Connor : PhD physics pupil, 3 years of recreation dev expertise (me)
Keron  : Masters in worldwide advertising, teaches Unity on the aspect
Arist  : Left to give attention to fee work

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Current look of the sport : https://i.imgur.com/1rIorDY.png — we’re going for the same vibe, however perceive that we would like you to have some possession over the artwork, and we’re open to adjusting to your artwork type. No drawback in any respect

The pitch :

“I’m an grownup now — 29 years outdated — and I haven’t got the time or power to play starcraft like I used to. I am unable to spend hours per week learning professional video games, working to grasp the meta completely, or practising my construct orders… and I’m uninterested in enjoying RTS video games that take 2 hours of tutorials simply to grasp the fundamentals of the sport. I’m too outdated for ladder chasing PvP grinds, and the excessive stage of competitors which may breed fairly poisonous and indignant recreation communities.

So I made a decision to make a recreation that goals to refresh the style with some new concepts, and repair the problems that forestall me from having fun with RTS video games.”

Hive Defender is a single participant and on-line co-op centered PvE RTS which a give attention to fast onboarding, and accessible, however deep actual time technique which takes place within a procedurally generated, and absolutely destructible recreation world.

There are 4 alien lessons which make up the hive, and that are designed to be interdependent on each other : assault, assist, development, and demolition. Each class gives a number of sub-classes, and you’re supplied the selection to mutate between alien sub-classes mid recreation to reply to enemy threats, or keep in school to stage as much as grow to be extra highly effective. These subclasses every provide distinctive perks, which value ORE to activate (gained by mining the partitions of your maze-like alien hive). Mutating between alien sub-types takes a while, and prices TECH (gained by killing enemies).

But it isn’t simply your aliens… even the enemies are deeply interacting! Commanders can buff their troopers, however they will additionally inform protect bearing ‘wardens’ to guard the snipers that are place themselves strategically across the map. Bosses, nevertheless, are the place the sport will get actually attention-grabbing — and require you to use all 4 alien swarms collectively to face an opportunity.

The story is basically Avatar / Fern Gully, combined with the alternative story of Ender’s recreation. You play as an alien hive thoughts whose planet is being invaded by people who do not acknowledge your collective intelligence, and need to terraform the planet to make it their very own.

You can anticipate 12 marketing campaign missions, every day quests and weekly challenges, and long-term achievements, alongside month-to-month beauty bushes. There will probably be 6 distinctive recreation modes which drive you to play in new methods, and a stage editor to create and share your individual concepts with buddies. It could have user-friendly, 2D graphics with daring outlines and a give attention to speaking related info as rapidly and clearly as potential to the participant.

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We are a part of “the sport incubator” right here in Sweden (identical one which pushed out Valheim, and so forth), though solely certainly one of us is definitely situated in Sweden. That means we get financial assist to go to conferences, get free teaching, have the choice to attend pitch trainings, get enterprise and growth assist, and are a part of an enormous neighborhood that provides different assist like play-testing, and so forth.

We’re providing a 25% share within the firm, anticipating 15-20 hours of labor per week (I do 2 hours per weekday, 5 hours on sat/solar mornings, however we’re very versatile).

Currently we’re rebuilding the sport up after I pushed out a fast prototype to check market viability, and it took off. Covered by pc-gamer, 43,000+ stream views in per week, and so forth. We spent a very long time in planning and growth, and had been ending the final bits of the primary biome (cave) in v0.1 & the extent editor, and had been writing the skeleton out for the primary gameplay when the artist stop.

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We’re in search of somebody with robust expertise in 2D artwork and animation, ideally utilizing SPLINE. You ought to have some expertise working in unity, inc. particle results, post-processing, audio, shader graphs and supplies, and so forth. You ought to be capable of present correctly formatted, prime quality artwork which matches the wants of the sport (clear communication, constant visible type, and so forth), in a position to iterate rapidly, and be open to suggestions.

The recreation could have it is minimal viable product completed and we’ll start in search of funding in only a few months — artist or no. Being open to going full time in 3-6 months is a giant plus. We do anticipate to be funded within the close to future.