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Tesla 2040 — Development Story

“Power to the people" — John Lenon, 1971

Nikola Tesla was about to finish his Wardenclyffe experiment when saw that his laboratory is being destroyed…

Life of Tesla was covered with mystery: Tunguska event, Colorado springs glowing fields and unfinished Wardenclyffe experiment on transmitting power world-wide through Æther.

Play Nikola Tesla alternate story based game:

1900 Victorian-Punk and 2040 Sci-fi setting

Dynamic Tactical Top-Down shooter gameplay

Co-op multiplayer up to 4 players

Research system

Time-attack gameplay opportunity: The faster you finish levels, the more bonus time you can spend on research

Complete missions for different corporations unlock and research futuristic technologies and abilities.

Destructible environment

Become the Prometheus of 21 century or one of the richest people, it’s up to you!

…And don’t forget your lightning WHIP!

We are indie game development team from Odessa, Ukraine. We came up with idea of making game on Nikola Tesla alternate story, because it was quite surprising for us that there are no games where you can play Nikola Tesla as protagonist.

We’re trying to keep as close as possible to all stuff that could be reconstructed from rare photos because we’re both excited and inspired with life of Tesla and everything connected with it.

Wardenclyffe Laboratory, 1900

Second level is Streets of New York:

Main Menu is also modeled using old photos:

We started from prototype made with Unity 5:

And he had daaaamn Harlem posture:

but when we saw features that Unreal Engine provides out of the box we decided to work further with Unreal Engine 4.

Everything present in first video was made in 9 weeks in free time(after the work day mostly) before DevGAMM 2017 in Moscow by two people, without any experience in UE4. We were using free assets but now we already got two levels and main menu scenes built on our own original assets from scratch. On DevGamm we were showing our teaser video to different people, collecting feedback. Few days after we showed our teaser at local gamedev community meetup and after that presentation 3D Artist decided to join our team.

So we are:

Max Kucherenko - CEO/UE4 Developer. 6 years of commercial experience as Android/Java Developer

Alexey Karazhey - CTO/UE4 Developer. 7 years in commercial gamedev experience. Unity mostly

Nick Slezko - 3D Artist / Game Designer. 2 years experience

Ilya Pavlov - 2D Artist. Making concept art and some art for trailer

Currently we’re implemented prototype and working on playable demo version to participate in showcases. Btw we’ve just returned from DevGamm 2017 at Minsk, Belarus.

Our stand at DevGamm 2017 at Minsk, Belarus

We’re planning to finish our game in 2018, but it depends on investments.

Currently we’re looking for funder/investor, but we’ll appreciate any kind of support. Even your feedback matters!

This is what we have at the moment:

Here’s our short DevBlog:

25 Feb 2017 — Basics

09 Mar 2017 — Weapons, HP bars, gameplay experiments

16 Mar 2017 — Outline effect

20 Mar 2017 —Level design

29 Mar 2017 — Tesla character WIP, Mixamo animations

04 Apr 2017 — Sample Tesla tower, lightnings!

27 Apr 2017 — More level design, walls+roof hiding, shields, AI

02 May 2017 — Cutscenes, skybox, demo video

12 May 2017 — Concept Artist joined our team

18 Jun 2017 — Level 1 built on original assets from scratch

30 Sep 2017 — Level 2

16 Nov 2017 — DevGamm 2017 at Minsk Showcase