Winter Ember - Official Gameplay Trailer

[SkyMachineStudios]

After many years in development, Winter Ember is nearly here. To celebrate, we decided to make this sneaky trailer. 

For those who don't know, Winter Ember is an isometric stealth game, inspired by the original Thief series. Enjoy! 
 

 

[freyk]

Nice, but does it come with an game editor? (And will be sourcecode released later?)

[datiswous]

Nice, although the blood animation is a bit strong..

[Kurshok]

It looks like it's a good game for fans of isometric playstyle, but it just seems... off, to me personally. No offense. It's just that the Thief series has been first person in all its iterations, as is The Dark Mod, and even Dishonored, if you want to count spiritual successors. I'm sure it's good, but it just doesn't scream "Thief" to me, more of a "Thief-inspired mobile game".

[New Horizon]

I honestly didn't get a Thief Vibe from that Trailer.  It doesn't present like a Thief styled game beyond some visual similarities.  It's more of a medieval Hit Man to me...what with all the blood and killing. lol

Congrats on the release. 

[SkyMachineStudios]

19 hours ago, freyk said:

Nice, but does it come with an game editor? (And will be sourcecode released later?)

At this point in time, there's no plans to include one. But something to ponder over.

[SkyMachineStudios]

16 hours ago, datiswous said:

Nice, although the blood animation is a bit strong..

Yeah, we are a little sadistic...

[SkyMachineStudios]

12 hours ago, Kurshok said:

It looks like it's a good game for fans of isometric playstyle, but it just seems... off, to me personally. No offense. It's just that the Thief series has been first person in all its iterations, as is The Dark Mod, and even Dishonored, if you want to count spiritual successors. I'm sure it's good, but it just doesn't scream "Thief" to me, more of a "Thief-inspired mobile game".

It's not so much a spiritual successor but inspired by the Thief series. 

[SkyMachineStudios]

11 hours ago, New Horizon said:

I honestly didn't get a Thief Vibe from that Trailer.  It doesn't present like a Thief styled game beyond some visual similarities.  It's more of a medieval Hit Man to me...what with all the blood and killing. lol

Congrats on the release. 

I see your point. The first half was meant to represent the stealth component, the second half more of the action side. In saying that, the game leans heavily towards stealth, that's for sure. 

[demagogue]

It's like the Diablo 2 version of Thief. Pretty cool if someone is in the mood for an isometric action RPG to have a Thief-inspired stealth-version to play. I like the idea looking at it from that perspective. 

I remember when we first got the TDM engine up and running moving the camera to follow the player isometrically, and I was thinking about making an FM in this kind of style, making the game more action and platform oriented. I still might do it sometime. (Our player animations, bare as they are, are not really up to the task though.) But it's cool to see someone really take that idea and make a full game of it. Good luck with it!

[SkyMachineStudios]

42 minutes ago, demagogue said:

It's like the Diablo 2 version of Thief. Pretty cool if someone is in the mood for an isometric action RPG to have a Thief-inspired stealth-version to play. I like the idea looking at it from that perspective. 

I remember when we first got the TDM engine up and running moving the camera to follow the player isometrically, and I was thinking about making an FM in this kind of style, making the game more action and platform oriented. I still might do it sometime. (Our player animations, bare as they are, are not really up to the task though.) But it's cool to see someone really take that idea and make a full game of it. Good luck with it!

Thanks for your reply. Most stealth games position the camera either first or third person, so we wanted to experiment from a different angel and offer up something a little different. Hope you do try and get something up and running, might spawn something cool from it.