Guns of Icarus Online – Adventure Mode from Muse Games was recently successfully funded on Kickstarter! If you’ll recall, we recently covered the sale of the main game on IndieGameStand. The kickstarter is funding an add-on to the game, so if you like the looks of what we cover below, you should totally get in on the deal! For those of you who aren’t familiar with GoI, they released “skirmish mode” in October last year. In this mode, you would coordinate with your team to take down enemy airships. They just added AI to the game, and are now going to add with “Adventure Mode” world-building and an econo-political system.

Here’s a brief synopsis of Adventure Mode:

So what is Guns of Icarus Online Adventure Mode all about?

• A persistent online post-apocalyptic steam and dieselpunk world
• Crew or captain your own ship and experience airship combat taken to new levels
• Explore towns and take on missions to help them develop and grow…or bring them to ruin
• Politics and intrigue with six player-run factions, each vying to stake its claim in the world
• Robust and accessible economic and political systems that drive the action

The new econo-political system will allow players to shape how the world develops. There is an outcome to everything you do, and whenever you take off on a mission, it will have a positive or negative effect on entire towns and factions. These missions are the heart of Adventure mode, as they contribute effects to everything in the game. Missions will be generated according to need. For example: “Does the town of Sylka need more grain? When you dock at Sylka, you’ll be able to accept trade missions to fulfill that need. Did the Anglean Republic just declare war on the Order of Chaladon? You’ll find raiding missions at each faction’s capital and controlled cities.” Will your faction cause war and discord as you climb the ranks or will you bring peace? It’s all up to you and the choices you make.

Now, let’s face it. The artwork put into the world in GoI is gorgeous! And the world they have created is pretty extensive. This is very time consuming. This is why Muse is “pursuing a procedural system to generate terrain and decoration to speed up the map creation process.” This will allow the art team to generate terrain faster, and then spend time polishing it up and adding unique and different things to each terrain. Each terrain, as well as each faction, will have its own look. Muse would also like to add weather and time of day changes. As “final-stretch” goals, they want to add walkable towns to explore and exploration modes.

Looks of unique factions: