Golden Gear, Inc.

Factsheet

Developer:
Golden Gear, Inc.
Based in Toronto, Ontario

Release date:
September 9th 2015

Platforms:
Steam
Humble Widget - PC / Mac
Itch.io - PC / Mac

Website:
fatetectonics.com

Regular Price:

Description

Fate Tectonics is a world-building puzzle game featuring a handcrafted pixel art style and a 16-bit symphonic soundtrack. Carefully place terrain tiles, piecing together the world in a way that will appease a growing number of god-like beings called Fates. One wrong move could mean angering the Fates, resulting in a chain reaction of destruction and chaos. Unlock the powers of the Fates to build a stronger and increasingly beautiful world and face off with final Fates for the ultimate world-crumbling finale.

History

Fate Tectonics started as a one-game-a-month prototype that Andrew Traviss was exploring but quickly expanded beyond that with the addition of Rosemary and Alex to the project. Developed over 2.5 years, the game went through many design iterations and lots of playtesting and feedback gathering at local and international events before completing a successful Greenlight campaign and being released on Steam on September 9th 2015.

Fate Tectonics was designed to be a highly intuitive world building game, challenging users to figure out the more complex interactions, while trying to remain accessible to a wide variety of gamer tastes and abilities. Testing data gathered from events like Pax Prime (2014/2015), Pax East (2015), GDC (Indie Megabooth 2015), as well as a number of Bit Bazaars has driven design iteration to a point where we've created a truly unique world building game, exploring destruction as well as creation in ways few, if any, other games have done. Starting from a 'problem' of users playing our game too long at public demos, we built over time a core game mechanic where users build and then destroy worlds in a series of time-limited ages while being rewarded for good play with more time in subsequent ages.

Post-launch the team has continued developing the game while exhibiting it at various festivals and focusing on the marketing side of the project. In its current form Fate Tectonics features four game modes, a pantheon of interesting god-like Fates, and a fully guided tutorial mode for new players to quickly learn the mechanics.

Features

• Create a sprawling world with continents, oceans, civilization and more
• Awaken the godlike Fates whose powers you can borrow to grow and shape your worlds
• 4 Modes of play:

  Ragnarosa & Fortuna: Earn Fortuna's blessing while trying to delay Ragnarosa's doom and survive through the ages;

  Serenity governs a simpler world, with less challenging game balance and no doom timer, users can play for as long as they want building expansive worlds;

  Custom Mode: Travissty lets players make the game more or less challenging by selecting from a series of rules configurations;

  Tutyr, the tutorial Fate is always happy to help you learn how to play in this game mode.

• Beautifully handcrafted pixel art and a dynamic 16-bit symphonic soundtrack
• Fun to play even if you have no idea what you're doing!
• A variety of accessibility options including: Keyboard, Mouse, and Gamepad support with customizable key mappings; Art design and colour pallete are resistant to Protanomaly, Deuteranomaly, and Tritanomaly; Advanced options menu with adjustable settings for game speed, cursor speed, font size, and more

Fate Tectonics Credits

Andrew Traviss
Designer & Lead Programmer

Rosemary Brennan
Lead Artist

Alex Bethke
PR & Business Stuff

Robby Duguay
Music

Stephen Frerotte
Lead Tester

Contact

Inquiries
contact@goldengeargames.ca

Twitter
twitter.com/goldengeargames

Facebook
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Web
goldengeargames.ca