My most likely project is actually probably something a little bit more Strife-speed. We don’t have nearly enough magepunk shooters-- I think the only ones that immediately come to mind for me are Strife, Amid Evil, and Paladins-- and Strife stands alone as the pseudo-open world, almost-an-rpg entry in the genre. Mileage varies on Shady Knight, but I don’t think that’s even out of early access yet. I consider a super-untapped niche, and there’s a whole lot of stuff that could be done with it. I’m liking the energy of “bald-faced satirization of Amerika’s carceral policy, (you get convicted by a rigged jury of pigmen, and immediately sent to a prison mine) but in a magepunk setting where an escaped convict goes medieval John Brown on agents of the Crown.”
It’s sure to piss off the kyles because they’ve been basically conditioned to never expect Black people in fantasy settings. Wait til I make them play as a cop-killing escaped slave who leads a prison rebellion, and they only find out they were playing as a Black man via an end-game text dump where he takes off the helmet that he stole off the first mook that he incapacitated to make good on his escape.
Hahahaha that sounds awesome, I’d definitely play it. I mean also, Wizards are very in on the Gen Z zeitgeist. Could tap into that niche too. Add a ‘pondering my orb’ or ‘shadow wizard money gang’ reference and it’s easy tiktok bait.
Oh, I’d have to make ALL the wizardposting jokes; especially given no one else in the field really is that I’ve seen thus far. (I wouldn’t put it past Amid Evil’s dev, if another expansion to that is coming.)
My most likely project is actually probably something a little bit more Strife-speed. We don’t have nearly enough magepunk shooters-- I think the only ones that immediately come to mind for me are Strife, Amid Evil, and Paladins-- and Strife stands alone as the pseudo-open world, almost-an-rpg entry in the genre. Mileage varies on Shady Knight, but I don’t think that’s even out of early access yet. I consider a super-untapped niche, and there’s a whole lot of stuff that could be done with it. I’m liking the energy of “bald-faced satirization of Amerika’s carceral policy, (you get convicted by a rigged jury of pigmen, and immediately sent to a prison mine) but in a magepunk setting where an escaped convict goes medieval John Brown on agents of the Crown.”
It’s sure to piss off the kyles because they’ve been basically conditioned to never expect Black people in fantasy settings. Wait til I make them play as a cop-killing escaped slave who leads a prison rebellion, and they only find out they were playing as a Black man via an end-game text dump where he takes off the helmet that he stole off the first mook that he incapacitated to make good on his escape.
Hahahaha that sounds awesome, I’d definitely play it. I mean also, Wizards are very in on the Gen Z zeitgeist. Could tap into that niche too. Add a ‘pondering my orb’ or ‘shadow wizard money gang’ reference and it’s easy tiktok bait.
Oh, I’d have to make ALL the wizardposting jokes; especially given no one else in the field really is that I’ve seen thus far. (I wouldn’t put it past Amid Evil’s dev, if another expansion to that is coming.)