Board 8 > There's a kickstarter for Monster Crown - a monster taming game

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/236602931/monster-crown-monster-taming-game-with-true-crossb?ref=hero_thanks

Just figured I'd toss it here since a lot of people here dig the genre. Apparently you can breed any monsters and it actually takes physical attributes from both of them. It's pretty cool. And $10 pledge gets you the game on release. It reached its goal a while ago, but it's close to its last stretch goal with 25 days left.
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Woah it looks pretty darn good. Really channels gbc monster capture games but hopefully surpasses the limitations of gbc monster catching
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Ooooo
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This sounds like a direct ripoff of Monster Breeder. When did this kickstarter start?
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Yeah but guys.
Kickstarter.
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Oh, that looks really adorable!

I'd love to see something come of it.
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This looks like something i might get from humble bundle or a stream sale some day.
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I backed it earlier today since backers of $10 or more get access to a beta/demo version right away (well once they email it to you).
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reminds me of Dragon Warrior Monsters
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

This looks like something i might get from humble bundle or a stream sale some day.

Qft
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

This looks like something i might get from humble bundle or a stream sale some day.

Tbh, I would think something similar, but $10 is low enough of a price that I felt okay backing it.

I also backed Battle Chasers and never played it yet though. Stupid me.
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-hotdogturtle-- posted...

This sounds like a direct ripoff of Monster Breeder.

How do you figure? Monster Breeder doesn't appear to have graphics or a battle system.
There's monsters and you breed them, but that's true of a lot of games >_>
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@Eddv
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Oh hey, the last stretch goal was reached. I imagine they'll have more soon.
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

This looks like something i might get from humble bundle or a stream sale some day.

pretty much. rather pay for it while it's on sale and play it immediately, rather than pay 10 dollars now and play it in 5 years or never.
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I would argue that the game is extremely far along, especially since they're giving us a demo and they've been live battling people on streams lately. Their expected date is February 2019, which I can honestly buy more than most kickstarters that give dates.
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May as well, looks cool enough.
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Tom Bombadil posted...

-hotdogturtle-- posted...

This sounds like a direct ripoff of Monster Breeder.

How do you figure? Monster Breeder doesn't appear to have graphics or a battle system.
There's monsters and you breed them, but that's true of a lot of games >_>

Not that anything in this concept is a ~totally original, never been done before~ idea, but the pitch reads as if he just played Monster Breeder and thought to himself, "what if I take this exact concept and give it graphics and turn it into a larger scale game?"

Again it's entirely possible that multiple people came up with the same idea independently, but that's why I asked when he started it. It just strikes me as another low quality, pixel art indie game like most things on Kickstarter.
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Some quick impressions from the demo/beta.

The full game is supposed to have both breeding and fusion, but the demo only has fusion (though it's called breeding). At this point in time, each base monster has five forms they can fuse into depending on the type of the secondary monster. Trying to fuse already fused monsters just results in the form changing between the five possible outcomes, but just with different color palettes. And moves too, but it caps at five and there's so far no way to pick and choose what gets passed down. A move deleter is apparently coming in the next update to the demo though.

The battle system is simple. You choose attacks, and they can be strong or weak depending on type. Unfortunately when choosing a move you can't actually see anything other than its name, so you just have to remember what it does, what its type is, and how strong it is. There's also some mechanic where switching monsters builds up some kind of power gauge for stronger attacks, but early game there's no need for it so I haven't cared to learn about it.

There's no random battles, instead the monsters just spawn on the overworld and give chase. Recruiting them is basically just a matter of being a few levels higher than them and then it's like a guaranteed recruitment even at full health.

There is online battling, and you can set a prize so the winner gets a version of something on the loser's team, which has potential to be cool. It's still pretty buggy, though. When I tried last night, my opponent and I couldn't see each other to get the battle started.

The presentation needs some work, but it feels too early to really criticize it on that when there's still so much time for it to improve before final release. The writing so far seems bland too, though.

Also the demo only has your starter and four other monsters found in the wild, plus some codes (that can be entered as many times as you want) for a few others. And you can't get another copy of your starter if you fuse it, unless you battle and beat someone who listed it as a prize. There's five starters, one for each type.
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-hotdogturtle-- posted...

Again it's entirely possible that multiple people came up with the same idea independently, but that's why I asked when he started it. It just strikes me as another low quality, pixel art indie game like most things on Kickstarter.

That makes sense I suppose, Monster Breeder just seems a very odd connection to make when Monster Rancher and Dragon Warrior Monsters and Digimon and stuff exist

Thanks for the summary mnk. I'm hoping the breeding is a bit deeper eventually but this is probably worth my tenbux anyway?
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