Sir, you are being hunted

[7upMan]

http://www.kickstart...hunted?ref=live

 

I just found this project on Kickstarter that might be of interest for those who'd like mix open world gaming with stealth and survival, just like Day-Z, but with a humoristic approach. According to the devs, "Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a first-person game set in an open world. Your mission is to escape from the archipelago on which you have been stranded. That means surviving being hunted, looting abandoned buildings, and collecting up scattered fragments of a mysterious machine which should enable you to get home."

 

Key features are:

• Procedural tools to generate, save, and explore your own landscapes.
  
• Open-ended gameplay: choose how you want to play. Complete the game non-lethally, or use whatever you can find to bring down the tweedbot menace.
  
• A Thief-style visibility-meter combined with our own foliage-based stealth system.
  
• Unique generative soundtrack.
  
• A disembodied sinister butler!
  
• Pubs!
  
• No DRM!
  
• Varied loot including weapons, traps, booze, marmalade, tea, something that may or may not be bacon, and a dead rabbit.
  
• Fires to cook that rabbit on. (And other things besides!)
  
• Mac, Windows and Linux versions.
  
• Strange lore and pipe-smoking moustache-wearing mechanical locals.
  

[Radiant]

escape from the archipelago on which you have been stranded

Damn, they have read my mind to get the idea of my planned fanmission.

[Shadowhide]

Sir, You Are Being Hunted is being made in Unity Pro, with our own procedural terrain engine, the British Countryside Generator.

so,along with using bad game engine,they generating terrain instead of making it by hand ?

[Obsttorte]

As far as I understood the basic idea is that the terrain is generated on game start, so if you would play it again the terrain would look different and also the positions of AI and so

[brethren]

I was pretty much sold when I saw "Thief style visibility meter" and sent my pledge in.

[Diego]

Looks like a great game!

 

I always wanted to make a procedural survival game because it seems like such a great idea and totally unexplored. Until now, that is! there is a few games to be released that go down those lines.

[brethren]

Wait, Unity is a bad engine?

 

Wait, <double take>, Shadowhide is back?

[Shadowhide]

Wait, Unity is a bad engine?

everytime i played Unity game there was a performance problems.Also Unity user has to code very basic things like player physics from scratch(player is not even able to walk on stairs by default)

Why didnt they used UDK ?

Unity is only good for a small Android and IOS games

Edited November 6, 2012 by Shadowhide

[lost_soul]

Most likely because UDK aint available for Linux.

 

This sounds really cool, but when I heard Unity, I confused it with Unigin. We need a new cross-platform multiplayer game to play. Tremulous is dead and Urban Terror is losing popularity. This could be the next great game to suck away hours and hours of my life.

[brethren]

Looks like they're focusing on single player, not multi, so you might have to look elsewhere.

[Shadowhide]

As far as I understood the basic idea is that the terrain is generated on game start, so if you would play it again the terrain would look different and also the positions of AI and so

i remember playing Nosferatu : Wrath of Malachi back in my day.It was a good game,artstyle was good,gameplay was good,story was good (for an FPS game),but there was a 1 huge minus - castle,where the action is were generated on game start,insted of being handmade.It was fairly lame

only computer generated thing i would accept is vegetation placement and sounds(which is not yet being generated in games)

[ungoliant]

only computer generated thing i would accept is vegetation placement and sounds(which is not yet being generated in games)

maybe you'll like Thi4f after all. hah!

[Shadowhide]

maybe you'll like Thi4f after all. hah!

i heard thie4f will combine sound pieces into the one never heard before sound,maybe such technique can be done in doom3/tdm using the soundshaders

its not the computer generated sound

[7upMan]

SH, the thing is, when you read the comments in the Kickstarter, those pledgers who live in the vicinity of the portrayed area admit that it looks very much like the real thing. I agree that procedurally generated environments can look crappy, but with the right spirit the "livelessness" can be overcome. A thing that many players seem to want is more and different vegetation, animals, sounds etc., to make the game even more life-like. Also, it seems that the game relies heavily on British humor, so it this is your thing, you'll overlook the bad parts (if there are any).

 

And yes, the Thief meter sold me too.

[Shadowhide]

you'll overlook the bad parts (if there are any).

i will not

Dishonored become much worse because developers gave players supernatural powers,though its clearly a spiritual successor of Thief and DX and a good game after all

Dishonored and Nosferate:VoM is an example of 1 bad thing ruining almost everything

Edited November 6, 2012 by Shadowhide

[New Horizon]

Gotta agree with Shadowhide. At work I've tested many Unity based games and many developers don't seem to have the 'chops' to make anything good out of it. Performance is terrible on the vast majority, when visually the game might look no more advanced than Quake 3.

[Diego]

Unity doesn't compare with UDK in terms of power and performance, but it's hands down by far the best choice for any indie developer because of its ease of use, flexibility and license.

[Obsttorte]

http://www.gamestar.de/videos/action,9/sir-you-are-being-hunted,68211.html

 

gameplay trailer

[7upMan]

Ah, damn, sorry, I was going to post that video myself. I'm still waiting for the video for another game called Maia, a kind of Dungeon Keeper god game. The dev says that he's currently busy to make a gameplay video, so I'm waiting until he finishes the video to create a separate thread.

 

 

Anyway, Sir is already in the green (aka. funded), with 173% of the necessary sum and still 1 days to go. By the way, it's just £1,000 to unlock the £70,000 tier: The Riders

 

"Our most ambitious NPCs will take on the form of a classic British fox hunt, one of the favoured bloodsports of the rich and landed. These red-coated rider robots will be the most merciless - and the fastest - hunters in the archipelago. Once they have you sighted, well, run, Fox, run. We're asking a bit more for this thanks to the additional complexity of riding characters, and we're certain they'll make the most exciting addition to our NPC arsenal."

[Psychomorph]

http://www.gamestar....nted,68211.html

 

gameplay trailer

 

I wasn't sure about this, but after that video I might back it. Interesting gameplay. Though, it got funded already, but they wont mind few more bucks I figure.