Icy is an RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world witnessing a new Ice Age. The player will create his/her own character and live an adventure across the White Wasteland, struggling each day to survive, without losing hope to find a better place where to thrive. Icy mixes role-play and survival dynamics, allowing the player to lead a nomad family in their fight for survival, and to take care of all the responsibilities a leader has, such as keeping the group together and planning how to face a hostile world.

Features:

• Live a survival experience in a peculiar post-apocalyptic setting.
  
• Create your character, characterizing it choosing among 3 main attributes and 10 different skills that affects the whole game.
  
• Influence the plot with different choices, changing the course of events that will lead to multiple different endings.
• Manage to keep together group of survivors, each one with different needs, values and ideals.
• Scavenge for items and hunt for food, face the challenges of the Frozen World.
  
• Enjoy more than 400 hand-drawn artworks.
• More than 10'000 dialogue lines.
• Day/night cycle that affects the gameplay.

Stretch goals

Gameplay

Icy will be a narrative experience which will put the player in the role of a nomad family leader, traveling for survival in a hostile post-apocalyptic world. The player will be the one who will set the course, manage the supplies and, most of all, take the important decisions.

In terms of gameplay the player will manage most practical things on a 2D map with a complete interface that will allow he/she to travel around the world, hunt in the woods, scavenge old cities searching for something useful, manage the inventory and the party. All the actions that aren't really interesting from a narrative point of view will be managed through the map, but Icy is a narrative game and we created a proper system to let the player shape his/her own story in the game. 

The map will be similar to the ones we saw in games like Fallout or Arcanum and the player will be able to travel from an important location to another just by clicking on it. The map system will also simulate the different kind of terrain and the different levels of danger across the world: travelling through the woods will be slower than walking on an open road, but bandits can’t easily detect you and the wild beasts are usually easier to manage than a group of people armed with guns.

All events that are narratively interesting will be played using a game-book like system. We will use texts, 2D images, music and sounds to create a compelling storytelling that will allow the player to have a remarkable freedom of choice on both short and long terms. The player will have the full control on his/her character actions and words, allowing a deep roleplaying experience. Having these two different dimensions of gameplay allow us to create narrative content only for important events, without creating boring contents or random contents.

The character's stats will be really important in the game because the outcome of most choices is directly related to one or more skills. That doesn't mean that the player won't need to think to do the best choices, but that the plot will be affected by character's specializations and there will be a lot of different ways to solve a problem.

Setting

The post-apocalyptic setting of Icy is characterized by a never-ending winter. It will have a deep impact on all the themes we are exploring during the game. Most of the Earth is covered with ice and snow, and the land suitable for living is only a quarter of what it used to be.

What caused the world to turn into a White Wasteland? No one knows exactly what happened, though the legends are countless. Some say it was war, others say there was a cataclysm, and all stories differ. What is certain is the cloud of dust still in the atmosphere, and the forgotten color of the sky. Will the player have the chance to uncover the truth behind those legends?

The playable character will be part of a nomad family and will travel around the Frozen World, constantly worrying about finding food and shelter. Nomads' life is not easy: banditry is a common activity because there’s no law. The animals claimed back their land and a small human group is an easy prey for predators. The harsh climate is a constantly present threat in a survivor's life.

Why Indiegogo?

Why are we on Indiegogo? Icy is a self-funded project, but the little money we have is not enough to cover all the expenses we are facing. We could simply cut some content and release a simpler version of the game, but we want Icy to be as good as possible. That’s why we are here asking for your support. With a successful campaign we will be able to cover some legal expenses and spend more time refining and improving Icy. The result will be a better, more polished and definitely more enjoyable experience.

Perks

FAQ

Will Icy be DRM-free?

Yes, there will be DRM-free version of the game, at the same price.

On which platform will Icy be released?

On PC (Windows, Mac and Linux).

In which stage of development is the game?

We have finished working on the core features and we’re now polishing and improving it, in order to release a better game, with more contents and less bugs.

Why are you asking only for 2500$?

The game is in an advanced phase of the development, we just need some more money to be able to fully polish it. Being gamers we know how annoying could be to buy an incomplete or bugged game, that’s why we want Icy to be fully enjoyable since day one.

In which languages will Icy be available?

We wrote Icy in English and we have an editor that is already proofreading all the game contents. The game is getting translated in Italian too, but we don’t know if this translation will be available since day one.

I noticed that the English is not always so good, are you going to fix this?

Yes, we’re working with an experienced editor who is already proofreading all the in-game contents and we will soon integrate all the corrections in the game. Since we have a low budget, we focused our editor’s efforts on the game and not on the marketing stuff, that’s why you may sometimes notice a not so goo englis, but we can asure yu we will works on tis.

I don’t want to be racist, but you are an Italian team of developers and I don’t want my money to finance any criminal organization. How can we trust you?

If we had our hands in business like drugs dealing, prostitution or weapons smuggling, we could have asked for money from our godfather. Sadly we have no connections with the local organized crime, so we settled for an Indiegogo campaign.

I don’t like you and I don’t like your game. What should I do?

You should totally back it, taking the cheapest perk available, then wait until the release to criticize us on your socials and in your favorite communities, questioning the overall quality of our project.