Hello everyone!
We are
JanduSoft! A small indie team from Barcelona with several games released. Now focusing all our efforts on the development of our newest and most ambitious project so far, Indiecalypse, which has been in development for a little over a year.
Although the game is almost finished, we still have a lot of work to do, like polishing and porting the game, since we want to release it for
Steam,
Nintendo Switch,
PS4 and
Xbox One. To speed up this process, we are currently launching a
KickStarter campaign to help us wrap up what is left to do, and we were hoping that you would be interested in what we have to say about the development of this game.
First of all, what is
Indiecalypse about?
As some of you might know,
Indiepocalypse is a well known term in the industry, which was created around the fear of indie game development dying due to the ridiculous amount of indie games being released daily, and the “
apocalypse” that becoming an indie developer could bring into your life.
Well this is exactly what
Indiecalypse is about. Three indie developer wannabes that will experience hell on earth while pursuing their dreams in the industry, because, as many of you know,
making video games is not easy.
In Indiecalypse we'll play as
Jack Jackson (programming),
Ethan Wornick (music) and
Violet Oakly (art), and live their own particular stories, and watch them as they spiral down a path of misery they won’t come back from. The game's main mechanic is based on modern exploration/adventure games, but Indiecalypse also includes more than 20 mini-games.
Each of the playable characters depicts their totally unjustified stereotypes:
Jack Jackson is the programmer, an ill-tempered, pretentious douchebag. His hygienic habits are at least questionable, and yet he’ll surely manage to win your hearts.
He’s our main character and the team leader.
Ethan Wortnick is the game’s musician, a talented composer and keytar master. The word “keytar”, by the way, is a blend of the words “keyboard” and “guitar”, in case you didn’t notice. Ethan is a cynical, easy-going fellow with a dubious lifestyle.
He’s Jack’s first ally and eventually becomes the voice of his conscience, or something like that…
Last but not least, there’s Violet Oakly, the team’s lead artist. A former fine art’s A-grade student, a series of unfortunate events molded Violet’s personality into the hysterical leery concept artist she is now.
She’s the last member to join the team, and becomes Jack’s second right hand. Because it’s always useful to have two right hands.
Indiecalypse is filled with references to some of the most popular -and not so popular- video games in history. The many mini-games scattered throughout the main game are our particular
tribute to those titles that somehow have defined our miserable lives.
In its essence, Indiecalypse is a heartfelt confession, an invitation to recall our sentimental memoirs as gamers.We hope you like what you see, in that case, check out our new
Kickstarter campaign for more information and contribute for awesome backer rewards!
And last, you
MUST SEE our trailer. Really, you should do it now!