Kickstarter

In short, Frontier is an extremely realistic, and dynamic simulation of the Wild West.

Imagine yourself in a breathtaking Western landscape, with the power to transform it sitting at your fingertips.

Frontier places you in an awe-inspiringly beautiful worldspace, and gives you the ability to make a name for yourself in the West. Gather resources, hunt for food, cook a wide variety of dishes, and survive in the West. But that's only the beginning. In fact, Frontier isn't even primarily a survival game. It's just one of the many features which we will offer you.

Once you've gathered enough resources to begin crafting, you can create a vast array of building objects, from floor and walls, to gun racks and pianos... the list goes on and on.

Frontier is based on a reputation system, where you must try to gain fame in the West. You begin as a nobody, and develop your character based on your actions. You may decide to build a thriving community by taking things into your own hands, and constructing a settlement. If your town is built well, you'll see settlers begin to arrive and populate your buildings! You can amass your fortune by presiding over your own frontier town.

But the game does not limit you to just that- you can become a rich cattle baron, if you choose, or perhaps a world-renowned bounty hunter. Frontier provides you with countless opportunities to conquer the West.

Combat is also an important feature of the project. You will be able to defend your settlements from bandit attacks, coyotes and bears, and even take the fight to them on their own territory! Construct a wide range of authentic weaponry, from Colt revolvers, to Winchester repeaters. Take up arms and protect your people!

From building structures, to claiming bounties, every action you complete in Frontier will affect your reputation. The more famous you become, the more opportunities that will become available to you. Losing settlers will decrease your reputation, so make sure that you defend your people well. Your sheriff's department will assist you with this task, so you aren't left to fend for your towns alone!

But our thought process for creating Frontier relies on one very important principle; "If you could do it in the Wild West, you can do it in Frontier". Bearing this in mind, we made the decision to expand down the route of drugs and alcohol. Brew liquor, sell it in your own saloons, or export it to other players. But you aren't in any way limited to that. If you so choose, you can consume your latest batch of moonshine all by yourself (we don't recommend this if you're at work the next day). Through a combination of clever effects, your character will get drunk if you have had one (or ten) too many. Due to the dynamic nature of Frontier, your alcohol tolerance will increase depending on your drinking habits, and you may even become an alcoholic if you spend too much time behind the bar. The same goes for other substances- with an abundance of peyote in the desert, amongst other unusual plants, you can experience the West however you'd like.

To give you a better idea of exactly what we want to do with Frontier, here is a list of our planned features. Please note that this is in no way our final list- we won't take away from it, but we may add even more features in the future!

-Fully modular building system with support for structural creations, furniture placement, and intricate details.

-Complete RPG system, including fully customisable characters (looks, clothes, weapons, and stats).

-Voxel terrain engine which supports realtime terrain editing (dig holes and caves, create canyons... landscape your world exactly how you want it).

-Combat system (human NPCs and animal NPCs for you to fight) with an enormous range of authentic weaponry.

-Farming system which comes loaded with many different crops for you to grow, and animals for you to raise.

-Hyper-realistic environmental system (advanced animal AI where creatures will react to the player based on their actions, in addition to a wildlife system where animals will hunt each other in realistic food chains).

-Hunting system with full animal detection- learn tactics to trap animals, stalk your prey, and avoid being seen.

-Crime system which allows you to hide bodies, plant or destroy evidence, and use stealthy tactics to avoid paying for your crimes.

-Multiplayer servers so that you can work with friends, or battle enemies online.

-Singleplayer meets multiplayer mechanics- play in your own singleplayer worlds, but interact with other players through trade and commerce.

-Company management- found your own companies and earn reputation to dominate the leaderboards. Trade with other players and NPCs to earn money.

The reason we are looking to Kickstarter to get our game idea off the ground is because we need to pay development costs, including purchasing game assets (such as libraries and script extensions), and even hiring additional team members to help us to produce Frontier. Once we get around to implementing multiplayer, a networking programmer is going to be an essential addition to the team.

Every donation helps us more than you could ever imagine. We don't plan on stopping after we've built Frontier- in fact, we hope that this title is just one of many which we will release in the future. But we can't do any of that without initial funding.

It's also beneficial for you if you like the look of Frontier. If you back us now, you'll save money compared to buying the game once we release on Steam. We are offering discounted pre-orders on Kickstarter as a thank you for supporting our work!