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52 hours to go 4100 backer seems almost
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so welcome to Tuesday's dream we're in
the countdown into the last 48 hours
that starts in five hours so we are just
just about to cross the two-day
remaining barrier and that's really when
you get your opportunity on Kickstarter
to have a really strong close they let
everybody know that the projects ending
soon they've let everybody who wish
listed it or followed it or asked for a
reminder you know they all get a notice
notice that it's your last chance so you
never know what's gonna happen a
Kickstarter the last 48 hours and right
there we had a great day yesterday
having a good day so far today we're
hitting stretch goals every day so we
have a lot to be thankful for on the
campaign we are gonna get to make the
game I was really happy with with what
we were able to share in the update this
most recent one
well this one was good too I'm excited
about Valkyrie zero if we we hit that
stretch goal so quickly it felt like
that we we had so many other things that
we needed to do updates about never
really got an opportunity to talk about
it I think it's as big of an update for
the game as the matrix mk2
and I think there's a lot to be oh I'll
catch shout out made a gigantic
difference absolutely gigantic
difference like I can't even begin to
tell you it like is astounding what
their promotion was able to do to help
Tracy Brothers and I'm certain that the
traffic that we sent them in return was
a tiny freshen of what they sent to our
page so you know it is yeah we owe them
a huge thank you for that recommendation
and putting it in an update where it
didn't get buried it was a really short
and to the point update about a streamer
that they brought onboard and they
recommended that backers check out cyber
night so I'm sure that it generated you
know a great deal of the traffic that we
got yesterday
so we're working on a star traders
update it's got some nice stuff it's got
some new blades in it we could talk
about that really quick that'll be
coming out of this afternoon working out
we were working on that and the downtime
of Pax and we'll be able to get that out
if I move it over here we see it sweet
okay so yeah the outcome a shadow it
made a huge difference so new type of
primary blade weapon so we've added the
this new combatant type it's a sword
fighting job without evasion and we have
then unveiled another primary blade
weapon sort of go along complement this
and then also open up some additional
avenues for builds with other blade
skills so it's this isn't just for Blade
Dancer but it's suits Blade Dancer well
but it also gives a bunch of
opportunities to bodyguards assassins
sell it hybrids even characters with
offhand blades like pistol ears and the
natural blade draw so there's a lot of
cool stuff with what are called straight
blades so these will be we'll get some
more but this one adds the weapon type
adds the support for it and then we have
the two that are sold by contacts and
two high level relics that go with
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orbital salvage we got a suggestion from
dr. spend love on the forum that we
thought was really great and it well
suited to the rule set that we already
have so when a star port is closed that
rumors are for closers right you can't
get to your drydock you can't upgrade
your ships so forth when that rumor is
in effect you'll be hiring mechanics
priest level and we might look again at
this like other variations of that rule
to boost maybe engineers or mechanics
but right now it's just the spice all by
two levels so yeah there's a new type of
melee weapon called a straight blade
it relies on quickness in the equation
instead of strength but they're balanced
a little differently in the spreadsheet
okay so then I fix some bugs that were
reported on Steam thank you so much all
of our steam community members who take
such good care to report situations that
they run into even edge cases at this
point you know we're hunting down any
bug that we can find so in this case we
had if you build a very very extreme
ship that as a negative jump cost I
could generate fuel when you're hyper
warping so now the cost zeroes out you
can't generate fuel by going through the
high for work with 27 jump regulators or
whatever you can get it down to zero but
you hate it negative it there was an
issue where the brooding cheetah's 4
would generate way too many artifacts so
that was fixed so that sort of a
balancing thing he used the the thread
showed examples where he was getting it
to generate like 30 artifacts which is
way more than I supposed to so we fixed
the dice mechanic there to match what
the card says so the cards text hasn't
changed just the actual draw it now
reflects what it says on the card the
card said 4 to 10 and it used to give
you like it's like way more than that
more like 14 to 23 sometimes and then
sometimes if it decided to give you the
big number it would
run your bonuses on the like on that
instead of on the actual what it should
have given so it's fixed might have been
the most o P card the game now more
balanced to what it actually says still
gives you a huge potential especially
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given the fixes in three zero four five
but it's not quite it's no longer just
like a casino role that has nothing to
do with what's written on the card
what's written on the card is now
accurate retrain costs were slightly
increased and I balanced the situation
with custom difficulty that was pointed
out in the forum if you had custom
difficulty your reach rink cost was
basically basic so now it's pegged too
hard
I'll fix potentially try and come up
with a way to peg it to the economic
difficulty I couldn't find a quick
solution for it but I think setting it
to hard was sort of like the default in
the engine is better and then retrain
cost went up like five percent
across-the-board but again for basic it
didn't matter it doesn't matter and then
for our Linux players I added some
command-line support for minimum with a
minimum height of the window so if you
have resolution that we don't support or
an orientation that is awkward given the
options that we have you'll be able to
pass in the exact windows dimensions
that you've want it launched they do
this on Windows and we're adding it for
Linux because we've got some players
that ask for it so that'll be in there
this is 3.0 two four seven coming out
for Steam obviously Mac Windows Linux
and then Android miles as well
hey girly 4p welcome thank you very much
for joining us and for all your support
she's talking about steam forum bugs
that we've been fixing and trying to go
through stuff that we can fix and then
of course we found a bunch of typos
players found a bunch of typos we
working at those and we've recently got
the updated wiki I think that was 24
hours ago we got everything flushed out
the weekend we had a few problems on our
end giving the wiki all the stuff from
bladedancer and everything and I think
that this update once we get it deployed
will also take a little wiki push so
dude Casey was there at PAX I got to
shake his hand that was pretty cool that
was pretty cool I actually think he sat
down and played the game did you I
believe you you won you got somebody out
we took a few pictures item I think when
you came who was Sunday so Andrew had
already left and I wasn't able to take
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photos
okay didn't which one of your nice okay
that seems fair they're greedy intrude
maybe a little bit of a bully who didn't
make it out was he your your medical if
I'm or your Scout cot like I can't
remember how actually played quite a few
games and you know Andrew and I we
really put a lot of stock in player
feedback and player data so we ran quite
a few tests like we had people going
through there and playing the game from
like nine until noon so like three hours
a day for Thursday Friday Saturday and
Sunday so we got quite a few runs
through it
and we got to collect all of those saved
games and all the log files about what
the AI did where the player died how
many turns blah blah blah so we have
like a hundred and sixty-eight I think
games and Dude Casey I think you played
at least one of them
okay
you should have just started yelling at
them about how they should back summer
nights and then not press the volume up
key on my keyboard to increase the
volume of the soundtrack because we were
playing the soundtrack we got a really
good feedback on the soundtrack a lot of
people said said that it was great and
everyone else wasn't playing their music
very loud so we just turned ours of
breath now I'm kidding
I've got a lot of good feedback on the
soundtrack so that was cool thank you
thank you very much
it's 4.1 K backers okay so let's clear
this image so see this campaign
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this is pathfinder breath of the
righteous by al cat's game now owl cats
games see they have a lot of pledges and
a ton of backers look at this oh my
goodness so many backers amazing
developers they also made path maker
Pathfinder kingmaker
so Pathfinder kingmaker was their
previous release they have 18,000 I
think backers on that also a phenomenal
success well loved by all obviously so
they were kind enough to send out an
update right here
about Co carnage a popular RPG streamer
and one more thing they said some nice
stuff about cyber Knights flashpoint
they also said that they played star
traders frontiers and they posted this
image of the assassin which is our next
stretch you know big stretch goal this
sweet animated gif a bunch of fancy nice
things about it and a link to our
campaign so they have sent so much
traffic to us it's out of control
honestly like one of our biggest sources
of traffic to the campaign has been man
they have 25,000 backers so when they
write an update to you know it goes out
to a ton of people who are RPG fans and
it's amazing that they that they did
that like it's so generous of them that
they posted that update so we posted a
couple of times just reminding people I
think we posted and a couple of times we
posted a couple of times but I think the
second thank-you was here we were
talking about yeah yeah
other big source of traffic Kickstarter
is we're gonna do like a post-mortem and
talk about traffic sources and all that
stuff
Kickstarter is huge your project preview
is big so your project preview is
basically all of the people that are
that you got to pre sign up and then you
have whatever refers you happen to have
so like we have our forum we have our
baling list we have a small but active
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reddit so those are you know different
sources of traffic the biggest one
really is Kickstarter itself so showing
up in the right category so you know
making sure that your flag is a game you
know when you're a game or whatever so
like showing it the right category is
really important all right so we can go
over here you know so so much so much
thank you to Pathfinder at the righteous
they've got a ton of backers and they
sent some are way being completely you
know totally generous I'm sure I'm sure
many of you were bankers if you haven't
seen the campaign go check it out if
you're if you're into RPGs like it is
you know it's gonna be one of the great
ones I think so you know this is uh this
is where a lot of your traffic comes
from
so you're in the taking-off category you
know that's great and then you go to
games and maybe you're in this list
don't eat there you are
so pathfinders 498 percent or 360 1% -
you're right next to these big titles
that's a huge source of traffic they
have a newsletter that they might
mention you and that's huge source of
traffic then they have these different
categories right they've got the
taking-off category so there's
pathfinder again
oh they're cyber Knights okay home
stretch we might be in here
okay so there's start home stretch RPGs
okay were the first RPG in the list
that's pretty cool
I don't know honestly what the biking
game was but they were really they were
really well suited for that format so I
think I could show you calculating
Kickstarter
feel like
I should have this there this
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good yes Roger here we go
now that's bad that's not good
we get need a different image
there you go
okay so they had like this
there this u-shaped couch thing and so
we had a keyboard and a mouse on this
little like table the biking game was
using a controller and the average like
playtime was probably at 60 seconds
before you die the firt like you'd start
going down the hill and you hit a
boulder and you'd be like oh wait okay
came at the boulder then you get past
the boulders and there'd be a ramp like
and then if you got frustrated you could
just give the controller the person next
to you and they'd press Start there
wasn't like it wasn't there wasn't any
friction there so it was really well
suited to the sort of seated arcade
setup that they had the use of
controller instead of a keyboard and a
mouse the like party atmosphere the fact
that you died constantly you were always
hitting boulders or trees are flying off
the mountain or missing a turn and it
looked really balanced like some people
beat it and they're like third or fifth
try or like you know beat the different
levels on these and these different
downhill courses after they figured out
like kind of the cues of the level
design so it looked really looks really
clever I didn't have a chance to play
because we were like doing this while
they were doing it on the other side of
the room but they had like dude Casey
said they had a lot of people through
there like very yeah cuz like a group of
five people could come in and sit down
they could all play it sort of pass it
back and forth like I don't get it like
and somebody could take it and you know
show him up or pass it you know so it
was very fluid and I think like a good
party game that really suited it this
was a little cyber Nights a little
trickier to demonstrate because you had
to get people to start it's you know and
kind of like the voiceover intro
cinematic was Andrew or I like
explaining like okay you have three guys
there this this of this they have these
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talents like you can do such and such
and such stuff
so the biking game definitely had a good
rhythm
absolutely a ton of a ton of traffic and
backers came from like forums you
wouldn't expect like RPG watch for
certain like lots of and and it's like
you know even if one particular forum or
like it's like groups of forums that
sort of share a focus on like RPG forums
or you know that kind of thing where you
have like you have people who are in the
community sharing it you know I think
those things are like really infectious
in a way because like even if there's
only four or five or ten backers from a
little forum it shows up in a traffic
source and those backers that like
learned about it through RPG wash go to
like these you know another forum that
they're a part of it's like you know is
something else and they post there
because they're like an actual member
and people recognize them and like they
share stuff they like there all the time
and so on and that's where they've been
back it's three more backers or four
more backers from another little like
enthusiasts forum that's like maybe it's
Steam games or it's you know games you
can play on iOS or you know Iowa's RPG
or the touch arcade forum sub board
about RPGs or whatever like those forums
are a really great way for you know a
project to find to find backers it's not
an easy thing for like a creator to
generate it has to happen organically
because you know I can't go around and
just barge into a whole bunch of little
like
small community web forums and start
posting my stuff like because then
you're just spamming and you're like
just bothering people you know you know
it maybe if I was on you know on the
forums or discourse or whatever where I
am an active just actual user I might I
might share my project but
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if that makes sense kind of the long
answer but
so sometimes you'd think you'd be in a
cat or attic PC games I don't think
we're in here so but we are we are
definitely in the RPGs which is right
where I'd want to be right but
so yeah like that sort of doesn't see
sometimes these are confusing because
where's like where's wrathful for Frank
so maybe it's just maybe I don't know
how it works maybe it's because it's
right here they don't put it down here
maybe this one's special because it's
like really based on time this one I
know this one works it's like this has
got a certain number of hours left 25 so
this will have like 30 Oh 25 26
9640 so that one's just
hello my cose how's it going so we're
just checking out some Kickstarter pages
we're talking about our star traders
frontiers update
I'm sure that like if you if we puzzled
on it enough we could kind of figure out
their logic but I think Kickstarter is
in a great situation right where they
could definitely you know just give it
to an algorithm and then you wouldn't
see this campaign right you wouldn't see
cyber Knights up here you'd see you just
see the ones that are like dragging in a
twenty five thousand backers it would
you know they would just focus on the
big stuff but if you look right here
like it's really cool this huge project
right a huge project huge project I
don't know anything about this team but
it's funded the art is pretty adorable
it's got a great name you know this
project we love it's a tabletop game you
know it's it's right here you know and
Kickstarter some percentage based thing
right like you know if this isn't a
strictly profit driven company run like
Amazon or something that just like says
algorithms like decide what order this
goes in does this show up I doubt it
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like it's it's got 40 hours to go
there's no way it's gonna make us you
know make Kickstarter's you know
anywhere near as much money as this is
or you know whatever other big projects
are down here in either cyber nights
compared to like this guy right this guy
you know so I think it's really amazing
how you can see it right there the
Kickstarter philosophy of really
supporting all the projects on the on
the platform you know of all sorts of
different types and sizes and funding
levels and backer counts
pretty cool
we appreciate you streaming on our
behalf of a swell girl Alliance and
talking so much about the game on
Twitter and social media it's much
appreciated
but so the campaign ends Thursday at
9:00 so we're like we're getting pretty
close
I like that how long does nightbot
savings nightbot says it's two days at
four hours so right there
so sure what else we should do today
yeah guess we just check out the stuff
so should I just work on this wrecker I
think it's underpowered I don't know
really okay
tell me tell me more what do we need to
do what's the situation here Blade
Dancer underpowered is the rumor huh
okay
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it's fight
okay so what don't you like about Blade
Dancer let's I'm curious we can we
should probably start like a more
serious discussion if we can get you
know whole whole crew together playing
about believe dance from pretty good
pretty good counter to high initiative
targets I mean it's definitely you know
it has it has a as I guess it has a
purpose it's built it's built so that
you can mix it with other other jobs
sometimes
still
okay monitor capture
very
then we'll have to send it down
this
okay so in your opinion he moves he
moves forward too much he's too
aggressive can understand what she's
saying
so working on this guy this is the again
the industrial kit so the the
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Kickstarter obviously we've seen all
these concept arts right so we're
working our way with the our team
building out each kit independently so
we'll have the urban kit the industrial
kit the data lab sky rise now and
hopefully low-rise keep our fingers
crossed for all the stretch goals but
these are going to be some of the
required components that we're gonna
build to make sure that like each
environment is cohesive so we have
concept art folder but so we have a
drawing of this kind of what it was
supposed to look like and then we
and then we head up making it in unity
out of that level kit and doing all of
the lighting and testing to make sure
that we can capture sort of what the
concept art for the area supposed to
look like so the things that we've been
sharing on the campaign like the data
lab or the skyrise will eventually be
built out of all of the pieces of the
level kit and then test it out we'll be
able to look at him independently
okay so we've got buffs
they'll rank a talent
that does sound like you do you fit it
doesn't sound good if it's true
is there enough
are there enough options that that don't
involve repositioning
they're all fair questions
pretty excited I mean this is uh the
beginning of a beginning of a
Kickstarter is excited in the end of the
Kickstarter is exciting the whole
thing's a lot of a lot of work and
there's a certain amount of stressful
uncertainty as the creator and and as a
bit and as a backer there's a certain
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amount of uncertainty there like is it
gonna fund and are we gonna get more
rewards or am I gonna get this thing
that I'm hoping the game has so it's
nice to be on the home stretch be headed
for the finish line we're gonna be able
to know everything for sure and really
turn and start working on the game
obviously there's there's some work to
do fulfilling the rewards
there's some work to do it's getting the
stretch ol components all you know built
and these fancy rocks
remember rocks look like a Templar
battle force don't make me get out the
Templar battle force rocks
these clouds
I mean come on get actual like all sorts
of technology here
yeah I don't even know what Templar
assault rock looked like I'm not sure we
had we had tempo salt it was just black
I think
Templar battle force rock at least what
they hit dude that looks so cool I know
that seems trolley like Teddy but
I'm pretty excited so this is the kit
that we used to build to build the
prototype level but we built the
prototype level in a pretty short amount
of time and it had a lot less detail
like it didn't have you know we didn't
have these away so that for Fanta it's
just sparking away overheating this
whole area
so you know the the demo the prototype
level that we did is definitely
functional first and foremost this is
much more like finished what we want to
you what we've you know when we've
actually focused on getting the level of
detail to where we wanted to be for the
actual game so
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yeah they'll be talents that so I'm not
sure if you used or not there's there
was a talent in the prototype called
distract that allows you to make like a
noise on in a space there were rocks and
agent an Asian fire it's
so that would be interesting
that is a craft tank yes
and and look at the graph tank but it's
like a built-in lights fancy freaking
grab here it's lights now they're
reflecting on this reflective surface
Wow look at that look at that sweet
graph tank with its lights now if you do
see the graph tank in the game you will
have you have reached a point where the
bad things are about to happen to you
because this is not a friendly tank this
is bad guy tank the boss tank
you violated all security protocols hard
to kill tons of armor it's basically a
piece of art with a gun attached to it
you won't be allowed by much
so I don't know I don't know what the
situation will be with pushing people
off the map that's an interesting
question we all have to play with it I
really don't know
but
Touche piece of are we gonna - probably
- sure all smartest a music so how many
guns can I get if I remove their arms
yeah can you put two guns per hour or
what face armor a shotgun and a shield
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so that's a good question there will be
because it's great this right
you saw how specifically you can place
yourself and how you can sort of use the
natural geometry of the level to predict
when you're gonna be when you're gonna
be seen where you can hide where you can
take cover where you'll be able to stand
step out shoot step back in so that
ability to move you know what
potentially you know this so this this
has a Ty Lee look to it right but being
able to move fractional components of
this tile gives you a lot of flexibility
in terms of your positioning and then
going to like action points where you
have a number of action points in a
number of move points gives you a lot of
flexibility how you want to spend your
turn if you want to spend it moving
using talent shooting or what mix and
then huns
and pets like dogs and cats they love
their own smaller pet action pool
they'll be able to act independently on
their turn and then drones you'll be
giving orders to and spending your AP
like through your CyberLink to have them
act for you by moving using their
built-in talent abilities and firing
their weapons so a drone pilot will have
this different trade-off then up than an
animal handler and the hunter and the
assassin be different because the
assassins wet rare rig is a one-on-one
link with the cyber camp rather than a
command and control thing where there's
multiple dogs
you know and the other nice thing about
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it one of the really nice things about
three-level is the high ground and low
ground advantage so like you're you know
you're down here shooting a somebody up
on the rocks or shooting at somebody up
here or you're like covering you know we
can very nicely calculate specific cover
cover projections raycast from the gun a
high ground advantage can all be
calculated without looking at tiles so
when we built the cyber nights or when
we built the Templar battle force levels
there's all these different elevations
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elevation levels right so there's like
if you've played that game there's I
think five elevation levels and you can
go up and down stairs or down into
trenches and that that sort of breaks
the breaks the game's levels up into
different categories but cover and
tactical advantage are marked on a per
tile basis that are highlighted in red
or green respectively for offensive or
defensive advantage so you're like
taking these positions in the map they
give you a high ground or give you
strong cover
but what we're able to do now is break
that off from break that off from the
tile or from this very specific
elevation and measure specifically how
much cover or how much elevation
advantage you had over your target so
you could be the high ground of you know
have an advantage on your target while
someone else has the advantage on you
which really wasn't even possible in the
tile based system for Templar battle
force so yeah so no guesswork and very
easy to understand sort of visually you
might have probably seen it in the video
but
but there you can get like a very clear
like you can go down into that level of
detail and take a look at like very
specifically what's the sight line and
the way the game's calculating cover is
you know looking at that specific sight
line and then picking points on the
target more like a shooter would rather
than something like Templar battle for
us it's like you're in this tile there's
no tile blocking you or whatever so
looking at it tile by tile this is
looking at it with like raycast to the
target so we have these ragdolls with
different bones and so forth
for all the different physics
interactions and we're using that as
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well for the cover calculation and the
high ground calculation so forth so
that's gonna give us really nice
expressive sort of shooter grade sort of
like with the thinking that you would
put into a first-person shooter in a
tactics game so we know that some bright
like Templar battle force and XCOM and
games like it have very nuanced and
sophisticated mechanics based on their
tile approximations so we need something
to fill that vacuum you can't just save
like there's no grid and not replace it
with something so the things that are
dependent on the grid and games like
Templar battle force and the other games
I mentioned we have a set of rules in
cyber Knights flashpoint
that kind of served the same purpose but
they're they're more granular and
they're more physics based so we're
using some physics based lighting like
we have object properties that we're
using to try and make as many of the
things as possible
we're trying to trying to figure that
out so we've played with a couple of
different camera controls already during
the during the prototype PAX East we
actually swapped out the camera control
on Thursday night after the first day of
demos I think we played about 35 games
with the with I would say camera a we've
configured and then kind of replaced
that with I would say the B scheme but I
suspect that the B scheme will probably
be replaced at some point along the way
and then improve during alpha so I don't
know if the game will really will
benefit a lot from from like zooming
around you know having free pan or not
we'll have to just will have to find out
in the prototype it was working really
well with mouse around and zoom in zoom
out
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and you played on Sunday right
yeah
and then I'll you know like I said in
the proto in the update well we were
really trying to see was sort of how the
control scheme and how the interaction
between the stealth and the fighting
worked there were a couple of terminals
you might have seen dude Casey's
scattered around
we had the hacking stuff turned off
we were letting you zoom in and out and
rotate the camera on on your selected
character
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listen to the Swede cyber night
soundtrack talking about PAX East and
the demo there and just kind of keeping
an eye on the campaign which is uh up
over $180,000 with 51 hours to go pretty
crazy so here I'm just gonna open the
demo I don't even know if it's so wrong
well it's just the video from the
Kickstarter gotcha unfortunate
so that's all we did we set attacks we
watched this video
so this was the
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so you can get pretty pretty specific
with the sightlines
so
that's an interesting one what about
having different camera angles so one of
the things that you'll be able to do
with hacking is interfere with different
parts of the level right so there's
there's security cameras there security
sensors there's guards on patrol there's
guards on station there's guards waiting
to be called in is like a fast response
team if there's a security problem so
different matrix terminals will be able
to control different parts of the levels
even interactive elements like locking
or unlocking a door or raising or
lowering some you know some elements
some industrial element you know so
they'll be a bunch of they'll be a bunch
of ways that you'll be able to sort of
manipulate different parts of the level
and come at it from different ways so
you'll be able to distract distract the
guards with with a talent or with gear
with traps or by messing with a security
device and they come to check it out and
you distract them that way or you hack
the matrix and set off a false alarm
somewhere or you just hack the matrix
and you pull up their their map of
patrol routes so you can find an easy
way through so that we're gonna give you
a whole bunch of different ways to sort
of interface with the different parts of
the map challenge and find your own way
of dealing with it mixing you know
combat stealth hacking positioning and
your particular combination of talents
and jobs and equipment that you want to
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pick out so you know maybe you maybe use
stealth with a talent maybe you use
stealth with particular piece of cyber
where maybe you use it with a particular
gear
deployable item like a sound dampener or
maybe you do your scouting with silent
drones so you your you know your
characters aren't actually quiet they
just stay back and they stay at a good
distance before they strike or steal or
do whatever they're out you know so
you'll have all these different ways to
put together a team that fits the
mission profile that you're trying to
accomplish and what the prototype did
was basically gave you a basic set of
guard patrols and a security system some
cameras some high ground some low ground
some choke points and a way to get out
and sort of let you worry about the
basic elements of dealing with dealing
with the guard so we're doing like a
compartmentalized AI state machine so
each guards gonna have its own imperfect
knowledge of the level and what's
happened so if they haven't been told if
no one's around to witness it then the
guards don't know right one of the
things about the Templars is like the
Templar games is the xenos are just
attacking you they come in waves like
it's not there's not there's not stealth
like the xenos are not like oh I assume
there's no Templars here they're just
like a tank income so you're just like
killing everything they're trying to
kill everything you know the aliens
versus the Templars it's a different
feel
you know the Zeno's have a heat map of
where the enemy where you are and then
each like tactical point has a group of
xenos and they're trying to like kill
you and then they can like give the
tactical point gets enough bad guys it
can give some xenos to like the main
xeno hive mind that's just trying to
swarm you're do
so like that's how it builds up like
defenses and then sends waves after you
is like the tactical points are making
guys or the spawn points are making guys
and those are defending something until
they're pushed in big waves at you so it
gives you this like rhythm and Templar
battle force of you set up your defenses
the first wave arrives you push out
another wave you know this game cyber
nights flashpoint
is totally different feeling because
each guard has their own their own
situation their own state and can be
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dealt with independently now the overall
AI the security system or another AI can
enlist that guard so if one guard sees
you they can tell other guards or radio
to headquarters that they've seen an
intruder their own epic shrugging
animations absolutely and you know
hopefully quite a bit of personality and
corporate barks and world work you know
work with our backers and with our alpha
team trying as much as possible make the
places you're breaking into you feel
like you know make them feel unique
so what the prototype really tested out
was you know that system of and and what
we gather data from those 160 games was
I can play the prototype many times
right I can mess around at the AI can
lead it on wild goose chases with the
distract talent I can like use the
silent movement talent or the vana walk
talent or whatever and get the drop on
it but what I can't do is simulate it
interfacing with someone who's never
really played with it before so all the
turns that were taken all the moves that
the AI made where it first heard the
player where it first saw each character
where they died where the AI was
defeated
that's all valuable data just to like
kind of get a first look at it and these
were all you know obviously first time
they'd ever played cyber nights a range
of people who were like I've beaten X
come the long war like the insanely hard
ex-con mod through people are like I
don't think I've ever played X count but
you know give it a try
so this huge gamut of people tried it
out and we got all this different you
know types of moves types of strategies
types of approaches to the game people
who just took the high ground and
started shooting people who tried to
sneak the whole time people that
basically ignored two of their
characters and only moved the one guy
just skipped out you know - you know and
not we didn't really try and if people
were playing it their way we really
didn't try and interfere unless they
asked us questions so it's really let
people play get their feedback at the
end ask them how they felt playing the
game I'm sure I don't know if I asked
you how you felt when the game dude
Casey but if you had feedback you know
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it seemed positive but anyway I'm just
trying to get people to play the game
and see how they you know observe them
playing you didn't find out how they
felt about it
was really the goal rather than trying
to like
yes so I didn't have a clipboard but
yeah it's an amazing watch not only
watch but carefully record all the data
so one of the nice things was right we
got to use the same data the same
computer every time so every time you
went into the menu right that I you
click start a new game it made a new
save like game one DB Game two DB Game
three DB and every AI move and all of
that went into that database so at the
end of Sunday I just grabbed the whole
cyber Knights folder stuck it on our
drive and now I have like all of those
games to analyze and look at like hey
officer Qi how's it going yeah so there
were a whole bunch of games dude KC
where talents are not used at the rate
that we thought they would be
yeah I was alone on Sunday that was in
the morning that was a little tough I'd
been up pretty late
we got Anders shipped off to the airport
and then I went I went over to pax so I
was a little worn out by Sunday but I
think we had still it a good day sunday
was kids day it's pretty entertaining to
see all kiddos flying the game but yeah
some of the talents can be used a
certain number of times per turn some of
them have a use per day or use
permission cap some of them have
different drawbacks one of the cool
things that I'm really excited about is
the threshold the mutation system using
thresholds instead of the way it's done
in cyber night or in Star traders so
you'll have points that can build up and
then trigger a trait mutation good or
bad at the same time rather than it just
being one or the other so I think
that'll be in a cool a dagger 2121 to
thank you for following the channel I
appreciate that
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you know and the the talent bar I think
we should have probably you know and
it's all it's like man it's just one of
those things right like I if I had two
more days to work on it there's a bunch
of stuff I would have I would have I
would have changed
yeah I probably would have made the
talent icons bigger and done more
animation on them when you started when
you started your turn like highlight
them again and probably like put a
button down there that kind of gave you
a talents tour we didn't we knew so we
weren't invited to the to PAX East to be
in the Kickstarter room until like
halfway through the Kickstarter so maybe
it wasn't halfway through but it was not
part of the hundred a plan
there was no like take playable demo
that people will enjoy and will generate
positive valuable data for the studio to
Boston in the last week at the campaign
so we sort of fitted in and made some
compromises because we really thought it
was going to be worth it and I think it
was I think we got a lot of valuable
player data I think we got our name out
there to a bunch of people that back the
project it was definitely good time to
meet Kickstarter members the Kickstarter
team other creators talked about stuff
like physical rewards fulfillment you
know our add-ons we just rolled those
out like so we're trying to be kind of
cautious and conservative and stick to
what we know but we've really are
excited about this art book obviously
the art book our last campaign was
really popular we want to do that again
and our art team is really like we're
talking a hundred acts easily the amount
of art that we're making compared to
star traders frontiers it's really just
fantastic just how much stuff were
getting an all sif different qualities
and grades and degrees of completion
from pencil sketches to final renders so
I think the the art books gonna be
really exciting and then we're gonna
handpick cherry-pick the these high
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resolution shots for the glossy printed
edition which is gonna be I think really
nice and that's kind of the one physical
add-on that I know we can do because I
know how to ship it I know how to ship
it internationally we can price it
pretty easily and if I get stuck with an
overflow of these books it won't it
won't be terrible
I don't know I don't really remember the
exact order of events but I don't know
if we could have moved
laminated a-players here's that would be
pretty cool I dig it so we are still you
know honestly we're within striking
distance of some more stretch goals
we're we're 51 hours to go you know the
big push starts at 48 so we don't know
what's gonna happen at 9 o'clock tonight
it could be it could be the beginning of
you never know I mean our first day was
huge and we could have two huge days and
get very close to that it's
theoretically possible for our last two
days we're like our first two our first
day you know but whatever happens if we
get if we get 185 or 200 or something
else we're gonna be so excited to make
this game Andrew and I have been talking
about making this game for years and the
fact that it's gonna look like this gets
me so freakin hyped like I've really
wanted to make a cool-looking video game
for a long time and this one is really
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honestly gonna look super cool
it's gonna have all sorts of stuff
bike I'm in emissive materials fancy
lighting effects shadows reflections all
sorts of special effects and stuff like
CK 2 about damn time fair yeah I mean
let's see it it is it worth it that's
that's the trick if we can make it worth
it the weight you know the weight is to
be is only worth it if it pays off right
if the game we waited for delivers in
spades and I really feel like it's going
to I feel like the the results that we
get making the game in 2020 instead of
making this trying to make this game in
2016 I think you're gonna see that it's
gonna be like seriously seriously worth
it
cool 360 percent funded look at that
I mean this is just gonna be one little
chunk of a level right like this is just
show off got at the rocks and the walls
and one of the doors and pipes and some
of the particle effects and the smoke
that comes with it you know your night
comes up these steps you're taking out
guards you're like working your way
across here going through this door
hopefully there's no I mean if there's a
tank here then this is a this is a whole
different situation but I was a tank
this is a gnarly boss level you might
die a lot of space to fight a tank
a mr. dodgy thank you very much for
backing us I really appreciate you
trusting us with your support we're
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gonna do our very best to make a game
that we can all be proud of a lot of
people on here will tell you that we've
been having fun making the last
Kickstarter game start fritters
frontiers and I'm pretty I'm hopeful and
confident that that cyber Knights
flashpoints gonna be a lot of fun too so
thank you for backing us and thank you
for joining the strain appreciate that
what do you mean that rifts tabletop
feels helped me give me some me some
examples of what what feels you mean
specifically I love the rifts tabletop
but a lot of feels in there so it's just
it's gonna be it's gonna be also really
fun to design even that prototype level
right like I've been working on a bunch
of different levels we've got different
situations that we've been trying out
like a smelting plant kind of to match
the prototype concept are you've seen in
the campaign but smelting plant this
thing we call the temple complex it's a
big quantum computer system wrapped in
in all these industrial catwalks and and
power converters so just kind of
building those has been really really
fun compared to how we used to build
Templar battle force levels completely
different feeling like we used to use a
program called tile ed so it's map
editor total work which is a great
program for making 2d maps but the the
feeling of making these environments and
trying to design these spaces is just
it's a lot different it's really
exciting because I think if and we
weren't so happy with the results of the
artwork it just feels really amazing
because I feel like the kids were
putting it together just really look
great
okay yeah I feel that I definitely give
what you mean now you know that's a
tough that's a tough one to deliver it's
a really good goal and I think it takes
a lot of it takes a lot of testing and
feedback and it takes a certain amount
of like how to say it it takes a certain
amount of design from the it takes a
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certain amount of focus from the
designer to decompose the problems and
the solutions into smaller parts rather
than trying to prescribe of one complete
solution to one complete problem to say
that here's this group of smaller
interconnected problems and here's this
group of smaller interconnected
solutions to some of those problems and
allowing you know allowing through
testing tuning improvement in additions
and subtractions of the game to get to
the right mix of that so that people can
develop their own develop their own
unique play style that solves the the
necessary problems out of the mix for
them to be successful without saying
like here's the solution you have to use
to this problem
so I think it's something that uh that
we aspire to and we'll certainly try to
do I think it's something that we've
thought a lot about in terms of star
traders and it's something that we will
think a lot about for cyber nights
so there's definitely a lot of work to
do there to make sure that there's
different playstyles right that are
equally valid and then add something
we're gonna really be working on during
the Alpha like we're gonna be asking
people to try different playstyles
adding and removing and retuning and
redoing jobs as needed to encourage that
you know we did that a lot in Star
traders frontiers we were RiRi working
parts of the game during the Alpha to
try and open up new avenues to play
adding new minigames and tuning the way
that the the systems and the talents and
the jobs played together so something
we're really excited about trying to
offer for
No
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looks like I'm gonna have to run here in
a minute
um campaign creation tools probably I
would say I mean it's definitely out of
reach from a commitment standpoint we
don't have any budget to do stuff like
that
is it possible that we'll find something
after the game comes out and we meet all
our Kickstarter requirements they can do
that maybe we're definitely keen to
continue to experiment and continue to
push the envelope with Star traders
frontiers mod support is on the list of
things that we would like to add to star
traders frontiers one of the reasons
that we went to this new engine is that
we feel like mod tools' in mod support
will be easier in this engine that's a
our belief we haven't released it or
seen it actually in the hands of players
so you know can't be hundred percent
sure that we're right about that but it
is one of the things that inspired us to
move engine so will we have like
triple-a grade level building tools no
probably not
are we definitely keen to build things
that our players are interested in like
mod support absolutely
but that stuff comes after our
Kickstarter promises so
you know so I guess the other side of
that is we're not doing anything to
actively make that harder on ourselves
and we've seen how you can get yourself
into trouble in past games to make like
Templar Battle Force has some modding
support but is really like a not super
great from the modder standpoint and
that's because some of the ways we build
Templar battle force so ever since then
we've been thinking about how to make
the game more model and this will
probably be our best shot at it yet
given our much bigger budget in much
larger community so yep mod support
definitely if you can afford it helps
your game there's no doubt about that I
don't I've never said that I don't agree
with that okay so I do have to go I do
have to run dagger will put out an
update about the stretch goals after the
campaign closes and see which ones we
hit and which ones we don't try and talk
about what's possible some of them we
might be able to and some of them I
don't think will but I've got a run and
I'm sorry to do it so quickly but I
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don't think yeah I gotta go I'm sorry
thank you everyone for tuning in I
appreciate all of you guys supporting us
backing us checking the campaign out I
see your question dagger 21 21 to about
neo prog we'll get that out in an update
thanks everybody for tuning in
we'll see what Thursday at 4 for a
longer stream probably riding it into
the sunset as we wrap this campaign up
and then getting started on building the
game for you so we'll see you guys next
time thank you again for tuning in
thanks have a good night
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