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 Posted: Tue, 18th Feb 2014 17:59 Post subject: Blackmore's Bane - A Steampunk Adventure Game [NR] |
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Official web page: Blackmore
Publisher: iQiOi Co., Ltd.
Developer: iQiOi Co., Ltd.
Genre: Isometric 2.5D Adventure Game / may change to 2D
Release date: SPRING 2015 / yeah, no.
Kickstarter: #1 failed, relaunch in May/June
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Blackmore is a Japanese adventure game that takes the best of the classic adventure genre, including awesome Japanese art, clever puzzles and great storytelling and combines them into an all-new game in a rich, immersive isometric environment that will keep players on the edge of their seats.
You play as Emma Blackmore, a brave young heroine who, along with the help of her steampunk gadget-laden robot sidekick, Descartes, must track down a serial killer that's terrorizing the people of East London. Her normal life is shattered one day and she finds herself embroiled in a dark and twisted mystery that exposes the dark side of the city and the dark side of humanity itself.
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The Team
Jeremy Blaustein (Snatcher, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill), a master storyteller, an ace at writing great dialog and a voice director that brings out the best from actors, will lead the team. Satoshi Yoshioka (Snatcher, Policenauts), with his distinctive and immediately recognizable awesome Japanese style will be spearheading the character design and Motoaki Furukawa (Gradius, Snatcher), one of the game industry's most experienced game music composers will handle the original music to further enhance the strong Japanese aesthetics.
Platforms: Blackmore will be developed first for PC and Mac and will be made available on Steam and other DRM-free digital download distribution methods. Home consoles are also a high priority, but only if we can afford them via stretch goals.
Languages: We’re planning on English and Japanese for the time being but may add additional languages depending on the kind of support we receive from various regions.
Estimated release: Our goal is for spring of 2015!
# of Players: One-player, of course!
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Story
Blackmore's Bane takes place in an alternative universe London in 1888. It is the story of the Blackmore family, an aristocratic clan whose patriarch, Lord Simon Blackmore, a world-famous scientist and inventor, died several years earlier in a laboratory accident. The remaining Blackmore clan consists of the mother, Teruko Honda-Blackmore, Jonas Blackmore and Emma Blackmore. When the fragile peace of the city is shattered by a serial murderer, the lives of the Blackmore family are turned upside down and they must rely on their wits, combined with cutting edge Victorian technology, to try to track down the killer.
You play as Emma Blackmore, a young half-Japanese woman and daughter of the late Lord Simon Blackmore, inventor and nobleman. Emma lives in a huge mansion with her brother, Jonas Blackmore, and mother, Teruko Honda-Blackmore. More like her father than her mother in temperament, Emma is strong-willed and determined to do more with her life than merely achieve the Victorian woman's ideal of becoming a wife and mother. Having been one of the first females to receive a medical degree from Oxford, she starts her own medical clinic in East London to service the needs of the skyrocketing poor population. Her closest companion is Descartes, a boy robot built by her father, Simon, to watch over her.
Emma's day begins just like any other. Woken hastily by Descartes, she rushes to morning breakfast served by her family’s automaton servant. Her moody brother, Jonas, thinks she should quit work and find a good husband and her mother, Teruko, is preoccupied with the demands of running the household and attending to her late husband's estate.
Emma jumps on her steam bike and pedals to work, but before the day is over, she finds herself face to face with a crime scene of unspeakable horror. With the help of her robot sidekick and various gadgets left by her father, she puts her wits to the test and sets out a quixotic quest to find the culprit and put an end to the terror besieging London.
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World
Imagine an alternative London in the Victorian Era - a world where European and Asian fashion and aesthetics collide, a world where advances in automation, electronics and chemistry have ushered in a wondrous new world filled with robotic servants, steam-driven transportation and ornately gilded steampunk gadgetry. But as wondrous as it may appear, all that gleaming steel and burnished brass hides an underbelly tainted by rust and tarnished with grime. It's a world where homeless children beg for food, their hands yellowed and stained from toiling in the match factory, a world where families sleep crowded together in rat-infested rooms, a world choking to death on its own gluttonous greed.
1888. It was a time of truly breathtaking changes: It was the year in which Germany got a new emperor, the year Van Gogh cut off his ear, the year of the first long-distance car race, the first motion picture, the first home camera, the first Sherlock Holmes book, the first ballpoint pen, the first indoor baseball game, the year Tesla and Edison waged their famous “War of Currents” and the first time that electric trains ran in the first underground subway in the first tunnel built beneath a major river. It saw the birth of the telephone, radio waves, phonographs, light bulbs. But perhaps most memorably, it was the year of the Whitechapel murders, the year of Jack the Ripper.
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Characters
Emma Honda-Blackmore – (22) Heroine. Brilliant and independent like her father, she is a pioneering medical doctor serving the poor and needy in the slums of East London. Sharing her father’s gift for invention, she uses technology and newly emerging forensic techniques to solve crimes.
Descartes –Emma’s companion robot built by her father, Simon Blackmore. Descartes relationship with Emma is stormy at times, but he follows her wherever she goes.
Jonas Blackmore – (25) Voiced by David Hayter, Jonas is the emotional and brooding young head of the Blackmore family. He feels inadequate compared to his great father and struggles to prove himself worthy of the name Blackmore.
Lord Simon Blackmore (deceased) – Scientist, inventor, father of Emma and Jonas, husband of Teruko. The greatest inventor of his generation and former mentor of Nicola Tesla, he left his daughter with a gift, a robot friend named Descartes.
Teruko Honda-Blackmore – Emma’s Japanese mother. She remains Emma and Jonas’ only link to the great heritage of their Japanese family, the Honda clan. Her father was a Tokugawa Era inventor and she still possesses many of his secrets.
Detective Frederick Abberline – Lead detective for the Whitechapel Murders. A former clockmaker and grieving widower, his command of steampunk weaponry is impressive.
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Gameplay
I'm guessing most of you are familiar with the style of gameplay in adventure games, but let me take a moment to describe it for those of you who are not. In Blackmore, the main character, Emma, along with Descartes, will be moving from area to area searching for clues, asking questions and solving puzzles via a mouse-click menu system. All of this will be presented within a gorgeously drawn isometric 2.5D environment.
Whether or not you advance in the game will depend on how quickly you can pick up on the various clues and on how well you employ the tools at your disposal. Emma, being not only a trained doctor but also the daughter of a noted inventor, has a number of tools and gadgets at her disposal. The most sophisticated of these is a high-tech monocle equipped with a variety of technologies including the ability to take photographs. It also gives her the ability to use other forensic techniques that can reveal things not at first visible to the naked eye.
Incidentally, all the photos you take will be, of course, hand-drawn closeups of objects or characters seen from Emma's perspective and will be stored in the game's memory and made available for viewing anytime. Emma will be assisted by her mechanical companion, Descartes, who can perform various tasks suitable to a robotic sidekick of his diminutive proportions. Think of him as a combination guide, partner, comic relief and multi-tool.
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Blackmore Features
- Highly detailed rendered 2.5D isometric graphics
- Classic point and click/menu mechanics
- A powerful orchestral soundtrack written and performed by Motoaki Furukawa, a Konami musical legend
- Classic Japanese art-style drawn by veteran Konami artist, Satoshi Yoshioka, who has worked on such hits as Snatcher and Policenauts
- A compelling story and script written by Jeremy Blaustein, the man behind the English Snatcher, Metal Gear Solid, the Silent Hill series, Shadow Hearts, Suikoden 2 and many more.
- Top voice actors such as David Hayter, Jeff Lupetin and others directed by Jeremy Blaustein
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Other art by Satoshi Yoshioka
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Win, OSX, Linux and possibly consoles. Don't eat me this time, no Win 8 bullshit here. 
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1st kickstarter failed.
They'll relaunch it in May/June.
It may end up being 2D, there's a poll going on @ blackmoresbane.com
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