NINPÔ

NINPÔ is a french company located in Paris area. We are developing serious games and mobile games. Our passion is not only devoted to videogames but games in general. That's why NINPÔ is today creating an innovative TCG card game. We will share information about the project here.

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Vanishing Stars / new website

We have just launched a new website for Vanishing Stars. Go check it at: http://www.vanishingstars.com

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Petite preview de la planète volcanique

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Road to #GDC17

La dernière ligne droite avant la GDC, ou plutôt le dernier week-end pour finaliser une preview de la version multi-joueur de “Vanishing Stars: Colony Wars”. A l’occasion de la #GDC17, nous allons commencer le recrutement de joueurs pour notre première phase de test sur http://www.vanishingstars.com. Le jeu sera loin d’être complet bien sûr ! mais cela fait partie de notre stratégie de production qui vise à intégrer les joueurs pendant la phase de développement.

Quelques tests multijoueur pour vérifier qu’il n’y a pas de problème pour la démo avec une version autorisant l’exécution de plusieurs instances du jeu sur la même machine en simultannée.

On attend plus que vous ... 

Si certain on la chance d’être présent à la #GDC, n’hésitez pas à me contacter pour que l’on se rencontre sur place (http://twitter.com/cedtat) ! 

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La Paris Games Week est finie ! On a eu de super retours des joueurs ! Encore beaucoup de travail mais bientôt des news.

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Le 7 février 2252, surprenant les forces humaines, une gigantesque armée d’arachnides et d’insectes géants se lança à l’assaut de la Terre. Apparues à proximité du système Solaire à bord d’un Myriapode gigantesque, les rapides guerrières laissèrent les défenses orbitales dans un état de désorganisation totale. La technologie humaine ne permit pas de lutter face à la célérité et au surnombre des envahisseurs. La défense de la terre fut rapidement abandonnée pour se concentrer sur son évacuation. Si le Triumvirat continue encore de résister grâce à ses colonies sur Mars et Tau Ceti, le reste des rescapés de la terre se retrouve à la recherche d’une nouvelle planète d’accueil, loin du système solaire. « Vanishing Stars : Colony wars », est un préquel en jeu vidéo, du jeu de cartes « Vanishing Stars ». Vous incarnez un commandant de troupes ayant la responsabilité de conquérir de nouvelles planètes pour faire prospérer votre faction. Humain, Myriade ou Neada, votre rôle reste le même, annihiler les espèces adverses pour gagner le contrôle de la galaxie. « Vanishing Stars : colony wars » est un jeu de type Tower defense en 3D. Dans « Vanishing Stars : colony wars », votre objectif est de coloniser la galaxie et détruire les factions adverses. Planète par planète, vous devrez : • Installer vos bases • Organiser vos défenses • Lancer l’offensive • Détruire la base principale adverse pour obtenir le contrôle de la planète Et parcourir la galaxie en quête de nouvelles planètes pour établir votre faction (humaine, Myriade ou Neadas). Le jeu fournira un mode histoire et un mode de jeu « joueur contre joueur » Credits: Design: David Demaret Scenario: Thomas Pinaire Voice: William Cros Music&sound: Eric Los Motion: Paul-Emmanuel Bes Lead & DA: Benoit Lagache & Cedric Tatangelo

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Voici un petit aperçu d’un monde colonisé par les Aranéens

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Arachnids

One of the species in the game are “Arachnids”.

You can see in this post more sketches around these species which is colonizing the galaxy by launching giant spiders and eggs around space. They do not use technology like humans. They are using their natural skills to fight and invade new planets.

We don’t know yet precisely how they navigate in deep space but once installed in a solar system, they invade quickly all planets that fits their need.

Working on this species was quite special. 

To get inspired, the team has read information and visualized a lot of spiders. And it was, sometimes, really frightening :).

Like the goliath spider, you don’t want to find her in your garden, trust me:

Don’t try to catch it like this guy:

But some species were… quite cute, I know it sounds weird. Look at this video:

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Some sketches for the week-end.

This is a preliminary work on the most obvious species selected for the game. Each of these species will have their own deck but, of course, it will be up to you to create the ultimate deck in the end. The cooperation between species is welcome to elaborate complex strategies.

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First “Commander” concept card

The story takes place in the future, different species and factions are fighting against each other to rule the galaxy or simply remain free.

In our card game, you will play as a commander. This first commander concept art is a human. The Commander card will define your life points and specific abilities you will be able to use while playing.

Currently, the layout of the card is pretty standard and probably too close to a “Magic: the gathering” template but we will work on that in the future. We want to create a card layout on which we can leverage the artwork made for each card. But we need to find a good balance between readability and design.

In a future post, I will share some sketches around different species we are working on.

See you space cowboys!

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Creating a TCG !

In my first post, I didn’t say anything about our game, it was just a concept work. We are working on a trading card game (TCG). 

I had this idea a few months ago. I like playing TCG even though I am really bad in strategy and building decks. I have played Magic, Pokemon, YuGiHo and Hearthstone (and a few others I didn’t play for long).

But why create this type of game? Nearly 20 years ago, when I began to play Magic the gathering, I had one dream... being able to see what I am doing with the cards. Today, I want to create this type of game, an augmented TCG that will let you see what you are doing while playing.

So this is not new, there are some card games that let you see what you do. One of the most impressive is Drakerz. But using a webcam is not a good solution for our game, especially if you want to use a tablet to play with your friends. So I imagine other ways to do that. There is a lot of work on this part and it is not the moment to share my experiment, I will come back on it later.

 But first, let’s create a working card game. We’ve been playing for a few weeks with a proto deck (see in the picture). Today, there is only one deck which will probably be dedicated to the first specie available, humans.

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Here it is! The first concept for our game.

We are working on a trading card game (TCG) around SciFi battles. We will share here some details about this project. We are all excited to get your feedbacks so we will try to share some content regularly.