Everyone on the team has helped make that happen, and I think it comes across when you play.

“There are no other games that do what Hand of Fate does, and we've given a sense of atmosphere and place that's incredibly strong. “I'm incredibly proud that we've delivered something unique,” says Jaffit of the game that Hand of Fate has become. That's been worth much more than the funding.” “We wanted to make the best game possible for that niche, and Kickstarter helped us to find people who were enthusiastic and make them part of the development process. “That said, the Kickstarter was really about finding our audience early.” He points out that Hand of Fate is a niche game, in that it appeals to fans of card games and deck-building who also enjoy an action component. “The game has gone much longer than we anticipated, so we've definitely ended up spending more than the Kickstarter funds,” says Jaffit. With a haul of $54,000, Kickstarter certainly played a role in getting Hand of Fate off the ground – but it didn’t get them all the way.

A lot of the details were missing, and we've gone through and filled those out along the way.” “Ultimately, though, we had a clear vision at the start, and around that vision the game has grown into its own thing as we went. Different elements of the game have evolved as time has passed, certainly, and deck-building has become significantly more important to the experience. “You can go back to some of our earliest videos – like our Kickstarter trailer from last year – and see the same concepts and core ideas in place,” he says. Since then, he says various features have become invaluable, including blend shape support added in Unity 4.3, “without which we couldn't have brought the dealer to life.” He also notes that Marmoset Skyshop has added huge amount to the look of the game.Īccording to Jaffit, much of the game is very similar to that original demo. “We first showed the game to the public at GDC after a couple of months of prototype development, and even then it was clear we were on to something,” he says. In fact, he says, it was much easier to get a prototype up than it's been to finish the game. Hand of Fate 2 will release on PC, PS4, and Xbox One on November 7.The studio’s Morgan Jaffit tells us that the team is big believers in building and testing, and as such had a demo up very early on. The game is coming out November 7.Watch more trailers here listPLaQokWZfgbynLRhV7HigqcfVAzsNB-t6b&index1. If you haven't played Hand of Fate but download all the free Xbox Live Games with Gold, there's a good chance it is sitting on your hard drive - it was free in February 2016. Based on this footage (and having played the game myself, albeit a year ago), this sequel seems to be an improvement.

The first game was great, but the combat could be a bit janky. She's a tank-style fighter, with a high luck stat outside of combat. This new trailer for Hand of Fate 2 reveals the game's release date - November 7 - and shows the player picking up a weapon card during the tabletop portion of the game that their warrior can then use during combat.ĭevelopers Defiant Development also released a few screenshots to show off Ariadne of Stiegal, a newly revealed playable character. This is the roguelike element of the game sometimes your character will be flung into battle, which, in the first game, was designed around a system similar to the Batman: Arkham games. Hand of Fate 2 is played partly at a desk as a mysterious man places cards before you and you navigate forward with dice rolls and conversation choices, like an intense one-on-one RPG session. Hand of Fate was a fantastic, slightly under-the-radar mix of combat and rougelike storytelling, and now we're just a month out from what looks like a bigger, better sequel. Check out all the Hand of Fate trophies, latest news, previews, interviews, videos, screenshots and review from your number one PlayStation 4 resource site.

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