G.H.O.S.T. is a free to play mobile game. This future fantasy, top down shooter offers a large variety of choice in both combat and narrative as the two weave together to create a near infinite number of unique, epic experiences, allowing you to live the story your way.

The Milky Way Galaxy, in the 31st century, found us helping create an entente with various alien species.  In a collaborated effort of peace, we entered into a contract that states that all within the alliance of HIVE are all devoted to each other and each other’s citizens. As a condition of this pact, HIVE created a space station were each nation sends civilians to live in harmony with one another, or at least that is the idea. The rest of the story is entirely up to you.

• This game measures how kind, loyal, and how moral your decisions are. Playing the hero doesn’t make you a nice person, and being loyal to a slaver isn’t moral.
• Going into a mission is always easier with the right information. Purchasing maps, talking with locals, and surveying the area can turn the tides of battle.
• Fight from the ground or from space as you tackle missions from multiple angles.
• Choose your side from dozens of conflicts.  Decide whether to fight or see if your words can sway enemies to your side.

As you can see your decisions, your methods, and even your mannerisms decide how the entire story unfolds. No matter how often you play the game, or even watch this game’s streams, you won’t likely see or play the exact same game or story more than once.

You will meet interesting people of various races, study exotic creatures and habitats, and resolve conflicts your way. As you explore and learn more about the galaxy, new and rewarding paths may open up to you. 

• Exploring alien cultures helps you understand their weaknesses and strength.
• Find what plants and animals can be used for food, medicine, or camouflage.
• Find out what makes wildlife tic, explore their caverns, or have them combat threats.
• Find unique upgrades to your arsenal.
• Learn new languages to help you with trade or your missions. 

• One of the most challenging decisions we faced when designing this game was character customization and playability. We have made it so you can only be a human, and made it to where you only played as your character. This is YOUR story.
• We have given you full control over the game, and the story, with no cut scenes. Nearly every aspect of this game is playable.
• There are a lot of side characters and stories and exposition is often the best way to tell them, but instead we have G.H.O.S.T. stories, special missions that break all of the rules I just told you. These are optional missions where you play as the storyteller and witness their story through game play. 

When we designed this game, these three words helps shape every level, every mission, every conversation that we make. This is our level design creed. These rules take each level and make it where every time you play, every time you watch a stream of this game, it will be different.

• The choices open to you are immense. Sometimes the choices define others too. Your reputation will impact which characters you can interact with, and how they interact with you.
• Life moves on as you embark on your journey.  G.H.O.S.T. takes place in a living, breathing world which changes regardless of your involvement, changing with every planet you visit, and every choice you make.
• In this game you don’t retry. Whether you win, loose, are imprisoned, or retreat, the story continues.  Death isn’t the end, but instead the beginning of a different solution.  

Everything that we have spoken about so far, which is no small amount, is just for the single player. Now here is everything we have for the multiplayer.

• Drop In/ Drop Out Coop: Play by yourself or with up to three friends as you carry experience and loot with you.
• Arenas: We have three in game arenas that are worked out for the multiplayer experience where new challenges can be completed for new rewards.
• Reworked Maps: We have reworked the planets in game into great multiplayer arenas for all types of game modes from classic death match to battle royal to brand new modes.
• International Tournaments: We will host tournaments to find the best players. We will offer rare and new weapons special for these tournaments.

We feel a responsibility to do everything we can to help out other people. We will be hosting tournaments, with an entry fee, where all the proceeds go towards the charities that we are forming relationships with. We have a relationship with MD Anderson, the leading cancer research center in the world and hope to develop more, even asking you for suggestions.

• Golin ball is one of several mini games that can be enjoyed alone, with friends, or even as a tournament for charity.
• We want everyone to have the chance to experience our world and the stories within it. As such we are working on a special mode for those that do not play games, but instead can explore the world and live through the stories it offers without the combat.
• We have planned DLC packages for both the single and multiplayer games, and even have 2 sequels in the plan to give people more of what they already love.
• We will be coming out of the gate streaming and eSports friendly.
• Accessibility is an essential for me which is why the controls are carefully considered, the game is completely free for the Android and iOS, and a offer carefully considered difficulties for everyone. There will be ads and a few in app purchases, but no new content will need cash to be unlocked and above all NO LOOT BOXES!!!
• We also want to make the gaming experience for the disabled exceptional.  We will include auditory and visual aids in the game, include options for larger text and notices, provide speech as text and vice versa, and a story mode for those just interested in the adventure.  As the community grows, we hope to add features for all to enjoy our game.

Thank you for coming to view this page. As you see we need $25,000 to complete the game.  This cash will be divided between our three teams, the programming team, the art team, and the writing team.  Each of these teams plays an essential part in completing their section of the game, but each team works together to make sure that not only each part is perfect, but also blends perfectly with the other parts.

However we can not get there without your help.

Every page view, social media share, and dollar makes a difference to helping us get to our cash goal and just getting the exposure we need. We have a $1 perk where your name goes into the credits. If you think this game looks even remotely interesting, drop a dollar. Change from your grocery trip or laundry cash are happily accepted, but above all, tell someone else about this. Share this page, like our content, and take just one person who has a smartphone and ask them to drop just $1 on this page.

Indiegogo's website measures how many times the short link is shared, how many comments I get on my page, and how many answers and updates I give.  This all helps push us to the front page.  So please come in, leave a comment, and if you can, a dollar would help as well.

We have a flexible funding goal set up, this means that if we do not make our goal, we keep the money.  However that doesn't mean it is over.  We will take what we get, put it towards the game, and come back with a better project to crowdfund the rest.  Nothing goes to waste and all perks carry over.

Follow us on every social media page you can and get on our discord channel. We will be dropping news here, but also hosting events and Q and As so be ready to not only be apart of the game, but also a part of the community.

Thank you for your help in keeping the galaxy safe, and welcome to G.H.O.S.T.

As with any game, there are no guarantees. There are risks and pitfalls that all developers run into. We have analyzed the most common of these though, and have done the best we can to prevent these.

Scope Creep: Scope creep is a huge reason why games fail. Games are cool. As developers work on a project, they start to see more and more potential for cool stuff in their game. All of a sudden they end up with a bloated nightmare of additional features and content, and eventually the project collapses under its own weight. 
Our Solution: We have firmly established what will be in this game. No new mechanics will be added. This doesn't mean there's not room to evolve, but monetary and time limitations are clear to us. If we do have a great idea, we'll save it for a sequel. 

Budget Overreach: Even when the risks of scope/feature creep are eliminated, emergencies pop up, and sometimes, budget meant for one part of the game needs to be shuffled to another. 
Our Solution: By designing the game planet by planet, we've ensured development is modular. We intend to have 20 planets at launch, with even more available as DLC. However, the game will be complete, playable, and fun with only 3 planets- as long as our budge covers those locations, we'll have an amazing game for you. Everything else is icing on the cake!

Timeline:  We do not have a timeline to share yet.  We are incredibly early in the development cycle and we don't want to make promises we can not keep.  That being said, the mechanics of the game are decided on and no new major features will be added.  My team is devoted, passionate, and excited for the project, and is an amazing team.  I am very lucky to have stumbled upon every one of them.  The discussions that the team has had puts this game development between a year and a year and a half, just to make sure it is done the right way. However early releases and delays happen, but we will keep you all updated every step of the way with weekly progress videos, social media chats, discord discussions, and prizes along the way.

The amount of luck required to put together a team, being at the right place at the right time with the right project with the right ad, is insane.  The amount of luck required to have that team be a passionate network of people that work together beautifully and do an amazing job, is even more, and yet that is what we have here.

$25,000- Pulling back from our $50,000 goal, this new goal will cover the complete story and single player adventure and cover 10 planets.

$50,000- So $50,000 is now a stretch goal. This goal covers the main story line as well as the story mode we have for those less interested in games. This should cover our planned 20 original planets.

$100,000- Our goal with mobile phones was to make this game freely accessible to all, however some people prefer a larger screen. This goal will take our game and help us port it over to Steam which, just like the mobile version, will be completely free.

$150,000- We want people to enjoy our game, not just alone, but also together. This stretch goal will allow us to put up to 4 player co op within the game as your friends take over as your squad mates.

$200,000- In addition to Steam, we also want to push this game to those on PS4. XBox, and the Nintendo Switch. This stretch goal will allow us the ability to optimize this game for those systems.

$250,000- Lastly we would love this game to have a full voice cast. This is not cheap, and we hope to be able to be able to hire those who not only voice their characters, but become them to really bring this story to life.

$300,000- As our final stretch goal, we would love to have DLC. DLC is something we want to continually do for this game till the sequel is done, but first we must focus on the main game and wait for the money to develop more to come in. This stretch goal means we can have DLC ready for launch without waiting for the income to do it. This DLC shows where Earth's most powerful magic is as the gates to the fairy realm is opened and stories both old and new come with their own challenges.

This Kickstarter page isn't just a marketing tactic for us, but an event.  This next month we will be doing weekly updates, frequent videos, and fun community challenges, starting with this.  In order to build our community, up we will be hosting rewards as we make progress in building our Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages, each one revealing levels 1, 2, or 3 for an in game weapon for each social media page.  We will be revealing these as our community grows.  Good luck and have fun.