Announced final month, Nighthawks is a narrative-heavy vampire RPG with a contemporary True Blood-esque setting. It’s a collaboration between RPS pal Richard Cobbett and prolific point-and-click journey studio Wadjet Eye (Unavowed). Before it may possibly unfold its leathery wings, Nighthawks wants funding to get off the bottom, leading us to Kickstarter. The world is a vampire, in any case.
Below – in lieu of an everyday Kickstarter pitch video – a piece of Nighthawks in motion, letting the game communicate for itself. Literally on this case, as Wadjet Eye have supplied it with a full voice solid.
As properly because the gameplay video under, the Kickstarter page for the game is bristling with worldbuilding and lore element – the nice shit, as they are saying. So far there’s a short piece on Nighthawks’s character creation techniques and a larger look on the trendy vampire mythology surrounding the game. There’s undoubtedly extra to come back, too, so regulate it even when you’re not backing it.
While framed like a (very high-budget) piece of interactive fiction, Nighthawks is completely an RPG, with particular powers, stat checks, assets and who’s travelling with you figuring out your choices at any given second. The builders describe it as an “undead life-simulation”, paradoxical as which may be. Beyond dodging political intrigue, you’ve bought to maintain fed and out of hassle.
At the time of writing, the Nighthawks Kickstarter has been going for lower than a day, and is round 20% funded, so this appears prone to attain the end line comfortably. Right now no stretch objectives have been introduced, however they’re teasing massive plans and “something very special” in the event that they get anyplace close to that form of funding. Fingers crossed – we’re brief on good vampire games recently.
Backing Nighthawks’s Kickstarter for $20 will get you a replica of the game when it’s completed. At current estimate, the builders reckon that’ll be May 2020. That’s a very good methods off, however Wadjet Eye’s Unavowed took years to make, and turned out to be among the best adventures in years. I’m not a playing man, however given the crew concerned I reckon Nighthawks has the chances in its favour.
Disclaimer: While Nighthawks author Richard Cobbett is an RPS regular, he’s additionally a mysterious freelancer, residing a secret life within the shadows. Unbeknown to us he’s been schmoozing with studios, putting offers and getting his vampiric geese in a row for this challenge for a while now, and by no means advised us any of this. We really feel so uncared for, but additionally want him the perfect of luck.
