The Real Texas
Well, you've come a long, long way for this vacation. England just isn't like Texas; you're findin' it a bit hard to relax, to be right honest. But you'll need the time off, come Calfin' season, and two weeks ain't too long to be away from the range.
Today, you've driven yourself up to some place called "Chateau Rockingham". Sort of a museum that serves food, and with a little park to relax in. Well, the drive sure was relaxin' although you found yourself more than once on the wrong side of the road up the curvy mountain pass.
As it turns out, things are gonna start to get a bit strange for you pretty quick, like when the castle decides to lock you in...
The Main Idea
Texas is a nonlinear action/adventure game set in an alternate reality game universe that is a blending of our modern Texas stereotype of guns, trucks and barbeques with Olde Englande's dragons, knights, and peasants. Sort of.
So for example:
- Peasants live and farm in a quaint small town in some nondescript part of the English countryside.
- Everybody is packing heat.
- Except for you.
Or something along those lines.
Gameplay
It's a top-down 3D exploration-based action/adventure game. Things are still coming together but the main thrust is on exploration, not combat. But there will be a semi-steady dose of shooting, at least once you get out of the initial area.
The shooting is probably going to work a bit differently than most games, with a "draw" mechanic. Basically, you equip your sidearm and then when you're ready to shoot, you draw and take aim. And as anybody who's ever shot anybody dead will tell you, you don't run while shootin' a gun.
Coming Soon... ?
There's no release date. The current idea is to get the a pre-release together which will be like a public beta. This captures most, but not all of the gameplay, and will contain the initial playable area (the castle that Sam visits.)
The game has a built in replay system and I want to collect as many replays as I can. The betas will submit replays automatically to KittyLambda.com via http.
The meat of the game will be released later. Things are coming together nicely, but really, I never give release dates.
Screenshots, Video
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