As the studio did with The Messenger, the goal with Sea of Stars is to add modern elements to a classic genre. “The RPG is the best way to tell that story,” says Boulanger. Sea of Stars, meanwhile, is meant to be something grander, a journey with multiple characters exploring a larger world. For The Messenger, which follows a lone messenger delivering a scroll across an island, it made sense for a solitary, side-scrolling platform game. “We need to hear the response that people want to play this.”Īccording to Boulanger, each title started with a story, and the genre followed. Despite the shared universe, they’re each meant to be standalone experiences.
The games are set so far apart that the stories aren’t directly connected instead, you’ll see references to events and locations that are common in each title. Here’s the basic setup, according to Sabotage: “It tells the story of two ‘children of the solstice’ who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform ‘eclipse magic,’ the only force capable of fighting off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as ‘the fleshmancer.’” If that doesn’t make much sense, even if you’ve played The Messenger, that’s kind of by design. Sea of Stars takes place thousands of years before the events of The Messenger, so it serves as a prequel of sorts. “That’s why it’s so tied to all of the games that stuck with me.” “For me it’s been building since I was in elementary school,” says creative director Thierry Boulanger. Despite looking vastly different, Sabotage’s two games actually take place in the same shared universe. But Sea of Stars also represents a much bigger idea. It looks like something you’d play on the SNES, though Sabotage is trying to smooth down some of the rough edges. Like its predecessor, Sea of Stars takes a classic genre - in this case, turn-based roleplaying games - and reimagines it for modern audiences.
Developers Gun Media previously worked on Breach & Clear.įriday the 13th is wanting $700,000 USD to get itself made.Today, Sabotage, the studio behind the 2018 retro-platformer The Messenger, is announcing its next project via Kickstarter. It does have a few pre-alpha screenshots dotted around, and a text summary of how the central multiplayer mechanic will work at least. There isn’t, however, much in the way of gameplay footage just yet. The pitch video and Kickstarter summary are packed with people who were involved with the original film (director Sean Cunningham, makeup effects supremo Tom Savini), and people like actor Kane Hodder who played Jason in later movies. One lucky fellow will be controlling Jason, while the other seven will be Summer Camp dwellers trying to make it through the night and see another dawn.
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Whether the TV series is still in production, I don’t know (based on a bunch of August news stories, it seems to be) – but the Friday the 13th game has re-emerged today as a Kickstarter.Īs when it was tentatively teased, Friday the 13th wants to be a third-person, 1-vs-7 asymmetrical multiplayer title.
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Rather than being an update of the incredibly awful ZX Spectrum game (shame), this title was intended to coincide with a CW-produced TV series revisiting the murderous antics of Jason Vorhees. Those of you with a memory for horror series tie-in titles might remember a news story from earlier in the year, suggesting that a new Friday the 13th game was in development.
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