arcadian atlas tactical rp inspired by classics kickstarter

#Arcadian atlas tactical rp inspired by classics kickstarter mod#

If you want to get a feel for how at least one of the team feels about making the game, Gameranx recently interviewed Becca Bair about the game and the Kickstarter campaign. There are stretch goals for the game for expanding the story and adding Private Actions (similar to Fire Emblem's Support Conversations). The Kickstarter for Arcadian Atlas is at $39,234 with 23 days to go. It's great when indie games can provide fans of a genre that has been a bit under served in recent memory a new experience that takes inspiration from classics while also pushing the genre forward with new ideas. As of right now the team's release goal is February 2018. They have also provided a breakdown of where the Kickstarter funds will be used on the game. Quality assurance and balance testing will also be a big part of the process throughout all stages of development. They want to create a tactical RPG that will satisfy veterans of the genre, while also making sure the game is welcoming to players new to it. Also provided was a chart on how money will be allotted in general. The team put up a detailed Risks & Challenges section (unlike many Kickstarters) where they talk about how the team will need to stick to timelines, manage their resources, and try to anticipate potential problems that might come up during development as best they can. The terrain also plays a big role in combat, because it can provide cover from enemy attacks, create barriers between you and your enemies so your units can attack without the enemy being able to retaliate. In the case of the Ranger class you can specialize in Bows which provide better mobility, or Crossbows for more powerful attacks. Not only will classes have branching skill trees for abilities, but also for weapons as well. The advanced classes provide big changes to the units appearance, skills, and strategies for victory.

In addition to the base classes they all have two advanced class options after you reach a certain level of the base class.

So far five classes have been revealed: Ranger, Apothecary, Rogue, Warmancer, and the recently revealed Druid. If you're unfamiliar with Final Fantasy Tactics style combat, think Fire Emblem, but instead of going into a 3D animation of two units fighting you stay on the battlefield and watch the units use whatever skill, item, or attack that was chosen. From what has been revealed so far the game features a varied cast of characters, including a talking raccoon, for players to get to know and command on the battlefield. The game features a story in an unstable country on the brink of collapse and chaos with the two main protagonists, both soldiers in the Royal Guard, trying to hold on to their love through that adversity. And if the Bairs’ plan for the class system-a combination of FFT’s jobs and branching skill trees of their own design that force you to specialize-is as addictive as their strategy RPG inspirations, I expect to be playing a hell of a lot of it.Arcadian Atlas is very much inspired, gameplay-wise, by Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre, so fans of those games or tactical RPGs, in general, should give the game a look to get their fix. Arcadian Atlas may draw just as heavily from isometric games like Tactics Ogre, but if it’s a success, it’ll show how far RPG Maker has come as a game development tool. It’s already user-friendly enough to allow for designing maps without the need for complex programming.Įven well-received RPG Maker games like To the Moon and Skyborn ultimately look very much like the top-down 2D Super Nintendo games that inspired them.

#Arcadian atlas tactical rp inspired by classics kickstarter mod#

Photoshop is better for color and contrast tweaking and the finishing touches for sprite work.”Īrcadian Atlas’s programmer has already built an engine for creating the isometric battle maps they’ll use in the game, which Bair pointed to as a possible avenue for future mod support. Their animation features really lend themselves to that, and the layers that they offer. I like that program specifically for spriting. For the sprite sheet it will just do a frame-by-frame breakdown and you can import that directly into RPG Maker. “It can export directly into a sprite sheet or as an animated gif,” Bair said. A work-in-progress sprite sheet tweeted by Becca Bair.īair draws and paints in Photoshop and does sprite animation in Pyxel, a young, still-in-development tool built for pixel art.