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Artizens is an upcoming co-op platformer with a focus on customization and creativity. Typically, a gamer is limited to the equipment presets, and high-level characters often look nearly identical. The team at Artizens, Inc. wanted to change things up a bit, and give players the chance to create their own weapons and armor.
Players have workshops where they create gear for their characters by uploading photos or drawing them themselves. For those not as confident with their artistic skills, you can choose from various presets and gear created by other players from around the world. Once you decide on your equipment, you can mix them however you want, and share them with other players. If you’re not keen on sharing your personalizations with the community, there will be a feature to make your character’s gear invisible to everyone except for you. There won’t be moderation on new uploads, but there will be options for flagging inappropriate or fraudulent items.
Artizens isn’t just about customization though - the developers also wanted to create a different style of gameplay inspired by games like Monster Hunter and Magic: The Gathering. In each mission, players and their companions are called to battle through numerous arenas in pursuit of the stage’s boss. Your skill rank will increase with each mission you complete, but the difficulty of the next mission will increase as well. If you lose a mission, your rank will go down and the missions will get easier. To keep things fresh and challenging, the missions are semi-randomly generated, and playing on a harder difficulty level will yield greater rewards.
Purchasing the game will give you 10,000 shines, the in-game currency. With the currency, players can buy additional content at the trading post, as well as in-game expansions. Shines can also be purchased with real currency, or earned by selling your content to other players. For those not interested in selling items, there will be an à là carte system for acquiring new monsters, missions, and crafts.
Artizens, Inc. plans on releasing monthly expansions in the form of new monsters, crafts and mods. In addition to co-op, there are plans for a friends system as well as an online matchmaking feature. The team also plans to release frequent updates to improve player experience and to continuously add new content.
As of early February, Artizens has nearly reached its Kickstarter goal, and the alpha release is anticipated for July 2013. Artizens will be available for Windows, Mac and Linux, and the team hopes that there will also be future support for Steam.