Hello all, my name is Abhinav (Nav) Gupta and I'm the Lead Developer and CEO of Game Scorpion Inc.
During the days I'm a full time Professional Realtor in Toronto and the GTA in Canada. In the evenings I'm a full time Game Developer (Yeah around 16 hours in the day total between Real Estate and Video Game and Mobile App Dev).
I want to thank you all for joining me on this awesome ride through steam, my very first title to go LIVE on Steam!
That being said, I'm quite new to Steam as a developer and want to apologize about the earlier delay of the game launch. It was delayed by around 6 hours due to the fact that I thought Steam was going to auto-release things but instead I had to manually release it when I got home.
It is now up LIVE for purchase and I am here to support all my end users. It is my hope to be able to connect with all of you and start building the game out even more based on everyone's feedback and suggestions overtime.
Hopefully it can really be a game that grows with great community feedback and can one day become even more popular and even more fun to play. I still play it myself every now and again and have fun battling the computer, but am definitely trying to open things up to a PvP system. The current PvP system is not where I would like it to be. That being said I hope to create a better PvP system over time.
The engine that was used for the game is Unity 3D however I am planning to port over to a new game engine called MGE (Mobile Game Engine) powered by ShiVa 3D. That is a future step but will be a big thing going forward.
Gameplay wise I look forward to having a lot of community feedback and getting all your ideas. Hopefully I can even release DLC's, IAP's and even some other great Steam features and game features that the community loves.
Graphics wise I'm always looking to upgrade and update. I welcome any ideas or feedback from the community as I go through this process.
Story wise I really am working on that. Honestly the vision of this game was to be literally like one of those Japanese style TV shows inside of a game lol. Imagine playing a "TV Show" style storyline (if you've ever watched things like Pokemon or Yuh Gi Oh, etc.) but literally inside of a video game format. Thats the vision anyways, but literally having characters that players can evolve and grow over time in an RPG style setting and having card battles that are fun and challenging but have a balanced gameplay and structure.
I don't really believe in the whole "Pay to Win" model. Yeah its great for developers who can make a crap load of money, but it sucks for game players, and that is not a WIN-WIN. I believe in a WIN-WIN scenario, and so I want to build a game that is SKILL to Win. Not only is it challenging and fun, but I look forward to making this game a solid eSports style game where people will one day have competitions with this and hopefully holding full PvP live events here in Toronto for prizes and Live streaming on twitch and tv stations the way we see other games do it. This can only be accomplished with a SKILL to Win model where those with great skills can really achieve success.
That being said I want to also talk about the DARK SIDE of games. Listen I know that games get hacked, stolen, sold for parts, etc. You get the point, please support indie devs by purchasing your copy via steam. If you want to play on your mobile, thats fine, simply find the game currently in any mobile app store. Keep in mind however that I am NOT planning to update the mobile version any time soon as all my time and focus now will be going directly to this Steam version of the game.
So for example, if I update the Steam version to 2.0, the original game will still be the same on mobile. It may become completely unrecognizable on the Steam side from the mobile version over time, but I plan on updating the mobile version to match in the future. As I said my goal right now is to paying users here on Steam as I can get direct contact and access with my users here. Once I get enough feedback and grow the game even more, then I will look to updating the mobile versions, so consider the Steam game the OFFICIAL version of the game over time. YOU GUYS HAVE A SAY and I look forward to working with the community to take this game further :)
Thank you all for your support and please feel free to reach out.
Want to meet the developer?
GREAT! I'm in Toronto and go to a LOT of Meetup events throughout the city. Simply look out for an event in the local Toronto area that I am going to. I'd love to meet my players and say hello. I am so grateful to meet all the wonderful players who love my game and who are really appreciative of the hard work that goes into making games. I love the great support and praise many of you give me and it just allows me to keep on doing what I do to keep on making the game better and better every time. Thank you kindly for all your great feedback and I look forward to meeting and considering the ideas and feedback of all the fans of my game!
Nav Gupta
Lead Developer and CEO
Game Scorpion Inc.
