Posted August 31, 2023 by Synystron Games
Slartboz is like one big ball of "homage" to all the things I love.
Whether from games or films, shows or books, music or even toys. And I hope fans will be able to tell when they play the game themselves. I bet they will.
Gremlins?
CHECK
X-COM?
CHECK
Wes Craven's 80's film Deadly Friend?
CHECK
Stranger Things?
CHECK. wait til you see what Fern can do. heck, Pell is basically Hawkins crossed with...
Back to the Future?
CHECK
John Carpenter's The Thing?
CHECK
Fallout and Wasteland?
CHECK. ("And my proton axe!")
Dwarf Fortress
CHECK. well, this is the most ambitious. if I can deliver something even half as rich and complex as The Big Lovable Dorf Undermountain Simulator it would be a big success from a design standpoint
GI Joe?
CHECK
Lemonade Stand?
CHECK. (kids, dont ask. and get off my lawn)
Road War 2000?
CHECK
The X-Men (at their very best)
CHECK. did I mention Fern is a mutant? well, she's otherwise a very normal and ordinary teen girl. with A Thing for Abro, for some reason (a mystery to everyone, esp Abro himself). and for Hot Shoes. but she also has... Powers. and they're growing. frankly they might be growing out of control...
The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
CHECK. At least I might have.planted the seeds of... antici... pa-shun?
The Abominable Doctor Phibes?
CHECK
Young Frankenstein?
CHECK
Rambo 7: More Blood Later
NOT CHECK! but I had you for a minute, right?
though there is a whole "gun game" subsystem that is quite bang-bang, faster pussycat, bang-bang and mega-zod faster-lish
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Mike
ps. here are 4 video previews, all made in the last month: