STDP - The Multiverse [Demo Available]

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Technical Info
Project name: STDP-The Multiverse
Genre: Strategy/ 2D Platform/ Funny
Engine: Unity
Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish
Release date: Q1 2018
Author: Zarcky Studios
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Description
STDP is a strategy & adventure innovative game where the player will have the control of three characters, each one with different powers and skills, and you must combine them strategically to complete the most intriguing challenges in this journey as you search for the restoration of the world’s peace.

• Solve intriguing challenges;
• Defeat charismatic villains;
• Recruit new members for your team;
• Evolve your heroes and HQ
• Customize the game based on your style;
• Create your own levels and puzzles;
• Play online with friends;
• All this and much more in STDP!

We are waiting for you to be part of this adventure.

History

A mysterious villain known only by the nickname of Time Controller, due to your power to control time discovers that we live in a multiverse and the possibility of opening rifts between them. After a time learning more about the operation, Time Controller just implementing a plan to open the cracks and through mind control master the largest armies that exist in any time period anywhere in the world in any of the universes present in the multiverse.

Meanwhile in the central universe is the HQ of Space Time & Dimensions Protectors (STDP), a team of chosen to defend stability and maintain the harmony of the multiverse as we know it.

Through different scenarios in different eras, such as the fearsome dinosaurs, the dreaded pirates and even futuristic robots, it is for the survivors of STDP finish with the Time Controller plans and save the world from evil empires and armies which blend mythologies, tales, supernatural and true stories.

Characters

The game will feature in total with 33 playable characters, where at a time will be chosen by the user, 3 in team selection.
At first, only 3 characters in the initial team will be released, the remaining will be shown in the devblog updates

Professor:

Description:
With just the nickname of Professor, no name revealed, he is the leader of team survivor of STPD. Of ancient origin and mysterious past, only what you know to your respect is that before I became a College >!Professor, he had already been an elite warrior in past wars, however, >!was out of necessity, to save your people from certain death, and not by >!choice. It is also known that he not proud of that moment in the past and >!as redemption for what he had to do and the lives he took, he decided to found your STPD team, known as Omega Zero, responsible for the restoration of peace in times of war, teaching students how to put an end to the violence without having to use it.

Function:

Has the team attack function.
Its first ability (melee attack) will hit the enemies with the book he carries in his arms.
The second skill (long distance attack) will throw this book at your enemies.

Asile:

Description:
Originally the Galaxy G-402, on a desert planet, destroyed during a witch-hunt, Asile escaped with your family in a clandestine ship a former bounty hunter she knew. In the way of escape, the ship was stopped by a team of intergalactic lookouts of STDP who were behind the bounty hunter. Understanding the reason for the flight, the guards decided to help Asile and your family and in return Asile decided to join the STDP, more specifically for the Omega team Zero, looking to end the ancient war that happens against witches. It is also considered the most loyal of the Organization and is considered indispensable for the team, according to Professor.

Function:

Has the team defense function.
Your first skill (defense within walking distance) will conjure up a kind of shield around you.
The second skill (long distance attack) will conjure a magic barrier.

Grawh:

Description:
Grawh’s biological son of two leaders of an ancient tribe Orc, respected for being civil and polite. One day, after not having enough money to pay for annual tax, the tribe was attacked by a rival that dominated the continent. Grawh, for being the only son of the leaders and a baby, just having turned slave of the rival tribe, as a kind of trophy, while all other members of your Christmas tribe were murdered. When I was five years old, two scientists from a neighboring Galaxy visited your planet to study and to see the conditions of the young orc, ended up rescuing him and taking him to live with them, on a planet much more evolved and >!Pacific. Grawh ended up studying more about technology and later was accepted as an intern of the cybersecurity of STDP team, where he met and became a friend of the Professor, who convinced him to migrate to the Omega team Zero. The holographic bracelet that loads in your arm was a gift from their adoptive parents after being accepted into the STDP.

Function:

Has support function on the team.
Its first ability (speed and double jump) will be turned on instantly.
The second skill (special actions) will be activated with the bracelet.

Gameplay

Guide for STDP - The Multiverse (Demo)

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Devblog #01 - Introdution

Hello adventurer, welcome to the first devblog of the STDP. Calm down, do not worry about not knowing exactly what the STDP is, let’s explain everything in this chapter of our logbook .

-What does the acronym mean?
Maybe this is the main question of first-time adventurers, STDP stands for “Space, Time and Dimensions Protectors”

-Hi? What? Space-time I understand, but … Dimensions? Are you crazy?
Crazy? No not yet. And yes, dimensions, plural, but calm … We can explain, however, every good story needs to have a suspense, so let’s leave it for later.
But remember, dimensions, in the plural!

-Okay, but what do they do?
They are responsible for protect all the places in any time period (in all existing dimensions)… Yes, it is a very stressful job and the salary is not even that good.

– Does that mean they can travel in time ?? And can they go anywhere ??
Well… Yes, they can, but this is a serious job, without them, the peace, harmony and stability of our multiverse would be lost, they only go where they need, just like super heroes.

-What? Multiverse? EXPLAIN!
See? The suspense did not make the story more interesting? Well, I think it’s time for you to know a bit more.
Imagine that each point in space in each time period has a “brother”, but that they are not necessarily alike, they are just ‘made for each other’.
In formal terms, each point in the space-time of our universe is called the dimensional point, and each other universe (dimension) has an equivalent dimensional point, not equal or similar, only equivalent, and the junction of all these dimensions form a multiverse.
So, do you know the bogeyman we feared so much until we ‘discovered’ that he is not real? How can I say… hm… He exists, actually, THEY exist, at least in the Universe Z-56, but do not worry, they are scared to death of humans beings.

I know, it’s a lot of information to process, so, no more questions for today’s. Next week we’ll answer some more, which for those who do not know, they can be made by sending a message to our HQ at the following address:

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-But … You did not even mention the project! Why did you call me here? What is the purpose here? How will it work?
Oh, thank you for reminding me, I was about to forget … But so, do you remember that thing about suspense? So come back here tomorrow, I promise to tell you everything …

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Best viewed in: http://playstdp.com/blog/en/devblog-en/devblog-02-introdution-part-2/
We recommend to see the full post on our site, due the formatting.

Hello again adventurer, as promised, here is the second part of our logbook (remember, he’s actually weekly).
Today, we are talking about the part of the game, which will be the gameplay, the functionality and the goal in STDP.

Genre:
The game will be 2D Platform mixing adventure and strategy with a certain sense of humor involved.

History:
A mysterious villain known only by the nickname of Time Controller, due to your power to control time discovers that we live in a multiverse and the possibility of opening rifts between them. After a time learning more about the operation, Time Controller just implementing a plan to open the cracks and through mind control master the largest armies that exist in any time period anywhere in the world in any of the universes present in the multiverse.
Meanwhile in the central universe is the HQ of Space Time & Dimensions Protectors (STDP), a team of chosen to defend stability and maintain the harmony of the multiverse as we know it.

Through different scenarios in different eras, such as the fearsome dinosaurs, the dreaded pirates and even futuristic robots, it is for the survivors of STDP finish with the Time Controller plans and save the world from evil empires and armies which blend mythologies, tales, supernatural and true stories.

Functionality and Gameplay:
We have already made a post about it on our website, in case you haven’t seen it yet, just click here. But while we’re writing this paragraph even, Let’s enjoy and write about how the game works (ironically, will write in the next paragraph).
The team in the game is composed of 3 characters, being an attack, a defense and a support, each with own skills, which will be explained soon. The goal now is to know how to use these characters, combining their powers to solve the challenges. Don’t worry, we will explain the traps, puzzles and enemies on futures Devblogs.
In addition to the Single-Player mode, you also have the option of Local Cooperative and Online, for fun with your friends.

Characters:
In the coming devblogs we will talk with more detail about each type of characters, but insummary we have:
Attack: able to cause damage at close and long range.
Defense: Powerful shield and ability to conjure protective barriers.
Support: in addition to interact with scenery, also has the ability to double jump andsuper speed.
In total there are more than 30 playable characters, totaling more than 1000 different combinations of Teams. And that’s just the officials, not counting those created by players.
It will also be possible to customize existing characters with different Skins and Equipment. Such customization items will be found throughout the game, in hidden chests and daily rewards.

Missions and Scenarios:
The game is divided into scenarios, where each scenario will be set in a different time and place. In addition, each stage will consist of 10 main phases and some extras.
In order to advance the stage, you must have completed at least the 10 main missions. To release the extras, we will depend on other factors, such as choosing the team for the phase, let’s explain better:
In STDP, the player interacts directly with the game in several ways. One is choosing the team for each phase, if it is a poor choice, the level can get more difficult or trigger rivalry events between the characters. But if it was a good choice, the traps and obstacles can be easier, can also have events that benefit the player with extra rewards in the level and even unlock new extra missions for that stage.

Did you like the idea of customization and character creation? Well … I hope so, because we will also have builders of levels. Thus, in addition to more than 100 official maps, there will be many maps made by players.
It is also important to note that at each scenario three new characters are released, one for each function of the game, that is, one new team per scenario.

Obviously there is still a lot more to be told, but as we said in the previous devblog, we love suspense. We’ll be back next week with more news and explanations for you.
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Hello Adventurer, ready for more one devblog? Today we’ll talk about the HUD in-game during missions, explaining the all elements and their respective functions. Don’t know what is a HUD? That’s okay, we’ll explain.

Meaning:
Before you begin, let’s explain exactly what is HUD, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, we havethe following meaning:

Abbreviation for head-up display: in a computer game, the part of the screen that shows information such as the player’s score, how much time they have left, etc.

So we can understand what basically is a HUD, but in simple terms, it’s basically the screenelements that show informations to players, such as points, lives, time, and etc.

HUD in STDP:
Now let’s go to what you wait for, let’s introduce the HUD in the phases and missions.To ensure a better UI (User Interface) we made it pretty minimalist, so you won’t have a lot of information to disrupt the player or take off the focus from the phase.

We have added a provisional Background just for better understanding, now let’s explain part bypart.

Lifes:

In the upper left corner we see the remaining life of the team. When anyone of the three main characters dies, the team loses a life, regardless of which hero died.In total we’ll have three lives, when there is no remaining life, the mission ends and go to the game over screen.This is very original, isn’t it? What do you mean with “no”?

Team:

Still at the top, we have the icons of the characters and their particular functions (which we’ll explainin detail below).
Each icon represents a hero present in the current team, where the only highlight is what is currently selected, and the greys are the other two who are sad for not beingchosen to represent this devblog.

“The Chosen One”:

Below we have a character alone in the spotlight, followed by two rectangles and again a functionicon.
This character is who we are currently controlling, in this case the attack. The two rectanglescorrespond respectively to primary and secondary skills.
Each one will have their own arts, that is, although it has the same function, the icons for skills will change according to his personality, appearance and history.

*These two retangles are provisional arts

Functions:
t’s time to explain those icons that appear all the time, doesn’t it?

Attack:
Has the ability to attack in short and long-distance.In the case of the character of the image, hitting with a book or fling it.

Defense:
Has the ability to protect with shield or create a barrier.In the case of this heroin, a magical shield using the stick or a mystical energy barrier.

Support:
Has the ability to interact with the map and enhance yourself (speed and double jump).In the case of Grawh (our dear Orc Hacker), invade the stage and do a hack to his attributes.PS: Grawh will not be banned.

Time:

As a spectacular detective I know you are, you should have seen that lack only talk about the clock on the top. Well, he will mark how much time that the mission is being played, both for in the future ensure a good position in the rankings and to be used to give the final score of the level.

If the player chooses a cleaner version of the screen, it may hide the time at any time of the game.

That’s it for now, in the future we will make more devblogs showing the other graphical interfaces of the game, as the menus and level editor. Want to know when will happen these blogs?Simple, just follow us on our social networks to stay on top of everything.

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[RavenOfCode]

This game looks quite cool, but perhaps change the name? STDP sounds alot like STD, and you probably don’t won’t your game to reference that. Maybe that was intentional, but I just thought I would let you know.

The game looks quite good though, I do enjoy a good strategy game and I also think the art looks pretty solid!

[theANMATOR2b]

@RavenOfCode

change the name? STDP sounds alot like STD,

Oh good - I thought it was just me who thought that.
Agree with Raven, game art looks good, name sounds like a disease.

[PLAYSTDP]

I never had heard this abbreviation beforem i`ll look for a change oO

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This week we will do the first Devblog abouth the Scenario and this time we will speak of the Traps and the Visual of our maps.

Camera and Distance:
Let’s start talking about the camera and the distance that we have from the characters. The game, as has been said previously, is in 2D platform style, mixing adventure and strategy. For this reason it is obvious that the camera needs to be in 2D, we only need to think about if it would be more open and clean or with more graphics elements, in this case, we prefer the first option.

However, the distance is already a bit more complicated at the same time that we are looking for more open and clean view, we need to define what the player can view at once.
With a very small space, there’s no way to make a good adventure, on the other hand, if it’s too large, will be obvious what have ahead, ending the strategy.
So, we made an average between the two, giving as much to make a good strategy as to venture through the map… Check out how it looks:

The above image already has the ratio for our HUD shown in the last devblog. Lost the HUD devblog? Easy, you can see it here:
http://playstdp.com/blog/en/devblog-en/devblog-03-hud/

Visual:
We could lose lines explaining the visual of the scenario, but it is as they say, a picture is worth than a thousand words. Then I leave here a few thousand words:

Rock skull next to a pirate lookout post. They say it’s a real fossilized giant of the seas, but we can not prove the story:

Bridge over a river, only the righteous can pass (or those who know how to lower a bridge):

Just a harmless volcano, ready to erupt and become not so harmless:

A pirate warehouse. There must be a lot of Whiskey in there to have so much protection:

Traps:
You may have noticed some in the images above, but we will show more closely and with better explanations:

Let’s start with these two, on one side a sharp metal pendulum, on the other, wooden fish. Which do you think is more dangerous? That’s right, the wooden fish, after all, the pendulum just doesn’t shoot poisonous darts:

As every good story needs secret passages, we have decided to make this secret cave with a dinosaur skull to scare the curious and the cowards:

Good … You already know how a cannon works, just aim and make Boom:

What would a desert be without deadly spinning saws to traverse its sands?

And to finish, a good old abyss could not be missing:

For now it’s just, we will soon do the second part, with more traps, enemies, challenges, more enemies and various new environments and scenarious.

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just aim and make Boom

This made me giggle. Maybe this could be the name of the game, or another small mobile game?

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Devblog #05: Characters – Part 1

Hello Adventurer, ready for another devblog? In today’s chapter we will talk about the initial characters of the team and some of their powers.

Characters
The game will feature in total with 33 playable characters, where at a time will be chosen by the user, 3 in team selection.
At first, only 3 characters in the initial team will be released, the remaining will be shown in the devblog updates.
The player can get new heroes completing missions on our main history.
Will have 3 new heroes on each Stage ( 10 missions):
– One Attack, one Defense and one Support.
Ok… So there is our 3 first heroes:

Professor:

Description:
With just the nickname of Professor, no name revealed, he is the leader of team survivor of STPD.
With a ancient origin and mysterious past, only what we know to your respect is that before he became a teacher, he had already been an elite warrior in past wars, however, only for necessity, to save your people from certain death, and not by a choice.
It is also known that he not proud of that moment in the past and as redemption for what he had to do and the lives he took, he decided to found your STPD team, known as Omega Zero, responsible for the restoration of peace in times of war, teaching students how to put an end to the violence without having to use it.

Function:
Has the team attack function.
Its first ability will hit the enemies with the book he carries in his arms.
The second skill will throw this book at your enemies.

Asile:

Asile

Description:
Originally the Galaxy G-402, on a desert planet, destroyed during a witch-hunt, Asile escaped with your family in a clandestine ship a former bounty hunter she knew.
In the way of escape, the ship was stopped by a team of intergalactic guards of STDP who were looking for the bounty hunter.
Understanding the reason for the flight, the guards decided to help Asile and your family.
Afther that, Asile decided to join the STDP, more specifically for the Omega team Zero, looking to end the war that happens against witches.
She is also considered the most loyal of the Organization and is considered indispensable for the team, according to Professor.

Function:
Has the team defense function.
Your first skill will conjure up a kind of shield around you.
The second skill will conjure a magic barrier.

Grawh:

Grawh

Description:
Grawh is biological son of two leaders of an ancient tribe Orc, respected for being civil and polite.
One day, after not having enough money to pay for annual tax, the tribe was attacked by a rival that dominated the continent.
Grawh, for being the only son of the leaders and a baby, just having turned slave of the rival tribe, as a kind of trophy, while all other members of your tribe were murdered.
When he was five years old, two scientists from a neighboring Galaxy visited your planet to study and to see the conditions of the young orc, ended up rescuing him and taking him to live with them, on a planet much more evolved and Pacific.
Grawh ended up studying more about technology and later was accepted as an intern of the cybersecurity of STDP team, where he met and became a friend of the Professor, who convinced him to migrate to the Omega team Zero.
The holographic bracelet that loads in your arm was a gift from their adoptive parents after being accepted into the STDP.

Function:
Has support function on the team.
Its first ability will be turned on instantly.
The second skill will be activated with the bracelet.

We done for now. Soon we will do the second part, with more animations, videos and, of course, new characters.
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[Bakuda]

I’ve played a few games like this where you have two or three characters, each with a unique skill set. It’s a fun way to do a problem solving game. I look forward to seeing how yours turns out =)

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@Bakuda

I’ve played a few games like this where you have two or three characters, each with a unique skill set. It’s a fun way to do a problem solving game. I look forward to seeing how yours turns out =)

Thanks Bakuda
I believe that by the end of next month we will launch a demo

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Enemies is something that couldn’t be missing in the game, right? Today it’s exactly what we are going to present, so get ready to meet some of the enemies you will face in your adventure.

Enemies:
In addition to the traps previously exemplified in our Devblog # 04, which you can see by clicking here, we will also have challenging enemies trying to disrupt the adventure of our heroes.

Just like the rest of the game, enemies are divided by scenarios, i means, in the period of pirates we will have some sailors, pirates, sea monsters and even a parrot chatter, while in the medieval we will have knights, mages and dragons.

In the game will also have enemies by difficulty levels, such as slow or fast melee damage, a straight or oblique releases from short or long distance, as well as enemies with unique weaknesses that should be discovered :).

Today we are presenting some of the enemies of basic difficulty in the Jurassic period.

Neanderthal - Melee Damage:

Don’t let all this beauty and cuteness deceive you, it may look like a sweet person, but it’s pretty fierce and dangerous.

Neander, as we call it, will be an initial enemy who walks from one side to the other until he finds some prey (you in this case).

Below we have a preview of how the mechanics of Neander will work:

Melee Damage Enemy - First Test

Neanderthal - Ranged Damage:

Now we have the most famous Jurassic Boomerang launcher, Naender, cousin of Neander.

Unlike his cousin, he prefers to hunt prey at a distance, throwing his boomerang. Guess Who’s the prey again? That’s right, you!

Below we have a preview of how the mechanics of Naender will work:

For today, it’s just, adventurer. Soon we will make the next parts, where we will show the bosses and unique enemies, each one with a different kind of skill or weakness.Don’t you want to lose the date and get out of the news? Simple, follow us in social networking:

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As we explained in previous Devblogs, we have several characters that will be unlocked when the player advances in the history mode.
Today we will talk a about these characters and how to release them.

Character Unlock System:
Each stage (set of 10 phases) will have three unlockable characters, one for each function of the game (attack, defence and support).
To unlock them the player must defeat them or just help on some mission.

As we also said in previous Devblogs, the main villain of the game (Time Controller) have the power to create an army of mini villains through a magic to control the minds of them, as was the case of Dirty Beard and the Seaborg, which will be presented in the Devblog today.
When this is the case, these characters will try to stop the team of heroes to complete their quest, however, by defeating them and releasing them from the mind control, they’ll join the STDP squad to defeat the Time Controller.

Characters such as Lorelei, who will also be presented here, will be friendly with the STDP squad and will also be fighting the Time Controller, just help them on their missions to unlock them to the playable team.

Well, let’s get to meet the first three unlockable characters.

Unlockable Characters – Stage 1:

Dirty Beard

History:
Known as the most evil and dreaded pirate of his time, and by the most dirty and stinky beard of the Seven seas, Dirty Beard was already the dominator of the most part of the oceans, and was the leader of the lendary pirate crew Black Skull , until being betrayed by a sailor and being taken to a prison on a deserted island.

One day, a merchant ship stopped on the island where Dirty Beard was exiled, and enjoying the innocence of the fishermen, secured a ride home, where he went in search of his traitor, who turned out to be whale food.

After dirty beard recover his ship and crew, he returned to his journey to the dominion of the Seven Seas, until he was mentally controlled by Time Controller and joined his army.

Function:
He has the Attack function in the team, having abilities of attacks in short and long distance.
Primary Skill: Pirate Sword.
Secondary Ability: Long-barreled pistol.

Lorelei

History:
From the Z-17 universe, Lorelei was the queen of the planet Acqua, formed entirely by oceans.

When a space-temporal fend, made by Time Controller opened and began to absorb water from its planet, Lorelei decided to investigate and ended up being teleported to our universe, the Z-20.
Determined to save the seas of the planet in which she fell and to be able to return to Acqua, she ends up facing Dirty Beard, but it is not powerfull enough for the pirate army and ends up being defeated.

Before his death Lorelei cast a spell from his land, which made his spirit continue to wander in search of revenge.

Function:
She has the Support function in the team, having double jump skills and interaction with the scenario.
Primary Skill: Activated with the power of your tail.
Secondary Skill: Activated with your magic trident.

Seaborg

History:
Son of fishermen of the 458th century, while still young had the boat on which he was traveling with his parents attacked by cyber-sharks.

It was the only one of the boat that survived, however, due to the serious injuries, had his memory totally lost and parts of his body needed to be replaced by pieces of metal.

He had his mind controlled by Time Controller and was sent to the past to help Dirty Beard dominate the seas.

Function:
He has the Defence function in the team, having a shield and a power to summon a barrier.
Primary Skill: Metal Shield.
Secondary Skill: Summon a Metal Barrier.

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UPDATE: DEMO AVAILABLE!

Guide for STDP - The Multiverse (Demo)