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Gamebook: Eternal Escape. Mobile text quest.

Eternal Escape is Gamebook/Text Quest/Visual Novel. Fantasy/SciFi setting. For iOS/Android/other.

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Gamebook: Eternal Escape. Mobile text quest.

Gamebook: Eternal Escape. Mobile text quest.

Gamebook: Eternal Escape. Mobile text quest.

Gamebook: Eternal Escape. Mobile text quest.

Gamebook: Eternal Escape. Mobile text quest.

Eternal Escape is Gamebook/Text Quest/Visual Novel. Fantasy/SciFi setting. For iOS/Android/other.

Eternal Escape is Gamebook/Text Quest/Visual Novel. Fantasy/SciFi setting. For iOS/Android/other.

Eternal Escape is Gamebook/Text Quest/Visual Novel. Fantasy/SciFi setting. For iOS/Android/other.

Eternal Escape is Gamebook/Text Quest/Visual Novel. Fantasy/SciFi setting. For iOS/Android/other.

Evgeny Nesterov
Evgeny Nesterov
Evgeny Nesterov
Evgeny Nesterov
1 Campaign |
Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation
$0 USD 0 backers
0% of $4,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

General description.


What is Gamebook? From description it’s pretty obvious: it’s a book, but at the same time this is a game. It allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices. The narrative branches along various paths, typically through the use of numbered paragraphs or pages. Gamebook turns usual reading into attractive game. Very often, when we read book we want to participate in actions and act as main hero.
Eternal Escape is a resurgence of the Gamebook genre in digital form of a mobile game. EE takes the concept of a Gamebook to a new level: more interactivity, more adventures, more opportunities, more mysteries and enigmas in one book. You will be able not to just read a book; you will make your own decisions, fight enemies and enjoy the atmosphere!

When usual gamebooks have pretty limited amount of scenes (kinda hard to put a lot into small book, yea? =)). We decided to create our own book. And mobile platforms allow us to make our game 3-4 times bigger and more branched than other Gamebooks. 
When usual Gamebooks hardly strikes 500 scenes, EE will be at least 2000 scenes long. Of course, they will not stand in line waiting you to come to them =). This amount allows us to make plot really branched. Each player will have unique way to freedom. It depends only on you!
Well, this is not true, actually. Also it will depend on luck. There will be a big bunch of scenes where game will randomly decide what happens.  And you may come few times in one place - and each time something new will happen.
Cool graphic arts, attractive fantasy/sci-fi plot and some amount of humor make adventure in world of Eternal Escape deep and interesting.
Here is Work-In-Progress map of scenes that ALREADY fully complete:


As you can see, there is ALREADY about 500 scenes. I've redacted map so there is no details - just to make future game interesting =).
Also, first location (top-left corner) is available in our Demo, you can check it on Google Play.


Why you will love this game.

EE is a big world with its own story. Gameplay is replicating classic Choose Your Own Adventure books: you are moving from one scene to another, choosing where to go next.  During the game, you will be always facing choices where to go, what to do.
You will be able to choose one from several characters with their own unique features and skills.
We have created a unique playing universe specially for this project.
Script and atmosphere have been inspired by Warhammer RP and DnD. Tabletop gaming lovers will be able to enjoy familiar atmosphere, supplemented by nonlinear plot and battle scenes.

You can choose direction in which you will play this game. Choices of directions and actions can cardinally affect your gameplay. Highly branched choosing system will let you walking through the game in different ways again and again!

Your path will be full of dangers! Underground mazes, deadly traps and dangerous enemies – everything can bring you to death… or not – everything depends on your decision.



Meet main hero:


No one knows his name yet, but his story is pretty... sad? It should be sad when you wake up in cold dark prison cell with pain in whole body and head, with no memory. And it depends only on you what, when and how he will find about himself. Statue with your face, made 400 years ago? Be the only human on planet? Who knows what happens here...


You can meet different people in game... and not only humans. Let me introduce Tal:


Yes, Tal is an ant. If you can call an ant the 2-meter-tall insect. You may find them somewhere deep under you prison. If you decide (or it will be decided for you by Lady Fortune). Strange and not ordinary... person. They are Hive Mind. Or they think so because of intoxicating by pink crystals. They (him?) think that he  (they?) knows you. Well, my personal opinion is that he's just crystal addict drug taker. But it depends only on you how to treat him.

You will meet a lot of characters that will help you to remember. Or ask you for help. Or try to eat you!

You're hoping it will not be the dwarf?  Who knows, who knows...


World and locations of Eternal Escape:
All arts was created specially for our game by talented CG artist Nickolay Mitruhin.


Few more ingame arts:

Please note, it’s only few items and arts from game. Total list contains few hundreds of them.


Few early charachter's scetches:



Battle:
Main battle system of EE is Dice poker. It’s like poker, but with dices. Player and his enemy both have ot 5 D6 dices. Each player rolls all his dices, than he may say that he is satisfied with his result or he may re-roll any number of dices(1to5). Player has go three tries to create the best combination. 
After the third roll turn goes to enemy. It doesn’t depend on results of last roll. At the end, the winner is the one who has the highest combination.

There are next combinations available (in descending order):
1. Poker – 5 dices with same image.
2. Quads – 4 dices with same image.
3. Full house – 3 dices with one image and a couple with another.
4. Three of a kind – 3 dices with same image.
5. Two pairs – 2 dices with one image and 2 dices with another.
6. One pair – 2 dices with same image.
7. Highest point – if no one has a poker combination, winner is the player with highest sum of points from five non-combinable points on dices.
Winner of this game hits his enemy.
Here is how it looks like:




More ingame screenshots (please note that this is early demo and it will be redesigned and improved.)


Gameplay video:



You can try our game at Google.Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=o...


What we need and what you will receive:
At the moment of beginning of the campaign, we have prepared prototype of the project (Android version on Play market), which includes combat system, first location (about 45 scenes) of the game. 4 more locations are ready and currently translates (more than 700 scenes). We need extra funding for creating missing graphics, music and extend game plot (goal is more than 2000 scenes).  Also, funds will go to improve game arts, design and music.

(Update8) Currently demo app includes 200+ scenes. Enjoy second game chapter included! Next week third chapter with 180+ scenes will be included too. Check our next update!.


Funding goals:
4000 – Successful contribution of main campaign
4250 – In-game shop. We will add a shop with different interesting stuff into the game.
4500 – Second fighting mode. We will add a second fighting mode – Black Jack
5000 – Pets and Allies! We will add to the game and the shop pets and allies that will help you in battle.
5500 – Encyclopedia – we will add an illustrated encyclopedia with stories and facts about locations, player, races, history, etc.
6000 – More content! We will add several new locations and existing locations will be expanded. More nonlinear gameplay!
6750 – 1 additional character and several new endings.
7000 – More graphics! We will add more images of locations, new mini-visions of scenes on the scroll.
7500 – More graphics! We will add animations between locations and animated stories about locations and world.
8000 - ???


Supported platforms.
The game will be released on iOS and Android. Other platforms will be considered during game development.


Risks and Challenges.
Now we have anything we need to finish the project: programmer, artist, scriptwriter, translator. Regardless of funding, we plan to finish the game. In case of additional funds on translation and voice recording (and in case of unpredictable circumstances that don’t depend on us) we may need more time. We will public updates and news of our project and keep in touch with backers.

Other ways to help us
Spread information about our project in social networks and blogs! The more people will know about our project, the more chances to finish campaign successfully. If in some cases you can’t pledge your money here, you can always do it on our site.
In addition, you can follow our project on site and our communities in Facebook, Twitter and VKontakte.

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