Magrunner Dark Pulse - Presentation - Gamesplanet lab funding project

Hey, everybody! My name is Doug Burchill, and I’m a narrative developer for 3AM Games, which is really just a fancy way of saying, that I write stories for 3AM games. But today I want to take a little time to tell you about who we are, and our brand new game Magrunner: Dark Pulse. And we'd like to get you involved in the final development of the game. So, 3AM games is a spinoff of Frogwares Game Development Studio, and you may know Frogwares for their Sherlock Holmes game series. In fact, the sixth game in their Holmes series, The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, is due for release later this year. Frogwares has been an indie developer for over a decade, and they've got some very talented artists and developers working in an adventure game genre. We want to try something a little different with Magrunner, so we founded this new studio with new ideas in both game development and crowdfunding. We'll get at those in just a bit, but first one I'll tell you about Magrunner, a little bit about what the game is. Magrunner is a first-person action puzzle game… That's set in the near future with some elements of horror in it. In fact the storyline is a combination of two popular genres. We've got cyberpunk and the Cthulhu Mythos written by H.P. Lovecraft. So players take on the role of our hero Yoshi in this new future setting. And what begins as a friendly high-tech corporate competition soon descends into a battle for survival. Yoshi realizes that it's not just his life on the line but the fate of the world is at stake. Yoshi is equipped with a Magtech Glove, a piece of technology that allows him to change the polarity of objects in the environment. Charging objects with like or different polarities creates some interesting results, and also the means to progress through the game’s levels. Magnetic charges are based on colors, for example red repels blue, but attracts another red object. By combining elements like cubes, jumps, and platforms, and charging them with different polarities, players can experiment with different effects as they attempt to solve environmental puzzles. The environment in our future world begins as a gleaming example of corporate technology. Things soon begin to change as the events of the story unfold. As Yoshi rushes to save the world, he must progress through increasingly bizarre and otherworldly levels, that have torn through our reality from somewhere else. Magrunner is being developed on the Unreal engine, so you know there’s solid code behind it. And you can see for yourself the level of art and development that’s gone into the game, so far. With Frogwares support, we’ve managed to accomplish something we’re very proud of. But we’re not done, yet. The base game is almost finished and fully funded, but we want to try something new… and that’s where you come in. Magrunner has already been fully funded as a stand-alone game at 1 million dollars. So why are we crowdfunding? Well, we want you to help determine the final components that go into the game And we gonna add these components based on the different levels of funding that we achieve. so, it depends on what you want to see in the game. Do you want to see multiplayer, Co-op, PvP, do you want to see extra levels, or maybe the game on the different platforms. We really want it to be up to you. We want you to make the game that you want to play. Now, down below me on the page, you can check out some more information on 3am games, Magrunner. and see what we are going to be up to for the rest of the year. Over here on the right, we’ve got different funding levels and the cool stuff you get with them, So, hope you’re excited about Magrunner and you going to take this trip with us. Wanna see where it ends up. And I just want to say thank you for taking the time to watch this video, and I'll talk to you soon.