Cyberslayers PART I

Here is the new project: Cyberslayers, Part I

My goal is to release within a month a concept demo of my next game, Cyberslayers.

The demo will follow the adventures of a mutant hunter in a cyberpunk universe called Kassiah.

It will unfold as a Visual Novel with RPG elements. It won't be a simple click to follow a story unfolding, there will be elements to unlock based on your actions.

I The Universe

Change of atmosphere after Leridia, our heroine will evolve in a futuristic world oriented cyberpunk in the megalopolis of Zenon.

A sprawling city located in the middle of a desert, in a hostile world that has undergone profound mutations following a virus. A politically and economically autonomous city thanks to the "Dark Matter", a precious source of energy.

The city has a police state regime and is divided into sectors: Alpha, Beta, Gamma ... which have their own peculiarities and where humans and mutants live side by side.

I want to put some Blade Runner feeling.

II Our Heroine

This is Kassiah, a 19-year-old girl. She's a Female Slayer, a mutant hunter. She takes contracts to harvest Dark Matter.

She's part of a special group, luring mutants with her feminine assets unlike normal slayers...

But why would she do this ? More info on a specific post later.

III A novel visual approach at first glance

The first contact with the demo is a classic visual novel approach. You follow Kassiah's story in this universe and interact with other characters.

But the dialogues don't scroll automatically, you have to choose what to do in "sets", which gives you a lot of possibilities with the addition of rpg elements. Here is for example the first scene in game where you can be free to make your choices.

Nothing exceptional so far, other games offer "Point and click" actions...

However, I decided to make the interactions more interesting and to enrich them with a system of skills and points to be attributed to the Heroine.

Here, for example, I've taken over Leridia's pentagram system and by clicking on the green symbol with the right skill, a special event will take place.

Here is an example of interactions at the dialogue level. Variables will open up new possibilities and Kassiah's skills will unlock new dialogues or even exclusive scenes with this or that character.

Kassiah is obviously annoyed at first with everything related to the theme of corruption and gravelly allusions. Otherwise it wouldn't be fun, would it?

III "Phantasm" skills

Let's take a closer look at skills by taking a simple example.

Here Kassiah is outside, she can search the surrounding area. I tried my best to give some "cyberpunk" atmosphere there.

 She can decide to search the garbage cans to her right but she won't find anything special. 

Now let's unlock the skill with the specific points (which will be discussed in more detail in a future post) "Perception Lv.1".  It's in her Datapad, a special rpg like menu.

Thanks to this skill, she has a better perception and hop...some bonus credits!

In the second part, we will approach the combat system and the system of corruption through the "Hacking" of her internal software "Phantasm".

Do not hesitate to leave a comment or a "like" if you like what you have read so far !

See you very soon for PART II !