After three years of development, the international team behind Alersteam is almost ready to release “Exoplanet: First Contact” to the world.
Gallup, NM | August 12, 2015 – Exoplanet: First Contact is a single player, story driven, action RPG, where protagonist Jack Sharp finds himself stranded on remote mining planet K’Tharsis. Through the story mode, Jack has to fight for survival, relying on his ever improving skills to make the right call at a moment’s notice.
Within Exoplanet, there’s a good balance between classic “shoot-em-up” style gaming, and exploration. There’s a rich set of charismatic characters to meet, many of them based on cult personalities from Western movies with their own motives and hidden secrets.
The team behind Exoplanet took their inspiration from classic games such as Fallout, TESIII Morrowind, Gothic, and the Firefly TV-series. Combining all of these, they defined Exoplanet as a space western universe, where the protagonist benefits from cybernetic augmentations and hoverbikes, but is still very reliant on his ever trusty revolver.
They developed their own proprietary game technology called the Sahara Engine to enable more flexibility. This also allows for community driven development. Gamers can improve on the game, or develop their own missions. Through the modkit, they will even be able to create their own spinoffs of the game.
As the team works to deliver Exoplanet to the public, they have taken to Kickstarter to raise $45,000 for the final stretch: Support us on Kickstarter!
