Our biggest and best supporters have been YOU, the amazing Steam community! We appreciate all the support you guys have shown on here allowing to keep Descent of Man rising over 1,000 wishlists! We hope to continue to see it rising more over time! The more support we see for the game, the more excited we get to bring you guys the best survival horror experience we can make! Please be sure to share the love and spread the word about Descent of Man and share the demo experience with everyone!
So our Kickstarter is in it's final days and sadly it hasn't been looking good. We're at only 6% funding! However, we are still going to keep it going and see how things turn out! If you want to get your name in the game's credits, be in the game in some form yourself, and/or you want exclusive DoM Kickstarter only merch then show your support and pledge!
We hope to see you guys there!
Steam Game Festival over 1,000 Wishlist Adds!
🔥☠️We are really excited to share that Descent of Man reached over 1,000 Wishlist adds during the Steam Game Festival! A great first step and milestone for us with hopefully more to come! 🔥☠️
Our Kickstarter is also now at 6% funded! Thank you all for the support you've shown up until this point! Keep it coming! We still got over 30 days left to go!
Like & share! Help us reach that Kickstarter goal!
If there are any of you out there with questions about our Kickstarter or game please be sure to reach out to us in our comments section! We'd love to hear from the community and answer any questions you might have about our project to clear up any doubts to earn your pledges!
Also don't forget our game demo is still available to enjoy on our Steam page! So be sure to check it out! Feedback is very much welcome here on Kickstarter comments and/or our Steam community page!
Join the controlled chaos in our community Discord server! We'd love to have you!
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Whether you loved it or hated it, we want to know. Your feedback will inform the direction we take the game in, so please take a moment and let us know what you think.
Making games is a lot of fun. Whats more fun is knowing people are playing your game :)
Thanks, Fuzion labs
Pitch - Kind of
About the Team We are a small indie team (*moonlighters) of friends. We started off making education games with the OGRE3D engine back in 2005 (college days) and pursued NSF grants - it didn't work out. After college, we continued to live our lives dispersed across the U.S., celebrated marriages, changed careers and had lots of children - along the way we picked up the Unity3D game engine. 8 kids later, our moonlighting finally led us to create Descent of Man - a game our children can't play.
[Footnote *: Moonlighters are crazy people who work full-time jobs completely unrelated to the game industry, but still make video games because its something to do outside of working all day and raising progeny].
About Descent of Man The idea for Descent of Man started back in 2014. We wanted to create a game where the enemies hunted the player. Our inspiration was the short story "The Most Dangerous Game". The original concept was actually designed to take place on an island - as you can tell some things have changed...okay a lot changed.
Fun facts about Descent of Man:
The guards use Bayesian Inference (its worth a google) to decide where to look for the player. As the player interacts with the environment, the enemies will see the changes and use the information to search for the player.
The enemies will fight each other if they encounter enemies of a different type - the player can force these encounters.
We really are a horror game that uses STEALTH as a real mechanic. You have a detection meter and everything.
The guards can see your flashlight, so watch where you shine that thing
We have some pretty cool puzzles
The story is historically inspired by the American eugenics movement from the 1900s. Google some of the names of the characters in our game, you might learn something bizarre!
Not a walking simulator
Kickstarter Campaign Starts Next Week (16 June 2020)
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We need your support. If you like what you see and want to learn about different ways you can contribute to the development of the Descent of Man than checkout our Kickstarter. Campaign starts on 16 June 2020! See you there!
Early Access Announcement Trailer Uploaded
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As part of our Summer marketing campaign, we have completed our first trailer. We hope you enjoy a peek into the world of Descent of Man!
Be sure to checkout the Early Access Demo that will be available for free only during the Steam Summer Festival for the week of June 9th-June 14th! We will also be holding live streaming session(s), so stop by and chat with us if you have a minute.
The official Early Access launch will occur in August 2020! We will provide a definitive date as we get closer to launch.
Onward Towards 2020!
------------------Welcome all going into 2020 with us!---------------------- Moving forward this year Fuzion Labs will be posting more Steam News updates for those following us here! Please be sure to also follow us on our Discord if you wish to see more "behind the scenes early development" news and images that we won't release publicly on Steam! We really appreciate the support shown by those interested in our game and want to provide you with little tidbits to keep you coming back to experience our development process with the very first fearful Chapter of the DoM release!
An extra big thanks to our Closed Beta Testers who have given their time during the past 6 plus weeks with the bug hunts! Currently the team is now taking all the feedback received and incorporating it to further improve on the experience.
Updates Include: - Adding in-game tutorials - Adding pause menu - Implementing new UI graphics and elements - Key items info screens - An inventory system of some kind to help Players better keep track of held items - Adjustments to our Checkpoint saving system - AI tweaks that solve enemy stability issues - New gameplay feature that allows Player to use the shadows for cover/hiding - Level design changes/testing to enhance gameplay - Creating an outro sequence with a new surprise creature introduction
We are aiming to get these major revisions done over the course of time before our planned release date of DoM Chapter 1 in Summer 2020! The team is also hopeful to possibly even implement a few more extra SURPRISES as well if extra development time permits. We'll continue to bring you news/updates as we progress! Thanks again for all your support!
CLOSED Beta Testing Underway!
Descent of Man has hit a major milestone! As of 18 December 2019, the game entered closed beta testing. We apologize to those waiting for the game to release this year in Fall, but we've decided it was best to push it back because you deserve the best version of DoM that it can be! Thanks for your patience and understanding! We highly value your continued support! We hope to see you follow us on our Steam Community and Discord! Happy Holidays to all!
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