Platform: PC                                Genre: RPG                     

The player travels the land fighting and allying with the creatures of the land while they try to build connections between the people of this world.

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Description

The Shepherds’ is a demo for our passion-project monster catcher game with a unique battle system that merges classical turn-based RPG battles with Tactics genre grid positioning. Think Octopath Traveller and Pokémon crossed with Fire Emblem.

 While Pokémon usually has 1v1 battles, we are trying a new spin on this with the idea of 4 controllable monsters on the field at the same time. They can be placed and moved on the grid to create different formations, use attacks with different reaches, and modify how much damage they take. The focus is on taming these monsters by observing their responses to different positive and negative actions you do to them, to get them onto your side and amass a well functioning party. 

The vertical slice we are making represents an 15- 20 minute chunk of the game featuring exploration of the top-down 2D/3D hybrid world made with Unreal Engine 5 by our sprite and shader artists, with NPCs and zones you walk into to go into variations of battles. 

We are a new studio of recent graduates navigating a tough industry climate - we would love to be able to fully produce and release this title in the future. We are still in heavy development. The UI needs work, there's still a lot of debug assets needing removal and move VFX we are in the process of adding, but we're confident we are already very close to having something ready to show.

Gameplay

Controls

WASD Movement

ESC to quit Game

F to talk to NPCS

 Team

• Jasper Van Diepen Creative Director and Creature Designer
• Connor Level Designer and Producer
• Hayley Character Art and Character Animation
• Jonathan Narrative Writer and Programmer
• Kunal Programmer 
• Shaun 3D Artist
• Adam VFX Artist
• Frank Programmer and Shading
• Tiarnan 2D Art
• Jake Sound Design

Acknowledgements