Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Guns of Icarus Online]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/06/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-guns-of-icarus-online/http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/06/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-guns-of-icarus-online/http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/06/the-joystiq-indie-pitch-guns-of-icarus-online/#comments Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, Howard Tsao, founder of Muse Games, talks semi-MMO, steampunk, co-op airship battles with Guns of Icarus Online.

The Joystiq Indie Pitch Guns of Icarus Online
What's your game called and what's it about?

Our game is called Guns of Icarus Online. It's a multiplayer airship-to-airship combat game where you battle it out in the skies on customizable ships with your friends and against other players, all set in a steampunk- and dieselpunk-inspired post-apocalyptic wasteland. Imagine if World War I never really ended; that's where we're at.

How does Guns of Icarus Online continue the narrative and gameplay of Guns of Icarus?

In the original game Guns of Icarus, you take on the role of Gabriel, who is basically an early pioneer of airship flight centuries after the Great War has laid waste to civilization. He builds his own airship out of scavenged parts and goes traveling across this hardscrabble post-apocalyptic landscape, visiting scattered settlements and fighting off sky pirates the whole way. Even though he doesn't survive the voyage, his doomed flight is an inspiration to the people he encounters, a brush of contact with the wider world and a sign of hope that things can get better.

Guns of Icarus Online takes place almost 100 years later, when Gabriel has become a legendary, almost mythic figure. With the rapid development of airship flight in the intervening years, the once-isolated towns have come into much closer contact, bringing both trade and warfare. It's a time of unprecedented prosperity, but also renewed conflict. In Guns of Icarus Online you are one of this new class of aeronauts, young men and women who have left their hometowns behind and signed up to serve aboard one of these airships in search of glory and adventure, seeking your fortune in the skies.

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Guns of Icarus Online, also known as That Video Game Where You Shoot Things From A Steampunk Dirigible, launches on October 29 and is available now for pre-order on Steam, for PC and Mac.

Guns of Icarus Online is on sale during the pre-order frenzy, selling at 25 percent off for the standard edition, at $15. The Collectors Edition is 24 percent off, for $25, and includes the Captain's Costume Pack and the soundtrack. A Collectors Edition four-pack is also 24 percent off, for $35. Since Guns of Icarus Online is a team-based multiplayer game (on steampunk dirigibles, did we mention?), the four-pack is good for bullying friends into playing with you.

All pre-orders provide instant access to the beta. Get flying, folks.

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Guns of Icarus Online, a steampunk airship combat simulator, which was shown this past weekend at PAX East, will launch sometime in August.

"We plan to be in closed beta until middle of July, then we'll be opening the game up to more players," Muse Games founder Howard Tsao told Joystiq. "And our current target launch date is middle of August for PC/Mac on Steam."

The game features a class-based crew of four flying airships, using a variety of gun emplacements and airship types to blast others out of the sky. The methodical PvP battles are expected to support 32 players.

Tsao tells us the closed beta, which should be ready in a couple weeks, will invite Kickstarter supporters, with info on more invites posted on their site as capacity grows.

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How did you or your company get started?
We started exploring the virtual world and 3D chat spaces for a different company, and we became an early adopter of the Unity engine. Along the way, we saw avatars wearing less and less, and decided that we didn't have it in ourselves to push the boundary further in that direction. So we took what we learned with Unity to start making 3D games for the web and other platforms, which is what we are really passionate about.

Why did you want to make games?
It really is just passion and the belief that we can add something new to the world of gaming, whether that something is game play, visuals, etc.

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