

You’ll use Design 3D CX to design, model, and texture an (appropriate) item for Obduction! Your object will have a chance to be seen by anyone playing Obduction. As a special offer, our friends at Strata have generously offered to support the Obduction Kickstarter campaign by providing a special Myst version of their Strata Design 3D CX software ($600 value) to backers at this special reward level or above. The images in the original Myst were created using Strata 3D Software. But I’m at least confident Cyan will finish Firmament, that the game will release, that your pledge items will be fulfilled, and that Cyan won’t just take the money and disappear.NEW REWARD TIER. Does that mean Firmament will definitely be a great game? Of course not. My rule with crowdfunding these days is essentially “If they’ve proved themselves once, then why not?” and I feel like Cyan fits that bill. On the other hand, I really liked Obduction and I like Cyan. We also wrote about Cyan’s Myst Kickstarter last year, but that was more for collector’s items than a new and untested game. I can’t even tell you the last time I wrote about a video game’s crowdfunding campaign, though I suspect it was Wasteland 3 back in…2016. Kickstarter’s a much different place in 2019 than it was in 2013. But that seems doable with a mouse-and-keyboard as well, so it’s nice to know the rest of the audience won’t be left behind, if funded. You’re accompanied by a little robot which you can for instance send to a nearby power conduit by pointing, or return to your location by raising your hand. If you play in VR, Firmament’s core mechanic will probably feel more natural. Now that’s been changed to “designed for and built from the ground up to take advantage of VR,” but with multiple assertions that everything will function just fine on a traditional monitor. Last year Cyan pitched Firmament as a VR-only experience, which was interesting to me as someone who owns a few VR headsets but not perhaps the best tactic when you need to raise funds from the community. The most important change since last year: Upon release in 2020, it’s going to come to regular ol’ PCs in addition to virtual reality.
