Brethren on 23/7/2013 at 16:39
There's some talk about this over in GenGaming, but just thought I'd mention a game called Tangiers to everyone here. It's currently looking for funding through Kickstarter, and it's a stealth game heavy inspired by Thief. Here's a couple of blurbs from the Kickstarter page:
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Tangiers is a blend of stealth and exploration for Windows, Mac and Linux built within the Unity engine.
Using the sandbox stealth of Looking Glass Studio's Thief series as the base of Tangiers, we're looking to build a world inspired by, embodying and adapting the alternative avant-garde of the 20th century.
Writers such as Burroughs and Ballard, artists within the Dada movement and the music and textures of Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and David Lynch all drive us. They are our motivations - often oblique, sometimes in open reference.
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You play an outsider to the world, an entity with a singular, enigmatic goal - to find and dispose of five other beings. Your arrival here has fractured the world; the city that these other beings resided in is now broken into shards across a broken, bleak landscape.
You must infiltrate these cities, searching to discover your marks - investigating both precisely who, and where.
Keeping to the shadows is to be encouraged - reality here is a fragile place. Your interactions with the world cause it to fall apart. In homage to Burrough's cut-up technique, the world collapses and rebuilds itself the more you interact with it - future areas rebuilt with the fragments and personality of places you mistreated. From this every play-through will, subtly or drastically, be unique to you.
Check it out here:
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1841885340/tangiers-surrealist-stealth)
Edit: And since we're at it, here's another Thief-inspired stealth title that's already been funded by Kickstarter, due out this fall, It's called "Sir, You Are Being Hunted," in case you haven't heard of it. What can I say, I get all excited when I see games with light gems (Tangiers has one too):
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1499900830/sir-you-are-being-hunted)
nickie on 23/7/2013 at 17:07
Thanks for the info. I hadn't seen the thread.
thiefinthedark on 29/7/2013 at 19:30
Good thing I did a search about this before making a thread. I am loving the aesthetic on display in this game, and it's only an alpha!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tErsrNgLkqg&feature=youtu.be) This video for example really highlights how very "thiefy" the atmosphere is, I thought he was making this in the Dark engine for a moment due to how similar the audio is.
Can't wait to see more. :D
Melan on 29/7/2013 at 19:44
The audio also reminded me very much of Thief, and I like where the game is going. It is an audacious project, but I want to believe in it, so I handed in my Ł20.
skacky on 29/7/2013 at 20:42
Same as Melan. This video alone looks a thousand times more promising than Thi4f.
qolelis on 30/7/2013 at 09:53
I can definitely see myself supporting this. I love seeing people who dare taking a risk by creating something out of the ordinary and I really feel like taking a risk myself by donating as much as I can spare. That and what everyone else have already said.
SLIEZER on 30/7/2013 at 10:14
I suppose those character models are just placeholders?
Red_Breast on 30/7/2013 at 11:08
I noticed a Linux version is planned. The last time I checked there was no Unity engine for Linux but apparently that's not true any more.
I think I might donate simply because of the following quoted from the Kickstarter page -
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By the by if you're confused about what I said about Unity I am not talking about Ubuntu Unity - they are two different things.
Starker on 30/7/2013 at 11:43
Quote Posted by SLIEZER
I suppose those character models are just placeholders?
Yes and no. As I understand it, they will be improved on, but the look/shape is intended.
