State of the Game - December 2019

Cornelia

so, what happened to this?

King Of Tentacle

ya know for those who might wanna drop any pretense of heroism outright

King Of Tentacle

any possibility of a villain or fallen hero type of route?

Last image is very good

Bagendenten

Just make do with what you have for Arenus in RPG maker. Get back to it and finish it, don't waste time second guessing everything. Just do it.

Papi Penchev

What about Arenus

Gareth

honestly as long as you keep slowly improving or create a ng+ for roundscape i'll keep subbing as anyone who can create something of that scope deserves some artistic freedom, even if roundscape is ceased to be worked on. i will likely still sub for a while, atleast untill i see the results of your next "big" project

TheRevanchist

heh, i don't even know what to think about this stuff anymore. a future of Unity? not sure if I'm down with the creative direction going forward. Arenus basically perma delayed? Gonna need to seriously consider if I wanna keep committing money to this.

Kaliyo

I could now write an in-depth reply but instead i'm just going to say: Wait for the game and try it out yourself. Arenus and Banished are not cancelled. Pre-Production is complete, our goal is simply that Arenus becomes the best possible version of itself and that's hard to achieve in an engine such as RPG Maker.

Kaliyo

We hope that we can appeal to our Roundscape fans with this project, so you can expect a similar range of NSFW content in it.

Kaliyo

While we're proud of the story and world we've created with those games, the reception was pretty luke warm. We believe this is the best way to continue the uprising IP and I strongly believe that the Superhero genre offers a lot of playground for good NSFW games.

Kaliyo

We'll look into it, but Windows will always be our main platform. Also hope you folks have a good start into 2020 as well, cheers!

Kaliyo

Thanks!

digitall

What's gonna happen to the other Uprising?

OmegaYikes

(Replied to some, so this post is basically just a summarized version of my comments here) Promo4Promo with cheap 3D devs -> Arenus (as good as) cancelled -> Makes own 3D game. Truely a shame. Roundscape was such an amazing game, mostly everything afterwards was okay-ish (except Banished and Arenus, they looked SO amazing, but both are cancelled, I wonder why). Now we have this game. Now I don't want to be all bad-news-bears here, but... I don't think Kaliyo will be as big of a name as it is now a few months from now.

OmegaYikes

For me, and probably many others, 3D games are unpleasant to look at. And even you have to confess, compared to their previous games, most importantly Roundscape, this is the worst downgrade in the history of downgrades. We've went from one of the best, to something you can find just about everywhere.

DrakonM15

Dam this looks really promising. I look forward to see where this leads in the future.

Ayra

Thank you for giving us the option for a female protagonist after all! For NSFW games, I simply can't play male protagonists, so this is very welcome.

Osiris

Tbh, they could say people with alien looks just have mutant type powers or something.

waffel

Since you are now using unity, will you be so kind as to having a Linux build beside the windows and/or the Mac one. Unity does not play ball with standard wine, and you have to setup Proton and tech like that before you have a chance to get it working. And making a Linux build should be as easy as making a windows build especially if you do not use arcane 3rd party libraries in your code :) RPGM MV is easy to convert to native Linux because it's based on webtech, Ren'py is easy to convert but otherwise plays ball nicely with standard wine because it's based on Python, Unity creates strong platform dependant binaries, so it doesn't share the same kind of platform in-dependency as the other two engines. Wish you a happy new year.

Doctor Fate

So PC Female/Male character customization? I like that replay ability factor.

Binnoc9

I can't wait to play it!

Karackas

I gotta say, the best part of Roundscape was the species variety. If this game is going to be human-centric, then I hope these are some damn fine looking humans!

Kira

Hi, I like it and I have to admit that you did a piece of work and what concerns me I am of the opinion of the progress and technology if the game will have some direction and depth like Roundscape so I'm definitely for 3D,) And next year I will certainly support you... ,)

Robert Arctor

I really liked the writing in Uprising, the MV version. Not a fan of the engine, prefer renpy VNs, so it's just about the story. I had no interest in Arenus, so this is generally good news. I'm not terribly excited to hear the 3d action announcement as it takes quite a lot of work for the animation to be good enough to pay off and not look poor - but I guess action mechanics do fit the genre. I thought the MV action screens were something I had to suffer through to get to the story and the H-scenes; let's see if it will be the same with unity or not. 2d rendered CG made with 3d assets can look great though, looking forward to seeing the results there :)

Ilya

soo fucking sad....w8 for Arenus and got this 3dcrap... gg

Osiris

Really liked the first Uprising so I'm excited to see all the changes here. Will it have a similar range of taste as in the first one or more expansive like Roundscape?

Hey, after reading some of the other comments I just wanted to say that if the animations throughout the game stay on the same level as in the post and on the character creation screen, I have no doubt that it will be great. Also the move to unity will probably give you additionally possibilities regarding gameplay, so i am very exited. I just find it surprising that people are scared about the move to 3D because there are so many shitty 3D adult games. The problems these games have is not the 3D but shit gameplay, uninspired/basic story and no love for details, and looking at something like roundscape you probably don't need to worry too much about a lot of the competition.

Kaliyo

Roundscape is a completed game, we'll release a final gold patch for it in 2020 tho.

So I'm going to assume that Roundscape is still being made but put on a backburner? Just how many projects ya'll work on? It's got to slow things down a bit.

Badaxe

Most important things what kind of fetishes will you add in the game

RazRazor

If I may ask, how many people are currently working on Project Uprising and how many on Arenus? Are people working on both projects side by side or did you split the team?

Kaliyo

It's not 3DCG, the game's running in Unity. It's 100% realtime rendered and everything is animated.

Alternate

Yup, I'm also sad that you guys turn to 3D. You've been making some of the best games with 2D art, and that was making you stand out, and now you will be just another 3DCG smut developer. But hey, it's just a non-patron opinion. :)

Kaliyo

It's kinda a mix. Due the slow motion feature you can kinda decide if it's fast paced or more similar to a classic RPG.

DJay

TBH, I'm all about this. The only thing I want to know is if it's action based or is it wait your turn. I'm more of a fan of action RPG's than anything if this is going to fit into that genre..

Kaliyo

I understand your worries, but I can guarantee that won't be the case. This won't be just a 3D Sandbox with some sex animations, the game will launch with proper content. For Arenus: We just need some more time, but we don't want to just "disappear" till it's done and not deliever anything in the meantime. Project Uprising will hopefully be our "next Roundscape".

Oh. FFS. Arenus is borked? That...really sucks to hear. It was looking awesome. =/ Now I'm guessing it's 'whenever it's ready'. If that happens. As for Uprising....Meh? Sorry, you folks make some great games, but folks touting that they're making 3D H games are everywhere. Some have been going on for years, with barely any progress. So I hope it'll be good, but I'm not...really enthused.