[Kickstarter] Monster Crown - old school monster taming game [Funded]
Kamigoroshi
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https://youtu.be/dWPFAD_oChUThere's currently an monster taming slash crossbreeding game over at kickstarter called Monster Crown. For those who enjoyed the ol' handheld console games like Dragon Warrior Monsters, Monster Rancher, or Pokemon Gold/Silver, this should be rather interesting news.
It's already waaay past its funding goal of $5.000. Took only like two days. And even smashed dozen of stretch goals:
The game will be released around Februrary 2019 on Windows, Linux, Android, Nintendo Switch and PS Vita. And backers can get a copy of their choice for $10 during the campaign. Not to mention that all backers receive a link to a fully playable demo of the game (which has even be updated around three times already to eradicate any and all game bugs).
Currently there are over 200+ tameable monsters and each will be fuseable/crossable to create new monster species. Nothing like Pokemon where there are only additional attacks in for the Day Care eggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9FthPIuG5wFurthermore, the game allows for online battles. But best of all: there will be no microtransactions! This bit of information was especially important for myself because I hate having micropayments in my games.
All in all it's a nice little something, which I took a liking to.
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Another stretch goal reached and two new ones were revealed. Also, the backer demo finally received both a Linux and a Mac version. Previously it was only for Windows.
That being said, non-backers can still watch Let's Play's on youtube of the demo. The creators gave their blessings about that too. Here's one that I found:
The campaign is currently a bit over $27.100, which means that the Artbook/Player's Guide, Gene Lab, and Monster Costumes stretch goals were all reached. Plus when Monster Crown receives another $800 the game even gets translated into Spanish to boot. Nice going given that the kickstarter has whopping 16 days left!
Also, here's the last part of the demo's Let's Play from above.
This kickstarter got $45.415 together, meaning a whopping 908% of the initial $5.000 funding goal!
Its backers smashed up 13 stretch goals one after another.
Although it's kind of a bummer that the very last one wasn't reached in time... but other than this it couldn't have gone any better!
Edit:
Turns out the devs are actually doing even the not reached stretch goal as a little thanks to their backers! O.o
Customizable battle tamer sprites are on the house~!
Highlights in a nutshell:
- Overworld exploration is going to be an extended feature. You may stumble on a monster nest with hatchable eggs or collected treasures in them, find other tamer's bags (perhaps even a tamer corpse nearby) or something else interesting while walking down in the wilderness.
- Various toggable game settings: Limited Save Points, Perma Death, and Disabled Breeding/Fusing is going in.
- Also a previous update revealed that we also get a Retro Mode for some extra nostalgia:
No concrete release date as of yet. But it shouldn't be that far off.
Private Beta Signups have now started: best part?
Seems that you don't need to have backed the kickstarter campaign for getting a shot at this.
Monster Crown starts its Early Access phase in less than three hours. Currently there are 200 "base" monsters. But breeding them together to create new species is also a thing. So all in all you can end up with over 1000 different creatures.
Also interesting to know:
Creating new monsters by combining old ones gives me strong Jade Cocoon vibes, which is a good thing. I made some real Eldritch abominations in that.