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Setting
The game is set in a Space Western universe - a subgenre of science fiction, that transposes themes of American Western books and film to a backdrop of futuristic space frontiers.
In Exoplanet: FC we have brought together distinctive elements of Wild West, futuristic technologies and feudal society of a distant human colony, placed on a wild and dangerous planet named K'Tarsis.
The planet is going through dark times of crisis and chaos after a massive wave
of gold rush. K'Tarsis is now a "ghost colony" with no law and order except of "the rule of gun and fist".Colonists must struggle to survive in aggressive environment and fight the uprising natives and criminals of all kind.

Style
Exoplanet:First Contact is a balanced Action/RPG mix focused on exploring and interaction with the game's world. There will be no complicated statistic and numbers.
Action is represented by 3rd person shooter with deep gunplay and tactical variability, based on
the so called "Gunslinger Mode" (see the 3d-screnshot in our video!). The "Gunslinger Mode" is an advanced variant of "slow time" game mechanic. It replaces the classic tactical pause but
does not reduce the dynamic of the action that much.

Story
You start your adventures on K'Tharsis as Jack Sharp, a space nomad, who has lost his starship and was enslaved by some criminals. You must recover your freedom and avenge your foes. Explore the dangerous planet and its darkest secrets! Find legendary treasures of mysterious race of so called "Dark Wanderers"! You will become a part of epic events and fascinating stories! Be prepared to take hard choices and be ready to face consequences! It's up to you to be a hero or a villain!

Key features:

  • Interactive environment as a gameplay component. For example you can catch a poisonous bug and throw him as a sticky grenade, causing chaos and fun! There are some riding animals, which you can use to kill enemies or cross obstacles and destroy defensives.
  • Non-linear story and various gameplay options. You can choose your tactics. Lead this world to peace and order or cause war, violence and destruction.
  • Dual wield guns and cold steel! Combine your attacks with interactive environment usage. For example you can grab, throw and shoot an explosive canister over a group of enemies to cause an effective area of effect damage.
  • Fascinating story and charismatic characters
  • Exoplanet FC is a beginning of epic space saga!

Software
Proprietary Software: self-developed Sahara Engine and World Editor with necessary toolset and utilities.

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3 comments by false3d on May 10th, 2013

Hi there!

Our development log for Exoplanet: First Contact #8 features a lot of visual improvements for some of the old systems and also gives you another glimpse at the powerful crafting system of the game.

We are using a new ingame item to demonstrate the options for basic crafting mechanics and we hope that our community will understand the potential of this solution.

We feel that this a bit more “survival-like” way of creating and combination useful things suits better for our Frontier planet setting than lots of shops, vendors and random loot generation.

For the background music in this episode we took one of the new ambient tracks composed by Simon for even more desolate places than canyons around the Outpost 74.

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You also can support the development directly and get access to the playable alpha and all updates including final game when it will be released. 

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d10sfan
d10sfan Apr 21 2013, 7:05pm says:

any chance of a Linux version?

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false3d
false3d Apr 22 2013, 7:43am replied:

We review this option. If there will be enough people interested in Linux version we definitely will support this platform.

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d10sfan
d10sfan Apr 23 2013, 2:08am replied:

ah ok thanks for the info, hope to see it

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Giamme
Giamme Apr 3 2013, 11:54am says:

What Engine are you using?

Anyway looks amazing, but there's another game like this one that is looking for money in kickstarter.

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false3d
false3d Apr 4 2013, 4:02am replied:

We are using our own engine - Sahara Engine

By the way, what is name of that game that is on Kickstarter?

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lowenz
lowenz Apr 19 2013, 5:59pm replied:

The HUD really seems/reminds to the Gothic 3 one!

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false3d
false3d Apr 19 2013, 6:06pm replied:

Perhaps it is because Gothic is one of the games we are inspired by =).
Anyway this is temporary design of the HUD, and later we will make it more stylish and unique.

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Giamme
Giamme Apr 24 2013, 2:38am replied:

I'm sorry i can't remember, anyway you 're doing a great job!

PS: Linux version?

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false3d
false3d Apr 24 2013, 4:27am replied:

Thank you! =)

PS: We are reviewing option with Linux version.
If there will be enough people interested in it we definitely will support this platform.

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false3d
false3d Apr 3 2013, 4:34am says:

Thanks guys for the feedback!
Sure we will progress and nothing can stop us! =)

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