Hello everyone,
Today I thought to give you an update on how things are progressing and show you a little bit of what's going on behind the scenes.
For those of you seeing this game for the first time, in Cloudpunk you play a courier driving around the sprawling city of Nivalis. On your jobs you will meet interesting, often whimsical, characters whose lives you will affect one way or another. Here are a few of them.
You will explore the entire city from the ancient, dark ground to the Spires piercing the thick layer of clouds that hides the sunlight.
What makes this game special is that we're creating everything with voxels - small cubes that form complex buildings, vehicles and characters. Here you can see a screenshot from MagicaVoxel, the free software we're using for all the voxel editing.
Exploring Nivalis you will drive, walk, discover hidden places, items and unlock the stories of the characters you meet. On your delivery jobs you will have choices, and these choices will have a lasting impact on the characters involved.
The story will be told entirely through dialog, which will come with full voiceovers. For each of the characters we do castings to find the right voices for all of them. This is the fun part in game development.
So right now we're working hard on fleshing out the environment. Building a city is no easy task and takes time. We hope you enjoyed these screenshots.
I'm sure you would like to know more about the release date. At the moment we can't be more specific. To sweeten the wait, you can head over to our Twitter, where I post short clips from time to time.
Talk soon,
ION LANDS