Beta phase for text-based title just step one in giant Kickstarter and Discord competition adventure.
July 11, 2022
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Author: Heiress Software
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 JULY 2022
Wade Clarke
Heiress Software
Sydney, Australia – July 11, 2022 – Heiress Software today announced that their upcoming sci-fi text adventure Andromeda Acolytes for PC, Mac and Linux, is going to a Steam beta test and then Kickstarter via a series of Discord competitions.
The Andromeda Acolytes Discord server is hosting three weeks of newbie-welcoming text-adventuring challenges across several games, with Steam and itch.io prizes up for grabs – all adventure, RPG or interactive fiction titles. Everyone in the Discord can collect a Steam key for the four-day Andromeda Acolytes closed beta, which will be followed immediately by the Kickstarter.
Wade Clarke of Heiress Software said he hopes to see lots of gamers who know nothing about text adventures showing up on the Discord. "Like with any genre of game, you first have to learn how to play it," Wade explained. "I've set up varied and graduated competitions to make this fun and easy. In the 1980s, all computer gamers knew how to play text adventures. Once the genre stopped being a big commercial concern, that common knowledge faded, but the games never stopped evolving. If I want a wide base of testers and backers for Andromeda Acolytes, I need to build the skills of potential players. I hope a side effect is that they might get into the wider universe of interactive fiction."
Join the comp action and sign up for the beta test by hopping onto the Discord server (https://discord.gg/X4yJWVCGHy) and picking a team – MC, Remotes or Phadra. Wade’s video (visible in the Discord) demonstrating the Andromeda Acolytes Discord and how to play in the competitions can be viewed at this link: https://youtu.be/L8jOUOA7oiI
About Andromeda Acolytes
In the Andromeda galaxy, humanity doesn't know why it is on the planet Monarch or how it got there. When an underwater accident in Monarch Harbour awakens a strange power, four very different women are drawn into each other's orbit, and into a race towards the mysteries of Monarch's origins. Players take the role of all four heroines as they negotiate underwater mechs, AIs, abandoned cities, crime, friendship, suspense, horror, humour, an art exhibition, virtual realities and a tank. This is a prose gaming experience offering all the inner-world power of a novel plus the fine-grained world and puzzle engagement of gaming. The only graphics are in the automap.
Links & Media
Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1742310/Andromeda_Acolytes/
Kickstarter pre-launch page
Discord
Media Contact
Contact Wade at [email protected]
About Heiress Software
Heiress Software is Wade Clarke's interactive fiction label. Its first release was the 2015 horror title Leadlight Gamma.
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