Longdue has unveiled the atmospheric debut teaser and Kickstarter date for its in-development ‘psychogeographic’ RPG, Hopetown, a religious successor to Disco Elysium.
The trailer discloses particulars about the important thing expertise shaping the venture, and the studio introduced that Hopetown’s Kickstarter marketing campaign will launch on March 17, with a pre-launch web page that includes a restricted set of early-backer rewards dwell now.
Longdue can reveal that Lenval Brown, the unmistakable voice of Disco Elysium’s narrator, whose distinctive timbre and gravitas are immediately recognizable to these within the know, will likely be intently concerned within the venture and voice a key character within the recreation, as teased within the newest trailer for Hopetown.
“It feels good to be again—to step into one thing new,” stated Brown, in a press release. “There’s nothing like bringing a world to life, shaping a narrative that’s been ready to be spoken into existence.”
Brown is joined by Piotr Sobolewski, whose pivotal overseeing a staff of 15 that labored on Disco Elysium was instrumental in shaping the sport’s signature mad, gnarly vitality into one thing clean, cohesive, and deeply immersive, Longdue stated.
Martin Luiga, founding member of the ZA/UM Cultural Affiliation and author of the primary quick story within the Disco Elysium universe and author of seven characters in Disco Elysium, has additionally joined the Longdue staff.
“I’m happy to share my experiences with Longdue to assist them craft the narrative and programs for Hopetown, taking part in to the strengths that the narrative RPG style has achieved up to now and making an attempt to innovate upon them to inform a wealthy story based mostly in equal components on what has been, what’s and what may very well be,” stated Luiga, in a press release. “I’m assured that the staff can ship a worthy addition to the canon of Western RPGs. I name upon the followers of the RPG and journey style to again the Hopetown Kickstarter to assist us make the sport.”
Alongside them, a rising roster of inventive expertise from Disco Elysium and past is bringing Hopetown to life, with staff members to be revealed quickly, with a complete of 9 people that labored on Disco Elysium having contributed to Hopetown up to now.
“At Longdue, we’ve constructed—and proceed to construct—a staff with actual horsepower: Disco Elysium contributors, triple-A stalwarts, indie artisans—all champing on the bit to unleash their skills,” stated Riaz Moola, CEO of CoGrammar & HyperionDev – a web based tech bootcamp firm that supported the formation of Longdue.
Moola’s firm is partnering with Longdue to supply plenty of full scholarships on a online game improvement course that can result in plenty of internships at Longdue. The internships will likely be for aspiring indie builders.
The studio is worked up to share extra about Hopetown when its Kickstarter launches on March 17, together with deeper insights into the staff behind the sport, its psychogeographic and journalism mechanics, the mining city setting, and extra
What Is Hopetown?
In Hopetown, phrases are your deadliest weapon, and each selection leaves its mark. Set in a mining city caught between decay and transformation, formed by ambition, exploitation, and the delicate programs that bind society collectively, you step into the function of a rogue journalist—a chaotic, self-destructive provocateur who sees humanity as inherently egocentric and merciless. Unapologetically cynical and dangerously unhinged, you thrive on poking at bruises, pulling at free threads, and watching what unravels.
A City of Contrasts
The city itself is an enviornment of extremes. The suffocating darkness of the mine’s depths mirrors the buried truths of its inhabitants, whereas the floor world—glittering with the promise of progress—is steeped in corruption and energy performs. It’s a spot the place survival is dependent upon who controls the story, and the place each determination ripples outward, reshaping not simply the world, however your self.
Constructing on the legacies of Disco Elysium and Planescape: Torment, Hopetown introduces programs that creatively discover participant company. The psychogeography system is pivotal in how gamers work together with the sport world: feelings, recollections, and conversations substitute conventional mechanics like keys and levers, turning into the instruments that unlock doorways, alter landscapes, and reshape relationships. Progress isn’t nearly fixing puzzles or discovering gadgets—it’s about navigating the protagonist’s fractured psyche and the ripples it creates within the setting.
In the meantime, a brand new journalism-based RPG system provides you the instruments to craft tales that form the world—and your self. Will you embrace chaos as a gonzo journalist, spinning wild, attention-grabbing narratives? Will you twist actuality as a conspiracist, bending occasions to fit your worldview? Or will you dig deep as a calculated investigator, exposing brutal truths to spark riot—or sow complacency?
A Crucible of Selections
The mining city is greater than a setting—it’s a crucible. What truths will you reveal? What lies will you inform? Will your phrases encourage hope or destruction? Will you reshape the programs of energy, or will they eat you?
This can be a recreation the place every part transforms every part else. Each phrase you select issues. Each determination carries weight. And each story you inform adjustments the world—and the delicate programs that maintain it collectively.
Why Again Hopetown?
Backing Hopetown isn’t nearly funding—it’s about constructing a neighborhood, backing a imaginative and prescient and casting a vote, Longdue stated. Longdue is an unbiased studio daring to create the sorts of video games larger studios gained’t or can’t make—video games that problem their gamers and let gamers problem the video games again. With Hopetown, Longdue is constructing a motion for Disco-Like narrative-driven RPGs that don’t draw back from complexity, emotion, or ambition.
You possibly can register to be notified when the Hopetown Kickstarter goes dwell on the pre-launch web page now and get entangled within the Hopetown neighborhood on Discord.
