"Halfway is a turn-based strategy game taking place a few hundred years in the future. You take control of a small group of people who are witnesses to a violent overtake of their spaceship by an unknown species. As you fight your way through the dark corridors and rooms of the ship, you will uncover more and more details of what has taken place."
Halfway is an upcoming game recently announced by its creators, Robotality. From the released game play footage and announcement this game looks like a really interesting indie answer to the classic X-Com turn based tactical strategy game genre. The game looks very playable in its early form and I am really interested in watching this project unfold.
They answer a few questions about the game in a recent blog post:
Does Halfway have procedural content?
"Yes and no. What we donāt have is procedurally generated levels. Instead we have hand-crafted levels. As mentioned in last weekās post, we strongly feel this is the way to go for our game. With Halfway, we donāt just want to send the player through a series of randomly occurring battles, but deliver an engaging story with it. This is quite difficult to do with completely procedural content. We hope you will agree when you actually get to play the game."
What about Squad customization?
"In Halfway your squad members donāt have fixed classes. Instead each squad member is made up of a tactical skills tree and some positive and negative perks. Some characters will share certain skills and specialization's. When a member has gained enough experience the player will be able to choose from skills and perks to customize their team."
BBBBBBuut what about console support? Well it seems the Halfway team has your back...
"One of the aspects weāve always wanted to make sure is that our games come with good modding support. When we started working on Halfway, we knew that itāll be something we want to plan for from the beginning.
Halfway is coming out later this year, and we will shortly thereafter release an entire toolchain that will allow anyone to build their own levels and campaigns for the game."
Awesome 2D pixel themed tactical strategy game coming out on Mac, Windows, Linux with modding support built in? Uh yeah, that sounds awesome.
*achievement unlocked: on my radar*
http://robotality.com/blog/
Halfway is an upcoming game recently announced by its creators, Robotality. From the released game play footage and announcement this game looks like a really interesting indie answer to the classic X-Com turn based tactical strategy game genre. The game looks very playable in its early form and I am really interested in watching this project unfold.
They answer a few questions about the game in a recent blog post:
Does Halfway have procedural content?
"Yes and no. What we donāt have is procedurally generated levels. Instead we have hand-crafted levels. As mentioned in last weekās post, we strongly feel this is the way to go for our game. With Halfway, we donāt just want to send the player through a series of randomly occurring battles, but deliver an engaging story with it. This is quite difficult to do with completely procedural content. We hope you will agree when you actually get to play the game."
What about Squad customization?
"In Halfway your squad members donāt have fixed classes. Instead each squad member is made up of a tactical skills tree and some positive and negative perks. Some characters will share certain skills and specialization's. When a member has gained enough experience the player will be able to choose from skills and perks to customize their team."
BBBBBBuut what about console support? Well it seems the Halfway team has your back...
"One of the aspects weāve always wanted to make sure is that our games come with good modding support. When we started working on Halfway, we knew that itāll be something we want to plan for from the beginning.
Halfway is coming out later this year, and we will shortly thereafter release an entire toolchain that will allow anyone to build their own levels and campaigns for the game."
Awesome 2D pixel themed tactical strategy game coming out on Mac, Windows, Linux with modding support built in? Uh yeah, that sounds awesome.
*achievement unlocked: on my radar*
http://robotality.com/blog/
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Something to keel an eye on for sure
Yep, for sure.