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Hello and welcome to Team Viveza’s game proposal!

Elysium

We have created a game that has the potential to be revolutionary, and its name is ‘Elysium’. Elysium is probably most commonly known as a classical link – to the Elysian fields in Greek Mythology; the afterlife. Elysium is a really unique name because it stands out as being an edgy title, it sounds electronic yet connotes death. This is juxtaposed by the aim of the game, to stay alive. Elysium proves to be a fun and exciting game that has endless possibilities of tactics and game play. What strategies will you master and more importantly – will YOU survive the battle?

'Elysium' is a unique, one of a kind survival game where the aim of the game is to be the last man standing in a array of maps. It mixes elements such as the crucial survival/horror theme which has grown more popular over the years to all audiences and also provides the gamer with a first person perspective, which has been a major success in many 'shoot em up' games. With both single and multiplayer modes and a lot of unlockable content, the game is riveting while keeping a high replay value to appeal to the masses.

In an alternative universe, the space colony of Elysium is a prosperous, advanced civilization, verging on becoming an empire. There are a plethora of planets in the Elysian System featuring a unique and diverse range of terrains and locales, each governed by the religious authority of their patron god. Legend has it that once every one thousand years, a warrior from the Elysian System conquers the feats, perils and wonders of each state in the galaxy, collecting relics from each planet along the way. That mythical warrior, referred to by lore as the Centeniarium, who appeals to the gods of this new-age galactic empire becomes deified in a ceremonial competition dubbed the "Trail of the Holy."

Players find themselves as a warrior in the Elysian system on their quest towards becoming the Centeniarium. Many other ruthless warriors across the system, however, are seeking the same goal. As players travel from planet to planet in the single player campaign mode, they fight tooth and nail to become the last warrior standing in order to receive the relic of the nation. The wide range of terrains and levels, such as the jungle planet Terranos and the fiery, volcanic mountains of Volcadorna, each have their own unique geographical features which require ever changing strategies. The goal of the Trial of the Holy is simple - be the last man standing as you travel on your carnage tour of the planets. How you want to survive is entirely up to you. Forming alliances with non-player characters (NPCs), hiding away from the fray in an effort to out live competitors, or ruthlessly massacring your opponents are some of the many options you have as a player.

One thing special about this game is that is supplies the needs for all types of gamers - the casual, easy going gamers can experience the calm pace of the campaign mode, whereas the hardcore, enthusiastic gamers can engage with gamers around the world and play in the more erratic, exhilarating multiplayer mode. In the multiplayer mode, Elysium will create a sample planetary combat mode for endless hours of differing gameplay. Weapons, terrains, enemies and tactics differ on every new death match. Battling until only one fighter remains will be a feat that gamers will enjoy to attain. Gamers competing with friends or family with the only thought presiding in their mind is to trump their position will create healthy competition be it between friends or strangers.

Additionally, custom unlockable content for character customization will be available. Each player can create their own warrior to fight amongst the best in their hopes to be deified as an Elysian god or goddess. New skins, outfits, features, styles and more are all just a click away, and these new available items encourage continued and long-lasting play of the game.

Elysium: Are you up to the challenge?

Elysium is, quite simply, a survival game. The aim of the game is to survive for as long as possible and become the last man standing in a fight-to-the-death with one life between up to 30 people. It takes in to account realism as a major factor – you won’t have unlimited ammunition; you may not even be awarded a gun as your weapon as an array of weapons will be randomly generated in every game. You have to scour for food, water and even find the ingredients to create potions/medicine for your character if injured. The competitive nature of the game is also linked in with a more tactical and strategic edge – you probably won’t be able to face off against every other player by yourself for long; so would you hide out and wait for others to be killed by other people before continuing on your journey to become the champion or form alliances with other competitors knowing that only one person ultimately survives & wins? Backstabbing is always on the cards so it really is a test of your ability to judge situations and discover which would be best for you personally. This really allows for the player to give their own take on the game and have an experience unlike others.

With the recent release of Suzanne Collins first book in the Hunger Games trilogy, ‘The Hunger Games’, having been released as an absolutely massive success; the demand for a game like this is definitely right there. If you just search the internet, you can see a lot of people would absolutely love to play the game. On a recent topic on GameFAQs.com – titled “There should totally be a Hunger Games game for PS3!!!” – several posters supported the idea, one of the most supportive posts can be seen below.

”OMG imagine? It would be sooo epic... An action/adventure game where you play as Katniss... As you traverse through the forest, you must evade and kill the rival Tributes... The various creatures placed (like Tracker Jackers and the wolf-mutts!)... and you must build resources, collect food and weapons!!!

It would be epic! ^___^”

With ‘The Hunger Games’ being such a massive success, releasing a game similar to the game element would be a fantastic idea. We’re not suggesting it be actually linked to the ‘Hunger Games’ franchise, however a game of a similar concept with an arena-of-sorts and fighting for survival would definitely interest both fans and others alike. The market for survival horror games has exploded in the past few years. Popular games like ‘Left 4 Dead [2]’, ‘Dead Space [2]’ and the ‘Silent Hill’ franchise have all sold in their thousands and have been great investments for the companies involved with them, including Valve & EA. The games I have mentioned have proved to be massively successful on multiple platforms, including consoles but also PC! The era of PC gaming is definitely on the rise at this time which is precisely why we would like you to back our design.

As an independent game developer, we would be requesting your funds and investments in order to help provide the costs towards designing, creating and providing the server client & engine as obviously a game which has the multiplayer features can definitely be expensive but with your investments we can definitely achieve it. Another reason we will need the investments is for marketing and advertising, which are obviously both incredibly important when it comes to developing a successful game. We are currently exploring the software 'Steam' when we move on to publishing the game - as well as a website; the use of 'Steam' could be vital in creating a successful game. 'Steam' is a software which allows people to buy and download games and many companies use it for PC games - Valve, Bethesda Softworks, Activision, Rockstar Games, Electronic Arts, Square Enix, 2K Games, and Sega. Although these are all major games companies, 'Steam' is also used by many as a branch in to the games world market. We aim to start low and then try our hardest to make the game work – incentives for donating and investing can be found further on.

In terms of donations, and after a lot of research including on and around Kickstarter in general, we have came up with a set target that we would like to aim at for our recent concept of our new, unique, one of a kind survival game, Elysium.

First of all, it is important to acknowledge the fact that Kickstarter is fantastic for two reasons. The first reason is having people you have never met, heard, or talked to/of before in your life donating to a project of your own, it is a community coming together to help others. However, the second reason is the large amount of interest the website can bring to the new project in general and this interest manages to develop a good amount of backing-support with the game and gives you a sense of urgency in completing it.

First of all, it was majorly important that we took into consideration the type of game, as well as the standard of graphics and gameplay and other variables that a donation would suffice. However, we also have to insert the aspect of realism in our asking for donations. The best part of Kickstarter is that once the project has been funded, there can be extra donations placed to expand the game further. An example of this is The Dead Linger, the link is clickable. They had a very basic goal of $60,000, however this has expanded to over $140,000 due to a large interest in the game. The type of game we feel Elysium would fall into is a ‘casual and social’ game type, in which we have came across this guidance in our research: “Casual and social games have a lower development cost. The development cost of most of the games (having a development cycle of six months) is between $30,000 and $300,000’ in which we have took into close consideration.

So, with no further ado, the donation minimum we are going to ask for, for our project of Elysium, is $150,000. To further the concept of this amount, we have discovered other games on Kickstarter which have been very successful and our based around a similar aspect to that of Elysium, in which I mean the type of game. These games include:[list]
[*]Legends of Elsenwald;[*]ShadowRun Returns;[*]Grim Dawn.[/list]The three examples listed above are all asking for donations between a range of $50,000 - $400,000. However, as you can also see (and in the case of Shadow Run in particular), the asking price of $400,000 has been completely overwhelmed and managed to hit over one and a half million dollars. This, in particular, is what we hope to accomplish with Elysium.

So, to keep it brief, we feel the asking price of $150,000 is a very reasonable asking and certainly is lying in on the borderline of a realistic amount and enough to make a fantastic game for the world to enjoy playing!

As per usual, we at Elysium would like to show our gratitude to those who have donated to us as a company by offering several prizes in return. In this instance, we figured it is important to stress that the extras given out to those who donate to the project are strictly that. They are not items being sold disguised as donations; they are ‘thank yous’ for the money put towards the game. Therefore, from that, we have developed a fair system with a range of prizes, or levels of rewards, representing how much the person has donated and believe us, they get better and better, so we really hope you donate and show your interest in Elysium!

So, a donation of…

$25 will give you a first-place sneak-peek at our project and the game itself. We will allow you to download the entirety of the files for Elysium to therefore then give us your feedback for you to explain how you think the game could be improved, as we would really like to know. This is basically allowing you to ‘beta’ test Elysium.

$50 will enable us to send you a very detailed guide (or book) in order for you to receive the ‘complete experience’ from the game – no matter your location. This book will include various hints and tricks, guide you through the game, as well as how to take full advantage of the gameplay that lies before you. The donation of $50 will also include all the reward tiers beforehand.

$100 will enable you to have all of the rewards beforehand, but also, we will send you a soundtrack of all the music and effects used within Elysium, and a T-Shirt showing your support. This T-Shirt would be solely exclusive to those who donate $100 or more. Not only this however, but we will also send you a very creative artwork poster signed by the key contributors to Elysium for your bedroom wall!

$1000 will have you included in the game as one of the extra-characters on the map. This basically entails your full name (or only first if you desire) labeling one of the characters, but it gets better. The character would also follow the basis of your appearance and personality. We would be creating you as a character, or if you would prefer, we would make a character based on your suggestions – perhaps sketches – that don’t have to be you, it’s your decision! And of course, you will also receive all of the rewards mentioned previously.

$5000 worth of donations would have us flying you over to our headquarters here in London, England and touring you with the full experience of how everything works down here. This would include: meeting the man behind it all, personally creating your character (the reward beforehand) and having an opinion on some of the new additions ready to be released as soon as we are funded! It would be a day you would never, ever forget. This reward tier would also include all the rewards beforehand as well.

$10,000 is where we would combine the past two reward tiers together! Instead of simply being inserted as an extra-character on the map, you (or a character of your own imagination/creation) will be properly inserted into the plot as one of the main-parts of the storyline. The tools will pretty much be in your hands for this part! What would you like to see in a character? Also, following the same pattern, a donation of $10,000 would include all of the reward tiers before hand: $5000, $1000, $100 and $50.

If you feel like donating more than $10,000 please get into contact with us personally and we can work out further rewards to show you our true gratitude to your generous ways.

And again, thank you for donating.

On that note, this basically concludes our presentation. So, any questions are very much welcome. Thanks for reading!

My question is why is your logo spelt wrong?

It's... not?

It says "Clysium" rather than "Elysium" it looks like a C rather than E or am I being stupid?

ETA: Never mind I needed to look very closely to see it's actually an e I never seen the middle bit.

It looks like Clysium, but if you look closer you can see it is an E

Hello Katie! I can understand how it would appear to look like a 'C' due to the font style, but no, it is very much an 'E'!

I have a few questions regarding your costings.

Do you not think asking for $150,000 of donations for a completly new product is too much. I think it's very ambitious considering it would be the first product you'd put up on kickstarter and would be an unknown company there. Also if you didn't raise that amount the product wouldn't launch.

My other question is are people really going to invest $10,000 to be in a video game. I don't know anyone who would. Also you mention that if someone invested more than $10,000 you'd give them further rewards? What would this entail?

I cannot see the product on Tinypic??

Anyway I see you went for the Hunger Games type style of games. Which target market do you think this game applys for?

Hello again, Katie. Thanks for reading our pitch.

I would like to refer you to the quote in the midst of our presentation which entails the following: "The development cost of most of the games (having a development cycle of six months) is between $30,000 and $300,000’ in which we have took into close consideration." We felt it was important we really took into consideration this amount and that without a stable fund, the project could not function anyway. In fact, I would just like to refer you to the entirety of that post which basically explains your first question in a lot of detail. I have even referred to other games on Kickstarter and based it around that. In terms of Kickstarter, $150,000 doesn't seem to be that much - for example, Shadow Run collecting donations of almost $2,000,000 now. We feel a game that has the complexity as of this one, as well as the potential, would find the interest and would manage to reach the $150,000 target hopefully with ease.


In terms of your second question, if those interested in the game feel like donating this amount of money then so be it. It is common knowledge that a lot of investors and those who are very interested in the gaming market so a donation of $10,000 isn't necessarily inexistent, as I have seen it on quite a range of other projects, especially in the gaming category. However, in terms of someone investing more than $10,000, as mentioned in the midst of the presentation again, it will be up for discussion. There is no set reward for a donation of above $10,000 as it is very much so extravagant, so much so that it would most likely entail those who feel like donating as much as that would have some share in the industry itself.

Thanks for your questions.

Agree Katie $100,000 sounds too much IMO.

I also think £100,000 on a completely new development is a bit much to ask.

Wel my question was not answered so I am not happy about that but I will say it seems this teams concept is stronger and they have worked hard. I think the donations seem a bit ambitious TBH and the games target audience to me seems a little limited.

Hello!

I'm unsure as to why you can't quite view it yet - however I assure you that Zak is currently uploading the file to a different uplaod site which you will hopefully be able to view it in! Here you go!

The Hunger Games is an absolutely fantastic franchise, and as somebody who has read the books & seen the first film, I love it. However; I have always wanted something similar to the game we have due to my favourite book and film, 'Battle Royale'. Our target market would be for the biggest number of gamers which is the teenage to young adult market - the people who statiscally, play games the most.

Sorry about that, it took forever to upload the image (logo) to a different website for your benefit.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/545/zlof9f.jpg/

There you go, hopefully this works for you.

Only two of our team are currently online and we, unfortunately, are very busy at this minute but we were going down the list systemically and have reached your question already - sorry for the inconvenience and the short delay! Thank you for the compliments.

Also, to both you & soapdoctor; I can assure you that although $100,000 dollars sounds like a LOT - to develop a PC game, through research, excluding staff wages, we have determined that the average amount of investment money from this website is between $30,000 and $300,0000. Although there is no doubting that $150,000 is a massive sum of money; we feel as if there would definitely be enough interest in this game for the investers to come in. Other independent projects on the website, Kickstarter have asked for even more money and they are close to, or already have been, funded. So although it is a large sum of money, it's definitely a doable and realistic amount when it comes to the creation & development of the game - which, naturally, costs a LOT.

Thanks Satanel for the logo

I agree, I think the target audience is vast as the Hunger Games is a popular franchise. It is popular with the male and female gamer market so I think it is a good concept.

Thanks for answering my question.

You all seemed to have worked hard!!!

Thats fine

No worries. Good answer to the question too

Thank you so much once again.