Hi! My name is Daniele Messina, I'm from Italy. On the Internet I often go by the nickname Charlie Fleed. I'm a Computer Engineer with a passion for RPGs and strategic games. If you are reading this, you probably like them too. Well, then Hartacon Tactics is for you! 

Hartacon Tactics is a turn-based strategy RPG developed for PC where players challenge each other in online battles, also featuring a single-player campaign. Each player controls a party of fighters chosen from eight different classes and can face all enemies alone or team up in alliances. Battles take place in 2D isometric maps with 4-angles view and zoom.

The battle system is tactical, turn-based, and features traditional RPG aspects such as elements, altered states together with formations bonuses, damage depending on the direction of attack, heights, covers, and all the mechanics work in an almost 100% deterministic way, making battles a dispute of strategically planning minds.

Each class can equip two weapon categories and accesses two corresponding lines of skills which range from pure magic spells, to creation of barriers, modification of the maps, throwing allies and enemies, and much more. All classes are unique and strategically different.

Hartacon Tactics comes with a complete in-game map editor, where players will be able to build custom maps for their battles and share them with other players, and the creators of the most popular maps will be awarded with bonus points for their parties.

Hartacon Tactics is developed with XNA 4 and will be released for PC, and for XBOX 360 in the indie games section of XBOX Live.

After more than two years in the making and a huge personal effort, the technical side of Hartacon Tactics is now close to completion and the game needs you.

I am the game designer and programmer of Hartacon Tactics, I am fairly good at drawing comics-style stuff too, but for this project I want to bring you really wonderful visuals, and that is why I am working with skilled professionals in making game assets, who have helped me to create a lively and colorful fantasy world.

But you don't have to take my word for it, you can see it by yourself. Just download the demo from IndieDB, setup a party, build you own custom maps if you want, and start playing!

Are you back? Pretty good, uh? That is just a sample of what Hartacon Tactics will be with your support. This is where your contribution will go:

• Hartacon Tactics already has one beautifuI outdoor tileset for its maps, but I plan to add more outdoor and indoor tilesets, all rich of great assets.
• The GUI is pretty much ready but the game needs icons for every weapon, equipment, skill and whatnot.
• As far as battle is concerned there cannot be good action without great character animations, visual effects and sounds.
• The single-player campaign needs NPCs and locations art.
• The multiplayer modes need a fast and reliable server, I will not charge the players for playing online.

As a reviewer once pointed out, this is a work of passion and love for the SRPG genre. I will get this game done, but your contribution is what will take Hartacon Tactics to another level, allowing me to present you with a true gaming art piece.

Pre-order, you will get a digital copy of the game! You didn't expect that...

8 digital postcards of full-resolution character artworks by the artist Douglas Draco.

A digital poster designed by the artist Douglas Draco.

A digital sketch-book full of concept art by artists Douglas Draco, Lane Brown, Max Heyder and many more.

A customized 8GB USB Drive with the logo of the game.

3-inches 3D printed model of the lionman character by artist Justin Bintz.

5-inches 3D printed model of the lionman character by artist Justin Bintz

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