Eight Virtues (http://www.eightvirtues.com) is seeking public funds for the development of Sanctimonia, a multiplayer online game focusing on the building blocks of societies, the beauty and perils of the natural world and arcade style real-time combat. Sanctimonia hopes to reconcile the opposing gameplay mechanics of total freedom and gameplay restrictions to alleviate “griefing” by enabling real-world societal behavior such as the cooperative implementation and enforcement of laws. This will facilitate the creation of simple governments, including constitutions, bills of rights, police, trade law and inter-village diplomacy.
Features:
• Real-time arcade-style gamepad-optimized gameplay.
• Orientation rotation, strafing, circle strafing, hand-to-hand and missile combat as basic movements.
• Detailed building construction using acquired natural resources (no pre-fab buildings; complete player control). Players may collaborate to clear fields and forests or flatten mountain tops to build small villages, castles or grand walled cities.
• Create group organizations, vote, write legal documents, post public signs and assign duties. Players may create tightly or loosely regulated societies, writing and enforcing whatever laws they choose.
• Ability to knock opponents unconscious, bind them and move them, allowing for more subtle justice than simply killing an offender.
• Fully-customizable offline player AI, whether choosing a basic AI template or plotting a detailed weekly schedule with movement paths and other-player interactions.
• Hunting, mining, skilled trades, buying, selling, trading, contracts.
• Harvesting, using and combining natural resources with themselves or other objects to create new objects including food, medicine, poison, tools, weapons, building materials and works of art.
• Confining, breeding and slaughtering livestock.
• Planting seeds, watering, and adding compost to the soil to nurture crops to fruition.
• Landscape excavation for construction, farming or defense.