The Kickstarter campaign for Manly Mouse Studios’ god simulator You Are a God to One Person or YAGTOP has started.
The campaign’s goal of the campaign is to raise 12,000 dollars needed to start the development. YAGTOP is a hybrid indie game, a cross between several different genres. It blends the old Choose Your Own Adventure novels, standard roleplaying games and modern story based games. Designed by writers it puts the main focus on the story, making it a primary priority that comes before anything else.
“For over a thousand years, the great western ocean has been obscured by mist. Pylons on the abandoned island of Arland still give off soft light, although no one alive remembers who built them. It is a time of peace for the coastal nation of Bren, far to the western borders of the sprawling Thulian Empire and north of mighty Paniora. Here, the wonders of clockwork are just now taking shape and an industrial revolution will soon change the face of the earth. Traders and smugglers are getting wealthy, like bloated flies, off the trade of the narcotic Narsum, and shaper guilds are content to wait behind their ivory towers.
The memory of the Four and the destructive war they raged is now lost to all but the mumbling of priests. An ill-fated expedition is launched to discover the secrets of the Lost Continent, and an ancient evil stirs.”
The concept of You Are God to One Person is exactly as it says on the tin. Unlike the classic god simulator games where you control huge armies, civilizations or even monstrous avatars here you are a god to one person. In your hands you have absolute power to bless or curse this individual. This person has free will and makes his own decisions with no Sims micromanagment on the player side.
The game will start with character selection that offers many different characters, each with their own unique destiny and moral aligment. While this “blessed” character is still in the womb the customization process begins. A number of attributes will be asigned to various traits like intelligence, stubborness or luck. As cherry on top one can also choose to inflict a disease or two on the unborn.
There are loads of character planned to be included in the release with additional ones coming with free DLCs. Characters will vary from lowly cooks to the sons of the landed elite.Together they will weave an interconnected story of YAGTOP‘s world, a world falling into ruin. Following the first industrial evolution, different nations are fighting for power. In this age of great conflicts between powerful forces, clouds of war and destruction the game will focus on the lives of the citizens each trying to live its life. “Epic” class characters will have the power to bring great changes to the world while “Mundane” will deal with everyday mundane stuff.
With 31 days to go the project will be funded if at least $12,000 are pledged by Sunday, March 29 2015
