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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!
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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...
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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!
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