Escape 2042: The Truth Defenders

[Orion_]

Escape 2042: The Truth Defenders, is a fast paced 2D platformer with 2 mini-games included.
The main game features security cameras to avoid, firing enemies, grenades to collect, computer "hacking" to open doors or disable laser protection fields, and level card based locked door in the first prison levels.
The game will take place in 3 different environments (prison, forest, desert) interspersed with 2 mini-games including a reversed shoot'em up and an original abseiling game.

The project is targeted for the following platforms: Dreamcast, Megadrive, Gameboy, PC-Engine CD & Windows



Video trailer:

The Story:
In the year 2042, a socialist government is in power, but nobody had foreseen progressive dictatorship that settled in. The elites of the government hid behind a sham democracy, disconnected from the life the people were leading, and acted solely in their own interests.

The regime considered the dissidents as conspiracy theorists, treated them like terrorists and locked them away in highly-secured prisons, to prevent them from telling the people the truth about the manipulating medias accomplice of the government power.

You are Eris, a computer engineer and member of the Truth Defenders coalition.

After a clandestine operation to inform the people, you are locked away in the highly-secured prison Bulor 24.

But your knowledge on security systems will enable you to escape.

Your turn now to escape as fast as you can from this place!

Support this game on Kickstarter by buying the different versions for Megadrive, Gameboy, Dreamcast & PC Engine: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/orionsoft/escape-2042-the-truth-defenders

Please support the game on Steam Greenlight too: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=836772991

[Black Tiger]

Hopefully a potential PCE version turns out nice, but people planning to pledge for this version alone should be aware that it won't be the full game and will only have the first environment/set of stages.

[Necromancer]

Looks cool, but it's too bad that the Turbob is an afterthought, just a stretch goal and a port of the incomplete gameboy version.

[Gredler]

Music and graphics look like they will port easily to pce CD via HuC - looking and sounding great while doing it! Can't wait to see final product, awesome work!

[ParanoiaDragon]

Looks cool!  I would totally support it if it was the full game, but I honestly don't feel motivated for just a partial game.

[esteban]

I support this project.

The world doesn't revolve around PCE.

I do.

...so, for the PCE to get any attention is a good thing.

I'm curious about playing the full game, of course, on another platform. I suggest Cd-i.

[Arkhan]

neat.   Will you be doing the coding?  and, can we expect to see the remnants of Apothecary as what's used to create this game?

[Orion_]

can we expect to see the remnants of Apothecary as what's used to create this game?

Apothecary is much bigger and needs more features than this game.
the PC engine version will be the gameboy version port, limited to prison levels, no mini game

[_joshuaTurbo]

Good luck Orion on the kickstarter!  Any new PCE Dev work is awesome!! 

[fragmare]

Looks cool!  Reminds me of Canabalt, but with more platforming elements