He’s taken to accepting direct pledges for Deathfire, a party and turn-based RPG set in first-person built with the Unity engine. It’s being handled by California’s G3 Studios.
Henkel, who is credited with Planescape: Torment, Realms of Arkania Trilogy, Fallout II and more, is spearheading the Deathfire RPG project.
”“Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore” is a party-based computer role-playing game with turn-based combat that hearkens back to the Golden Era of fantasy cRPGs. Built upon the power of the Unity 3D engine, “Deathfire” utilizes a first person view that gives the player the feeling of being there,” blurbs the official Deathfire website.
”A solid role-playing engine that utilizes over forty visible character attributes, along with countless invisible ones to track behavior, makes the heartbeat of the game, and it allows us to analyze and adjust gameplay on the fly, and react to the player’s actions, shaping the story around these actions and decisions.”
It went to Kickstarter but its goal of $309,000 proved too ambitious, although almost 4,000 backers pledged over $204k. The interest was there and so Henkel and G3 Studios decided to try a direct pledge campaign instead.
They plan on releasing Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore episodically for PC, Mac and Linux DRM-free. So far their new pledge drive is just shy of 1,000 backers with almost $44k in the coffers. Check out the Deathfire website for more.
