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Future Proof Games
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Transhuman Congress
"The sniper took a deep, long breath, then picked one bullet out of her case. It was labeled "Pnth-1" on the casing. There were three others in her case, but she only needed this one right now.
The Pnth models had been recognized 13 days ago as people by the Transhuman Congress, and many individuals -- this entity included -- were moving quickly to integrate themselves in human society. Like so many models before them, they quickly threw away decades of culture, of model identity, in their sick lust for humanity."
Exploit: Zero Day
- A social hacking puzzle game with cyberpunk themes and a focus on roleplaying dilemmas
- Original Exploit made about $2500 in sponsorships, not including ad revenue, and was played over 1.5 million times
- Zero Day lets you build and share puzzles in the service of mysterious story and difficult choices.
- Planned to be free to play without abusive or deceptive things to buy; that means we need lots of players
- Made in HTML5 using Phaser, Django, and Sass with Discourse as our forum
Ossuary and Greenlight
- We released Ossuary around Thanksgiving 2013
- Initially sold (for $5) through Humble Widget
- Now on Desura, IndieGameStand, and Humble Store
- Doing a Steam Greenlight campaign ( http://fpgam.es/OssGreen )
- Greenlight is weird; ~6,000 visitors in 74 days, 28% "Yes" votes, 23% of the way to the top 100
The Vision of Future Proof Games
- "We seek to create games that will remain relevant for years, decades, and centuries."
- Transhumanism inspires games that explore how people can change and what they might become
- Audacious compassion inspires games that make you empathize with the alien and the monstrous
Gregory's Style
- Dark themes with heavy story and lots of ambiguity
- Simple but deliberate visual aesthetic
- Mood and feeling as a focus of the experience
Melissa's Style
- Complex worlds with lots of available "hooks" for story
- Strong, multidimensional, memorable characters
- Mixture of light and dark themes sharing space
- Focus on users' experience
Melissa's Evolution
Gregory's Growth
- Interested in business: planning, finances, marketing
- Still working a day job: time is at a premium
- How do I develop my worlds, characters, plots into gameplay and mechanics?
- For years, did flash sponsorship: make a flash game, get money for putting in a flash portal's branding
- Supplemented by pre-game and on-page ad revenue
- Marketing is hard.
- I longed to be in control of the business process.
Future Proof Games
Who are we?
- We are Future Proof Games, Inc.
- Gregory Avery-Weir and Melissa Avery-Weir
- Gregory has released 17 web games, 2 freeware downloadable games, and a beta tabletop RPG
- Melissa has released 16 pieces of flash fiction, one free serial novel, two free web apps, and a downloadable RPG tool
- Future Proof Games has released the free "The Whispering Thing" and retail downloadable Ossuary
- Our current work in progress is Exploit: Zero Day
- FPG is self-funded and self-sustaining, but no payroll yet
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