I have been engaged on Prometheus Wept for over 2.5 years at this level. Prometheus Wept is a celebration and motion level flip primarily based RPG set in a near-future, post-digital Earth, the place the vast majority of our digital expertise has been corrupted by a virus. The sport provides hardcore squad-level fight, significant selections, deep character development and a complicated crafting system and makes use of the code for Vigilantes as a place to begin.
Setting: Think about a close to future earth the place expertise has develop into more and more built-in with every day life. Think about the sudden corruption of all this expertise, in lower than a day, by a potent pc virus. A virus which impacts the whole lot from the good kettle in your house to communications programs, automated agriculture, manufacturing and the transport community. Think about the widespread lack of life, generations of chaos and battle, the lack of data, and the fragmentation of countries into insular metropolis states. The virus sweeps the earth quickly, corrupting all digital gadgets it encounters.
The occasions of Prometheus Wept happen some generations after the Occasion, in an odd, depopulated, low tech world the place human communities huddle within the ruins of the legendary mid twenty first century, cautious of previous world expertise and surrounded by chaos.
Not all digital expertise was destroyed by the virus. Easy gadgets skilled software program corruption and {hardware} failure. A small variety of extra advanced programs had been modified by means of their contact with the virus, gaining the potential to evolve. These first true AI are starting to emerge, leading to battle with close by human communities whom the AIs can’t perceive, nor be understood by.
Options: System infiltration: Switch your character’s consciousness into the treacherous atmosphere of a corrupted pc system, whereas allies defend you from bodily world threats. Make use of a variety of scripts (skills) to beat corrupted system safety, and commandeer bodily world programs like defenses and doorways from throughout the machine.
Social gathering and AP flip primarily based fight: Battle it out with quite a lot of melee, ranged and explosive weapons, with aimed and particular assaults, cowl, highly effective perk-based skills, assaults of alternative and extra. Destroy cowl to depart enemies uncovered, and exploit interactions between the primal forces of fireside, water and electrical energy to your benefit.
Deep character development: Select from a number of male/feminine character fashions, with adjustable pores and skin tone. Construct your crew utilizing the ADAPTER character system, which includes 7 stats, 17 expertise and an enormous number of perks. Meet and ally with distinctive people, every with a singular set of perks.
Deep Crafting System: Create a big number of weapons, armour, explosives, devices, fight stims and medical provides, at a number of high quality ranges primarily based on talent, element high quality and the blueprints you possess.
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This growth log covers the work on Prometheus Wept for January 2022. The work consists of the addition of additional goal to behave 1 mission 1, the addition of act 1 mission 2, and the re-introduction of atmosphere weapons, and a revision to the lethality system.
Hey Armourman. Yeah, it is one thing of a inform story There’s a mixture of put up apocalyptic and cyberpunk – the principle character is certainly one of a handful of individuals with in implant which permits them to inject their consciousness into corrupted pc programs to retrieve helpful previous world information.
Here is the Feb-Mar dev log for Prometheus Wept, a darkish, flip primarily based RPG set on a close to future, put up digital earth.
This dev log covers the addition of act 1 mission 3, the place you need to negotiate a meals cargo to ease the meals disaster in Sunny Pines.To cut back the value of the cargo, you possibly can enhance your relationship with Jim Rawlston, the proprietor of the farm. One of many methods to do that is to go after the wolves closing in on his farm. Should you decide to do that, you may be joined by Purple, a farmhand who has been doing his finest to maintain the wolves at bay.
Key Adjustments:
Act 1 Mission 3 is full.
Act 1 Mission 4 is designed in depth, with an preliminary draft of the writing
Wolves have been enhanced with traits, and alpha wolves have a singular, activated talent
Non permanent allies can now be killed and completely faraway from the sport
Added a relationship system
Created remaining variations of Sunny Pines Militia and Insurgent character fashions
Improved the code for saving characters & managing conversations
Hey mobilelast – glad you prefer it. The virus jogged my memory of a black gap, which consumes all digital expertise and prevents something (together with information) from escaping. Folks knew that the world was going darkish, however they did not know what was the reason for it.
Beneath you will see the dev log for April 2022. I’ve made good progress on act 1 mission 4, the place you need to find the lacking Dr Kriesler by discovering proof, questioning folks and looking for him. It is a large mission, which spans a number of areas and introduces two new outlaw gangs.
Certainly one of these gangs is the Blue Display screen of Loss of life Tribe. They consider the virus that worn out all digital expertise within the mid twenty first century was a divine manifestation, which sought to free humanity from the shackles of expertise.
The way you deal with act 1 mission 4 has quite a few penalties. Whether or not or not you possibly can find Kriesler could have repercussions. Additionally, you will have to decide on which of two factions to assist, which is able to in flip determine which of two potential allies will be part of your get together.
Key Factors:
– 2 out of three maps required for this mission are full – 4 out of 10 character fashions have been created, optimised and made sport prepared – Began second draft of writing – Added 2 new outlaw gangs – Spent a good bit of time on unavoidable firm admin work :/ – The corporate admin work is completed now
Thanks for studying / watching and you probably have any questions or feedback, please let me know!
Good, it looks as if you make good progress! I am wanting ahead to check out Prometheus Wept, do you propose to have a demo in some unspecified time in the future?
Hello Alain. Thanks for asking and sorry about not getting again to you. I am not getting notifications on right here. There’s a demo right here, which I am presently engaged on updating. Plan to launch the brand new demo within the Steam Subsequent Pageant in Feb.
I hope you are having a superb day. It is taken longer than I would hoped, however Act 1, Mission 4 of Prometheus Wept is full. Here is the event video, and you will find extra info beneath:
Act 1 Mission 4: In Act 1 Mission4, you’re charged with finding Dr. Kreisler, who has gone lacking underneath uncommon circumstances. You start by visiting a number of areas in Sunny Pines, together with Kriesler’s home, to seek for clues.
As soon as you have narrowed down the search space with clues, you get various search makes an attempt to find the lacking physician. Alongside the way in which, you may encounter various uncommon gangs, who’ve fashioned because of weird misunderstandings concerning the pre-virus world.
Should you managed to seek out sufficient proof, you’ll find Kriesler. If not, Sunny Pines should do with out him. Both method, you’ll encounter an traditional entity with large plans for Sunny Pines, who will both be part of your get together or function the first antagonist of act 1, relying in your selections. Launch Schedule: The intention is to launch an up to date demo for Kickstarter backers within the coming months, to take part within the Steam Subsequent Pageant in February, and to launch on early entry in Q1/2 2023.
Work on Illustrations: The entire 40+ character illustrations have been improved, as have some dozens of the merchandise illustrations.
World Map: Code to implement the world map has been added, as has a provisional map for act 1.
That is all for now – sorry this replace was delayed – I recognize your persistence and can test in once more subsequent month As all the time, suggestions is welcome!
I’ve simply accomplished the work for the present replace. The main focus has been on content material, wrapping up the crafting system and including shopkeepers. Be happy to take a look at the video / textual content information on the replace, and do let me know you probably have any suggestions or feedback.
Eight weapons, round 30 crafting recipes and 15 perks have been added to the sport, which kind of completes the content material required for the up to date demo.
My final sport, Vigilantes had weapon tiers, and every new tier largely rendered the earlier tier out of date, or at the very least sub-optimal. This resulted in there being a handful of optimum weapon selections at any time. For Prometheus Wept, I am aiming to make practically all weapons viable for your entire sport, and for weapons to have distinctive traits to distinguish them from each other.
The cleaver gives better bleeding injury, and extra injury in opposition to animals.
Baseball bats do excessive injury, and extra injury when targetting an enemy’s head.
A scattering of perks have been added to the sport, and the perk UI has been up to date. The place attainable, I’ve made perks extra deterministic, so for instance, fairly than a 20% probability of a free assault, each sixth assault prices no motion factors.
Techniques: Shopkeepers & Crafting Should you performed Vigilantes, you might bear in mind that there is a single, off-map shopkeeper within the sport. Prometheus Wept requires a number of on-map shopkeepers, so I’ve added code to assist this, to begin the commerce interplay, together with saving, loading and managing shopkeeper inventories. In Vigilantes, there have been separate purchase and promote screens for the store and merged the previous purchase/promote interface right into a single display screen.
I’ve additionally labored on crafting system, enhancing the show of knowledge and including the flexibility to improve weapons and armour, after they’ve been crafted. Some structure and visible changes apart, this wraps up one of many extra advanced programs within the sport.
The primary elements of labor to be accomplished for an up to date demo are balancing and testing, which I am going to begin engaged on subsequent. I am going to hold you posted on progress, and you probably have any questions or suggestions, let me know!
I’ve simply accomplished the work for the present replace. The main focus has been on content material, wrapping up the crafting system and including shopkeepers. Be happy to take a look at the video / textual content information on the replace, and do let me know you probably have any suggestions or feedback.
Eight weapons, round 30 crafting recipes and 15 perks have been added to the sport, which kind of completes the content material required for the up to date demo.
My final sport, Vigilantes had weapon tiers, and every new tier largely rendered the earlier tier out of date, or at the very least sub-optimal. This resulted in there being a handful of optimum weapon selections at any time. For Prometheus Wept, I am aiming to make practically all weapons viable for your entire sport, and for weapons to have distinctive traits to distinguish them from each other.
The cleaver gives better bleeding injury, and extra injury in opposition to animals.
Baseball bats do excessive injury, and extra injury when targetting an enemy’s head.
A scattering of perks have been added to the sport, and the perk UI has been up to date. The place attainable, I’ve made perks extra deterministic, so for instance, fairly than a 20% probability of a free assault, each sixth assault prices no motion factors.
Techniques: Shopkeepers & Crafting Should you performed Vigilantes, you might bear in mind that there is a single, off-map shopkeeper within the sport. Prometheus Wept requires a number of on-map shopkeepers, so I’ve added code to assist this, to begin the commerce interplay, together with saving, loading and managing shopkeeper inventories. In Vigilantes, there have been separate purchase and promote screens for the store and merged the previous purchase/promote interface right into a single display screen.
I’ve additionally labored on crafting system, enhancing the show of knowledge and including the flexibility to improve weapons and armour, after they’ve been crafted. Some structure and visible changes apart, this wraps up one of many extra advanced programs within the sport.
The primary elements of labor to be accomplished for an up to date demo are balancing and testing, which I am going to begin engaged on subsequent. I am going to hold you posted on progress, and you probably have any questions or suggestions, let me know!
Hey, I like the idea of “haunted” expertise and issues coping with non-human intelligence. The narrative side of your sport may use some extra consideration to be able to make the setting come by means of. I might love to provide it a go in case you’re !
Hello Wet Gray – thanks for the type phrases! On the minute, I’ll hold engaged on the story solo, but when that modifications, I am going to make sure to attain out!
Excellent news! A provisional launch of an up to date home windows demo is on Indie DB, will likely be accessible on Steam within the coming days, and can take part within the Steam Subsequent Pageant subsequent week. Mac and Linux variations will likely be accessible within the close to future. Here is a dev log overlaying the demo, which you may additionally discover in written type beneath.
Are you able to assist with suggestions? In case you have time to strive it out, I would actually like to listen to what you assume. You are welcome to achieve out any method, on Kickstarter, Steam, the boards, or e-mail. With growth getting into the section of public releases, I’ll get the Timeslip Softworks boards going once more, please take into account signing up in case you’re thinking about serving to with suggestions and testing. Simply bear in mind to drop me a message with the e-mail you signed up with, as I must manually activate the accounts to cease bots flooding into the boards.
The map of act 1.
The disappearances of the militia and the sudden migration to Sunny Pines. All of the proof factors to this particular person. Be they pal or foe?
In regards to the Demo: The demo showcases round 50% of the primary act. It is near function full, with the notable exception of breaking down weapons into parts. Content material sensible, the principle questline is pretty polished, however there’s not a lot to do outdoors that but. You possibly can anticipate the addition of smaller encounters and conversations to develop the world and the characters in later releases.
The participant crew, kitted out with self crafted physique armour and helmets.
There is a scattering of weapons, gadgets, crafting choices and perks. There will likely be many extra within the remaining sport. I’ve accomplished a number of balancing passes and fight needs to be manageable on regular problem. Crafting and dialogue checks are much less tuned, but when there’s time earlier than the Steam Pageant, I am going to have one other have a look at these. I am additionally within the strategy of negotiating extra music for the sport to enhance the musical selection.
There have been a few issues I did not get to, notably enhancing automated digicam management, and a few usability enhancements, however it might be too excessive threat to attempt to cope with these now.
I hope you are doing nicely! I’ve lastly wrapped up “Whispers of the Outdated World” wherein you examine a mysterious previous world bunker, and run afoul of its guardian, Hec8. Here is a quick growth video overlaying latest work on the sport, and extra info may be discovered beneath.
The Mission: Whispers of the Outdated World is a extra story centered mission, with various routes by means of a hostile atmosphere managed by a deranged synthetic intelligence. As such, there is a ton of scripted occasions, and a boss combat which may be approached in various methods. These two elements accounted for almost all of the time spent engaged on the sport. The Boss: To defeat Hec8, you possibly can both face it solo in our on-line world, whereas your allies defend you within the bodily world, or overcome the automated safety, and destroy the servers on which it resides. You may also go for a simultaneous assault on each fronts. The battles on the our on-line world and bodily layers are interconnected, so in case you destroy a server, it impacts Hec8 and any automated safety, whereas injury to Hec8 debuffs automated safety.
I wished to keep away from the boss battle being decided by the character with the best stats, so Hec8 goes by means of various phases of assault, utilising particular skills which may be countered with your personal our on-line world scripts.
Script Lab: To make this work, I added an interface, very like the crafting display screen, which lets you create and improve our on-line world skills utilizing the software program engineering talent. The file dimension of the scripts will increase as you develop higher variations of them, and the variety of scripts you possibly can load is decided by the quantity of RAM in your information warfare suite.
Fight Drones: Fight Drones have been added to complement the static defenses offered by sentry weapons. These are onerous hitting models, which hover, and are thus unaffected by any tile impacts, akin to fireplace.
What’s Subsequent? I am presently engaged on the meals convoy mission. That is the primary mission which may be performed from two sides, that’s, supporting both the rebels or the militia. It is more likely to take longer than a daily missions nevertheless it’s unlikely to be as time consuming as Whispers of the Outdated World.
As all the time, please be happy to ask any questions, or share your ideas on the sport. Have a superb day!
I’ve wrapped up the insurgent aspect of the meals convoy mission. Right here, you’ll ambush and try to seize a meals convoy destined for Sunny Pines. Beneath, you may discover the dev log in video and textual content format.
The Mission: This situation is comprised of three battles. Within the first, assisted by rebels, you need to halt the convoy and incapacitate as many guards as attainable earlier than it flees the map. You possibly can perform quite a lot of useful actions, akin to chopping down a tree onto the convoy’s path to occupy a number of the guards in clearing it, or making caltrops to gradual the truck. Any guards not incapacitated will be part of the defenders of the following encounter.
Utilizing Time Models to cut down a tree within the convoy’s path will power a number of the escorts to give attention to clearing it, fairly than on you.
The second battle duties you with assaulting an entrenched enemy on the militia outpost the convoy has retreated to. You may be joined by Gordina, the woke up, previous world postal robotic, who’s a talented tactician and really sturdy, however can’t be repaired in fight. The defenders have destroyed the bridge and your choices will embody looking for traps, constructing pontoon bridges to de-risk the river crossing, and sneaking some troops throughout the river mattress.
Having an woke up previous world postal robotic in your aspect is not going to harm!
The militia have extra firearms, however you may have entry to an off-map smoke launcher, which may deploy smoke without charge, as soon as per flip. After defeating the militia, your departure will likely be interrupted by a remaining assault, the place you’ll lose the convoy if defeated. Failing to seize the convoy, or dropping it’ll have a considerable influence on the act finale.
You’ve various choices at your disposal to crack the militia outpost’s defenses!
[size=14t]Additions:[/size] From the beginning, I’ve operated on the assumption that gameplay selection is one option to elevate the sport expertise. To facilitate continuous gameplay variation, minor and main, various new options have been added.
The convoy kind mission, which may be performed as escort and ambusher is essentially the most vital addition. These missions seem often by means of the sport, and can play a major function in act 2. Adjustments to AI behaviour had been required for pc managed characters to steadiness sustaining a distance to the convoy and attacking.
The convoy’s militia are significantly better geared up than your insurgent troops
Time Models, a useful resource which lets you manipulate the battlefield in your favour had been additionally launched. This facilitates a sequence of selections, fairly than a single alternative, being made to form the upcoming fight, and vastly improves tactical depth. Among the selections accessible within the convoy missions embody blocking the convoy with an obstruction, destroying bridges, creating them, putting sandbags, putting traps and detecting them.
There at the moment are two methods to deploy your troops previous to fight. When you may have map management, dialogue choices might help you transfer your characters X variety of tiles earlier than fight begins. In circumstances the place you lack map management, or are getting ready an ambush, you need to use expertise to unlock new tiles to deploy to – for instance, through the use of lockpicking to realize entry to a constructing, you possibly can open up extra advantageous deployment slots to your troops.
These latest additions all contribute to a deeper bag of methods I can use to enhance gameplay selection. It is a time consuming method… hopefully the outcomes will benefit the hassle
That is it for this dev log. I’ll begin engaged on the finale for act 1, and worldbuilding, and can test in once more within the close to future. Thanks for studying/watching, and you probably have any questions or feedback, do let me know!
I hope you are doing nicely! Work is nicely underway for the finale of act 1, wherein you need to aspect with Sunny Pine’s Militia, or the rebels, to find out the way forward for Sunny Pines. Earlier than the preventing begins, you possibly can improve your faction with recruitment, crafting or buying higher gear, acts of sabotage and extra. If you would like to be among the many first to check out Prometheus Wept, you possibly can wishlist it on Steam.
New Map Added: Homestead Heights I’ve added the final of the 5 districts of Sunny Pines, Homestead Heights. That is the seat of producing in Sunny Pines. It homes many of the employee inhabitants and the Shaded Pine, the native pub. It is somewhat depopulated in the mean time, however you will get the concept.
Improvement will decelerate, however not cease over Christmas, and I am going to test in once more across the finish of January. On that be aware, I would wish to want you a pleasant time over the Christmas vacation
