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Kanshi City is an indie game about helping people escape a controlling government in a city inspired by Tokyo.

You must find people wanted by the government and help them escape before they are caught while avoiding security patrols.

The game is in early development and is expected to be released in 2018/2019.

Kanshi City is being developed by Midnight Pacific, an independent game developer from Glasgow, Scotland.


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Dev Blog #7

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Welcome to our seventh development blog. We’ll first cover everything we have done since the last blog and then speak briefly about our plans moving forward.

We have spent most of our time since the last dev blog filling out our new level with buildings so we have no blank spaces. That is mostly done now. The level is still a little sparse in terms of detail so we are going to start working on smaller decorative props instead of buildings. We have a few areas that are obviously unfinished, buildings with blank faces on some sides etc. We will address those later.

Check out our progress in this fly over video:

It may not be clear in the video but we slightly altered some post processing to make the neon glow less intense on our eyes. We also added a small noise filter over the camera which seems to complement the style. We also experimented with volumetric fog/lighting to get a nice visible spotlight effect from streetlights:

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To have some variety in our many neon signs we created some material behaviours, so some signs will flicker on and off, some will fade in and out and some will change colours over time:

We have started creating some props to make the streets a little more interesting:

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To try something a little different we tried to model some buildings that would fit going up slopes so our levels aren’t completely flat, take a look:

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We optimised the collision boxes of buildings so you can go inside doorways or upstairs, but didn’t do the job completely right resulting on citizens taking advantage of it:

We have a piece of physical merch!

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And we also broke 2000 followers since the last dev blog!

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So going forward we had some design meetings about the direction of the game, particularly about the story and player motive as well as game mechanics. We are giving the story a little bit more meat which will allow us to push the game in a focused direction and can tailor the mechanics towards that. It also gives us more of a plan to work toward and set deadlines as things were being done in a more random and sporadic manner.

The game story will center around a large company introducing robots to the city to help citizens, but with ulterior motives. The company will activate alternative programming for the robots which will make them aggressive and take control of the city. As a member of a resistance group it is your job to collect information which will allow you to deactivate a control beacon in each region of the city. When a control beacon is shut down it will weaken the robots as they will not be able to communicate with the company’s network, allowing you to destroy them in some way. Once all the beacons have been dealt with you will infiltrate the company headquarters to destroy their network core so they cannot send more robots to the city.

We’re currently pondering about the story and mechanics of introducing a mini boss at the end of each level and at the end of the game. These would be a great addition but may add a great deal of time and complexity to the development of the game. This is something we will prototype in a simplified manner to see how it plays.

Currently the game is set up so you have to deactivate multiple beacons around the city, it was a little confusing to some players so we are pulling it back to a single beacon but making it harder to find and deactivate. We are keeping our core mechanic of finding people in a crowd by having to find members of a resistance group, who have to keep hidden to avoid being caught by the company robots. The resistance group will provide information or tools to find and shutdown the beacon.

We have started contacting 3D artists to help us create characters for the game which will give the game have a more developed image. We don’t have to start working on characters just yet as we still have so much to do but we are just planning to get our finances in order to pay for contract work later in the year. To help with our finances we have started working on a Patreon page for the game, it is more or less complete but we are just waiting for the right time to launch it.

Thanks for keeping up to date with Kanshi City!

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Dev Blog #6

Dev Blog #6

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We try out UE4 sequencer for the first time and start building a new level.

Dev Blog #5

Dev Blog #5

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Feautured in a national newspaper and implemented player feedback: sprinting, camera alerts, proximity sensor, level select screen.

Dev Blog #4 - Games Convention Booth

Dev Blog #4 - Games Convention Booth

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We had a booth for Kanshi City at the Insomnia X Resonate festival at the Glasgow SECC. We had 350-400 people play the game and give us fantastic feedback...

Dev Blog #3

Dev Blog #3

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We have a new logo, updated our main menu, added a pause screen. We also added gamepad support, made guards more obvious and fixed some bugs!

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Peaheadgames
Peaheadgames

Loving this! Looking forward to more updates :)

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midnightpacific Creator
midnightpacific

Thanks man! Hoping to get lots more updates over this month to try to get over 2000 followers on Twitter :)

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Peaheadgames
Peaheadgames

Oh good luck I can only dream of 2k followers right now.

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midnightpacific Creator
midnightpacific

Thanks! My method is just try to tweet regularly and follow any other indie devs I can find!

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Vertelame
Vertelame

Exploration mode pls <3

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midnightpacific Creator
midnightpacific

Hey thanks for your comment! :) Could you explain what you mean? It sounds like just exploring the city without tracking people and guards looking for you?

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