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Sidius Nova -- upcoming Action/Strategy Sci-Fi Game

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Started 9 months ago by sts2055
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sts2055
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Need more strategy games for iOS? Behold:

Tell the story!
A long time ago in the dark ages of the universe, an entity emerged -- god-like, almighty, immensely powerful! Her name: Sidius Nova. She draws her powers from stars she captures and uses them to alter reality anyway she desires. Having unlimited power and the ability to bend anything to her will has its drawbacks, though: boredom. The prisoner of her own existence, Sidius Nova wanders the galaxy in search for entertainment -- and Humans and Aliens seem like the perfect toys to play with...

Nice, but what's the game about?

It consists of two parts: map and battle.
On the map you command your Mothership to explore, collect resources, build and spawn ships and construct Warp Gates to outsmart your opponent.
The battles are action-packed skirmishes between fleets where you use the ships you built to push back and destroy the enemy. The right type of strategy is key here as each ship has different attributes that make it very powerful against others.

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Bring on the websites, please!

Here we go:
http://sidiusnova.com/
http://www.indiedb.com/games/sidius-nova
https://twitter.com/sidiusnova
http://www.facebook.com/sidiusnovagame

Don't you have more screenshots?

So when will it come out?

Target is October ^_^

Posted 9 months ago #
HannKett
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Very cool! I do not understand half of what I see, but it seems very cool!

Is it easy to understand?

Well I will buy it when it comes out, Like the GFX and the sounds and environments.. and it seems fun! Just hope I do not have to be autistic to be able to play it ;-)

well done !

Posted 9 months ago #
Parthia
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It has a lovely graphics style. Did you do that all in house?

Very excited to see this come out, will drop by Kickstarter and back it. I love turn based conquest games. Not quite a 4x though right?
I love these types of games so much i'm working on one myself. One day i'll reach a point where I show it off too!

Good luck with the game.

Posted 9 months ago #
xr1337
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Pretty nice. But i find that the jet flames to be a bit too robotic. At least how they blink at the same interval.

But yeah, this is definitely a buy.

Posted 9 months ago #
sts2055
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@all
Thank you for the feedback and praise! It's so exciting to hear what people think about the game you've been working on for so long =)

@HannKett
The game itself shouldn't be very complicated once you've seen an example of how to use things like the warp gate or know more about resource collection. We are actually working on an in game tutorial with characters explaining things step by step -- it'll be wrapped up in a little story line.

@Parthia
Ben, the artist, and I met at a game dev meetup in San Francisco (here's the link to the meetup in case you live in the area: http://www.meetup.com/sfgamedevelopers/ -- it's also just fun to hang out and chat about games over a beer or two =).
I was looking for an artist to replace my programmer art, Ben was looking for a project. We live reasonably close from each other and meet up every now and then, so I guess that literally qualifies as in house =)
Thank you for backing it! I'm a huuge fan of turn based games as well! 4x? That's the thing: I couldn't say outright: Yes, Sidius Nova is 100% 4x. It shares some elements, but I'd really like to compare it more with chess (blasphemy!), or at least that's what we are trying to achieve in a sort of a lot more gamy kind of way.

@xr1337
Actually, now that you mention it: maybe I should experiment with irregular initervals a little bit more =)

Posted 9 months ago #
xr1337
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@sts2055 yeah, thats the first thing that caught my eye. If you added some kind of flame or gas over it, itll probably look really neat.
But overall, great work. looking forward to this.

Posted 9 months ago #
sts2055
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Here is our first video talking about the battle part of the game:

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Posted 9 months ago #
mster50
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First of all, GREAT MUSIC! I cannot emphasize this enough! The music enough would drive a sale. Even if the player's motive is not well translated in the video, the vividness of the music combined with the footage you picked out will drive sales.

Fantastic job. This looks fun.

Posted 9 months ago #
HannKett
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yes music rocks.. how long has this been in dev?

Posted 9 months ago #
sts2055
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@mster50
Thank you! Matt will love to hear this =) We are actually running a Kickstarter campaign right now, but haven't gotten that many backers so far, so I'm a bit worried that people might not actually like the game all that much :/

@HannKett
It's been in dev since January, so 8 months so far.

Posted 9 months ago #
adamfar
Member

I can appreciate all of the work you have put into this so far. It really shows in the graphics, voice overs, etc..

I will most likely buy the game when it comes out, but watching the video above, the first thing I thought when the lady talked about "Lanes" was "Oh boy, another lane game". I was just hoping for a different style since I tend to not like Lane games.

However, its not fair to judge without playing. Maybe this game will change my opinion.

Posted 9 months ago #
sts2055
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Thank you. Yeah, it has been quite work intensive. The marketing part takes up a lot of time right now -- I'd really love to just code 100% of the time I spend on Sidius Nova, but that's just not possible.

I hope it'll change your opinion ^_^ Personally I think it's quite fun

Posted 9 months ago #
sts2055
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Time for an update!

We've been working on the Main Menu as well as the Battle UI Overlay.

Here some screens:

Main Menu

Faction Selection

Research Menu -- you can pull the right hand side out. It'll include icons showing unlockable items.

Battle UI Overlay -- each bar represents one single ship. The blocks with a 50 on them represent 50 ships and get broken down into single bars when ships are destroyed. The dots indicate the lanes (you'll be able to hide them).

Posted 7 months ago #
adamfar
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I really like the look of the menus. Again... kudos for putting in the effort of trying to make a solid game in look and feel. Theres a lot of junk out there so its nice to see a quality game.

Posted 7 months ago #
sts2055
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Sidius Nova is finally available as a free download on the App Store!

Big big thanks goes out to the cocos2d community and the people behind cocos2d! It's an awesome engine and really fun to work with -- hope you enjoy the game ^_^

Here the link to the app: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/id585665931?mt=8&affId=1860684

Posted 5 months ago #
Shogan
Member

Congrats! I will most certainly be picking this up a bit later :)

Posted 5 months ago #
sts2055
Member

Multiplayer Beta

Hey guys, we've been working on a multiplayer update for the past few weeks. If you want to check out the fruits of our labor and have a few matches against me for example, the only thing you need to do is follow this link: http://tflig.ht/11qhCY1 (it'll transport you over to TestFlight)

Posted 4 months ago #
HiRez
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It's a little confusing initially, but fantastic job. It looks like a really complete game and you can see there was a lot of hard work put into it. The only thing I question is the split between kind of turn based strategy and twitchy action. While that may appeal to some people, I have to wonder if others who lean towards one style or the other will be put off by it. Great job, though, congrats! I will definitely be downloading it.

Posted 4 months ago #
sts2055
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Thanks HiRez -- yeah, we've been thinking about that as well. We might introduce a Skirmish mode and/or a 'calculate battles' button in the future to address that. It's been a long journey so far and we felt that multiplayer is really something the game needs. Another thing we still need to do and which is badly needed for iOS is to have Retina assets; iPhone 5 compatibility; an iPad version. I kind of have the feeling that Apple won't feature games that are not retina. That's just a feeling -- they might not deem our game worthy of being featured -- but we're still hoping they will some day

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Still looking for beta testers for our multiplayer upgrade: http://tflig.ht/11qhCY1

Posted 4 months ago #

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