Hello, fellow denizens of the planet Earth, Solar System.
Remember when I talked about doing a new thing? So here comes the new thing! Today in
The Escapist - Indie Showcase
We showed a new trailer for our newest game! In the Steam page you can check the trailer, screenshots and everything about it! Make sure to reblog this post so we can spread the news about BOBO and her Jukebot.
Check the Steam Page and make sure to wishlist!
Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk Action, is a Cyberpunk turn based rhythm JRPG inspired by the Mario&Luigi RPG series and Chrono Trigger, in which you play as the singer and songwriter, BOBO.
Fuel your moves with the electric power of music in this unforgiving planet by using real-time execution of moves in rhythm game style! Battle the authorities, unlock the secrets of Saturn, play on your own bands’ concerts and hack into the network to bring an end to this corrupt system, for better or worse.
In a silent world where music has been prohibited, BOBO will serenade her rebellion against the vicious authorities by banding together with the Jukebot drummer, Rocket, to shatter the strings of fate and sing the melody of freedom in this unforgiving Rhythm Turn Based JRPG.
Control Electricity with your own music! Transform it into attack or defense as needed, swapping between different movesets and tactics.
Classic Turn Based Combat with a twist: Real Time execution of moves in rhythm game style, aim your shots, time your attacks, parry and block your enemies in this unforgiving planet.
No Random-Encounters; fight your enemies head-on with seamless in world battles inspired by Chrono Trigger.
Befriend the citizens, or betray them, hacking into their profiles to acquire resources or to change the course of the story with multiple endings.
Play with your band to the friends you made at the Music Show minigame, featuring compositions by Elektrobear (Momodora, Virgo Versus The Zodiac), voiced by Psamathes.
But watch out on the Danger Meter! The all-ears church-police will certainly come after devious denizens who do not respect the Law of Silence.
Completely customize your characters with a great variety of equipment; unlock special Talents using the Keys harvested from enemies you DELETE in combat.
Unique interactions with every object of the world: exploring Saturn can lead to secrets, rewards or entire pieces of knowledge about the planet.
Some facts for ya about the development and what awaits us for the future!
Keylocker is being done by the same team that worked in Virgo, we’re sticking together in the face of danger! Exception goes to Semiprocastinator that isn’t a guest composer for this one, Elektrobear is now heading the soundtrack with the help of the Singer, Lady Psamathes, our angel of music.
I’m writing lyrics for this game and it’s a lot of fun! Since I wanted the player to be very engaged with the gameplay while still enjoying the music (that’s such a vital plot point for this game!), I decided to make a new language (conlang for shorts) for the story of the game and use that language to create the lyrics. Like that players wouldn’t be distracted by the lyrics! The language is based in finnish and lyrics are being revised by my finnish friend @fusoloid
Anglerman is doing all animations for this one, I abandoned working with that to focus on other stuff! World and battle sprites are the same so we can use battle sprites in the world. This will also allow for several unique in world animations, like opening treasures, singing, hugging…
Lady Psamathes sings the voice of our main character, BOBO! She has a youtube channel where she does video game music covers. She’s fantastic, please support her work as well! She’ll be working with us for the soundtrack of Keylocker for some specific songs that require voice. Most of the soundtrack will still feature background music without voice.
Keylocker is the name of BOBO′s band, and also the name of music boxes mass produced in the story of the game. Can’t say no more!
Veyerals is doing our Guitar Hero minigame that you see in the trailer and he’s a big fan of guitar hero! So expect a lot of big difficulty, but also small difficulty, accessible to everyone!
Ben will be now working with some Virgo stuff as well as Keylocker, so he’s pilled up with work, although the work he’ll be doing for Virgo is pretty exciting I might say. Also can’t say much about it! :(
That’s it! If you’re curious about how Virgo work will go right now, I can only confirm we’re still working in Virgo content, but we’re multitasking with both games now. I’m very excited about what lies in the future for both projects and I hope to share with you guys more on both soon! Thank you so much for reading through all of this and I hope you have a great day!! Feel free to ask me anything and I’ll be sure to answer asap. :3
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