Longdue has unveiled the atmospheric debut teaser and Kickstarter date for its in-development ‘psychogeographic’ RPG, Hopetown, a non secular successor to Disco Elysium.
The trailer discloses particulars about the important thing expertise shaping the undertaking, and the studio introduced that Hopetown’s Kickstarter marketing campaign will launch on March 17, with a pre-launch web page that includes a restricted set of early-backer rewards reside now.
Longdue can reveal that Lenval Brown, the unmistakable voice of Disco Elysium’s narrator, whose distinctive timbre and gravitas are immediately recognizable to these within the know, shall be intently concerned within the undertaking and voice a key character within the sport, as teased within the newest trailer for Hopetown.
“It feels good to be back—to step into something new,” mentioned Brown, in an announcement. “There’s nothing like bringing a world to life, shaping a story that’s been waiting to be spoken into existence.”
Brown is joined by Piotr Sobolewski, whose pivotal overseeing a workforce of 15 that labored on Disco Elysium was instrumental in shaping the sport’s signature mad, gnarly power into one thing easy, cohesive, and deeply immersive, Longdue mentioned.
Martin Luiga, founding member of the ZA/UM Cultural Affiliation and author of the primary brief story within the Disco Elysium universe and author of seven characters in Disco Elysium, has additionally joined the Longdue workforce.
“I am pleased to share my experiences with Longdue to help them craft the narrative and systems for Hopetown, playing to the strengths that the narrative RPG genre has achieved thus far and attempting to innovate upon them to tell a rich story based in equal parts on what has been, what is and what could be,” mentioned Luiga, in an announcement. “I am confident that the team can deliver a worthy addition to the canon of Western RPGs. I call upon the fans of the RPG and adventure genre to back the Hopetown Kickstarter to help us make the game.”
Alongside them, a rising roster of inventive expertise from Disco Elysium and past is bringing Hopetown to life, with workforce members to be revealed quickly, with a complete of 9 people that labored on Disco Elysium having contributed to Hopetown thus far.
“At Longdue, we’ve built—and continue to build—a team with real horsepower: Disco Elysium contributors, triple-A stalwarts, indie artisans—all champing at the bit to unleash their talents,” mentioned Riaz Moola, CEO of CoGrammar & HyperionDev – an internet tech bootcamp firm that supported the formation of Longdue.
Moola’s firm is partnering with Longdue to offer a variety of full scholarships on a online game growth course that can result in a variety of internships at Longdue. The internships shall be for aspiring indie builders.
The studio is happy to share extra about Hopetown when its Kickstarter launches on March 17, together with deeper insights into the workforce behind the sport, its psychogeographic and journalism mechanics, the mining city setting, and extra
What Is Hopetown?
A scene from Hopetown
In Hopetown, phrases are your deadliest weapon, and each selection leaves its mark. Set in a mining city caught between decay and transformation, formed by ambition, exploitation, and the delicate techniques that bind society collectively, you step into the function of a rogue journalist—a chaotic, self-destructive provocateur who sees humanity as inherently egocentric and merciless. Unapologetically cynical and dangerously unhinged, you thrive on poking at bruises, pulling at free threads, and watching what unravels.
A City of Contrasts
The city itself is an area of extremes. The suffocating darkness of the mine’s depths mirrors the buried truths of its inhabitants, whereas the floor world—glittering with the promise of progress—is steeped in corruption and energy performs. It’s a spot the place survival is determined by who controls the story, and the place each determination ripples outward, reshaping not simply the world, however your self.
Constructing on the legacies of Disco Elysium and Planescape: Torment, Hopetown introduces techniques that creatively discover participant company. The psychogeography system is pivotal in how gamers work together with the sport world: feelings, recollections, and conversations exchange conventional mechanics like keys and levers, changing into the instruments that unlock doorways, alter landscapes, and reshape relationships. Progress isn’t nearly fixing puzzles or discovering gadgets—it’s about navigating the protagonist’s fractured psyche and the ripples it creates within the setting.
In the meantime, a brand new journalism-based RPG system offers you the instruments to craft tales that form the world—and your self. Will you embrace chaos as a gonzo journalist, spinning wild, attention-grabbing narratives? Will you twist actuality as a conspiracist, bending occasions to fit your worldview? Or will you dig deep as a calculated investigator, exposing brutal truths to spark revolt—or sow complacency?
A Crucible of Selections
You’ll make loads of selections in Hopetown.
The mining city is greater than a setting—it’s a crucible. What truths will you reveal? What lies will you inform? Will your phrases encourage hope or destruction? Will you reshape the techniques of energy, or will they eat you?
It is a sport the place all the things transforms all the things else. Each phrase you select issues. Each determination carries weight. And each story you inform modifications the world—and the delicate techniques that maintain it collectively.
Why Again Hopetown?
Longue’s Hopetown is a non secular successor to Disco Elysium.
Backing Hopetown isn’t nearly funding—it’s about constructing a group, backing a imaginative and prescient and casting a vote, Longdue mentioned. Longdue is an unbiased studio daring to create the sorts of video games greater studios received’t or can’t make—video games that problem their gamers and let gamers problem the video games again. With Hopetown, Longdue is constructing a motion for Disco-Like narrative-driven RPGs that don’t draw back from complexity, emotion, or ambition.
You may register to be notified when the Hopetown Kickstarter goes reside on the pre-launch web page now and get entangled within the Hopetown group on Discord.
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