The Aloran Kickstarter was canceled yesterday as it didn't look like it would be able to reach its goal and frankly because it wasn't a great pitch to start with either.

Me and my wife have been discussing releasing some very early alpha gameplay but we feel it is best that we develop the game so you can sample the combat, story and art as close to the final product as possible. We have developed the game this far over 3 years and the feedback from kickstarter has been great. However we must ask for patience as we develop the demo and we have to cancel this current pitch. Game development even when fully funded is a long process but we really enjoy this work and look forward to developing the playable demo.

 

We plan to come back to Kickstarter in the near future to give back something to the game development community who share our love for Isometric fantasy art as much as we do.

the devs of the game Aloran informed me it was on Kickstarter now. The pitch still has 54 days to go and asks for $85K.

Aloran is a turn-based, isometric fantasy RPG inspired by the classic games of the 90s. The focus of the game is to enjoy dungeon exploration, the advancement of abilities and to find magical items.

• Classic CRPG features, hand crafted dungeons, hand crafted loot,  hand placed loot and lots of interesting monsters to defeat etc...

• Aloran full release will be available for Windows only. The full release will be distributed on Steam as well as DRM-free download.

• Art Style: 2D isometric with 2D sprites
• Party based RPG: Up to 8 party members
• Stats: Strength, Agility, Quickness, Stamina, Fortitude, Toughness, Appearance, Perception,  Self Discipline, Intelligence, Presence, Wisdom, Willpower, Essence, Psi
• Stat rolling: Character creation involves rolling for your stats
• Perks: Characters will be able to select perks
• Skills: A player can select skills from a wide list to shape there play style
• Talents: Define a character and are hard to acquire
• System: D20 combat resolution with attack and counter attack rounds
• Tactical Turn based combat
• Hard Counters: Mind control, Hold person, Entangle, Sleep, Disarm weapon, Grapple etc...

I think the pitch might probably go a lot better if they provided some actual information on anything else but art.