from the future.

CYVAMPZ?

 

[Tyranicon]

Yeah, but why they can't buy such augs or even sunlight resistant armors if they're so rich with money?

Vampires can't replace too much of their body because of the vampiric curse.

Sunlight weakness is also a symptom of the curse (it's more of being active in daytime as opposed to actually being in sunlight).

The curse is my version of a "wizard did it." It's a catch all for the things vampires can and can't do.

 

[lightbane]

2. They would be too OP unrestricted, setting-wise. Vampires are already immortal, have powerful regenerative abilities, superstrength and the best power of all: money. If they could start to improve on their bodies, they would definitely remove all their flaws, such as weakness to sunlight. So I just made it so they couldn't.

Vampires would absolutely use technology, magic and whatever to become even better, but I can understand you wish to avoid balance issues.
Reminds me of the OVAs Cyberpunk City Edo, where there was a sci-fi vampire created by a failed medicine that attempted to give the user eternal life. It succeeded (at the expense of the user becoming a vampire) and was super-OP, the bad guy being capable of surviving being thrown into space and reforming wholesale, but was still killed after being exposed to a concoction to counter said miracle cure.

 

[Tyranicon]

So for this game I think I will reduce the number of weapons and instead focus on making them distinct mechanically and customizable. Just like how in the real world, elite military forces converge on the same few firearm platforms, that'll probably be true of vampires and their familiars, who can afford the best.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Less dakka is fine, but give more choppa.