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sardanapal

I stumbled onto a Kickstarter campaign for a game that seems to be a good mix between RTS, TBS, and classic God games. They describe it as a "next generation Planet Management God - Game".

They have a decent pricing model - $15 will get you a DRM free copy of the game and Steam beta access, but there's the usual extravagant $10k tiers as well.

Kickstarter

Greenlight

I'm not affiliated with the devs in any way, I just think this looks promising.

9 years ago*

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kecal909

bump :)

9 years ago
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zathorinan

that looks fucking amazeballs

9 years ago
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ComfortingCold

Be warned i saw this game 2 years ago, same artwork, same everything, it vanished 8-9 month ago and has now re-appeared exactly the same.

Maybe just different phases but im not sure.

9 years ago
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sardanapal

Sure you're not thinking about Planetary Annihilation or Planets3? Perhaps you're right, but I hadn't seen it before now.

9 years ago
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ComfortingCold

Nope its the same game, I have it marked down as i wanted to buy it but it never went anywere.

But it does seem like they are re-igniting it, maybe development had a small hiatus.

9 years ago
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aforce273

I'm glad I'm not the only one slightly suspicious of this game, even though it looks amazing and I want to fund it. To be fair though, I can be very cynical sometimes. However, it hasn't changed much since the concept page and they don't have anything to show (gameplay?) that they've been working on it. Shouldn't it still be a concept then and not an actual game on Greenlight. Furthermore, they initially did not describe their team and even when asked, their comment is very general. I'd also like to confirm that they promise Steam keys to backers if they get Greenlit.

9 years ago
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CombatWars

They didn't confirm it. That thread is just conjecture by two average users about whether they might or might not provide steam keys.

9 years ago
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aforce273

Right. I know they didn't confirm it. I created that threading asking them to confirm or deny that they'll hand out Steam keys. No response yet...

9 years ago
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sardanapal

Well, they do have a "Games Crew" section in the KS page listing 15 devs and 20 contributors. Anyway, looks like it's progressing decently, with $85k pledged and 25 days to go.

We'll see how it goes.

9 years ago
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aforce273

Ah, missed the crew section before. Still, a short bio on each would be nice.

9 years ago
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Air73

For around 1 year, there was a greenlight "concept" page, they changed the project page for a "game" page with the launch of the KS campaign, this may be where you saw this game a long time ago ?

Edit: My bad, not around 1 year, but 7-8 months concept page, thanks google for saving the whole internet in your servers

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sviat

This game looks very good too:

Planets³

Greenlight

This is one of the games that you honestly vote on greenlight.

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CombatWars

Graphics looks amazingly like Planetary Annihilation...

9 years ago
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sardanapal

I guess there's only so many ways to design a faux planet for a game with multiple heavenly bodies. :)

Anyway, I've already got Planetary Annihilation wishlisted, so something that looks similar but plays differently is good in my book.

9 years ago
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aforce273

Man, the other Kickstarter game that they are cross promoting looks pretty good too:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1829438086/popup-dungeon

9 years ago
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sardanapal

Hey, you're right. I'd missed that. Seems it's already been greenlit, let's hope it makes it on KS too.

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