After Reset RPG [WIP]

Mr-Nixon · Mar 30, 2013

DESCRIPTION:
After Reset™ - a classic roleplaying open world game with old school top view, which action takes place in the future on Earth dying slowly after nuclear cataclysm that buried nearly all life on the planet.

PLOT:
Planet Earth. 132 years after the "Reset," the thermonuclear apocalypse which ended human civilization. Around one third of the globe is covered by "Yellow Zones," where the ruins of cities are covered with radioactive dust. In these areas, anarchist "Survivor" groups have taken control, and uncontaminated food and drinking water are valued at parity with human life. Another third of the Earth is in the agony of the "Red Zones," the epicenters of the deadly anomalies which arose as a result of a nuclear chain reaction in the atmosphere, and the morphing of the planet. The majority of terrestrial organisms are not capable of surviving in the "Red Zones," which makes it a perfect home for mutants and "guests" from deep space. The planet is unrecognizable and empty…

CORE FEATURES:
• EMOTIONAL AND PROFOUND STORY: it makes you feel nostalgic for the classics of RPG, such as Fallout 1/2, Torment Planescape, or Baldur’s Gate.
• LIFELIKE AND SERIOUS ENVIRONMENT: you are immersed in the tragic story of a dying world, surviving every day traveling among the ruins and anomalies, stealing and trading information, and interacting with other survivors.
• BRANCHING CHARACTER-DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM: Think, plan, and play through the development of your character in any way you choose, using our huge system of characteristics, items, perks, and skills, in the style of the best features of D20 and S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

GENRE: RPG.
TARGET AUDIENCE: males, 21+ y.o., from USA, Canada, Europe.
TARGET PLATFORM: PC (Windows, Linux), Mac OS X.
GAME ENGINE: Unity 3D.
GAME MODE: single-player, co-op.
WEB-SITE: www.afterreset.com

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imaginaryhuman · Mar 30, 2013

I really like the original concept artwork `look and feel`. For me it is far more intriguing and unique and gorgeous to look at than attempts made to convert these art scenes into low-polygon 3d models. If you could really do a great job of making your end product look VERY close to your original artwork, this game would be awesome.

Myhijim · Mar 30, 2013

I want it!

Khyrid · Mar 30, 2013

The art is pro.

snowconesolid · Mar 31, 2013

wow great art work. Looks really good.

SevenBits · Mar 31, 2013

Definetly one of the best sets of concept art I've ever seen. I hope you get somewhere with this.

Gigabeat · Mar 31, 2013

The concept art is beautiful! I'm looking forward to see more in the future.

Mr-Nixon · May 12, 2013

Thank you, dear fellows!

I will do my best to keep the work this way.

Btw, you can download several ambient tracks from http://www.afterreset.com/media in Media section. I am interested in your opinion about soundtrack too. E.g. main theme of AR series: http://www.afterreset.com/ARMEDIA/TEMPImages/Main%20Theme%20%5BFilippov%20Andrei%5D.wav

piluve · Mar 31, 2013

Love the music, love the art... Keep with it men!
See you!

Mr-Nixon · May 12, 2013

Recently, I read an article by game critic Sergei Tsiryulik for “Gameland,” in which, in my opinion, he takes a very deep look at the story component of games. In that the story in After Reset™ is set up as one of the pillars of the game's concept, I wanted to take some time to look at some quotes from this article, which support my current opinion and point of view, and also add my comments, extrapolating on the issues touched upon in the article as they relate to the RPG After Reset™.

PLOT

Plots in games are typically overblown and clichéd. Naturally, demanding a totally original fable is inane, and generally speaking “there is nothing new under the sun.” Of course, a narrative will in some measure make use of genre cliché, but it is possible to play through the same scene in different ways, so you can give it an unusual context, give it a new meaning – why even bother talking about the whole plot! But the creators of the scenarios in games generally choose to (or have to) take the well-trodden path. This cannot be endorsed under any circumstances.
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Mr.Nixon: I myself also suppose that the target audience was raised on such games as Fallout (1-2), Baldur’s Gate, Planescape: Torment, Fahrenheit, Mass Effect (1-2), and on such films as The Game, Identity, The Sixth Sense etc. We have been spoiled by plots. Most plot twists, entanglements, suspense clichés, and conclusions, we can predict in the first minutes of playing or watching – thereafter, we get bored, just as bored as we get with MMOs. In my years as a gamer, I’ve read many pre-release promises and nice words, which 95% of the time never came to fruition. So, I’ll be brief: the plot should be one of three pillars on which a game should be built; the idea that it should not be a trivial aspect comes not from marketing professionals, but from me myself.

SETTING

Of course, not every developer will be bothered with the depth of the plot, and not every game needs a plot, to be honest. But the world is a different story. In video games, the setting is more important than in any other type of art, though for the purposes of games, and interactivity: when we read a book, we try to reproduce the world by our own imagination, while graphic novels, films, and cartoons show exactly as much as the plot demands, games go further- they allow us to fully feel a part of new worlds, allow us to be in them, and interact with them.
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Mr.Nixon: The level to which the setting of After Reset™ is thought out should not be less than that of PhB, D&D and the first Fallout games.

CHARACTERS

The character and outlook of a person largely formed by his or her surroundings – correspondingly, if we’re talking about some kind of thought-out world, then it is very important that the characters that live in it correspond with their biographies. In JRPGs, there are many times when a character who grew up in some backwater little town on the fringe of the inhabited world, is not just highly skilled, but the best swordsman on earth, who wears a super fashionable outfit with twenty-seven buttons.

Whether in medieval fantasy, or space operas – regardless of setting, the characters will of be one and the same archetype, born with a modern mentality, speaking a modern language, and concerned with the same problems that concern our contemporaries. This is especially clear in the aliens from Mass Effect: the ones who look least like people (Elcors, Hanars) are kept behind the scenes, and all the others can easily be imagined as earthlings with minor oddities.

Regardless of the uniqueness of the setting, a character’s personality and his biography should have something in common with what he has to do in the game. An illustrative example of a discordant non-correspondence is in Final Fantasy VIII, where the main characters act as an elite band of mercenaries, who kill tens and hundreds of enemy soldiers without a second thought, but in fact they are just normal school-kids, who know nothing of discipline and yet don’t experience even the tiniest worry for their life, or even a little doubt about the mountain of troops they leave behind them. And this is characteristic for a great many JRPGs.

And Western games are no less clichéd than their Japanese counterparts. The protagonist is almost always a middle-aged white man; if he has a partner or a group, then there is guaranteed to be a comic character, exuding his or her race/nationality. In general, everything is like a Hollywood action movie.

By the way, think about this: there is almost never a smart, or educated person among the protagonists- this is done so that the target audience can freely associate themselves with the characters. Know-it-alls are almost always the bad guys, who inevitably leave some kind of loophole in their genius plans, letting the heroes defeat him by their gumption, passionate, soulful impulses, and brute physical strength. Why not a smart, calculating hero for a change?
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Mr.Nixon: Well sure, our protagonist is smart, educated and calculating. In any case, he starts out that way. The beginning of the game zeros out his abilities (which is harmoniously fit into the plot, no worse than in Planescape: Torment) and it is for the player to decide who the main character will become by the end of the game.

CONFLICT

In general, the overwhelming majority of artistic productions contain some kind of conflict. Having narrowed down the bounds of the current theme, let’s look at a conflict of interest of several sides, one of which is the protagonist.

In order to promise a suitable plot quality, it is necessary that the production reveal all sides in the conflict, and their motivations, to give a good basis as to why the conflict started, and show the consequences of its solution. An important quality of a good plot is moral ambivalence: it’s not for nothing that the black and white juxtaposition of good and evil is associated with primitive fairy tales for undemanding and unintelligent children.

The bigger the proportions of what happened, the more varied the sides drawn into the conflict, the better developed the interrelations and motivations of these sides and the more numerous and varied their clashes with each other, and thus the more full-bodied the plot becomes. Even if you throw away the concept background, a well-developed and well-depicted conflict can deserve credit all on its own. To illustrate this, one could take Martina from the epic novel “A Song of Ice and Fire,” or more relevant to gamers Suikoden II and III.
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Mr.Nixon: I really want to give the atmosphere of incipient conflicts no worse than it was done in “A Song of Ice and Fire.” The proportions of what has happened can be insignificant to the player (eg. If he decides to live as a hermit, pilgrim, or desert researcher, not getting involved with things) or, very serious to him (eg. if he interferes in the business of concrete factions and the motives of independent people/beings). Thus, independent of the player’s actions, the conflicts should develop, but the player should have the ability to interfere in them and influence their development, and outcomes. Among a few of the factions in After Reset, I’d like to mention the United Governments, Stalkers, New Confederation, Black Sand etc.

THEME

The concept background, nonetheless, is that which immediately brings the plot to a principally new level. What exactly is the game about? What is it concerned with? Does it express any ideas, thought up by its creators? What is it trying to communicate to the gamer?

It is precisely on this ground that almost all plot-oriented games allow failure. What is the game about? About revenge. About good versus evil, light versus dark. About rags to riches. And that only. The majority of games confine their theme to a straightforward fable, which has nothing really original about it. And that is very, very pitiable.

Here it is easy to imagine an objection: there’s no reason to assign such advanced demands to gamers, we just make entertaining products, and not philosophic works. The answer to this is just as simple: first, we want to see videogames as a work of art, and not a shameful waste of time; second, there’s nothing preventing the product from being entertaining and communicating some thoughts; and third, even these ideas don’t have to be too profound on their own, or profess anything- it is enough that they give some food for thought.

And truly, there’s nothing to call it but fear. The makers of AAA-games are afraid that the public won’t accept deeper and more multifaceted stories, instead appealing only to the most primitive human emotions, not bringing any kind of light or food for though, nor elegant metaphors of day-to-day human problems. In fact, it is theme that separates the wheat from the chaff- that is, games which are not afraid to be called art become something more than a worthless consumer product, unfit for anything other than entertainment.
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Mr.Nixon: I often get emails from players and representatives of publishers asking, “Is this a game about the apocalypse?” My answer is no. The atmosphere of the apocalypse is just a nice decoration. Right now, I don’t particularly want to answer questions like “What is this game about? What thoughts and ideas does it communicate,” because that would mean I would have to reveal maps, and details of the plot and other such things. I’d like to leave an element of pleasant surprise. But I can say that the theme touched on by After Reset, is very rare in videogames.

LOGICAL CONTINUITY

The second problem with continuity, which I’d like to mention, is the problem of plot holes, contradictions, and illogical events in the story telling. Everything is fairly clear here, and defending the right of such problems to be, is just stupid in my opinion.

Plot holes, all the same, are akin to banal aspects which aren’t fully explained, which many (not me) consider an important plot element, that go hand in hand with narrative: it is said that the more a game leaves to the player’s imagination the better. In my mind, leaving something unsaid in an important issue is only worth doing when the story demands it, when it is important to underline the irrationality of the setting, when an open ending is used to lead to important questions. Similar situations, by the way, are more often the exception than the rule and I am inclined to demand that everything in a game have an explanation.
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Mr.Nixon: Yes. I don’t think you guys, nor I need another Lost. In the future, I’d like to make a list of questions from potential players, related to moral problems and on this basis try to bring them to life in the game. Personally, I also like the post-credit endings of Mass Effect 3 or Bioshock Infinity. If the developers have already decided linearly to kill the main character after a few sleepless nights, during which they fought with a player… if they’ve decided to kill him/us, then there’s no reason to take away that clearness with open endings after the credits- otherwise, the mind simply cannot make sense of it. It is good to marketing types, but bad for the player’s peace of mind.

SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

This point flows naturally from the last one. So that the user can fully feel a part of the game world, feel empathy in relation to the characters, and take the plot seriously, it is necessary that he believe in what is happening on the screen – even if multicolored bishonens are jumping from rooftop to rooftop on skyscrapers, and simultaneously growing wings. As a rule, a normal person has no trouble believing in any convention, in something unrealistic, to the point that the product applies its own internal logic in relation to this convention. The ability to abstract from the drive toward realism for normal perception of videogames is simply necessary – but unrealistic games should also have an internal logic. If the goal of the game is not the creation of a surreal atmosphere, the user should be informed of the rules and laws according to which this world lives, and all that happens in the game should stay within these confines.

A plot does not exist separately from the remaining game that makes it- or at least, should not exist this way. The unique features of the setting should have something to do with the other aspects of gameplay, and with the course of the story. In other words, if Spec Ops: The Line decides to reproach the player, then it should first give him a choice. If the plot tells you that ammunition is worth as much as gold, and desperate people have melted their silver jewelry into bullets, then a box with ten spare rounds should not be falling from each killed enemy. And of course, every genre has its gameplay conventions, but it’s important to try to minimize them, and the rest, which are really necessary, should be intelligibly explained, so that players don’t ask questions like “Why didn’t they use Phoenix Dawn on Aerith?”
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Mr.Nixon: Guys, I want you to take a look at the fact that, our concept art notwithstanding, you can’t quickly find powerful armor, and a plasma cannon and go off to take everyone out. A large part of the game takes place at the technological level of Fallout 1 before energy weapons are discovered. With this, there is no cap- almost always realistic barter. Having a simple firearm and ammunition makes you practically a demi-god in this post-apocalyptic world. It’s not for nothing that many role-play gamers know me as a hardcore Game Master.

Dooskington · Apr 11, 2013

Fantastic work. Will be watching this. Closely.

ShaneS · Apr 11, 2013

That is impressive artwork

squared55 · Apr 11, 2013

The art's really good!

Mr-Nixon · May 12, 2013

A new piece of concept arts has been released for the upcoming After Reset™ Game.

THE PAST AGE

The golden era of humanity. A triumph of globalization personified by establishing United Governments. The concept of an organization representing interests of all civilized nations of the Earth was first proposed at the UN Security Council by the Alliance countries during the Second World War of the Past Age. After the war, unidentified members of the Council recognized that the organization was necessary and agreed to its creation, giving it the authority to act across the whole globe. This unit was given military as well as political resources to let it quietly suppress any armed conflict, from local ethnic disorders to regional wars anywhere in the world. The main aim of the organization at that time was to prevent global conflicts at short notice. After the collapse of the main geopolitical rival, who interfered with the organization and the commercialization of national interests of all the participating countries during the last century of the Past Age, any information on the organization hardly had appeared even on the pages of tabloids. However, as it turned out later, all the while the influence net of the consortium, its’ funding, membership, interests and character had been evolving, however, staying in the shade, even for some members of governments of the participating countries. The United Governments (UG) as a single organization representing the interests of all mankind became known to citizens only a few years before the Reset. By the time alien ships had appeared above and in the cities of megapolises the United Governments were forced to go public about their existence. For 2 BR years heads of the majority if countries possessing nuclear weapons, officially confirmed the existence and powers of the United Governments as an international organization representing the interests of the Earth and all humanity instead of the United Nations (in fact, being a political, economic, scientific and military elite of the society).
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UG BUNKER INTERIOR

In the course of the Reset, after the nuclear strikes on the extraterrestrial objects, and the instantly ensuing chain reaction in Earth's atmosphere, members of the UG elite, and the most advanced UG infrastructure, having previously been sheltered in deep-underground and underwater bunkers, were left to their fates, living in the bowels of the planet. All tunnels, mine-shafts, subway lines, and above-ground bunkers were either under impassable rubble, or sealed up tightly. Movements in the Earth's crust, and a pole shift as a result of the Reset and t morphing, eventually led to the destruction of parts of the underground and underwater bunker-cities of the UG.
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TARKOVSKY GHOSTS

During the Reset most of humanity of the Past Age died out, but several of its’ members managed to survive by turning to the deepest of all the human instincts - the instinct of survival. To the instinct, inevitably leading to the manifestation of other animal qualities of people: anarchy and struggling for resource remains, bloodlust and fighting for power, carnality, cannibalism and depravity. For the handful of those who survived the Reset and were left alone on the dying planet, primitive instincts became the only way to survive. These people began calling themselves the Survivors. In 98 AR in the epicenters of nuclear attacks (the destroyed capitals of the Past Age), as well as in some other post-industrial areas a dramatic change in the pattern of radiation background was detected: a sudden drop of irradiation to the acceptable for humans level, the appearance of migratory forms of radiation, as well as periodic bursts of radiation which remain unstudied. Covered with ash, but available for accommodation and looting, destroyed cities were almost immediately settled by the savviest groups.
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EXPLORING AN ABANDONED CITY

Since the beginning of its existence, humanity endowed certain places and territories with personal features and consciousness, sometimes even adopting humanoid forms: "the spirits of the forest", "swamp demons", "genies of the desert" etc. In the technocratic turn in the development of the civilization, such beliefs fell into disuse, remaining only in folk traditions and legends. The allegory was revived by Strugatsky brothers at the beginning of the Past Age in their book "The Roadside Picnic", later popularized with the screen-version by Andrey Tarkovsky. Even then, they predicted a chance of gaining self-awareness by some of the territories, which would influence everything happening in them to the boundless level: ranging from the behavior of organisms to the laws of physics.
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YEAR 112AR THE RISE OF THE UNITED GOVERNMENTS

Nonetheless, the high level of scientific, economic, social and military development of the UG, the composition of the groups of UG members in the shelters, and the threat of the extinction of mankind as a species, have allowed the UG to not only survive, but thrive, becoming the living embodiment of the innovative tendencies of the Past Age. All the same, it is worth noting that the development of the UG was severely constricted by the limited amount of useful space in the underground and underwater areas, as well as by the Regimen of Silence, a program put in place to keep the Incorporeals from knowing of the continued existence of the UG after the Reset, and also to study the effects of the incident, and the possibilities for human survival. Such isolation allowed the UG to return to studying the Reset, and the extraordinarily advanced technology of the Incorporeals, which was apparently somehow connected with them. The simultaneous sharp decline of the aliens' population on earth over the first 100 years, together with the growing strength of the morphing of Earth caused the UG's priorities to shift from the expulsion of the aliens, to the rebirth of the true humanity, of which the UG considered itself the rightful representative. Having moved a whole epoch beyond the technology of the Past Age allowed the UG in 112 AR to establish a few outposts on the planet's surface, and install barriers and radiation shields over industrial areas reclaimed from the Survivors. Having not encountered a preventative attack from the Incorporeals, and having analyzed the current situation, as of 132 AR, the United Governments are beginning to think about open expansion through the areas that can support life, currently in the hands of Survivors. As the UG gradually moves toward the "Green Zones," of the Toltecs, the wheels of war begin to spin once again. A war for the remains of a planet, a planet which they consider their own…
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You can find full list of After Reset™ concept arts on on http://www.afterreset.com/media.

hippocoder · May 8, 2013

And that's how you kick ass in game dev, folks.

Mr-Nixon · May 12, 2013

We have done programming camera for old-school rpg top-down view. There are screen-shots below as demonstration.

Please, keep in mind that this is not level from the game setting, and the level of graphics in final build will be no worse than that.

HolBol · May 12, 2013

Please stop using that yellow font- I can't read it.

Mr-Nixon · May 27, 2013

The video series of After Reset™ Developer Diaries began from "Diary #001: Camera Programming".

Watch it on You Tube in HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZv9Gu-0PHY&feature=youtu.be

Mr-Nixon · Jun 5, 2013

Hello, fellows,

There are new concepts and some relevant info from After Reset™ Wiki below (WARNING: spoilers!)

Stalkers – a little known group of Survivors, mostly encountered near Artifacts left behind by the Incorporeals. For most other Survivors, they remain legends, the keepers of these Artifacts. According to these legends, the Stalkers are former Survivors who found the entrance to an Artifact, and came under its control. The fact that these groups exist was not confirmed until the Dallas Incident* of 123 AR. After this the technical superiority of these groups over the other Survivors became obvious, though this was unlikely to be due solely to human technology.
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* The Dallas Incident – a historically significant military incident, that happened in 129 AR in one of the largest cities of the Past Era, Dallas, Texas, USA. It was in this year that the United Governments went out onto the Earth's surface for the first time since the Reset. Three UG Military Corps regiments made an attempt to tactically capture the ruins of the former metropolis, Dallas, chosen as a symbolic starting point for the revival of civilization from the ashes. The OG troops, centuries ahead technologically of the disparate anarchist Survivor groups, who then inhabited the city’s ruins, took the city center almost without bloodshed where the Artifact of the Incorporeals was. However, during the approach, the OG met a group previously unknown to them, the so-called Stalkers, who were technologically inferior to the OG. The small group held on to the approaches to the Artifact down to the last. They were able not only to fight of the UG forces, but also make the Military Corps regiments fire on one another. At a cost of only 843 soldiers, the UG managed to break the resistance of the Stalkers and destroy the Artifact. The historic significance of the Dallas Incident to the UG is impossible to overstate: the UG successfully destroyed that which all humanity of the Past Era was unable to, the Incorporeals didn’t appear, the UG became more convinced of their capabilities and the fact that they were chosen to revive humanity. In memory of the UG soldiers who gave their lives, they began the restoration of New Dallas with the construction of Tower 843 in the place where the UG artifact once was.
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Mutated Citizen – a person affected by one of the varieties of Biomass, for whom the infection has already passed from the incubation period to become irreversible. Because of the characteristic features of the infection, which cause mutations in the musculoskeletal system and the central nervous system, this being moves much slower than a normal human and frequently dies from lack of food. However, the main danger they pose is the possibility of their infecting other people, thereby provoking a real epidemic.
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Gatto_matto · Jun 5, 2013

Art is astonishing! You rock!

Mr-Nixon · Jun 5, 2013

MadBlade2 said: ↑

Art is astonishing! You rock!
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Thank you

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McMayhem · Jun 5, 2013

This looks really interesting. Love the art and the style your aiming for. I myself am one of those raised on the old-style RPG and am a proud supporter of keeping thought provoking, non-linear role playing games alive. I'm really looking forward to see what you come up with in the realm of gameplay as you continue.

I wish you the best of luck on your project, and I'm anxious to see what comes next

-McMayhem

Mr-Nixon · Aug 9, 2013

-McMayhem, thank you!

Hi there!

We have a plenty of new 3d stuff for update: models of one of the customable characters (naked and wearing casual clothes from concept art), several 3d models from game assets and new 3d-dev team-member.

Sadly, we changed our web-site (www.afterreset.com) engine that caused wipe of all registration. If you like and follow After Reset RPG, please make a registration on our forum once again.

As good news there are new game-engine screens below

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theAfrican · Jul 18, 2013

amazing.... i like the 3d art work too. wish i had enuff skill to do such. that is definately what im lacking in my game

FlaxSycle · Jul 18, 2013

Wow, top notch artwork, both concepts and assets! Will be looking forwards to seeing how this develops!

primus88 · Jul 18, 2013

Artwork is AAA quality or better, if it's even possible..
Also you said that the story will be on par with games like Planescape Torment.

I will follow this game for sure.

Mr-Nixon · Jul 18, 2013

theAfrican, FlaxSycle, primus88, thanks. Your comments motivate to proceed.

Mirace · Jul 19, 2013

If you can keep same feel on gameplay what fallout 2 has, i will buy this game. Please don't ruin anything! Like bethesda ruined fallout serries

Mr-Nixon · Aug 9, 2013

Thanks, Mirace. No Oblivion's mods, no pointless Tactics: only hardcore F1-2/BG/Planescape. Now working on interface (keeping Fallout 2 screens of hi-res as a background to inspire).

With this news we presents our in-game Wiki for After Reset™ setting. The data within is transmitted via CORE-7 Implant (VI-implant of the Protagonist you are playing). Find more on www.afterreset.com

The Great Desert is a region in the After Reset™ world. It is a desert, which encompasses a large chunk of the former US state of Nevada. It is a playable area in the game After Reset™ RPG. By 132 AR, a large part of the Great Desert is a Yellow Zone.

The State of Eagle a region of the After Reset™ world, combining the semi-desert zones (on the edge of the Great Desert) and prairie areas (in the central part and coastal regions). In large part, the State of Eagle has encompassed the former US state of California. It is a playable area in the game After Reset™ RPG. By 132 AR, a large part of the State of Eagle is a Yellow Zone.

Types of geonatural zones according to the United Governments classification system:

Red Zones – areas not suitable for human life. Survival cannot be guaranteed even with technical and military support. Judging by available evidence, the Red Zones appeared during the Reset and subsequent morphing of the Earth. Relatively small pockets dot the inside of the Yellow Zones, but, as a rule, do not grow beyond their borders. In the “Red” Zones, most terrestrial organisms are not able to live, however mutants and recently arrived alien life forms feel quite at ease here.

Yellow Zones – areas that are appropriate, if not necessarily for life, then at least for human survival. They contain leftover traces of elevated background radiation. Nonetheless, in the majority of cases, these areas allow for survival even without the support of technology. They often cover areas of ruined cities of the Past Era. As a rule, flora, fauna and soil are seriously harmed by these areas, and has had great difficulty recovering after the Reset, which is why edible food and potable water are valued at parity with life. By 132 AR, power in most Yellow Zones is held by small anarchist gangs.

Green Zones – areas that didn’t suffer whatsoever during the Reset. By 132 AR, the existence of Green Zones has not been officially confirmed by the UG.

Thermonuclear Reactor DT-7 – a United Governments thermonuclear reactor. It runs on deuterium-tritium plates, collected by the UG from the ocean with laser separation of isotopes using SILEX technology. By 132 AR, it is obsolete and has been replaced by the Singularity Reactor AM-2.

Singularity Reactor AM-2 – a United Governments singularity experimental reactor. Developed on the basis of the study of Higgs Field Theory and interaction fields used by the Incorporeals. It functions due to the suspension of creation and retention of microscopic black holes.

Plasma Reactor KL-7 – a United Governments plasma reactor. Its functioning is based on the principle of cold plasma vortex acceleration. It is fairly portable, but this also makes it quite expensive to produce, which is why it’s generally used in small closed systems (e.g. personal bunkers).

Shark Skin Technology – a United Governments technology, widely used by them in the design and production of various materials (e.g. fabrics, dyes, windows). This technology works based on an improved imitation of the nanostructures of a number of natural surfaces, such as shark skin, rice leaves, butterfly wings, etc. Self-cleaning Surfaces have a very low coefficient of friction and have anti-contamination properties, working mostly against inorganic matter (dust, soot), but also matter with a biological origin (fungal spores, microbes, algae, etc.).

Neutrino Detector Argus-2 – a United Governments neutrino detector. Neutrinos are fundamental particles with half-integer spin that participate only in weak and gravitational interactions. Low energy neutrinos interact extremely weakly with matter, which is why radiation from them at any dose is totally harmless to humans. It is structured like a nesting doll for maximal shielding from any particles other than neutrinos (a layer of ultrapure water, then a layer of pseudocumene, and a scintillator core, in which, interacting with electrons, neutrinos generate traces in the form of Cherenkov Radiation).

Cherenkov Radiation – a glow caused in a transparent medium by a charged particle that moves faster than the phase velocity of light in that medium. It often accompanies United Government technologies that use high-energy physics.

Blue Light Optical Technology (abbr. BLOT) – a technology that concentrates electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths from 360 nm to 480 nm (which the human eye interprets as dark blue and purple), used by the United Governments in laser weaponry.

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Bobo70z · Jul 21, 2013

I am working on A similar game. And just to say it.
I AM AS JEALOUS AS HELL!
BIO L8

Your work is amazing.
Did you do this yourself?
How did you do it???!

Bethesda should start making a run for their money cause this game is on FIRE!!

Followed. No questions Ask.

One More Thing-
Son you just got competition from Me.
My game Has to be better than yours!!

Mr-Nixon · Jul 27, 2013

MadBlade2, thank you.

This short article is meant to describe: What games will After Reset™ RPG be similar to, and what games will it be nothing like.

SETTING:

After Reset™ RPG WILL be like:

+ the worlds of Fallout 1/2 in atmosphere and region, and also in terms of its boundaries. For example, if the setting of Fallout 1/2 is RETRO post-apocalyptic, then After Reset is SCI-FI post-apocalyptic. In Fallout 1/2 there are plenty of unrealistic things, while in After Reset RPG, every piece of devilry must have a real, scientific basis. For example, gasoline even in tanks at gas stations will go bad after 3 years, but it is quite possible to make it by improvised means out of other petroleum products. The same goes for electricity and light, as well as bullets, weapons, explosives, drugs, etc.

+ the world of C&C: Tiberian Sun and partially C&C: Tiberium Wars in the atmosphere of a dying planet, and also partially by association of the GDI with the UG. Partially by the conditional division of territories into Red, Yellow and Green zones. Another fairly important connection, more like even a reference is the female voice of the VI (Virtual Intelligence) personal implant CORE-7, which will be with you throughout the game (if you don’t remove the implant or don’t turn off its VI-functions). Of course that is a reference to the EVA interface from the C&C series.

+ the world of the Dead Space series in the level of development of most technologies of the United Governments and the atmosphere of some locations from the Past Era settled by Biomass. And, as you would expect partially in the Red Zones. Just without the trashy, casual gaming elements.

+ the world of Baldur’s Gate and Planescape Torment in the depth of development of the setting and the level of its detail.

+ the world of the future in the movie 12 Monkeys. I get that it’s a movie and not a game, but the world of the future from that old movie captures well the level of resignation, hopelessness and despair of the inhabitants of the setting in After Reset.
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After Reset™ RPG will NOT be like:
- the worlds of Fallout 3/4/5 and other skins/mods for Oblivion. I personally don’t consider what they had to be a setting – just cynical marketing exploitation of a brand and plot copywriting done by underage outsourcers from India.
- the worlds of C&C 3/4. As far as I’m concerned that series has also gone to commercialized trash.
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PLOT:

After Reset™ RPG WILL be like:

+ Planescape Torment. I’m sure you’ll be able to find similarities, beginning with the fact that your character wakes up naked on the floor of a laboratory not knowing who he is, or what he’s doing there.

+ Fallout 1/2. No epic nonsense and pathos. Sure, you’re not exactly the same as the people you meet in the game, but you are a real person with real problems. And only after dealing with them and reaching the next level of the requirement pyramid can you (if you want) discover the Great Person inside yourself. In the wasteland, moral freedom reigns and you aren’t obliged to anyone if you yourself don’t want to take on others’ problems out of the goodness of your heart.

+ Baldur’s Gate 1. You decide yourself what to do and where to go. You can totally abandon the plot and just travel the world. But that doesn’t mean the plot forgets about you – even if you do nothing, it will affect the world around you. Don’t worry about missing something – when you find the right place and time, the plot will find you.

+ Walking Dead the Game. Realism, drama, real human emotions and reactions. Of course, that game doesn’t have any real ability to choose (which After Reset RPG absolutely will have), but the drama is presented such that you might not catch it on your first run through. We will try to have both powerful staging, and a powerful script.

+ the Song of Ice and Fire book series. Understandably, this won’t be so much in the medieval style, but in the global nature of the background conflict. Because behind all of your personal adventures, a fight will be starting for at least the former USA, and at most for the remnants of all human civilization.
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After Reset™ RPG will NOT be like:
- Fallout 3/4/5. Once again, I didn’t really see a plot here. Even Oblivion had some kind of story, but in these skins/mods for it, there was nothing.
- Mass Effect 3. I promise it won’t be like LOST. There won’t be any unfinished business, or conversations, no RGB-endings, no semi-transparent guys with flawed logic and unfinished dialogues.
- Diablo 1-3. As a matter of fact, even without comment.
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GAMEPLAY:

After Reset™ WILL be like:

+ Fallout 1-2. An open world within the plot region of a dying planet – a post-apocalyptic sandbox. Population density will not be higher than in Fallout 1. Coincidental encounters. Searches and studies of the ruins of the Past Era. A laconic and intuitively understandable interface. An old school top-down camera view.

+ Baldur’s Gate or Neverwinter Nights in terms of game mechanics plan, options for character development, etc. We’re making our own level constructor, our own branching game mechanic SACPIC, in which many see features similar to the mechanics of D&D 3.5 and SPECIAL. Included in that we have a plot limit for the maximum attainable character level at level 20.

+ Deus Ex Human Revolution in the plan for improving your own implant and game interface. The actual implant of your character is a product of the synthetic biology of the United Governments and in essence is a tactical implant (uses abilities enhanced by reality in the interface without the addition of bonuses to stats or experience). You can develop it only by defined operations or “program” modifications which are very hard to find.

+ Neverwinter Nights 1/2 in the plan for camera placement high above the character and its ability to turn, get closer and move away.
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After Reset™ RPG will NOT be like:
- Fallout 3/4/5. There won’t be behind the back view, or first person.
- Fallout Tactics or Wasteland 2. After Reset RPG is a game about Character; it’s an RPG, not a tactical shooter with view from above.
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GRAPHICS:

After Reset™ RPG WILL be like:

Here it’s hard for me to come up with examples, because there isn’t really anything we’d compare it to. Just look at our screenshots and art on our site www.afterreset.com and make up your own mind.
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After Reset™ RPG will NOT be like:
- Fallout Tactics. Though I like the graphical style of FT, After Reset RPG will be fully 3D, without isometric graphics.
- Wasteland 2 or Borderlands 1/2. There won’t be any cartoonish textures or shading.
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SOUND:

After Reset™ RPG WILL be like:
- Fallout 1/2 with an extra aspect of hopelessness and nostalgia for the former civilization (after all the setting of After Reset RPG has almost no survivors, and it is a future closer to the movie 12 Monkeys).
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Mr-Nixon · Aug 9, 2013

WRECKED CARS IN AFTER RESET™ RPG

Abandoned cars will behave differently depending on the environment that they're in. E.g. a car left in the Mojave Desert, is going to last a long time. A car abandoned in Washington or San Francisco is going to have a very different fate.

Any cars in a coastal environment with salt in the atmosphere, they might not last more than 30-40 years. Tires deflate within a few years, although the rubber and synthetics they're made of will remain intact for centuries. Paint deteriorates quickly. And once it flakes away, rust corrodes the car's body at a rate of 5,000ths of an inch per year.

Up to 123 A.R. most cars, even in the most forgiving of environments, are reduced to skeletons. And in a coastal environment any family car is a barely recognizable heap of metal.

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Mr-Nixon · Aug 9, 2013

UG CITIZEN’S SUIT RELEASED

In this piece of news I want to demonstrate to you, the followers the new clothes from the world of After Reset™ RPG: the suit of a citizen of the United Governments (hereinafter, UG) which I'm sure will make many of you nostalgic for the Vault Dweller's Suit from Fallout 1/2.

So, some facts about the UG Citizen's Suit:

• these suits are made using Shark Skin Technology, which allows it to repel bacteria and dirt, and self-clean to a certain extent.

• hybrid and nanotechnologies of the UG allow it to change color on parts of its panels. On the left of the chest, we see that the wearer is a member of a certain UG brigade, and on the right is the wearer's name.

• depending on the alignment of the wearer to a certain brigade, the suit can also change color shade. Additional modifications are possible. The Social Brigade over the course of many decades sets this achievable norm, so that despite the severe conditions for survival in the UG's underground cities, Individuality wouldn't be forgotten. All the same, beyond the boundaries of this established norm, the price of Individuality has sharply risen, and depends on the personal success of the citizen.

• the suit has its own BIOS which essentially reads data entered into it, either from an off-line source, or real time if the wearer is in a zone where the UG's Quanton computer network is active.

• on the right shoulder of the suit the flag of the UG is depicted.

• UG resources over the last 100+ years, which they spent in isolation underground, were quite limited, and for this reason the severe economic regime was so strictly cultivated. These suits are fairly long-lived, but all the same, there were only so many suits for a period of many decades, which is why, despite their high level of technology, they're quite worn out.

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protopop · Aug 5, 2013

Not only is your concept art breathtaking, but your character models and world history are so professional. I just finished reading The Art of Remember Me (and playing the game) and what you've done is on par with a studio 10 times your size. Adding the wiki and all the posts that describe the world background adds flavor that I think will get people excited about After Reset. Great work, and inspiring.

Mr-Nixon · Aug 5, 2013

protopop, thank you )

Mr-Nixon · Aug 9, 2013

NEW SCREENSHOTS RELEASED

Hello guys,

Since many of you asked about publishing new screenshots, let me show a couple of them.

I hope you like them )

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ogier · Aug 11, 2013

really nice artwork and really nice work for all things.

Mr-Nixon · Aug 14, 2013

Ogier, thank you.

Hi there. We have CORE-7 WIKI loading short movie on Video section of our website here: http://www.afterreset.com/video
Moreover we have a decent update of our Wiki. Suit yourselves:

Neuro-Mental-Computer Interface (abrr. NMCI) – an interface through which CORE implants and the Quanton quantum network can be connected.

The Quanton – a unified quantum computer network of the United Governments. It is a disorganized network from local quantum subnetworks called Quanton Hubs, which are often given the personalized names of bunkers, cities or other places where they exist. By 132 AR, Quanton has reached version 4.0. It is not fully fledged AI. Initially, the prototype Quanton was developed back in the Past Era in the walls of the Science Corps of the UG, however, even in the design stage it fell under government oversight of the HRW Department (abbreviation of Human Rights Watch) of the Social Corps of the UG. The purpose of this oversight was to enforce the proactive and comprehensive ban on the creation, or accidental appearance of AI during work on the project. After the Reset, for a variety of social and technical reasons, Quanton grew into the universal information infrastructure of the whole UG.

Molybdenum Semiconductor Technology – a technology for manufacturing semi-conductive microcircuits and computer chips using molybdenum as the main semiconductor. This technology is widely used in all kinds of devices and computer networks of the United Governments. In the Past Era, molybdenum microchips practically replaced their silicon forbearers and were fundamental in developing quantum computers. Like grapheme, molybdenum has a layered structure, and differently from silicon, layers of molybdenum are two-dimensional, which allowed the technologies of the Past Era to reach a new level of miniaturization even in the decades leading up to the Reset.

Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (abrr. ECLSS) – systems intended for the processing, filtration and purification of air and drinking water. The ECLSS can work both in locked mode (which provides full oxygen and water circulation inside a base) and in open mode (which takes water into the filtration system and purifies it with water from an additional man-made underground spring, and oxygen comes from separate man-made oxygen mines).

Reverse Osmosis (abrr. RO) – a water purification technology that uses a semipermeable membrane. This membrane-technology is not properly a filtration method. In RO, an applied pressure is used to overcome osmotic pressure, a colligative property, that is driven by chemical potential, a thermodynamic parameter. RO can remove many types of molecules and ions from solutions and is used in both industrial processes and in producing potable water. The result is that the solute is retained on the pressurized side of the membrane and the pure solvent is allowed to pass to the other side. To be "selective," this membrane should not allow large molecules or ions through the pores (holes), but should allow smaller components of the solution (such as the solvent) to pass freely. RO is most commonly known for its use in ECLSS and drinking water purification from seawater, removing the salt and other effluent materials from the water molecules.

In Vitro Cloning Technology – a Past Era technology for cloning living beings in a laboratory setting. Before the Reset, civil society had an ambiguous view toward cloning, which is why it was forbidden in some regions of the United Governments. Simultaneously, it found a great popularity in other areas after an array of scientific discoveries in cloning using trichostatin, which solved geometric pathology issues with cloning. Most Artificial Fertilization Centers in the underground cities of the United Governments have the ability to produce clones of living beings, though this function is practically not used.

Artificial Fertilization Centers – parts of the medical blocks of the underground cities of the United Governments in which artificial fertilization is done, and children are raised in a laboratory setting. They are a part of the Birth Rate Control Program under the supervision of the Social Corps. Because of the high average lifespan (around 150 years) and the strict rationing of resources, the right to have a child in the year 123 AR for those living in such cities is a privilege. All the same, with the UG coming out onto the surface and regaining access to resources, the situation may change.

Field Weapons – a warfare technology that does not involve emitting energy but operating fields and entanglements. This type of weapon is very rare on Earth. Even the United Governments had yet to develop a prototype before the Reset. And only after the invasion of the Incorporeals, based on studying their technology, the Science Corps of the UG was able to develop experimental versions. The first of such versions, the Higgs Field Static Disruptor T1, was tested and used for the destruction of the Artifact of the Incorporeals at the time of The Dallas Incident in 129 AR.

Higgs Field Static Disruptor T1 – an experimental field weapon, used by the United Governments in 129 AR to destroy the Artifact of the Incorporeals during The Dallas Incident. The prototype functions based on manipulating masses of elementary particles in a concrete coordinate in space-time within Higgs Field Technology.

Higgs Field Technology – a UG after Reset technology, developed on the scientific theory according to which a Higgs field, regardless of its even distribution in our part of the Universe, can have both low and high pressure as its natural form (in other parts of the Universe), as well as artificial. In light of the absence of examples of change of the average vacuum value of this field before the appearance of the Incorporeals and in light of the colossal energies needed for direct changes of this field, before the Reset the Higgs Field Theory existed only in a theoretical, static sense within the generally accepted Standard Model of Elementary Particles. And only after more than 100 years after the Reset could the Science Corps of the UG create the first stationary experimental example weapon, the Higgs Field Static Disruptor T1, which successfully underwent testing during The Dallas Incident. Despite the successful test, further development of any weapon based on this technology was officially frozen under pressure from the Economic and Social Corps of the UG. First they lobbied for an embargo against developing the technology because of its unsustainable resource consumption. Secondly, because of its potential danger for the UG:

“… The potential of this technology is as shocking as it is terrible. Yes, in medicine and terraforming this technology could be applied to deflect radiation. But at the same time, a weapon based on Higgs Field Technology is able to change elements for technology, weaponry and carbon-based life from their stable form to radioactive. Experiments with the Higgs field can directly affect the electron shields of all atoms without exception. Decreasing the size of the Higgs field reduces the mass of electrons, because of which the radius of their orbits grows. Isolated atoms survive this, as do simple molecules, but complex ones lose their stability. A small weakening of the Higgs field is almost undetectable in water, methane, carbon dioxide gas or ammonia molecules, but it has a negative effect on multi-atom biomolecule proteins and nucleic acids. They all have complex three-dimensional structures, which are destroyed even with small changes to electron mass. A directed reduction or increase of the Higgs field can become a weapon many times more terrifying than atomic weapons, reckless use of which could destroy all terrestrial life forms…”

from the report of Steven Manton,
head of the UG Social Corps, 130 AR

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LightSource · Aug 14, 2013

I really love your long, thought out posts. Thanks for the detail!

Mr-Nixon · Aug 14, 2013

Thank you, LightSource. Your attitude motivates.

DrunkGamer · Aug 14, 2013

Oh man, this game looks awesome already. Only if i could make games as awesome as your's

Mr-Nixon · Aug 16, 2013

Thanks, DrunkGamer

This fresh update gives out several draft of SACPIC game mechanics we develop especially for After Reset™ RPG.

Character Creation process in SACPIC game mechanics consists of eight stages:

Stage 1: SPECIES

Stage 2: RACE

Stage 3: GENDER

Stage 4: ALIGNMENT

Stage 5: STATS

Stage 6: FEATS

Stage 7: SKILLS

Stage 8: APPEARANCE

Today I present you, my dear fellows, a draft of STATS stage.

Every primary statistic describes one of a character’s attributes and affects everything he does in the game. Primary statistic Modifiers are applied in certain situations, which change the stat by one point for every two basic stat points away from 10 (for example, the Strength Modifier for a character with 15 STR would be +2, and for one with 6 STR, -2).

When creating a player in the After Reset™ RPG every statistic can range from 4 to 20, in other words, you can’t start with any stat below 4 or above 20.

STRENGTHS [STR]

Strength indicates how developed a characters musculature and physical strength is. Strength can also affect your characters ability to carry heavy objects, and the damage your character can inflict with his bare hands or melee weapons.

Brute strength helps you carry heavy objects, and inflict heavy strikes in melee combat. A stronger character can carry more weight, cause higher damage in battle, etc.

The Strength Modifier is applied in such situations as:
- in melee Attack Roll;
- in Damage Rolls for melee and throwing weapons.

AGILITY [AGL]

Agility defines coordination, swiftness, reflexes and balance of the character. Accuracy with firearms and throwing weapons as well as block and dodge chance also depend on Agility.

A character with low Agility will be constricted and clumsy, his movements ridiculous and badly coordinated, which causes him to make a lot of noise when moving. A character with high Agility will be nimble and flexible, his movements confident and graceful, with dazzling reflexes.

The Agility Modifier is applied in such situations as:
- in melee, firearms and throwing weapons Attack Rolls;
- when calculating Armor Class (AC);
- in checks of Chance-of-Saving (CoS) for Reflex;
- in checks of skills related to Agility.

CONSTITUTION [CON]

Constitution affects the total health of the character, and the rate of water consumption when walking on the world map. Also, like Strength, this stat affects the amount a character can carry. If Constitution changes enough to change its Modifier, then your characters hit-points will change correspondingly. If Constitution falls down to zero, then your character dies.

A character with high Constitution can survive in places where others would die. Such a character will have high health and good resistance to disease and infection - even if he gets infected, he will easily and quickly recover.

The Constitution Modifier is applied in such situations as:
- in calculating hit-points received by the character at each level (but the possible penalty can never lower this stat beyond 1);
- in Damage Resistance (DR) for Physical and Environmental damage types;
- in checks of Chance-of-Saving (CoS) for Fortitude;
- in checks of skills associated with Constitution.

PERCEPTION [PER]

Perception reflects a quick eye of a character, his quick-wittedness, mental reaction time, and street smarts. If Intelligence reflects the ability of a character to analyze information, then Perception relates more to how well a character adapts to unexpected situations in the world around him. Perception also defines how far a character can see.

Good Perception sharpens all of a character’s senses, including touch, sight, taste, smell and hearing. It affects range with firearms and throwing weapons, and helps you to notice small things that could be important, etc. Characters with high Perception get more information from the world around them by noticing the little details others pass by.

The Perception Modifier is applied in the following situations:
- in Range-of-View (RoF) evaluation;
- in Angle-of-View (AoV) evaluation;
- in firearms and throwing weapons Attack Rolls;
- in checks of skills associated with Perception.

INTELLIGENCE [INT]

Intelligence defines how knowledgeable and erudite a character is, defines mental facilities and education. The higher a character’s Intelligence, and the more skills he will be able to master, and the more possible answers he can think up in conversations.

A character with low Intelligence often can not speak or pronounce words properly, has difficulty thinking out his movements, and often does not understand jokes. A character with high Intelligence is resourceful, knows a lot, learns fast, and is inclined to use technology and invent things.

The Intelligence Modifier is applied in such situations as:
- amount of skill points the character receives with each new level (but the possible penalty can never lower this number below 1);
- in field and energy weapons Attack Rolls;
- in checks of skills related to Intelligence.

CHARISMA [CHR]

Charisma measures the strength of a character’s personality, his persuasiveness, personal magnetism, ability to lead others, and sex appeal. This stat reflects the way the character is perceived in society on appearance as well as on his inner charm.

Charisma combines looks and personal charm. The higher a character’s Charisma, the better he will communicate with other people. Charismatic characters have a higher chance of getting their way without resorting to violence, and can trade better than others. High charisma is important to characters who want to influence people with their powers of persuasion and lead them.

The Charisma Modifier is used in the situations such as:
- amount of companions the character can travel with;
- in checks of Chance-of-Saving (CoS) for Will;
- in checks of skills associated with Charisma.

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Mr-Nixon · Aug 23, 2013

An interview with me was published on Small Dev Talk. The full version of it is in this news.

Small Dev Talk: What is After Reset RPG?

Mr.Nixon: After Reset RPG is a classic open world roleplaying game with an old school top-down view, in which the action takes place in the future on a slowly dying Earth after a nuclear cataclysm that destroyed nearly all life on the planet.

Small Dev Talk: What is the story in After Reset RPG?

Mr.Nixon: Planet Earth. 132 years after the "Reset," the thermonuclear apocalypse that ended human civilization. Around one third of the globe is covered by "Yellow Zones," where the ruins of cities are covered with radioactive dust. In these areas, anarchist "Survivor" groups have taken control, and uncontaminated food and drinking water are valued at parity with human life. Another third of the Earth is in the agony of the "Red Zones," the epicenters of the deadly anomalies which arose as a result of a nuclear chain reaction in the atmosphere, and the morphing of the planet. The majority of terrestrial organisms are not capable of surviving in the "Red Zones," which makes it a perfect home for mutants and "guests" from deep space. The planet is unrecognizable and looks empty…

An unfamiliar woman’s voice wakes you up with phrases like “Wake up, Commander!” You come to naked on the floor of some kind of laboratory surrounded by shards of glass and some kind of liquid. You can’t figure out who you are, where you are, what you are doing there, and what kind of voice you’re hearing.

Small Dev Talk: Can you go in detail with us about the branching character development system in After Reset RPG? What type of perks and skills will the player be able to choose from in After Reset RPG?

Mr.Nixon: I'm still working on our game mechanic, SACPIC, so any details aren’t for sure, and could change. In general terms, it takes the best (from my point of view as a player and Game/Dungeon Master) features from DnD (specifically edition 3.5) and SPECIAL (the development of which should have been integrated into Fallout Van Buren).

At the moment of our release on Kickstarter, I’d like to be able to show a clip about character creation for future bakers. And in general for those who are already looking forward to our game and believe in us.
But I can already say that the level of the player will top out at level 20, but it won’t necessarily be a vertical progression. First of all, if you’re unarmed in the desert, 20 feet away from an attacker with a firearm, your chances of surviving the attack are nearly zero. And that’s regardless of your level. We try to aim for “real science fiction” in the same way A Song of Fire and Ice tries to be “real fantasy.” Our target gamers are fairly grown up and well versed in games, which is why, in order to guarantee the maximum immersion in the severe world of After Reset, we have to be able to guarantee a certain level of reality. In everything, including the branching character development system.

Small Dev Talk: Being an open world game, what will the player be able to do in the open world environment of After Reset RPG?

Mr.Nixon: There are at least two regions available to the player: The Great Desert (mostly ex-Nevada) and The State of Eagle (mostly ex-California). You can travel and do whatever you want within those regions and do whatever you want. This is the open-world part of the game. The range of your movement across the Global Map is limited by your water reserve and is affected by stats/skills/perks.

Small Dev Talk: How is the co-op going to work in After Reset RPG?

Mr.Nixon: For now, let’s let that stay a secret. We don’t want to tie that down for marketing reasons. The game will not have to be connected to the internet, there will not be DRM-protection , nor an in-game store, auctions or other heresies. All the same there will be plenty of good reasons, in my opinion, for you to WANT to play the game with the internet on.

Small Dev Talk: What type of weapons will the player come across and get to use in After Reset RPG?

Mr.Nixon: As in the setting of DnD (edition 3.5), the world will have a lot of types of weapons. Most of them are home made, but some rare specimens are hold-overs from the Past Era. Private weapon ownership is fairly widespread in the US, and the climate of Nevada helps preserve things. Many types of weapon could fully survive the Reset. It is also impossible to write off some kind of metallurgy being practiced in the growing New Confederation.

If your question is what are feats, which you have to accomplish to have this or that type of weapon, the answer is: Weapon Proficiency: Unarmed, Weapon Proficiency: Cold Steel, Weapon Proficiency: Firearms, Weapon Proficiency: Energy Weapons, and others.

Small Dev Talk: What type of enemies will the player come across in After Reset RPG?

Mr.Nixon: Mankind's biggest enemy is people themselves. But other than other people, you could come across such beings as Animals, Synthetics, Biomass, Aliens, Aberrations and some others. Each species could have several subspecies.

Small Dev Talk: What will the environment be like in After Reset RPG? How will it be lifelike and serious?

Mr.Nixon: As you remember, Fallout 1/2 was always satirical and phantasmagoric. And we loved it for that. The retro-future world of Fallout 1/2, drenched with romanticism, and having already rebuilt after the catastrophe, found it’s path to the development of a new world.

The setting of the game After Reset RPG is drenched with the atmosphere of a dying desert on the planet. Human civilization lost the battle for the Earth by hiding. The earth itself in large areas is reminiscent of Mars. It’s a miracle that a handful of people are still clinging to life. All the same, for those who were born on the earth’s surface among the survivors of the Reset, that world is taken for granted – they simply don’t know any other one.

Over the 100 years without humans, lots of traces of the civilization of the Past Era have been erased. That’s one of the reasons we chose an arid region as a scene – the desert climate guarantees the highest amount of traces of past civilizations possible will be preserved.

What are the morals, norms of behavior, values and psychology of the descendants of people who survived the Reset on the surface – then it’s different from ours no less than our modern habits and dogmas differ from those that were prominent two centuries ago.

I’ve developed the setting based on real scientific studies and original documents remaining from our reality. Thus for example, according to present USA military doctrine, atomic attacks will be made on their own densely populated cities, on their own inhabitants in certain circumstances. And they do that only if necessary, but that doesn’t mean that decision will be made in cold blood. A similar decision will change the USA forever.

What are the Survivors? They are people for whom murder, might makes right, thievery, drugs, power, short lifespans, and treason are as natural as a cup of coffee in the morning for most of us. On the surface, there is no more Government capable of protecting and guaranteeing something – nothing remains to hold back Human Nature. And no one’s around to make TV shows about that nature – it’s like TOR brought to life (note: Tor is a fully anonymous internet network, not controlled by any governments or corporations). But beyond that, among all that horror, we can see sparks of real valor, honesty, morals, self-sacrificing, and empathy as other spark sides of human nature. They’re called “sparks” because they quickly fade in the darkness, because a person with these qualities on the Earth’s surface in After Reset world wouldn’t live long.

Well, if you’re totally disillusioned with humanity, or generally find your self experience social phobia, you can always throw your backpack over your shoulder, rifle on the other, a flask on your hip and set off to wander in the Great Desert. To study the remains of a human civilization that never quite reached the stars, or simply to live the life of a wanderer, searching for yourself, and your path.

Small Dev Talk: What inspired you to create After Reset RPG?

Mr.Nixon: I was sick of waiting for a decent Fallout 3 But to be serious, yes I was really sick of waiting for an interesting RPG to come out. Over the last 4 years I made Fallout D20, the fan-made PW NWN2 and got it to a playable server. But due to legal issues, I had to stop development. And then, from my 20 years of experience as a gamer, 6 years of experience as a Dungeon Master, and 5-year experience as a businessman, the setting of After Reset was born.

Intenseness of development of the game sharply grew after I found out about Kickstarter, and the game Avernum: Escape From the Pit. Successful gaming startups on Kickstarter have shown that it’s completely possible to attract the necessary funds to develop a worthy old-school RPG (from a minimum $900 thousand collection + $100,000 of my own personal savings). Avernum: Escape From the Pit with its huge world, hundreds of hours travelling, and created by just one person really convinced me that even independent of the results of co-founding, I could really create After Reset RPG, even at the level of a hobby.

Small Dev Talk: What is your favorite aspect of After Reset RPG?

Mr.Nixon: Atmosphere, Story, Roleplaying, and Freedom of Actions.

Small Dev Talk: What challenges did you and your team come across in the development of After Reset RPG?

Mr.Nixon: Just as in anything, the basic problem, and simultaneously secret to success is people. It’s really hard to find high quality experts in their business with an adequate self-assessment.

Small Dev Talk: Do you have any advice for upcoming developers?

Mr.Nixon: Ups and downs are unavoidable on the path to your goal. Try to stay calm during the ups, and have unshakeable confidence during the downs, and monotonously, and inevitably walk toward your goal. If you can’t take a step, crawl inch by inch. If you cant crawl, at least lie down in the direction of your goal. And then everything becomes possible.

Small Dev Talk: What is the expected release date for After Reset RPG and how much will it cost or will it be Free-To-Play?

Mr.Nixon: If we get support on Kickstarter, I think we can expect this game to come out in around 1-2 years. If no, then we’re talking about 5 years. Here’s the simple math:
Game = Time * Money * Perseverance.
Money = Time * Perseverance.
Thus, Game = Time² * Perseverance or Game = Money² * Perseverance
I’m not much for Perseverance, so the release date will be totally dependent on the wishes of the gamers.

Small Dev Talk: Do you have anything to say towards our readers?

Mr.Nixon: Clearly define your goals and never give up. And of course follow After Reset RPG and read/watch Small Dev Talk.

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Sooshi · Aug 25, 2013

I salute you

rbx775 · Aug 25, 2013

You already produce alot of Atmosphere in text form. solely by writing those updates. (along with your artworks)
I salute you too. ._.

Mr-Nixon · Aug 25, 2013

Sooshi, rbx775, thank you. Your words inspire.

Mr-Nixon · Aug 29, 2013

UG SOC POWER ARMOR RELEASED

In this news, I would like to show you, followers, a new armor from the world of After Reset RPG: Power Armor UGSOC (United Governments Social Corps), which I am sure will cause many of you nostalgia for the Power Armor of Fallout 1,2).

Some facts about Power Armor UGSOC:

• it is the most common kind of power armor in the underground cities of the United Governments. Despite the high cost, this power armor modification, used by the UGSOC, perfectly proved itself in saving lives and popularized this type of armor among the United Governments population. This power armor modification was most widely used in the course of expanding the underground territories of the United Governments and in the construction of underground structures. Besides, Power Armor UGSOC is made of SWAT team of police departments from the Social Corps.

• the armor has diversified energy accumulators, whose central node is recharged from an external source. Despite this, a fully charged accumulator will last for at least one year of effective use of the armor.

• the armor is activated by means of emitted short-haul communication between the CORE implant of the carrier and the armor BIOS. The armor is controlled passively intuitively by reading the neural and nerve impulses in the brain and central nervous system of the carrier and transmitting them via the CORE implant. Such a close communication with the implants of the carrier makes it possible to not only increase the armor efficiency but also prevent unauthorized access to its control system. This armor model is compatible with all the CORE implant generations used by the United Governments.

• there is no transparent visor in the helmet of Power Armor UGSOC. This is done for defensive purposes and in order to improve visibility, as it would not seem strange at first glance. Instead of a transparent visor, over 5000 structural ommatidia of less than 100 microns in diameter are placed on the surface of the helmet. These ommatidia are oriented at different angles. Image from them after processing are projected directly onto the retina of the helmet carrier. This facet technology allows to increase the effective viewing angle of the carrier to 220 degrees.

• the armor has its own Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS).

• the combined structure of the armor exoskeleton in which rigid elements are combined with nanocomposite materials makes it possible to considerably increase the power quality of the carrier with minimal loss of its flexibility, inevitable for this personal protection class.

• the tag of the United Governments flag is placed on the right shoulder of the armor, while the affiliation of the carrier to the Social Corps is placed on the left. The latter is also indicated through the armor coloring and a red mark on its sites.

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Mr-Nixon · Sep 6, 2013

NEW CONCEPT STORY ARTS RELEASED

By this fresh news I would like to present a new storyline concept arts as illustration of the Past Age and the Reset.

The United Governments (UG) as a single organization representing the interests of all mankind became known to citizens only a few years before the Reset. By the time alien ships had appeared above and in the cities of megapolises the United Governments were forced to go public about their existence. For 2 BR years heads of the majority if countries possessing nuclear weapons, officially confirmed the existence and powers of the United Governments as an international organization representing the interests of the Earth and all humanity instead of the United Nations (in fact, being a political, economic, scientific and military elite of the society).

Barely half an hour later heads of the UG, having prudently taken refuge in underground and underwater bunkers, made the only choice, though a hard one, - nuclear weapons should be used. To demonstrate the determination of humanity and its strength the targets chosen were the destroyed capitals with merged with them alien spacecraft. Since all ground-based nuclear missiles had been destroyed, the challenge of attacking was conferred to the submarine and underground battle forces of the UG.

The earth shuddered under megatons of nuclear explosions, reacting with extraterrestrial objects, and giving rise to the chain reaction in the atmosphere. The surface of the Earth turned blazing with little suns, billions of people were instantly killed, the Earth’s crust was set in motion, the poles shifted, the seas dried up, radioactive smoke shrouded the dying planet bulging at the seams. This was the moment that scientists and prophets had predicted - the end of the world called in history as the "Reset".

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Mr-Nixon · Sep 14, 2013

RATS. RATS NEVER CHANGE.

That is true that rat species definitely survived the Reset. Meanwhile, rats, that would seem to be able to exist easily without humans, are surprisingly quite dependent on our food supplies. In the initial weeks after humanity was gone, rats raided radiated pantries in what remained from homes, grocery shelves and stores. After eating through these food supplies, they we struggle to survive on things like cardboard, cloth or glue. After years when there was nothing to eat except for radioactive waste the most of their populations abandoned ruins of the cities and had to go back to the wild and compete for resources there. That made them easy pickings for predators. Thus, although, rats and other similar mice species survived after the Reset, up to 132 AR their numbers are greatly diminished.

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Mr-Nixon · Oct 13, 2013

Hello, fellows. Here we have a couple of fresh screenshots for fun for you. Following our trend of evolution of level design now we are able to generate the whole exterior areas of The Great Desert and The State of Eagle.

The area gameplay will be shown during our Kickstarter campaign. But now you can download those screenshots in Full-HD (1920x1080) from there:
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//P.S. We have about 300+ members on Indie DB, and about 100 Likes on FB, good content, we are making videos of game play and story movie now... but still cant reach any serious Game Media It is only one thing which slows us on our way to Kickstarter... Because if nobody knows about the game nobody could back on it... If anyone knows the leads to serious Game Media, I would be appreciate your help...

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