All New Gameplay Trailer and Developer Twitch Stream!
We are excited to present the brand new Gameplay Trailer for Eden Rising: Supremacy. Play together with friends in a unique co-op experience combining tower defense gameplay in a vast open world!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLFlj78QIcs
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We are also pleased to announce an exclusive Twitch stream with some of the developers, showcasing gameplay and a live Q&A.
The stream will take place at 4.00pm EST Thursday April 12th https://www.twitch.tv/nvizziocreations
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-The Eden Rising Team
Dev Blog #3 - Exploring Eden
In the previousblogs for Eden Rising we talked about the visual look and feel for the world and the tribe of characters who are exploring it. This week, we’ll discuss something we’re sure everyone is curious about — gear! Because every explorer needs an arsenal of equipment up their sleeve to survive on a planet full of hostile aliens, no?
When you create your character and step into the strange alien world for the first time you’ll notice that there are no hard classes in Eden. Instead, you can customize your gear to suit your needs as you progress. If you’re classically inclined toward the gaming ‘holy trinity’ of tank, support, and DPS then Eden’s got you covered. But you’re also free to mix and match combinations and create something to fit your playstyle.
Check out the playlist of rendered turnarounds on our Youtube Channel!
Armor and weapons work together to create powerful synergies. Choose between speed, stamina, raw power, or support. Each can be upgraded for added effects and improved stats.
Do you enjoy playing a heavily armored, heavy hitter? Put together a tank-y build by pairing up the super tough, but stamina reducing Bone Armor, with a slow swinging hammer. Pull aggro and make each hit count by cracking open an enemy’s armor, allowing your teammates sporting agile weapons like the glaive and spear to dive in and cut it to shreds.
In addition to your personal equipment synergies, there are also synergies that you can take advantage of between tribe members. Equip a ranged weapon and apply a charge to a creature, then have a tribemate hit them with a Polarity Rod to cause an explosive energy discharge for massive damage!
There are even more synergies to discover between your gear and the traps and turrets you can craft. We’ll be discussing these in more depth next week. Combined with six unique weapon families, and multiple armor types in Early Access (and plenty more planned!), there’s tons of options for every explorer taking on the World of Eden.
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From your first steps onto Eden, you’ll encounter the ubiquitous purple fungus scattered through the Valley.
Though it resembles the Earth-bound varieties at home, Eden’s fauna always has a bite – this fungus is hard as rock and razor-edged. The perfect starter ingredient!
The Fungal Armor is one of the first pieces of protective gear you encounter on Eden. Don’t be fooled by its colorful appearance, it’s tougher than it looks! Infusing the hard fungus with the power of the Ascendants, the Fungal Armor provides a good balance of protection and speed.
In last week's development blog we talked about the art and design philosophy for the player characters of Eden Rising: human explorers lost on an alien world, surviving by integrating the strange power of the Ascendants into their bodies. Today, we’ll talk a little about the ideas and art direction of Eden itself.
The alien world of Eden is, at a glance, an incredibly lush and vibrant place. However, within its sprawling landscape lies many dangers and hazards. When designing the look and feel of the world we wanted to ensure that while pleasing to look at, the world also signaled its dangers to its human explorers.
For example: the vibrant green waters bubbling along the beaches and forming pools and lakes along the valleys -- they eat away the stone with their corrosive properties. Or the towering orange fungi creating an alien silhouette against the sky, reminiscent of deadly toadstools on Earth. Much like a poison arrow frog signaling its deadly nature with vibrant color, so too does the world of Eden.
While traversing Eden in search of valuable materials, an explorer will notice much of the flora and fauna are reminiscent of the ocean. Colorful swaying plant life, bulbs, and coral-like growths rising out of sandy seabeds or rock. This was all in service of creating the feeling that this world is not so friendly to sustaining human life. Even the creatures of Eden themselves share many of these traits, the goal being to make them feel like a blend of plant and animal, an extension of Eden itself.
In addition to the global look and feel of Eden, the world is also comprised of several unique and vibrant biomes. Each location has its own colorful atmosphere, creatures, materials, and a Crucible for tribes to discover. For early access launch there will be four fully completed biomes, with many more planned.
The Crucibles’ power manifests in many ways – it does not leave you defenseless against the awaiting horde. Craft the Electro-Turret and render your enemies vulnerable to attack!
The Electro-Turret charges up a concentrated globe of ionized essence to hurl at its targets. On impact, the essence disorients creatures, reducing their ferocity for a short time.
Clever wardens can use polarity weapons to explosively discharge the essence for large spikes of damage.
The Fungal Preserve is home to the untouched wilds of Eden. Beneath the great canopies of the flowering mushrooms, pollen and essence create a thick miasma.
Here the creatures of Eden flourish, creating dens amongst the snarls of roots and lurking in the undergrowth.
Rich in precious materials, those who dare to breach the tree line will find rewards equal to the danger.
One week ago, we announced Eden Rising: Supremacy to the world! We received a lot of great feedback, and no small part of that was about the vibrant and unique art style. So, for today’s blog post we want to share some of our design thinking, intentions, and concept art for our tribal player characters.
After arriving on an alien world and becoming stranded with next to nothing, the characters are saved from death by a mysterious entity known only as the Steward. It gives them the power to survive Eden’s harsh atmosphere and in return asks the player to go forth into Eden and restore the Crucibles.
The ‘glove’ on the character’s hand is a part of the power they received. It shares the same rhizome-like pattern that the Crucibles themselves have. It’s not something that we wanted to look ‘tacked on;’ it is part of the character, appearing to be integrating itself into their body completely. The material is alive, becoming an intrinsic part of the character and key to their survival on Eden.
Forced to become modern scavengers, our characters must be creative with the materials they find. Their equipment, weapons, and clothing must be hand-crafted with the help of their newly-integrated matter transformer bestowed in their bodies by the Steward. So, the art style reflects their resourcefulness. The organic roughness of the world had to be inherent in their apparel and weaponry to create a unique look.
In addition to looking cool, armor and weaponry play a key role in driving a character’s play style, as well as their strengths and weaknesses in combat. A heavy hitter tank character has tough looking armor with a top-heavy silhouette, while a mana user would have a sleeker, elongated silhouette. Creating those iconic silhouettes to fit with the overall look of Eden itself was a big focus of concepting and development.
The sundered Crucible’s light spills onto an ancient battleground.
In the Shattered Causeway, the relics of the old war’s final battle are aging and fossilized.
The Crucible’s power spills into the sea and fills the crevices, poisoning this once fertile land.
The giants of Eden struck the decisive blow here. With the war awakened by your tribe, will you rise above the Ascendants and become the new gods of Eden?
The Steward has tasked you with restoring the ancient machines, the Crucibles, to their full power. However, upgrading them requires a reboot, leaving your sanctuary vulnerable.
Sensing your weakness, the creatures of Eden will lay siege. You and your tribe must cleverly lay traps, place your defenses, and join the fray!
The battle may be arduous, but glory awaits the victors. The secret knowledge of the Crucibles will unfold before you, giving you access to life-giving Essence and mysterious technologies. And if you are the conquerors of Eden, your fragile human forms will be transformed – for the final Crucible guards the ultimate secret: the God Equation.
