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Help Kickstart Drifter

Celsius Game Studios [1]St. John’s-based indie developer Celsius Game Studios [1] has opened a Kickstarter campaign [2] to help move the production of its latest title towards completion. Drifter – A Space Trading Game [3] is an open-world sandbox space trading game that takes place in a galaxy with thousands of stars and endless possibilities. Live the simple life of a merchant, become a bounty hunter, take on work for hire, become a fearsome pirate, or simply explore the galaxy around you, the choice is yours.

Studio owner Colin Walsh [4], creator of the critically-acclaimed iOS 99 cent titles Red Nova [5] (available now on iTunes [6]) and Chromodyne [7] (also available on iTunes in SD [8] and HD [9]), has this to share about his new game:

“Drifter is my take on the venerable space trading genre. Inspired by games I grew up playing like Frontier (itself the sequel to the grand-daddy of all space traders, Elite), and Privateer, I’m hoping to bring something fun and exciting to an under-served corner of the video game world. The game already features a massive procedurally-generated galaxy 100,000 light years across with over 10,000 star systems. As it takes shape over the next few months I plan on adding a ton of things for you to do.”

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Colin further stated that “a game like Drifter deserves more than just canned royalty free music, joining me is renowned video game composer Danny Baranowsky, who is known for his work on a number of awesome titles including Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac, Canabalt, and Cave Story 3D.”

Drifter has been in development for approximately eight months now, and Celsius Games plans to release it for iOS later this year. Colin would also love to bring the game to PC and Mac. That’s where Kickstarter comes in. With extra funding, not only will Celsius Games be able to expand the game to those platforms, it can be made even better in the process. Colin plans to bring in a 3D artist to help him create new assets, thereby allowing him to focus on adding more features to the game.

Here is an idea of some of the features you can expect in Drifter when it’s released:

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#1 Comment By Tami Quiring (@VillageGamer) On Friday May 4, 2012 @ 4:53 am

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