Project Category: Funding Year 7

Steamhounds

Take control of a team of mercenaries, doing the dirty work of the shady factions who vie for control of a once-great, now crumbling industrial city.

In the single-player campaign you will assemble a team and deploy them on missions to infiltrate, spy, sabotage, steal, and eliminate their targets. Juggle your reputation with the powerful factions who rule over the city, and learn what makes the gears of society turn as you uncover their deepest secrets.

In online bultiplayer you can challenge your friends in competitive team-vs-team battles, take part in tournaments, or attempt to climb the online leaderboards in ranked matches.

The core gameplay is a twist on a classic turn-based, JRPG-style battle system. In Steamhounds, characters do not simply execute an attack or skill and then wait quietly until their next turn. Instead, they make their move and then choose one of several “stances” to adopt until their next turn. Stances allow characters to react to certain events, setting up powerful combos and chain reactions with their teammates – resulting in a highly dynamic battle system with countless emergent strategies and synergies.

Awards

Best Indie Strategy Game – Dreamhack 2020 Anaheim

Game Pitch Championship Winner – Dreamhack 2020 Anaheim

Best Indie Multiplayer Game – Dreamhack 2018 Atlanta

Kitori Academy

Kitori Academy is a cosy life simulator where you take the role of a wizard apprentice and have a cat as a companion!

Spend joyful days on whimsical story-quests, making friends with other apprentices, mixing potions, casting spells, crafting, chilling with your cat and tending your garden.

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These Doomed Isles

In These Doomed Isles you are a god who must craft a deck of cards to raise islands from the sea, create life from dust, and fend off the waves of hideous monstrosities crawling from the ocean that surrounds you.

Mixing elements of survival city-builders, classic god games and modern deck-building games, you will play your cards to create land, forests and mountains; build houses, farms, quarries and taverns and rain fire from the sky to protect yourself from those who would drag you back to the bottom of the sea.

Spellbound: The Magic Within

Spellbound: The Magic Within is a branching narrative, multiple ending visual novel. Jump into a world of Magic, Witchcraft and Mystery as a magician in training. Interact with a host of unusual characters. Choose from multiple schools of magic, bond with your tutor, and maybe even save the world.

Starstruck

Starstruck is a game of romance and glamour, but also of careful strategy. Play your cards right to succeed at work… and at love.

In the glittering world of British film, as a smart and ambitious talent agent, you have just landed your dream job at a prestigious London firm. That dream is to run the department for struggling actors, and help them overcome their blockers to success.

But this is not just a tale of professional triumph. As you work alongside your actors, you will be faced with choices that will shape your relationships. Will you remain colleagues, or will your bond blossom into friendship… or even romance?

With a deft hand and a keen mind, can you craft the perfect strategy each week, and propel your actors to stardom? At glamorous parties, will you network and gather information? Through your tireless efforts, can you guide four actors on their journey to greatness, lifting them from the ashes of obscurity and into the bright lights of fame? Their fate is in your hands.

Whispers in the West

Whispers in the West is an online co-op murder mystery game for 1-4 players. The game sets in the far reaches of the Old West. Each story is a unique and intriguing mystery waiting to be solved. To succeed, the players need to work as a team and debate amongst themselves – things may get heated.

We developed our custom narrative engine to support the game’s unique multiplayer storytelling. And we plan to offer a Custom Story Editor to our community, so players can even write their own mysteries!

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