Auro - A Monster-Bumping Adventure

[keithburgun]

Hi fellas. I'm Keith Burgun. You might know me as a frequent guest on the Roguelike Radio program, or as the creator of 100 Rogues, or perhaps more recently EMPIRE: The Deck Building Strategy Game.

Anyway I've been working on this game Auro for almost 3 years now (had a modest successful kickstarter back in 2012), and we plan on releasing it in a couple of months. I'd love to get some of you guys involved in the testing now that we're in the home stretch. Website: http://www.auro-game.com

It's a really tight tactics game about using abilities to bump monsters off the level and into the water - efficiently, which usually requires some real skill and creativity.  There's really a ton to say about the game... It's really all about synergizing these abilities in an almost rube-goldberg type way. Like, you flatten a slime, a rat walks on it and bounces into the air, landing on a bat's head, the bat gets dunked into the water, and the rat lands in fire causing an explosion, sending 2 more monsters into the drink. That sort of thing. But it also has a lot of other huge innovations, like the way we're doing the single player mode, or how we distribute skills randomly, or how we de-sync animation from gameplay (I hate waiting for animations to play out before I can make another input!), or like ten other things like that.

Here's some screens from the game in progress.











If you have an Android device or an iOS device, we'd love for you to come join us. Most of our discussion currently takes place over at the dinofarm forums here (http://www.dinofarmgames.com/forum/index.php) so I would love if people could come by there to discuss it, but if you'd like to post your thoughts here, that's OK too. Either way, I need your email address and which platform you're on if you want to check the game out. You can put that info on the Dinofarm boards, put it here as a post, or PM me with it. Looking forward to having you on board.

Here's some links:

Auro Site (INCLUDES A MANUAL!) http://www.auro-game.com

Dinofarm Forums http://www.dinofarmgames.com/forum/

Follow us on Twitter at @dinofarmgames

Thanks!

[AgingMinotaur]

Surprised this hasn't gotten any replies. FWIW, I've been keeping an interested eye on Auro for some years, and have high hopes for it. I'm probably not in the best demographics wrt being a tester, though, lacking both the time and hardware Good luck, in any case.

As always,
Mintauros