Hi Everyone,
I am the sole developer of a video game I am developing call the Living World Project.
Living world project is an openworld sandbox fantasy ARPG.
To be available on PC on Steam.
In Living world Project, you as the player, control or reincarnated into one of the many NPC inhabitants of this fantasy world.
The unique concept of the Living World Project is that each NPCs in this world are dynamic, reactive and living.
Another word, the NPCs not only have their own schedules such as going to work in the morning for example hunting or gathering herbs. and then going back home to sleep at night.
But they also have their own personality, memory, behaviours and goals.
They can be introvert, extrovert, more feeling oriented or more rational or maybe judgemental.
This behaviour not only drive how they perform in combat but also their behaviour and their interaction with the world.
Will this npc become the next guard captain?
Or will she try raise a rebellion and conqure the throne?
Or maybe even become corrupted as a necromancer.
Anything can happen in this living breathing fantasy world.
Because each NPC and their behaviours are all randomly generated,
every playthrough will be a brand new experience.
So what will you do as a player, as one of the inhabitant of this world?
How will your presence affect this world?
Will you become a hero who will saveguard this world?
Or are you the catalysis of this world's corruption?
The game will contain many features such as a reincarnation system where death is not the end.
When the player character dies, due to whatever reasons,
you will reincarnate into a different body.
Depending on which character you reincarnate into, becareful as your friends just might become your foe.
How will your previous action affect you now that you are in a new body.
Just remember this: "You are but a mortal...but the world will live on."
There are many other features planned that are abit early to talk about at the moment since it's not yet finalised/created such as the Dynamic Quest system, Events, Ever Changing world, combat, magic and of course dragons!
I had started working on this project at around July 2024.
My current plan and timing is to add enough content to start doing more frequent live gameplay streaming possibly on twitch at around Q3 2025 and finger cross to be able to release a Proof of concept demo to be available on PC steam at around Q4 2025 or Q1 2026.
Currently I had been funding the project myself and been working on the game as a side project.
Check out my devlogs at: https://www.livingworldproject.com/devlogs
At this point upto May 2025, I had already spent around $3000 out of my only limited budget on acquiring assets to make this video game project works.
While I think I can make it to a demo release with my own very limited self funding.
There are many very cool intersting game assets and plugin that I would like to utilise.
Expecially all those cool armors and weapon and animations.
I don't want to fund through any publishers or bussines as we gamers all know that having creative freedom is very important.
So I would hope to get funds from my players who are interested and liked the game.
While I am not a fan of charging my players for game or features that does not exist or work yet. I believe my game should only cost equal to the amount of contents in the game.
However, for me to kick start this a little bit, if you like what you are seeing,
or maybe in the future you had played the demo
or maybe you have a spare $1 coffee change and have no where else to spend on.
Maybe consider to make a small donation.
Any donation I get will be spent on improving the game directly,
nothing on marketing or other BS.
Just pure quality extra content and improvements. (Maybe with the exception of buying a new computer to increase my dev time future)
Since this is the first time I start a fundraising campaign on gofundme, not sure how it will works, but if you fund non-anonymous or leave your email. I will be sure to send you an invite as soon as the demo is ready.
Thank you for your support!
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