So I've been working on a mecha game, Celestial Bodies the past few weeks along with a collaborator (@bighog) and up to now we've mostly just put out her (extremely good) pictures and grid layouts, and a little setting details. Let's talk shop about The Grid™️.
This is EXTREMELY my shit and I cannot wait. At all. It's SO GOOD.
Lancer scratches one mech itch. Mekton(Z) scratches another (overlapping with Silhouette and other Fuzion/Interlock games). I guess Battletech kind of scratches a third, maybe in the HBS game above all else.
But THIS?
This not only scratches mecha/spacecraft fighty action RPG itches, it scratches my age-old "MAKE THE INVENTORY SPACE FUCKING MATTER, NO I MEAN MATTER-MATTER" screaming itch that I've never entirely been able to do, performing on a level with the old Resident Evil 4 Attache Case, which itself was such satisfying inventory management that it spawned a whole-ass other puzzle game...
...except this does that IN GAMEPLAY EFFECT. I'm legitimately in awe. This is so fucking good.
