Candles
Important note! Because Basement completely and completely about prohibited substances (and we do not want to accidentally get into the register of prohibited sites), all names and hints in the article are replaced by books of good writers that you should read for self -education for. Remember, guys, books are better than … well, you understand!
The book business is a forbidden topic for most games, if only it is not about the fight against it, of course. Despite the unspoken taboo and the opportunity to prohibit due to the propaganda of Franz Kafka and Stefan Zweig, three brave people from Minsk went to the risk-pan or disappeared, Dumas or prison! Opening the studio Halfbus And having come up with a concept Basement , They went with the game on Kickstarter, where they broke the bank. Even the topic of the game did not interfere with successful financing: the production of Chekhov’s books underground and the fight against police. But this is only the beginning of history!
Kafka on the beach
With the help of "People's Financing", almost twice as much as the requested was collected for the game – $ 28,300 instead of 15,000. At the same time, “underground-business strategy”, as the chief ideologist described it in an interview Basement , Dmitry Minsky, was born in the same way as Terraria and many other "hits in haste"-as part of the 72-hour festival Ludum Dare 29. As a joke in the task on the topic "Under the surface". The joke has grown into a serious business that Tony Montana and Vito Corleone would envy Tony Montana!
Such an acute topic as the trading of the books of Erich Maria Remarca is presented in a satirical manner-something like Theme Hospital With patients who need to be pierced by a swollen head and in return they inflate a new one. Very special "sick" come to us for the medicine. And they do not come somewhere, but, for example, to the chapel "Love of Jesus". Each name, every pixel is a tough mockery of everything that is so valuable for heroes The Godfather And Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars , But at the same time, the game has a serious side.
► Underground base with the micro -management of our goods production experts. In the relaxation room on the lowest floor, they constantly show … uh … porn. Are there any interests for the production experts for the production of books by Vladimir Nabokov?
Three comrades
“Treat” customers will have to mainly Dostoevsky and Griboedov. Under the church, serving as a “store” for those in need of shower, a whole underground city will soon grow in the spirit of Vietnamese catacombs or dungeons from the game Dungeon Keeper! We are erecting two types of buildings – production and utilitarian. The former are necessary for printing literature of different genres, the latter support the farm afloat, and employees in UES on.
Soon, a chain from the booksters lines up to the players: we sell them a product, earn money, expand, pay off and fight back from the police and competitors. In general, we are spinning in an adult way.
It is not accidental graphic execution in the format of two-dimensional pixel art-the developers wanted to clearly show the underground business in the section and therefore turned to the scheme-tested scheme. We have already seen this and in Tiny Tower , and in What Vid I do to desern this, my lord?, But they have never shut up Oscar Wilde, as they say, from the basement.
► types of buildings. Each of the production rooms can be improved and expanded twice – in the presence of finance. Four types of rooms correspond to four genres of literature, but we already know that the list will expand. Like visitors' horizons!
After the campaign was completed on Kickstarter, the developers exhaled with relief and for a while came off marketing tasks. There are only three people in the team, so the work of each is especially valuable. When we talked with the leader Halfbus in December 2014, the team had only two programmers and one artist.
► some of the heroes of the world Basement. Sympathetic, isn't it?
Traveling with Icstlan
In addition to building an underground base, combining features Dungeon Keeper , Evil Genius and the Vietnamese guerrilla war (within the walls of the native base it will be possible to arrange traps against the invaders), the game will appear in the game PVE-Boers on the city map, in style Evoland and other step -by -step rooks of the old school. There are a lot of sources of inspiration for the game – here is the cult series Breaking Bad ("" Breaking Bad "), And X-Com: Apocalypse , and other Halfbus games beloved by the team, among which there was even a place Endless Legend!
IN Basement easy and pleasant to play. You can verify this yourself by joining a free demo version here. However, the demo does not display the current state of the project – now the developers are replacing spiting characters with three -dimensional ones and add an entire city to the “base screen”. But pixel art is already pretty and appropriate, emphasizing the frivolous spirit of the game.
► Example animation of battle with cops. Most like Penny Arcade Adventures or the first parts of Final Fantasy.
Dmitry Minsky said to us like this: “Basement will not be a dental strategy with a thousand parameters, where it will take several hours to master the interface”. The game is made with the expectation of an understandable and interesting gameplay, not overloaded with a difficult choice. After the release, the developers intend to engage in the multiplayer regime, which are often asked for sponsor players-many will probably remember how they played the excursion in " Chicago 1932: Don Capone "On the 486th PC in the multiplayer mode" Alcatraz ". Who knows, maybe we will see something similar?
► different genres of literature and their target audience. And this bearded bespectacle is very much like ..
Did not do during the development and without funny stories, which the creator happily shared with us. One Cracking situation arose due to copyright violations-on the site Games Jam A nameless project appeared, exactly corresponding to the description and screenshots of the game Basement. Dmitry immediately, with a saber, sent the author a detailed letter with links to the Code of Administrative Offenses (Code of Administrative Offenses) and economic courts. In general, he intimidated the plagiator with all available methods … However, on the same day it turned out that the page was placed by a freelancer girl who had long been working on the project. Minsk jokes: “The good headlines in the media would have turned out to be good: they say, the developers of the game about substances sued themselves :)”.
► City map and city map. We are also the routes along which the car loaded with Carlos Castaneda will go. It is cooler than in Breaking Bad!
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By this moment, you most likely decided that Basement – excellent material for our mobile digest. However, the game about illegal books will appear not only on tablets, but also on Steam. The authors promise to do without a donat-the scheme “honestly bought the game and https://sister-site.org/voodoodreams/ play for your pleasure” is promised, that is, F2P versions Basement It is not planned with micallors.
We hope that the authors will not anathematize for their unique idea. The previous game that advised to tell Irwin Welsh “sometimes!", Drug Wars, We haven't inspired us very much. “We are not a church and not an ethics committee to teach someone's life. We just like making games. The purpose of the development is banal to the limit: we want it to be fun and interesting to play it. Everyone who goes through the game will draw their conclusions, ”Minsk. Well, we hope that the developers will not have problems. In the end, this is just a satire.
Success factors
Risk factors
- You can trade in classical literature without fear and reproach;
- “To be bad – cool”;
- Humor and pixel art;
- simple and understandable gameplay suitable for tablets.
- The game may have problems, despite the satirical attitude towards oneself;
- the absence of the storyline and the protagonist;
- Lack of Bob Marley's songs in the soundtrack.
We will wait?
The simulator of the novice king of the book empire, whose authors are not afraid of experiments. The game goes further from the initial "citation" Tiny Tower , but we can check the gameplay for fun and variability only closer to spring. In their right mind from the game with the concept " Dungeon Keeper plus the production of books by Charles Bukovski »Nobody will refuse.
Waiting rating: Pelevin
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