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Author Topic: Retro-Pixel Castles  (Read 8939 times)

miljan

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Retro-Pixel Castles
« on: September 26, 2014, 03:24:41 pm »

Retro-Pixel Castles is at heart a village simulator. But, where most village simulators focus mostly on balancing your village, RPC also throws in a heavy blend of raw survival and tactical gameplay. If you could imagine a roguelike village sim, that's what this game is all about! In RPC you will lose. Endless survival is impossible, the goal is to see how long you will survive. RPC takes it's inspiration from other village management games like Dwarf Fortress and Banished and mixes them together with elements of survival games like Don't Starve with a sprinkling of some RTS elements seen in games like Command and Conquer there are even some classic Tower Defense concepts to help you bottleneck and handle the onslaught of monsters trying to kill off your poor little villagers.

Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqqgIbaTXk&feature=youtu.be&a

Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1385547263/retro-pixel-castles-village-survival-mayhem/

Free demo:
http://retropixelcastles.com/index.php?/page/download.html

Looks interesting
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Re: Retro-Pixel Castles
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2014, 03:40:29 pm »

Looks very nice. downloading to see if it plays as it looks.
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Re: Retro-Pixel Castles
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2014, 03:45:05 pm »

So pretty.  I hope the kickstarter succeeds so I can profit for no risk off of other peoples investments.   :P  :P
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Re: Retro-Pixel Castles
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2014, 06:07:20 pm »

ptw
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Re: Retro-Pixel Castles
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2014, 09:52:11 pm »

It's fairly pretty and the AI seems to work alright. So far the communicative aspects are a little lacking. It can be difficult to tell where you need to go and what you need to do. That said, the game runs smoothly, and with some work, this indev can definitely head toward a really fun experience.
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« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2014, 02:14:01 pm »

The artstyle my god i LOVE it :D i feel like digging these old 90's game now!
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Re: Retro-Pixel Castles
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2014, 03:13:55 pm »

Anyone else is having problem launching it?
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Re: Retro-Pixel Castles
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2014, 03:22:16 pm »

I can imagine a roguelike village sim. It's called Dwarf Fortress :P
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Re: Retro-Pixel Castles
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2014, 03:36:51 pm »

A lot of great technical prowess.

Right now though, I am trying to decipher if this game has the gameplay chops to pull it off.

But the game SURE DOES like to keep its secrets to itself. I am sure they will reveal more gameplay aspects later...
« Last Edit: September 27, 2014, 04:09:50 pm by Neonivek »
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Re: Retro-Pixel Castles
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2014, 03:52:37 pm »

PTW
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« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2014, 04:06:09 pm »

hmmh

ptw
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« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2014, 05:33:32 pm »

I love the old school simcity looking graphics...backing at the lower tier...may bump it up later
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« Reply #12 on: September 27, 2014, 05:43:24 pm »

Anyone else is having problem launching it?

I had to update java because I couldn't find it in the "open with" thing(or I was simply blind when looking it up).
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« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2014, 06:55:47 pm »

Just wanted to say; Thanks for posting this. Your thread brought in a few backers on Kickstarter. ;)
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« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2014, 10:04:09 pm »

Backed.
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