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Nostalgia attacks first in new Cosmic Star Heroine video
Maybe this footage of Zeboyd Games' upcoming PS4 and Vita roleplaying game Cosmic Star Heroine could look more like a time-displaced refugee from the dawn of the 32-bit era if its first moments featured the classic Square logo and Chrono Trigger theme song. But that's a big maybe. [Image: Zeboyd Games]
Crowdfund Bookie: Story generator RimWorld earns $257K
The Crowdfund Bookie crunches data from select successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns that ended during the week and produces pretty charts for you to look at. This week in crowdfunding, the Kickstarter projects for RimWorld, Cosmic Star Heroine, Pulsar: Lost Colony, HuniePop, Universum: War Front, Rebuild: Gangs of Deadsville, Spark Rising and Monster Stacker as well as the Indiegogo campaigns for Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders and Beyond Eyes came to a close. RimWorld, a top-down, tactical game with an AI "story generator" earned the most money ($257,152) and had the highest number of funders of the week, with 9,498 people funding the project. Flex-funded, sci-fi strategy game Sword of the Stars: Ground Pounders had the highest average pledge per person rate of the group ($75.84). Check out the week's results and our pretty charts after the break.
Cosmic Star Heroine pits female lead against classic RPG gameplay
Cosmic Star Heroine is a blatant homage to 90s-era roleplaying games with one key difference: Instead of playing the part of a plucky young boy cast into epic adventure, players assume the role of blue-haired secret agent Alyssa L'Salle. "Alyssa L'Salle is one of the galactic government's top agents and always manages to save the day," states the game's official plot description. "But when she accidentally uncovers a dark conspiracy, her own government outs her as a legendary spy and the people's champion!" "Sure, now she has hordes of adoring fans but every villainous organization she's ever crossed in her career knows who she is and is out for her blood! Can she save the day once more while she faces her greatest challenge... Everyone!?" Developer Zeboyd Games is best known as the studio behind the third and fourth installments of Penny Arcade's On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness. With 29 days remaining in Zeboyd's Kickstarter effort, the game has attracted $7,075 of its $100,000 goal. Assuming this fundraising drive is successful, Cosmic Star Heroine is slated to make its debut on the PC, Mac, PlayStation 4 and Vita platforms at some as yet undetermined point in the future.
Zeboyd Games' Cosmic Star Heroine coming to PS4, PS Vita
Zeboyd Games has revealed its next game, Cosmic Star Heroine, is coming to PS4 and PS Vita in addition to PC and Mac. This sci-fi RPG is inspired by '90s classics such as Chrono Trigger, the Phantasy Star and Suikoden series. The game's story follows the titular heroine Alyssa L'Salle, a spy for the galactic government who stumbles upon a conspiracy and subsequently has her cover blown by her own government. Zeboyd Games, perhaps best known for Cthulhu Saves the World and wrapping up the Penny Arcade Adventures series, is an independent developer founded in 2009 by Robert Boyd and William Stiernberg. The studio is best known for creating retro-inspired 2D roleplaying games.
From Penny Arcade to Cosmic Star Heroine: Zeboyd's trip to the spotlight
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 was released this past June. It's a wonderful, funny RPG, one that belies the series' long, rocky development. The Rain-Slick series began as a collaboration between Hothead Games and Penny Arcade, but the relationship ended after the release of the (much less successful) second episode. The reason for the split depends on who you ask, but the upshot is that Episode 3 was, for a time, completely canceled. That was until a single, wishful Penny Arcade forum thread put development into the hands of Zeboyd Games, creator of offbeat retro RPGs Breath of Death VII and Cthulhu Saves the World. Zeboyd took the same retro approach with the final two Penny Arcade games, releasing both Rain-Slick 3 and Rain-Slick 4 within a year of each other. The fourth game wasn't as successful coming out of the gate, says Boyd, but a recent Steam sale has helped put it on par with the third in terms of sales.
Cosmic Star Heroine is Zeboyd's new sci-fi, turn-based RPG
Zeboyd's next (artfully pixelated) game is Cosmic Star Heroine, a futuristic, sci-fi, turn-based RPG starring master government spy Alyssa L'Salle. Alyssa uncovers a dastardly conspiracy within her own leadership and the government outs her identity, instantly making her the target of every agency she's ever wronged. Alyssa's main weapon is a bo that's also a gun and a shield, and she stores it in a satchel that's bigger on the inside than on the outside, like Mary Poppins' purse or Hermione Granger's beaded handbag. Or The Doctor's TARDIS. Zeboyd is developing Cosmic Star Heroine with Unity to get it on a range of platforms, and the gameplay won't involve separate screens for combat. As Zeboyd says, "combat will occur directly on the same maps that you explore on," and enemies won't be stagnant; they'll run around the map and chase players as they see fit. Hyperduck, who composed the music for Zeboyd's previous game, Penny Arcade Adventures 4, should be back for Cosmic Star Heroine. Zeboyd will launch a Kickstarter for Cosmic Star Heroine "later this year," and it plans to take a transparent approach to development. So far we can vouch for Alyssa's prowess as a spy – she's had a Twitter account since March 11, and she hasn't even been trying that hard to hide it.
