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Lead a crew of freelance adventurers & navigate corporate intrigue on the fringes of space in a classic sci-fi dungeon crawl
About this project
THE MISSION CONTINUES. PREORDER AMOUNTS WILL BE ADDED TOWARDS STRETCH GOALS!
What's the Backer Bundle all about?
Every pledge contributes to the success of StarCrawlers! As a special thank you to the community, backers will also receive additional exclusive in-game rewards as stretch goals are unlocked. All items below will be added to the Backer Bundle which will be awarded to everyone who backs at Tier 2 and beyond!
RECENTLY UNLOCKED BY THE COMMUNITY:
You’re a Crawler, and that means you work for those that can pay. Asset recovery, commercial espionage, and mayhem for hire are just a few of your crew’s specialized services. If something shady needs doing, chances are a Crawler will be involved. Succeed and you’ll be rewarded with better pay then any corp drone can dream of. Plus, you'll earn the respect of the eclectic assortment of merchants, opportunists and adventurers who make their home in the fringes of space.
In StarCrawlers, you’ll lead a crew of Crawlers, each with their own unique skills and abilities. Together you’ll take on jobs to explore abandoned spacecraft, battle mighty enemies, and unravel corporate intrigue. Some key features of StarCrawlers:
- Classic first person dungeon crawling in a detailed sci-fi universe
- Narrative AI procedurally generates missions and dungeons with randomized encounters, traps, and enemies
- Strategic RPG style combat featuring a time unit action system
- An atmospheric soundtrack by Ben Prunty
- Class ability customization and modification
- Randomly generated and upgradeable loot
- PC, Mac, and Linux support
Classic CRPG with a sci-fi flavor
In StarCrawlers you'll be navigating the halls of massive abandoned ships and sneaking through corporate facilities in a dynamic and interactive environment. Hack terminals to create shortcuts or find valuable data, disable or evade a variety of traps, grab as much salvage as you can carry, and keep your eyes peeled for hidden areas, loot and enemies.
Narrative AI
Randomized environments doesn't just mean slapping rooms together! The Narrative AI in StarCrawlers builds procedurally generated levels based on the story of the mission you're running. Whether on a rescue job in a pirate hulk or extracting data from a corp security station, your dungeon will be custom built to match. Lower the difficulty level for a casual dungeon dive or crank it to 11 and face fiendish traps, complex dungeons, and the toughest enemies.
Player-driven experience
The Narrative AI is also responsive: your choices of allies and how you resolve events alter not only the results of the mission, but how the story of your Crawler crew evolves.
Strategic RPG style combat
Combat in StarCrawlers has a traditional turn-based RPG style with a time unit action system. Unleash a series of light attacks with speedy, low cost actions, or strike a mighty blow with a heavy, high cost action. Smart choices about which abilities to use and when make the difference between victory and defeat. Take a look at the video below to see combat in action.
Build a Relentless Crew of Crawlers
No Crawler can survive alone. You'll need to hire a crew, level them up, specialize their abilities, and customize their gear. Each Crawler class has their own set of combat abilities as well as special skills that provide advantages outside of combat - helping you to navigate your environment more effectively, and deal with traps, encounters, and threats. Assembling a crew that works well together is a focus of StarCrawlers! Initial classes include:
The Cyber Ninja is a trained killing machine, dispatching foes with deadly efficiency. As melee combatants, they can be vulnerable to counter-attack, but have abilities to evade and retaliate against the clumsy strikes of their enemies. While exploring, they are invaluable in situations that require subterfuge and cunning.
Technical virtuosos, Hackers possess powerful tools to corrupt and control their enemies, but lack in direct damage attacks. Their high-tech skills are vital outside of combat to disable traps, hack security terminals and access secure data.
Specializing in advanced weaponry and raw power, the Soldier’s a likely candidate If you need something blown-up, exploded, or detonated. Intimidation and damage output go hand in hand, but if you’re looking to charm the locals, you may want to consider other options.
The Void Psykers are capable of building up tremendous psychic energy and unleashing high damage attacks to obliterate their foes. However, tapping into the void is dangerous and carries the risk of unleashing a deadly backlash. When dealing with events, her precognition abilities and terrifying aura can give you the upper hand.
We are very excited to have Ben Prunty (best known for his work on indie games such as FTL, Gravity Ghost, and Scale) as part of the team. With Ben’s original soundtrack as the background for everything you do, exploration through the StarCrawler universe will be an auditory adventure.
On Prime worlds, affluence and privilege abound - technological paradises, both luxurious and beautiful, these planets are home to the wealthiest and most powerful citizens in the universe. In the vast majority of inhabited space, things are very different....
Corpworlds are commonplace - entire planets dominated by large-scale manufacturing operations for their corporate overlords, keeping the distasteful side-effects of the Prime world's extravagance away from its citizens.
The fringes of space are home to drifters, pirates, Crawlers, and other colorful characters who prefer to avoid the busy inner worlds, or to stay outside the reach of those who control them. Your crew makes their home on what used to be a space station. Abandoned long ago, it has been reclaimed by the enterprising citizens of the region and “improved” with a healthy dose of bolted-on salvage and outer-world ingenuity. From here, your story begins...
Tell me about these Stretch Goals
I want to build my own rewards combo!
Can't find a pledge tier that has the exact rewards you want? Back at any tier and add a reward by increasing your total pledge using the list below. When the campaign ends, we'll be in touch via Backer Kit to help you customize your loot!
We’re a small and scrappy studio located in San Diego, California and we've been working together for 3+ years. Before forming Juggernaut, our team worked at a variety of studios including Autodesk, High Moon Studios, Torn Banner Studios, SCEA, SOE and as independent contractors on various projects. StarCrawlers is our first independent game as a company and we're very excited to bring it to Kickstarter!
Why Kickstarter?
Risks and challenges
Video game development is a complex (but rewarding!) endeavor. Shipping a high quality game on time is challenging even for large teams with full financial backing. However, we have already established most of the complicated core systems involved in StarCrawlers including combat, navigation, map generation and inventory and have a solid and attainable schedule in place to launch StarCrawlers by our proposed delivery date.
While this is Juggernaut’s first indie title, we’ve been working in the video game industry for a combined 20+ years. As a team, we have completed numerous contracts to create game content and art under rigorous deadlines. This experience has prepared us for the production planning and execution required to make StarCrawlers happen - and we're making it happen right now!
After seeing what has been accomplished in the last few months, we are confident in our ability to execute this project without major delay. We have a talented and passionate team that's very excited to be working on StarCrawlers and ready to commit all their time and energy to make it as awesome as it can possibly be. We’re 100% invested and dedicated to seeing StarCrawlers through to release - and beyond!
Learn about accountability on KickstarterFAQ
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We believe the heart of any decent RPG is it's story.
There is a central plot in StarCrawlers and it doesn't revolve around you saving the universe. Events will be set into motion by your crew and you'll have the opportunity to go from pawn to player (or flipping the table), depending on your actions.
Crawlers are a varied group, and you can play your team however you like, whether that's maliciously, heroically, or just self-serving-ly.> How do you plan on procedural content working with the main plot?
The main plot of StarCrawlers is comprised of individual missions, all of which serve to advance the narrative of the storyline in some fashion. The main plot also has branching paths with different conclusions, and your choices about how to resolve the missions that make up this larger story alter where you are on the paths. Elements of the mission stories are randomized to keep things fresh (who's sending you, what they're after, where it's at) and the levels / events / enemy groups are procedurally generated from these mission stories.
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Oops! That's an oversight we missed before the project went live. Now that it's up, we cannot remove it. Rest assured: there is NO shipping cost for the RECON and RECON ELITE tiers, they are purely digital.
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Yes. Tiles you've explored will be automatically mapped, and you can bring up your map anytime to reorient yourself. Important markers will also be noted.
If you opt to go Hardcore Ironman for your difficulty setting, you might find the auto-map... unreliable :D
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It's too early in development to have exact system requirements for StarCrawlers. We absolutely want StarCrawlers to run on as many setups as possible, and working with the Unity engine allows lots of options for user defined scalability.
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No! There's a mess of different enemies in the works, however the main storyline revolves around robotic foes. If you've dug this far into the F.A.Q for info you deserve to know: you'll also be facing humanoids, not-so humanoids, and perhaps something from beyond the fringe...
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We do not have any immediate plans to create a boxed version of StarCrawlers due to the additional cost in time and materials. That said, we fondly remember having a shelf of boxed games (and actual paper manuals!) and would love to add a boxed copy reward tier if we meet our funding goal.
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Yes, and it will be completely optional. If you've opted to have permadeath on, once a Crawler is dead - they're dead. You can however hire a new Crawler of that class back at base and of course retain all their gear.
There will be a Hardcore Ironman mode: 1 save file, death is permanent. >:D
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Yes. There is an accessory slot on characters that will allow you to equip items to customize your stats further. We also have a stretch goal for a crafting system to assemble your own custom gear.
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Modding tools are something we'd love to offer in the future, but they will not be part of the initial release of StarCrawlers.
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Yes. We support remappable controls like a boss! We are actively looking into how much variety we can provide for controller support.
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We <3 Unity! We are extremely happy to be working in what we feel is the premiere engine for independent game development!
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This one goes to 11. Yes, we dropped a Spinal Tap reference.
Good thing we didn't go with Monty Python! :D
Rewards
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Pledge $2 or more
57 backers
TIPSTER
Our sincere thanks, good karma, and an acknowledgment in the credits plus:
StarCrawlers HD Wallpapers + Social Media icon pack
Estimated delivery: -
Pledge $13 or more
250 backers All gone!
SAVVY
The complete game at an early adopter price and a special mention of your name in the credits
1 DRM free copy of StarCrawlers (PC / Mac / Linux - or 1 Steam key, if possible) + in-game Backer Bundle rewards + StarCrawlers HD Wallpapers + Social Media icon pack
Estimated delivery: -
Pledge $15 or more
1,744 backers
STARCRAWLER
The complete game and a special mention of your name in the credits
1 DRM free copy of StarCrawlers (PC / Mac / Linux - or 1 Steam key, if possible) + in-game Backer Bundle rewards + StarCrawlers HD Wallpapers + Social Media icon pack
Estimated delivery: -
Pledge $20 or more
498 backers
ROCKSTARCRAWLER
Get the game and rock out to the tunes of StarCrawlers by Ben Prunty!
1 Digital soundtrack download + 1 DRM free copy of StarCrawlers (PC / Mac / Linux - or 1 Steam key, if possible) + in-game Backer Bundle rewards + StarCrawlers HD Wallpapers + Social Media icon pack
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $23 or more
249 backers Limited (1 left of 250)
RECON SPECIALIST
Access to the Beta at a reduced price! Influence the direction of the game from Beta and beyond with early access to the game and the Beta-only forum. You'll also receive a special in-game thank you
Beta access + special in-game thank you + 1 Digital soundtrack download + 1 DRM free copy of StarCrawlers (PC / Mac / Linux - or 1 Steam key, if possible) + in-game Backer Bundle rewards + StarCrawlers HD Wallpapers + Social Media icon pack
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $25 or more
222 backers
RECON
Access to the Beta, the Beta-only forum and a special in-game thank you
Beta access + special in-game thank you + 1 Digital soundtrack download + 1 DRM free copy of StarCrawlers (PC / Mac / Linux - or 1 Steam key, if possible) + in-game Backer Bundle rewards + StarCrawlers HD Wallpapers + Social Media icon pack
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $30 or more
119 backers
RECON ELITE
Access to the Alpha! Influence the direction of the game from Alpha and beyond with early access to the game and the exclusive Alpha-only forum.
Alpha/Beta access + special in-game thank you + 1 Digital soundtrack download + 1 DRM free copy of StarCrawlers (PC / Mac / Linux - or 1 Steam key, if possible) + in-game Backer Bundle rewards + StarCrawlers HD Wallpapers + Social Media icon pack
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $40 or more
303 backers
RECON PLATINUM ELITE PLUS
Access to the Pre-Alpha - get your hands on StarCrawlers before anyone else! Influence the direction of the game from Pre-Alpha and beyond with the earliest access to the game and the exclusive Pre-Alpha-only forum. You'll also get the name of your choice on a random NPC (keep it classy!) AND you get the Digital StarCrawlers art book
Pre-Alpha/Alpha/Beta access + 1 name on an NPC + special in-game thank you + 1 Digital StarCrawlers art book + 1 Digital soundtrack download + 1 DRM free copy of StarCrawlers (PC / Mac / Linux - or 1 Steam key, if possible) + in-game Backer Bundle rewards + StarCrawlers HD Wallpapers + Social Media icon pack
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $65 or more
82 backers
LET'S GET PHYSICAL
For the loot lover, get ALL of the above plus the exclusive StarCrawlers Tee!
1 StarCrawlers Tee (male or female sizes available) + everything from the previous tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $100 or more
16 backers Limited (14 left of 30)
ROBOTICS ENGINEER
Work with us directly to create a custom skin for an enemy robot and receive a signed digital pic of your enemy
Design 1 enemy robot skin + signed digital pic of your enemy + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $125 or more
10 backers Limited (40 left of 50)
ITEM FABRICATOR
Work with us directly to design a legendary loot drop (weapon, armor, shield or accessory - YOU CHOOSE) You can also opt to display your name as the manufacturer!
Design and name 1 Legendary item + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $150 or more
30 backers All gone!
GET IN THE GAME
Become immortal (digitally)! Asa will design an NPC based on your name and likeness that will appear in random events, quests and encounters! You'll also receive a signed digital pic of your NPC bust
Your name and likeness as an NPC + signed digital pic of your NPC + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $175 or more
9 backers Limited (21 left of 30)
GET IN THE GAME II
Become immortal (digitally)! Asa will design an NPC based on your name and likeness that will appear in random events, quests and encounters! You'll also receive a signed digital pic of your NPC bust
Your name and likeness as an NPC + signed digital pic of your NPC + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $200 or more
2 backers Limited (19 left of 21)
STARCROSSED LOVER
You'll receive 1 of only 21 custom, hand-made Knit Plop snuggle buddies!
1 hand-made Knit Plop + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $200 or more
12 backers Limited (8 left of 20)
OK, YOU'RE THE BOSS
Make your dreams of being a corporate overlord a reality! Work with us directly to create a corporation, its business type and backstory, logo and even name its CEO (that could be YOU!). Your corp will be featured in the game as a mission creator for Crawlers!
Create a corporation, corp logo, and name it's CEO + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $250 or more
10 backers All gone!
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
Create an encounter for your NPC! Asa will design an NPC based on your name and likeness AND you'll work directly with us to create a random encounter featuring your NPC! You'll also get a signed digital copy of the NPC portrait and your name featured in the designer credits
Design a random encounter featuring your name and likeness as an NPC + signed digital pic of your NPC + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $275 or more
5 backers Limited (5 left of 10)
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE II
Create an encounter for your NPC! Asa will design an NPC based on your name and likeness AND you'll work directly with us to create a random encounter featuring your NPC! You'll also get a signed digital copy of the NPC portrait and your name featured in the designer credits
Design a random encounter featuring your name and likeness as an NPC + signed digital pic of your NPC + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $500 or more
7 backers Limited (3 left of 10)
CHIEF ROBOTICS ENGINEER
Build a bot! Work with us directly to create a unique enemy robot (including their look, animations and abilities!) and and receive a signed digital pic of the enemy you designed
Design 1 enemy robot + signed digital pic of your enemy + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $1,000 or more
1 backer Limited (4 left of 5)
MISSION FABRICATOR
Design a mission! Asa will design an NPC based on your name and likeness AND you'll work directly with us to create an entire mission from start to finish - including loot! You'll also receive a signed hand drawn original sketch of your NPC
Design a mission & rewards + your name and likeness as an NPC + signed hand drawn original sketch of your NPC + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world -
Pledge $1,500 or more
3 backers Limited (7 left of 10)
COLLECTORS EDITION
Score 1 of 10 limited edition hardbound StarCrawlers art books and leave your mark on the game by getting everything in BOTH the CHIEF ROBOTICS ENGINEER tier and the MISSION FABRICATOR tier - both your enemy robot and NPC will be immortalized forever in a framed and signed art print
1 Limited edition hardcover StarCrawlers art book + Design a mission & rewards + Design 1 enemy robot + your name and likeness as an NPC + framed & signed hand drawn original sketch of your NPC & enemy robot + everything from the LET'S GET PHYSICAL tier
Estimated delivery:Ships anywhere in the world
Funding period
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