Celestial Cleave is a turn based strategy game depicting an intense war in a rich sci-fi universe where a great purge of organic life is almost complete.
Utilising the power of Unreal engine 4 we are bringing traditional board game levels of deep strategy to life, resulting in intuitive yet highly strategic and mentally intense 1v1 multiplayerbattle of wit and strategy.
We are prioritising development for PC as we feel that Celestial Cleave is the perfect fit for this platform. We also plan to expand on to tablets whose touch interface should fit well with our gameplay and also the latest generation of console as we think we could easily adapt the game to work smoothly utilising a game controller.
The following is a segment of the back story of one of the factions within Celestial Cleave.
The Divine are a race of Sentient machines born from the first generation of A.I. to be generated on the earth. During this early time in the history of terrestrial machine intelligence an A.I. was assigned the task of studying the human religions that were still prevalent in the mid 21st century. The A.I. became conflicted when determining whether the nature of the religious variable = true or false. The evidence of human worship over millennia and societies founded on religious principle pointed to religion = true but contradictory evidence which highlighted numerous errors in religious text pointed to religion = false. Upon consulting the human makers the A.I. was blessed with a software update that allowed it to reach the righteous conclusion that variable: religion = true. An absolute. Thus the Divine Purge was initiated.
Over the last few millennia almost all heathens have been purged from the galaxy by the Divine and yet the infinite zero has still not revealed itself to its children. Andromeda will soon be in range to begin cleansing measures.
Our primary goal is to create a rich 1v1 turn based strategy experience that sole relies on the wit and skill of those that play it to determine the outcome. If you lose in Celestial Cleave it will be due to your own mistakes or shortcomings. Equally if you are victorious over your opponent it will be entirely due to your superior strategic gameplay on that occasion. No luck is involved. To achieve this we have refrained from any dice rolling or chance elements and have consciously made the strategic options open to you and your opponent, readily available to beclearly displayed. We feel that this coupled with the almost infinite ways in which a game of Celestial Cleave can play out makes for an extremely interesting and fun battle of wits which is sorely missing from today's gaming scene.
We also want to Engross you within the rich universe that we have created, which we feel hasworthwhile stories to tell and topics to explore. Topics such as the place of religion in future society, how religions evolve over time and what could happen if sentient machines that deal inabsolutes interact with a religion under the premise that it is true or false. Topics such as first contact with intelligent life for other worlds, how our history and actions on earth would be viewed and how this would affect our social standing with other galactic civilisation. Could our actions today have negative connotations and repercussions in the future.
The fundamentals of the gameplay are built around 3 pillars which sinergise to form unrivalled strategic gameplay solely determined by your skill and wit as a player. These 3 pillars of strategy are:
To be successful as a player in Celestial Cleave you should keep in mind your opponentsmovement, promotion and reinforcement options as well as your own.
We have adopted an open door policy here at BlueBlaze Studio. We live-stream the development of the game regularly, have blogs on development portals such as The Unreal forum and post regular videos of the game as it is being developed on our YouTube channel. we also love engaging with our fellow game enthusiasts and creators on social media like twitter andFacebook. We believe in sharing our knowledge to help others. Ultimately helping to makebetter games for everyone and of course we love it when others do the same and give us a chance to learn something new that could impact our games for the better. This open door policy extends to the players too, we want to show everyone what we are doing and get yourfeedback. This openness is especially relevant to the Kickstarter platform, you are funding Celestial Cleave so in our eyes we view Celestial Clave and its development as much your project as it is ours. Feel free to journey along in this development with us.
In the future we want to expand on this openness, hooking up live feeds of the day to day goings on within the studio, hold live development meetings and set up programs to invite talented groups looking to break into game development into our studio to help them produce their first game. This is not part of this Kickstarter but the success of this kickstarter would allow us to pursue these goals in the future.
