Neofeud

[SilverSpook]

Even more walking!

Now in crunch mode, definitely over halfway finished with Neofeud at this point.  I'd better be anyway, or I'm going to be in deep financial doodoo!

[Cassiebsg]

Looks really nice!
Though, picture isn't showing up here, I had to quote, and the get url from there. Try removing the last "v" from the url.

[Blondbraid]

Gotta agree with Cassiebsg there, it looks great, though I am a bit bugged that it looks like the left foot is twisted backwards in a few frames. Is the character walking sideways?
But I don't wanna be a nitpick, everything else looks awesome!

[SilverSpook]

@Cassie: Thanks!

@Blondbraid: He's walking forward but I'm trying to do a SWAT cop walk, like he's part of a squad doing a drug bust.  So far I've only done running and walking forward in a fairly normal fashion so this is a new one

[AnasAbdin]

It does look like a SWAT cop walk I think slowing the animation speed is the trick

[SilverSpook]

Here's an update of officer Jakkenboot.  Now with 75% more indiscriminate state violence!

I have discovered that if I was just two shades of lavender more gay, I would've careerpathed towards becoming an interior designer rather than a game dev.  Because I think my favorite part of the visual art process is lighting

[Slasher]

I think the lighting is a great asset...

When are we actually going to get to play this game?

[SilverSpook]

I'm actually planning to start looking for some testers by next week.  I need to finish up one particular section though, or else things won't be making a whole lot of sense.

[Blondbraid]

The lightning effects look simply dazzling!

[SilverSpook]

I call this one, "The Underground Transhumanists."  The Scientist and The Artist.

Only have a few more backgrounds to go at this point!  With a few little incidental bathrooms or hallways in change

Do let me know if you're interested in playtesting, I'll be putting up an ad in the recruitment thread I guess pretty soon.

[AnasAbdin]

Damn that's beautiful. So many little details

[Cassiebsg]

Looks awesome! (nod)

Would love to help test it.

[Mandle]

Add me to the testers list if possible!

[SilverSpook]

Thanks guys!

I will be trying to put together a stable build to run soon.  Damn this game is becoming huge already though, I might need to shrink some of the sprites and delete redundant materials and such.

[SilverSpook]

[embed=800,450]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmU-h3ZP78s&feature=youtu.be[/embed]

The first Neofeud trailer is out!  And it's like Blade Runner directed by Darren Aronofsky, lol! 

The video is basically of a Neofeud boss fight.  In the post-human, neofeudal world of this game, you never quite know who won. 


Neofeud Bossfight - Indie DB

Heres the first-ever Neofeud trailer! In addition, Neofeud is slated to be released in March of 2016. So be on the lookout!

Without spoilering everyone too much, what's pictured is essentially mostly a boss fight. The difference in Neofeud is that there are no "winners" and "losers" for the most part. In fact, the player may spend a significant portion of their time asking themselves that existential Aristotelian question -- who am I?

As is mentioned in the summary, one of the major themes of Neofeud is transhumanity -- or more particularly, what makes a person a "Person" -- someone who should "count" and have "rights", deserves food, shelter, love, justice, as opposed to being mere "property". Should a "chimera" person with 75% human and 25% dog DNA be able to vote and collect social security? Should an advanced quasi-biological cyborg health care robot be allowed to go on strike and demand a pay raise? Who gets to decide who is a sentient, valid individual, and who is just someone's pet or cog in a factory?

It's a well-worn trope of sci-fi and speculative fiction seen most recently in the excellent TV series "Humans" but is everywhere from Terminator to Frankenstein.



(Underground transhumans. Some Frankenstein monsters turn to art, some to drugs, some time crime.)

Neofeud looks at these issues through the Blomkampian "future-ghetto" lens of the concentration camps for alien migrants in District 9 or the dusty Mexican favela-scape of Elysium. The main character in Neofeud is a social worker "officially" trying to provide benefits to the millions of "defective" non-human sentients produced by transhumanist corporations trying to put a mind in a robot body or seeking immortality through genetic manipulation.

What Karl discovers, like many of the poor, blacks, hispanics, women, trans, or otherwise "unlucky" individuals in America', is that being made of metal or having fur, or just not being "human enough" is a license to be abused and exploited, both by individuals, corporations, and the state itself.



(A quasi-human single mom. Should she have her children confiscated and her benefits revoked? You get to make that moral choice.)

Along the way, Karl will need to make difficult decisions, as an agent of the corporate-state. Should he throw false drug accusations at the powerless machine-people who stand in his way? Should he give in to pressure to confiscate transgenic children if it means a pay raise for his struggling family? Just as minorities and those on the outskirts today suffer daily police brutality, gutting of benefits, have their kids legally kidnapped by the state to support the profits and bureaucracies of those in power, it is as easy as a penstroke on a government document for Karl to destroy the life of a single mom or a PTSD veteran or a disabled grandmother or a family in a not-up-to-code home.

We can barely get our act together treating *other humans* with respect, fairness, and love. How will we handle *other species* or even other forms of life, who inhabit very different bodies, but who can feel pain and suffer as much as any homo sapien? Most of us spend our time "feuding" with each other over territory, or oil, or dollar bills, or who gets the promotion, who has more followers, who gets to be famous. The more connected, the more feudal power we weild -- a relative in the industry, a friend on the police force, a father who is president, or just being born a white male, the more opportunity we have to abuse the un-titled. The unwashed paupers.

Transhumanity could be utopia, sure, but it could also be the creation of a billion new slaves. Serfs to an immortal King.



What kind of king would you be?

I have been working pretty much all my spare time to get this thing finished by March (can't give an exact day yet) and have pretty much all the main backgrounds I need, most of the main characters and am just powerhousing through the game programming.  I am trying my hardest not to overcomplicate scenes with feature-creep snowballs of animations (there are like 300 animations for the main character already lol) and just trying to pare things down to what is necessary / maximally impactful for the audience. 

I don't yet want to do the voice acting until the narrative is super solid and I'm not going to make a change here or there, but I'll be needing that soon too. 

Those who posted here or PM'ed me, I should be getting some buildage for you guys to test very shortly, sorry for the delay.

[selmiak]

oh wow, great news

[SilverSpook]

Ok, I'm going to try to put all of the dislocated (for dev purposes) pieces of Neofeud back together and create a build for you guys who are interested in testing.  Sorry for the delay there!

So right now I have... Slasher, Cassie, and Mandle, correct?

I should add that this game is meant to be played in pretty hi-res - 1366 x 768 as that is the native resolution.  So if you have an opportunity to play it on a laptop, desktop, or larger screen, it is recommended.

[Frikker]

I would possibly be interested in playtesting this depending on what sort of timescale you are looking to get feedback on. Ive followed this game with great interest since I joined back in 2014 and I woild be happy to help if I can

[selmiak]

if you need another betatester (now or in the future) I'll sure help you!

I signed up too a long time ago!

[SilverSpook]

Ok guys, the Neofeud build is being built and uploaded and such.  I'll be sending the links once things are finished.

How many of you guys are on Linux, by the way?  I'm going to put up a Windows and a Linux build just in case.