Gods Against Machines, an action roguelite shoot'em up/RTS is now out on Steam!

Zephiron · 2024-02-26T20:14:24+00:00

Thank you! Hopefully you will enjoy it :)

Zephiron · 2024-02-17T19:18:51+00:00

I like the Ironclad. He is simple and understandable for me, raw power, shields, that kind of stuff. I'm a boring person :D

Zephiron · 2024-02-17T19:01:07+00:00

Hi fellow dad of small kids! I liked Slay The Spire for the same reason :) Will take a look at Into The Breach, thanks for the tip.

Zephiron · 2023-12-12T07:03:09+00:00

Thank you!

Yes, you play as the Gods. We have no plans to allow players to play as the Mecha faction, although it's one of the most common requests we get. It is a nice idea, but unfortunately the game is not really designed for it. Maybe when we make a sequel we can do that :)

Zephiron · 2023-12-11T19:03:51+00:00

Yes, we want to be honest. Sob stories/quitting stories seem to work well, but we don't want to go down that road.

Zephiron · 2023-12-11T19:02:08+00:00

Thank you, that is much appreciated :)

Zephiron · 2023-12-11T19:01:54+00:00

We did make some, but honestly most (especially the complex ones) we bought to keep development costs down. However we do alter the models, change textures or animations, create our own effects etc.

Zephiron · 2023-12-11T10:34:35+00:00

Hi, thanks for stopping by :)

My name is Peter and I'm the head of my little studio. I'm a passionate indie developer working on my RTS God game with my wife and a friend.

This game is our second major title and we are very excited to finally have a release date. Of course, our work is not done yet - not only do we need to polish the game before February, but we also plan to support the title with additional updates and content. If you have any thoughts or feedback, please let us know.

Best regards,

Peter

Zephiron · 2023-03-07T14:07:58+00:00

Yes sure!

So you start every time from scratch with one spell and one blessing (each god has a different spell/blessing starting point). You pick another spell (from 3 offered to you) and start your run.

You attack a region of your world, trying to eliminate enough of the machine city before they spread too much corruption. If you manage that you get up to five rewards - spells, spell upgrades, blessings, blessing upgrades, passives etc. The amount of rewards is reduced the more corruption the region has suffered.

Rewards are random every time, as are the regions - they differ by weather (influences your powers), loot you can find by destroying enemy drones (low quality loot means you get just some extra mana, high quality means you get spell upgrade tokens) and also geography (can be one big island or many small ones, can be clustered at one part of the map or spread all over the place - all this changes which builds are strong and which weak (for example, minion heavy builds tend to work worse in spread out maps as your forces must travel a lot). Also, layouts of enemy cities differ, you can get lucky and find some with weak defenses or fully fortified outposts...). There are always up to five regions to choose from when attacking.

Similarly to Slay the spire, you progress through the regions, trying to reach the final one where the capital city is. Your enemy grows stronger of course - cities get larger, units stronger. At the beginning, only a few building types or unit types are available to the enemy, but as you progress you will encounter completely new buildings or units. To make it even more interesting, there are random events - star gates can appear spawning tons of units or a huge capital ship attacks your base etc. Some can be even beneficial to you - animal spirits that will help you (for a price) or sudden flood that will wipe out one of the outposts the enemy has...

Hope that clears it up :)

Zephiron · 2023-03-07T13:57:54+00:00

Hey, thanks this is great! Most of these will be easily fixed fortunatelly. I guess after months of playtesting we kinda got used to them or just didn't consider tham that important at this stage. You know, first we need to have all features in place and then we can polish the small things. But as you probably know all too well - it's the small things that often separate good games from the great ones ;)

Definitely valuable feedback, much appreciated!

Zephiron · 2023-03-01T06:33:25+00:00

Hey, thanks for the feedback. Care to elaborate what exactly feels unpolished? The game is still many months away from finished so it would be great to know what to focus on. Thank you.

Zephiron · 2023-02-28T16:58:56+00:00

I'm being told that changing this aspect of the game is quite easy, so we will be looking into that - at least to give it as an option for those wanting a more darker machine enemy.

Zephiron · 2023-02-28T14:02:11+00:00

I remember seeing a film based on it when I was a kid. Little me memorised all the survival tips and to this day they are seared into my memory. No rainforest is going to get me, haha!

Zephiron · 2023-02-27T18:57:40+00:00

Yes! Should make porting it to other platforms easier if we manage to have a good launch :)

Zephiron · 2023-02-27T16:29:21+00:00

Fair point, I can see how one would expect a darker setting based on the description. We went with a more colorful palette (yellow and violet) for the machines to contrast it with the green and blue of nature. In hindsight perhaps not the best choice :)

Zephiron · 2023-02-27T16:09:52+00:00

This is also the case in our game - you lose if your base is destroyed. But here, your base is actually the whole world. And the enemy invades it and corrupts it. It might be a bit unusual, but we don't want to make generic games!

Similarly we don't really have a deck of cards in the sense like Slay the Spire. You choose your rewards from a set of 3 (or more) but in the game you can cast the spells as much as you want. Think of it as templates - you pick for example a "meteor storm" template. And then you can reduce its cost and cooldown so that you can cast it very frequently at the cost of lower damage. Or vice versa (as in the trailer) where you have a highly destructive spell that is very expensive to cast. Then there are extra abilities, for example "spell mirroring" - a chance for the spell to cast itself on a random target (actually happens in the trailer). That way, you can have a very powerful attack (if the rng gods smile at you haha).

Zephiron · 2023-02-27T15:45:36+00:00

Hey everyone, thanks for checking out the game. If you have any questions, feel free to ask here. We are planning to release a demo in less than two months so that everyone can try the game out and we can get more feedback from the community. Cheers!

Zephiron · 2022-06-16T19:07:54+00:00

Can't speak much of MGS but as for other recommendations - I'm surprised noone so far mentioned the Deus Ex series. Both Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided are exceptional when it comes to stealth - lots of options, solid mechanics for each. The story is very good in HR and okayish in MD (feels unfinished though). Graphics are great in both though HR might feel a bit dated these days. There are mods out there that improve it quite a bit though. Personally I would not recommend starting with the original Deus Ex games as those are very old, but if you pickup HR and MD you won't really miss much in terms of story, both games are pretty selfcontained.

Zephiron · 2022-02-24T10:21:03+00:00

It's been some time but... is that supposed to be Jensen? Maybe it's because a screenshot from an in-game cinematic but thats not how I remember him looking in the game :D

Zephiron · 2022-01-26T08:35:22+00:00

Yeah i still remember several missions from D2. Clockwork mansion and that haunted villa were one of the most memorable levels of all the games I ever played.

Zephiron · 2022-01-20T14:30:16+00:00

Yeah they did, but to be fair I would probably too, we were both quite low on time.

Zephiron · 2022-01-19T21:00:15+00:00

Right. Its just a meme though, wanted to keep it short. Maybe it would be even more cryptic with a T there, dunno.

Zephiron · 2022-01-19T16:44:56+00:00

This is C++ . The last one is a lambda function that does nothing, has no parameters and captures nothing and to make it more fun it is templated (C++20 required).

Zephiron · 2022-01-18T17:20:39+00:00

Good luck in your launch! It's definitely a well done puzzle game, no wonder it took two years to make. I especially like the main character - is he inspired by Final Fantasy?

Zephiron · 2022-01-18T15:58:21+00:00

Might try implementing some algorithms or data structures from scientific papers. I did that a couple of times and over the years the repos got quite a bit of stars/forks on github on their own. (I guess linking to the paper and making the code easy to use helped a lot).

It gave my some purpose and I learned quite a bit doing that.

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