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[ndkid]

I just found a new Kickstarter that intrigued me, and seemed like it might intrigue other people here.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1599677835/unwritten-that-which-happened/comments

From the Kickstarter page:
"In Unwritten the player creates and guides a nomadic clan on a one-way journey across a dangerous wilderness. It is a turn based strategy game with maps, story elements, units, abilities, and enemies that are all randomly generated. Along the way decisions (and death) are permanent, and each play session is unique.

Within the team we often call it "Sid Meier's Civilization meets Oregon Trail". It could also be called a "strategy rogue-like" since each area map feels a bit like a "dungeon" in the classic role playing game Rogue. However, in Unwritten you're controlling many units at once that share global resources like food and money.

- Delve into a turn based strategy game with meaningful, permanent decisions
- Play as successive generations of a nomadic clan, passing stories and legends down through the ages
- Experience infinite novelty through randomly generated maps, units, abilities, and enemies
- Make decisions that become a part of your personal "story", affecting your ability to barter and ally with rival clans
- Make the trek to "God Mountain", a place of final judgement and potential glory
- Experience a rich, exotic world inspired by international traditions of story-telling
- Make your own game modules using the same tools the developer used to make the game"

[nenjin]

Sounds neat. Definitely seems like it's borrowing a lot of themes from King of Dragon Pass as well. Not wild about what looks like the in-game art aesthetic, but that seems to be the norm lately for me when it comes to Kickstarters. $75,000 would seem to be right in that middle space between asking too much for an unknown project/idea...and asking too little.

The don't have a big portfolio of past work to brag about, but at least they have some industry experience.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Roxlou Games was founded by Joe Houston, a professional game developer for the past 8 years. He most recently was one of the original core team members of Dishonored, the VGA's best Action Adventure game of 2012 and game of the year by many other publications.

Joe is joined by industry newcomers Lee VanWallene (longtime artist) and Julian Culme-Seymour (trained musician), who bring an untainted perspective and enthusiasm to the project. It's this combination of experience, vision, and learning that makes Roxlou Games, and thus Unwritten, possible.

Looking forward to it. I may back when there's a little bit more known about the project.

[GalenEvil]

I like the Hex-grid environment they are using for map-making. It should lead to some interesting random maps. I will follow this one since it looks pretty good as far as art style and concept

[Levi]

This sounds right up my alley.  I hope they manage to make their goal.

[kilakan]

well for about two-3 days in they have an okay amount of funding which is nice to see.  However the art style just looks horrific for me, especially the whole them trying to make everything look like paper cut-outs... definite no for me there.

[Levi]

Ha ha, I kind of like the paper-cutout style.  Although the terrain looks a little depressing with all that brown.

[Scoops Novel]

Anyone know much about the developer aside from dishonored? On the king of dragon pass note, they hadn't heard of it when they made the framework, but it was still pointed out to them and they "did draw inspiration, here and there". They appear to like that "They don't explain away things that might be culturally uncomfortably for gamers, they just put confidence in those ideas and let them ride.", so that could be interesting.

I hear they're mostly sticking to the tundra, of an The Never Ending Story variety. What exactly does that mean?

[ollobrains]

they need to add a few devblogs and a few ore videos on that kickstarter site, i got burnt on cult and a few other games that had a lack of information and lack of updates so a little shy

[lordcooper]

6 hours to go and it just ticked over the 100% mark.  Really looking forward to this one.

[Levi]

Ah nice!  I thought this one was going to fail.  Glad to be wrong. 

[Mephansteras]

Looks rather promising! Glad I caught it in time!