Longdue has unveiled the atmospheric debut teaser and Kickstarter date for its in-development ‘psychogeographic’ RPG, Hopetown, a religious successor to Disco Elysium.
The trailer discloses particulars about the important thing expertise shaping the challenge, and the studio introduced that Hopetown’s Kickstarter marketing campaign will launch on March 17, with a pre-launch web page that includes a restricted set of early-backer rewards stay now.
Longdue can reveal that Lenval Brown, the unmistakable voice of Disco Elysium’s narrator, whose distinctive timbre and gravitas are immediately recognizable to these within the know, will likely be carefully concerned within the challenge and voice a key character within the sport, as teased within the newest trailer for Hopetown.
“It feels good to be back—to step into something new,” stated Brown, in a press release. “There’s nothing like bringing a world to life, shaping a story that’s been waiting to be spoken into existence.”
Brown is joined by Piotr Sobolewski, whose pivotal overseeing a group of 15 that labored on Disco Elysium was instrumental in shaping the sport’s signature mad, gnarly power into one thing clean, cohesive, and deeply immersive, Longdue stated.
Martin Luiga, founding member of the ZA/UM Cultural Affiliation and author of the primary brief story within the Disco Elysium universe and author of seven characters in Disco Elysium, has additionally joined the Longdue group.
“I am pleased to share my experiences with Longdue to help them craft the narrative and systems for Hopetown, playing to the strengths that the narrative RPG genre has achieved thus far and attempting to innovate upon them to tell a rich story based in equal parts on what has been, what is and what could be,” stated Luiga, in a press release. “I am confident that the team can deliver a worthy addition to the canon of Western RPGs. I call upon the fans of the RPG and adventure genre to back the Hopetown Kickstarter to help us make the game.”
Alongside them, a rising roster of artistic expertise from Disco Elysium and past is bringing Hopetown to life, with group members to be revealed quickly, with a complete of 9 people that labored on Disco Elysium having contributed to Hopetown to date.
“At Longdue, we’ve built—and continue to build—a team with real horsepower: Disco Elysium contributors, triple-A stalwarts, indie artisans—all champing at the bit to unleash their talents,” stated Riaz Moola, CEO of CoGrammar & HyperionDev – an internet tech bootcamp firm that supported the formation of Longdue.
Moola’s firm is partnering with Longdue to offer a variety of full scholarships on a online game growth course that can result in a variety of internships at Longdue. The internships will likely be for aspiring indie builders.
The studio is worked up to share extra about Hopetown when its Kickstarter launches on March 17, together with deeper insights into the group behind the sport, its psychogeographic and journalism mechanics, the mining city setting, and extra
What Is Hopetown?
In Hopetown, phrases are your deadliest weapon, and each selection leaves its mark. Set in a mining city caught between decay and transformation, formed by ambition, exploitation, and the delicate methods that bind society collectively, you step into the position of a rogue journalist—a chaotic, self-destructive provocateur who sees humanity as inherently egocentric and merciless. Unapologetically cynical and dangerously unhinged, you thrive on poking at bruises, pulling at free threads, and watching what unravels.
A City of Contrasts
The city itself is an area of extremes. The suffocating darkness of the mine’s depths mirrors the buried truths of its inhabitants, whereas the floor world—glittering with the promise of progress—is steeped in corruption and energy performs. It’s a spot the place survival is determined by who controls the story, and the place each resolution ripples outward, reshaping not simply the world, however your self.
Constructing on the legacies of Disco Elysium and Planescape: Torment, Hopetown introduces methods that creatively discover participant company. The psychogeography system is pivotal in how gamers work together with the sport world: feelings, reminiscences, and conversations change conventional mechanics like keys and levers, changing into the instruments that unlock doorways, alter landscapes, and reshape relationships. Progress isn’t nearly fixing puzzles or discovering objects—it’s about navigating the protagonist’s fractured psyche and the ripples it creates within the setting.
In the meantime, a brand new journalism-based RPG system provides you the instruments to craft tales that form the world—and your self. Will you embrace chaos as a gonzo journalist, spinning wild, attention-grabbing narratives? Will you twist actuality as a conspiracist, bending occasions to fit your worldview? Or will you dig deep as a calculated investigator, exposing brutal truths to spark insurrection—or sow complacency?
A Crucible of Selections
The mining city is greater than a setting—it’s a crucible. What truths will you reveal? What lies will you inform? Will your phrases encourage hope or destruction? Will you reshape the methods of energy, or will they devour you?
This can be a sport the place the whole lot transforms the whole lot else. Each phrase you select issues. Each resolution carries weight. And each story you inform adjustments the world—and the delicate methods that maintain it collectively.
Why Again Hopetown?
Backing Hopetown isn’t nearly funding—it’s about constructing a group, backing a imaginative and prescient and casting a vote, Longdue stated. Longdue is an unbiased studio daring to create the sorts of video games greater studios received’t or can’t make—video games that problem their gamers and let gamers problem the video games again. With Hopetown, Longdue is constructing a motion for Disco-Like narrative-driven RPGs that don’t draw back from complexity, emotion, or ambition.
You possibly can register to be notified when the Hopetown Kickstarter goes stay on the pre-launch web page now and get entangled within the Hopetown group on Discord.
