📢 New game reveal!
✨NEAR-MAGE: A narrative-heavy adventure game with a bit of role-playing DNA. Study Magick in Transylvania, craft your own spells, carve out your own destiny!
Wishlist #nearmage on Steam 👉 near-mage.com/steam
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1️⃣ Thread 👇
2️⃣ There is a #Kickstarter coming soon page 👉 near-mage.com/ks
Please follow to be notified on launch - it won't be long now 🔔
Kickstarting Gibbous was a blast, let’s make Near-Mage’s campaign just as fun 🙌
Story👇
3️⃣ Meet Illy! She’s 18, and she gets a mysterious invitation from her great-aunt to stay in Transylvania for the summer… Only to find out that she comes from a long line of witches, and can enroll in the 🦇Transylvanian Institute for Magick✨as a near-mage!
4️⃣ Explore 3 hubs: the real-life town of Sighisoara, the Institute, and the town that sprung around it, veil-hidden Rakus. Dozens of strigoi, vampyres, pricolitch and other mythical creatures fill its colorful streets and taverns.
5️⃣ Take classes, craft spells, use them to change other characters’ lives for the better.
Or worse.
6️⃣ Sequel to Gibbous? More like expansion of the Kittehverse 😛 While not a direct continuation, it will tie up narrative threads & see favorite characters return, but can be played as standalone. Happy to answer some questions in replies, more revealed during the #Kickstarter.
7️⃣ PS: Thank you to everyone that supported us, hope to see you all when we launch the Kickstarter. Let’s make this game happen together! Also, we’d love it if you used #nearmage so we can track what everyone is saying. Love from Cami, Liviu & Chris!
2/15 We've sold very close to 10k units on Steam alone this winter. Discount was 70%, to put it into perspective it took us ~1 year to reach 50% off. GOG did Ok too.
3/15 Sharing this b/c I know indies want numbers, also as motivation for people making niche games – they can do Ok. False modesty aside, what did it for us:
✅good hooks
✅good production values.
Please evaluate those harshly before taking your project the commercial route.
1/8 This is NOT a game announcement! But we are working on something we'll call #ProjectGreenhorn. Here is a tiny bit about it: pictured is a Mitzkin. Mitzkin are flying messengers that [redacted] sends to its [redacted]. Concept by @camicuibus
2/8 Gibbous was launched 1 year ago, time to tease our next game 😁 #ProjectGreenhorn takes place in the same universe as Gibbous, and while it's not quite a direct sequel to it, it will tie loose ends together while adding more fun and crazy characters and stories.
3/8 Most of #ProjectGreenhorn will take place in Transylvania (and beyond!), which is a great opportunity for us to imbue the game with a lot more authentic lore and mythology. If you loved Gibbous, you'll love it!