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Come see what we are doing!

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So over the past twelve months, a few of us have quietly been working on a project together. It’s called “Exile Saga” and is an old style, new RPG...and we are very excited to share it with you all as we move from demo to finished game.

Crimson began work on a story several years ago that last year he decided to transform into an RPG, which he began working on in his spare time. In June 2013, he invited me – Rohenna - to work on the character development and dialogue for the game, and then in September, Alterity joined us as lead programmer, working closely with Crimson to tweak and improve and streamline. May 2014 and Kell came on board to push the marketing as we launched the game on Kickstarter.

We also have the skills of a very talented musician for our completely unique soundtrack, tailored scene by scene, and a wonderful artist to bring the characters to life.

On the 2nd of May, we launched Exile Saga on Kickstarter, a fundraiser program that will hopefully allow us to finish building the game over the next 18 months or so. Exile Saga is at this point in time a working demo, giving you a taste of what to expect in the future. Free downloads of the Exile Saga alpha version are currently available to play on Windows, MAC and Linux OS.

We’ve had some great reviews, including this one recently: http://themasqueradergamingnetwork.word ... xile-saga/
"You’re creating history as you move through the narrative, major characters haven’t played a part yet with only one major event taking place. I felt eased into the game gently."

"It plays very similar to early JRPGs but with the added exception of the combat. Instead of going into turn based combat whenever you encounter an enemy, you play in real time."

"The design of the game is the icing on the cake. Visually the game is impressive, not because of the graphical prowess but because of the way the developers have authentically recreated the JRPGs of the 90s."
As our friends, and you being the community where it all began, we’d love to see what you think about it too. We'd like to invite you to visit our Kickstarter page for more details on the game, characters and staff https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/10 ... exile-saga or visit our website, http://www.exilesaga.com/; you can Like us on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/exilesaga and Twitter https://twitter.com/MerakiGames and support our project if you like what you see!
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Uhm... wow... a surprise
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Heheh, yeah, it's been kept secret pretty well.

For those who're interested, we've got downloads of the alpha demo available for Windows, MAC and Linux OS. You can find them under these links.
All free downloads. If you need help on how to install it on linux or MAC, let any of us know. During daytime EU it's easiest to reach out via twitter; I'm monitoring that feed during nearly all waking hours.

There's a promotion video...
And here's the press release!

It's been loads of fun working with these people so far. I'm very blessed to get to help out in this project.
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I played through the Alpha Demo and its really fun, so far - looking forward to more!
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The alpha demo was a lot of fun.

I ran into some annoying bugs with Sienna being permanently dead, but these things happen in alpha builds :3.

I was really impressed with the story so far and found myself attached to the characters.

I can tell you guys are putting a lot of hard work into this. As a friend from years of playing on Dasaria , and a fellow software developer who wants to get into the game industry, I'll be backing you. Good luck!
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Hey thanks Elrith, much appreciated! I can't really speak for myself because you know; I've only recently joined the team but yes; Alt, Crim and Roh have been putting a lot of work in it already. And we will continue to work on it. Hopefully our kickstarter will succeed this time around, but if it doesn't we'll just keep building and we'll try it again in the future.

Additionally we're talking about building a PnP corebook for Exile Saga, which would make another interesting (sub)project.. The Exile Saga franchise is young still relatively, but that doesn't mean we're not dreaming big! :lol:

And yes, the bugs.. Haha. We're working on them! We've got a couple of people who've been actually very helpful with those (Arkalezth being one of them to point them out, thanks hun), and we'll be certain to have them all smoothed out before we release the final game. :mrgreen:
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You're welcome, but I have yet to finish the demo (I haven't been able to play much lately). From what I've seen so far, it looks great.

Good luck!
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For some reason I really like the name Mira...







Neat project. c:
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Thanks Ark, thanks Nira! And yes, heheh. I wonder why that is ;)

A few days ago we started working with a new artist. She drew us new character art of Mira.

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We wanted to let you all know that while we didn't succeed on our Kickstarter the first time, we're giving it another shot this month :)

We've improved things across the board; we have new artwork, fixed bugs, and new features in the game. We'd again love to see what you all think of it! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/10 ... -were-free

And while no forum can be as awesome as Dasaria's, we do have a forum for Exile Saga too, if you want to offer more in-depth feedback or suggestions :) http://exilesaga.invisionzone.com/
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If you want to see what we're doing, we'll be livestreaming us working and playing Exile Saga through out the week. Right now, Crimson is playing Exile Saga live. Come join :) http://www.twitch.tv/merakigames
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A podcast went live today on betawaveradio ; a 1 hr interview (with parts of the Exile Saga soundtrack) with Crimson and myself, about Exile Saga, Meraki Games, us kickstarting and geeky gameness.

http://betawaveradio.com/missed-episodes/ First link top of the list :) Come laugh at our hilarious accents!
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