Jordan Weisman, the creator of gaming franchises Battletech and Shadowrun, as we speak launched the Kickstarter for his subsequent work: A CRPG known as Sea of Legends, primarily based on the board recreation of the identical identify. Sea of Legends (the online game) is a deck-building isometric RPG that includes a fantasy-nautical environment. Weisman and his crew at Countless Adventures plan to launch the sport on PC and Mac through Steam and itch.io.
Sea of Legends options card-based gameplay, with characters build up decks of actions for conditions corresponding to boarding, tavern brawls and ship-to-ship fight. Gamers can align themselves with a number of factions — together with spooky, supernatural beings — whereas partaking of piratey actions corresponding to plundering and smuggling. They’ll additionally get to know and romance varied NPCs discovered all through the sport. In response to the builders, one tier of Kickstarter backer will even be capable to assist construct a significant NPC within the recreation.
The Kickstarter web page reads: “We’ve taken everything we’ve learned from our history of creating successful Kickstarter projects at Harebrained Schemes and channeled it into a tiered development plan that expands as funding grows. The goal of this approach is to ensure that, regardless of the funding level we reach, we will deliver a complete game. The development timeframe will range from 12 to 18 months, depending on the scope of the game as determined by funding.”
Weisman is one among many recreation creators who’ve turned to Kickstarter to complement funding for his or her title. Weisman’s personal studio, Harebrained Schemes, launched a number of Kickstarter campaigns for Shadowrun titles. Different main Kickstarter-funded video games embrace the Divinity: Authentic Sin titles from Larian Studios, Shenmue III from Ys Web, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Evening by Castlevania’s Koji Igarashi and Frontier Improvement’s Elite Harmful.
