The developer responsible for Armageddon Empires and Solium Infernum sets his sights on the Old West. Cryptic Comet founder Vic Davis revealed a new project called Six Gun Saga on his developer blog earlier this month.
Davis describes Six Gun Saga as a strategy-card game set in the Old West where players control groups of cowboys (represented as cards). These unit groups move around a game board, fight other groups of cowboys for victory points (used for some unknown purpose as of this writing), and usurp land from other players.
The game borrows familiar elements from card games such as Race For the Galaxy, Dominion, and Poker. Details on most of the game's play mechanics are unknown at this point.
Cryptic Comet is also working on a rogue-like game, but it is still in the early stage of development.
Davis explained the basic concept of the game in an email to GamePro this morning: "Yes, that [Six Gun Saga] is going to be my next release. It's a turn based card/strategy game though and NOT a rogue-like. I had wanted to do a rogue-like set in the Old West but my design didn't work out. So I took all the art assets that I had commissioned and built a card game out of it like Race For the Galaxy, Dominion etc. It's also got a bit of the old Doomtown flavor. I've got a rogue-like in development but it has a completely different theme centered on a press your luck mechanic."
"It's definitely more focused and streamlined, Davis told us in response to a question about the game's level of complexity. "The board is very simple. I still hope the decisions are as agonizingly difficult."
Finally, we asked him when he expects the game to be released: "I haven't got a release date but I am hoping [in] a couple of months. I'd like to release before the end of the year but if my testing shows that the AI still needs work then I'll push it into next year. Since it is single player, I've got to have a competent AI at launch."
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