Matteius Posted April 5, 2021 Posted April 5, 2021 FCR is always looking for volunteer contributors. The project is being created in unity, and we are always looking for those interested in game development, writing, art, or anyone else who feels they have the time and passion to make a meaningful contribution. Most readily we need 3d modelers and animators. Volunteers can reach us via the #volunteer channel in discord. As a note, FCR is being custom built from the ground up: We are still developing back end systems ad the game currently is not available or playable. Discord: https://discord.gg/S7NQTQb Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MatteiusDev The world is crumbling around us. The greed of humanity has led to a world where only a microscopic percentage of people hold virtually all of the world's wealth. Governments around the world have become little more than legitimization organizations to the corporations who have bought all vestiges of power. The average person is seen as little more than part of the market segment, their value measured in intensely precise algorithms balancing their work output and spending value. Standard education is dead; only the upper echelons of society have the luxury to learn freely, while the masses are educated using incredibly specialized work programs supplemented with propaganda. "Extreme Weather" has been accepted as the ecological normal now for decades, and it seems each year is competing with those before it to be the most extreme. For a time, humanity started working together to combat the changing climate. But those efforts were ultimately sabotaged when no profitable plan of action could be agreed upon by the concerned. Between governmental corruption, corporate greed, growing international distrust, and a global rise in autocratic leaders preying on growing public fear and anxiety, what little change was actually enacted proved to be far too little, and much too late. Human population was expected to peak back in the 21st century, but as life started getting harder, population growth instead sped up. As we enter the year 2107, the world's population is estimated to have reached 11.2 billion. Over the last 30 years, agriculture has been decimated by storms, heat waves, and rapidly expanding arid zones. Even the highest estimates project that relying solely on traditional agriculture could only produce enough food to feed 1.5 billion. The corporations have picked up the slack with their massive factory farms and synthetic meat plants. Human survival has become inextricably dependent on these powerful entities. In the end it hardly matters as humanity is entirely doomed. Projections in the year 2093 stated that within 150 years the environment of the planet will become so hostile that the vast majority of life on the planet will die. Since then, the projections have been steadily more dire every year. All life on Earth suddenly had a rapidly approaching expiration date. As always, those who have amassed power cling to it, using all the influence their wealth and power can wield. A number of projects were kicked off to try and save their tyrannies, and much of the wealthiest have given up on Earth. Many retreated to the Atlas, which is best described as a self-sustaining mega-yacht in space, which now travels a meandering voyage through the solar system with all the luxuries their wealth could afford them. There are a number of extra-planetary projects that were started, or expanded, to ensure some survive. The Earth's two lunar bases, established in the latter half of the 2050’s with all the flair of a fad neighborhood, have now been stuffed beyond safe capacity, housing a combined 6,000 people. The Green Mars project, which was the first successful colonization effort on Mars was rapidly expanded upon in a mass exodus. Its population has swelled from 2,500 to nearly 30,000 in only a decade. Lastly the Genesis Project, spearheaded by a partnership between the Catholic Church and the EU launched five ships out of the solar system. These massive generation ships are each headed on a one-way journey to top candidate planets for human habitation, and contain nearly 2,500 people each. The last Genesis ship left earth orbit just last year. While these grand space projects inspire humanity, and manage to save the humans as a race, they do little to help the dying planet. The most recent projections in fact show that we are expected to approach the collapse within 102 years. There are countless projects now to build bunkers and other hardened, self sustaining shelters, but the most promising of these is the Free Cities project. Designed by the same geniuses who organized the Genesis Project, The Free Cities Project is an open-source blueprint to building an Arcology — a massive and self sustaining building which furnishes everything humans need to survive and possibly even flourish. There are now dozens of Free Cities variations designed by the finest that remain on Earth, and over a hundred build sites around the world. You refused to give up. You refused to escape. You refused to be a sheep. You now find yourself the leader of one such new Arcology. This is your story. What is Free Cities: Rebirth? Free Cities: Rebirth (FCR) is intended as a spiritual successor to Free Cities. It is a completely new game with completely new assets, being built in the Unity engine. FCR is intended to expand on the idea that was Free Cities, and by no means will be a clone of the game. FCR will be a largely text based game built on branching story narratives, Arcology Management, with slaves (optionally: without slaves), a wide range of character customization and surgeries, diplomacy and military events, and a whole lot of sex. FCR will follow the development of your Arcology as you prepare the collapse, your struggle to make it through a collapsed world, and finally your efforts to rebuild humanity on a planet beginning to normalize. FCR will contain all new systems for building, research, warfare, and Arcology management. This includes an integrated corporate system, comprehensive planning, building, and upgrading of Arcology components, and a deep research system that will allow a wide array of development both in cyborg enhancements and genetic editing, including cross species hybridization, and synthetic brains. While still primarily a text driven game, FCR will have: A 3D Earth based overview map. 3D character models. Additional UI and Environmental art. How Will You Shape Humanity? In Free Cities: Rebirth the future of the human race has become all but certain, and the very fabric of humanity is in your hands. As the leader of one of the last bastions of the human race, you are in a unique position to shape what humanity will become. The Arcology is yours to oversee, but how will you best govern those who submit themselves to your care? Will you choose to be a merciful ruler, a maniacal tyrant, or a genocidal warlord? Who do you entrust to help you steer society? Should religion be embraced and exploited for your benefit, or outlawed as a barbaric tradition? How will you enact justice and order in a world bent on chaos? In this crumbling world it is in your hands to decide how to keep the Arcology surviving, and prosperous. You will be given the opportunity to forge a society that will shape the lives of all those who live under you. Will you let those you rule enjoy freedom to live their lives as they see fit, or will you enforce strict restrictions upon them? Will you force genetic changes on your citizens to adapt them to survive, strip your populace of access to technology, or implant control chips in the heads of everyone? How will you decide what rights people have, and which policies will keep people alive in a world that has become hostile to human life? What is it that makes us human? In Free Cities: Rebirth you have the ability to direct scientific goals and the power to make change on a large scale. Would you engineer imperfections out of the human genome? Would you research and embrace cybernetic enhancements that blur the line between man and machine? Perhaps you would invest in genetic manipulations, modifying the very building blocks of the human species? Maybe even leave our bodies of flesh behind. How would you decide the best path for the human species? Will FCR support mods? FCR is being built from the ground up with mod support in mind. Mod development will be quite welcomed and encouraged. We will not host or provide technical support mods, mod usage will be at players own discretion, and mod authors will be responsible for providing any support. When will FCR be available? When it is ready. While we would love to be able to provide a concrete timeline, FCR is developed entirely by a team of volunteers. FCR Update (03/08/21) February was a good month for Free Cities: Rebirth. We are working hard to get the first playable version of the game ready for testing, and more of our systems are shaping up. Our body system has been designed from the ground up to allow a dynamic, and easily expandable character system. The body system supports an incredible range of customization of both the player character, and NPCs. This will allow creation of characters that are unique, and varied. Whether it be an elven cyborg, a centaur with a missing arm, a living brain in a jar, or a completely average human janitor named Bob; the body system is capable of handling creation, augmentation, and mutation of almost anything. What good is a variable body system however if all characters behave like one cardboard cutout? For just this reason we have worked to create a dynamic mental system that will drive characters actions and choices, as well as define their abilities. With the new mind system, characters have a wide array of mental traits that define their strengths, weaknesses, and personality. Partnered with our open skill system we aim to create characters that have their own personalities, reactions, abilities, and desires. The goal is for each character to feel as unique as possible, fulfilling different roles within your Arcology, and ultimately drive the success, and the story of your arcology. Arcologies in Free Cities: Rebirth are perhaps not what you imagine. The massive open source city-structures are hardened to withstand the mightiest storms, with completely enclosed transportation systems to allow people to quickly get around. Each arcology is designed to meet all the needs of those living within them, and it will be up to you to determine exactly how to best keep your people alive and thriving. Your arcology will be made up of many zones, allowing you to allot space to all sorts of needs and projects. Update from the Coding Team We worked on setting up the backend foundation for our gameplay and character systems. The largest part of this being our game manager, game instancing and code modules systems. The code module system allows us to add/remove/change content in the future without needing to rewrite large parts of our game. A large part of the foundational work on the character/body systems has been completed. Every person in the game world is represented as an entity. Functionally there is no difference between a player character’s body and an NPCs which should have when developing new content. The body system itself supports custom body types and body parts, allowing for the possibility of cyborgs, centaurs or any other weird wacky thing you can think of. Update from the Writing Team On the writing front we’ve been developing the broader world of FCR, designing the political and climate environments, and what dangers or opportunities the player might encounter. We have been developing the various NPC factions’ goals and ideologies, to best construct a world that feels responsive. We have begun creating several storylines centering on these factions, that will become some of the potential storylines a player may find themselves involved in. We’ve also been busy writing various minor events you might encounter in your day to day business, and we have created several special punishment events and slave acquisition opportunities. Update from the Art Team A number of our art assets are coming along in their development. Our main 3D modeler has created a model of the Arcology. Several components of this have already been textured as well. Models have been created for both male and female humans, and are also part way through texturing. Additionally one of our unique characters (Hare Trigger) has been grey boxed and unwrapped for texturing. Our secondary grey boxed rabbit ears, and is working on a system for rapid creation of outfits. The game UI has been completely redesigned to have a better feel, and to better align to the artistic vision for the game. The new UI is designed around a glass panel theme, and the in-game UI has been completely re-conceptualized to allow for a better game experience. Corporation Naming Competition We had six judges going through the list of submissions and scoring them. The winner, BlackMage27 has been notified and received his prize. The 10 highest rated Corporation names were: Dying Earth Bioconservation Echo Deep Mining Co. Pavlov Psychoengineering Cosmos Cosmetics Oracle News Brotherhood Of Mars Carbonhill Mining Co. Elven Works Girl Next Door Adoption Services Bredwell Inc.
cdw900 Posted April 20, 2021 Posted April 20, 2021 Ah yes... Free cities... My favorite HTML text game... Glad to see someone trying to revive its glory.
hewhocumsbynight Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 Well, I've been enjoying the FC Pregmod lately, so my interest in FC style games is pretty stoked. Best of luck with your project.
Ronnie21093 Posted May 8, 2021 Posted May 8, 2021 3 hours ago, hewhocumsbynight said: Well, I've been enjoying the FC Pregmod lately, so my interest in FC style games is pretty stoked. Best of luck with your project. Same. If this has all the stuff FC Pregmod had and more, I'd be down to playing.
GTKHLK1st Posted May 29, 2021 Posted May 29, 2021 Best of Luck.., Game has always had potential.., and tbh.., its the Kinda Game that can span many related genre..,(like base, strategy, tactics, and World/land/etc/building) but ill keep this followed.., best of luck as others said.., ill keep an Eye on it while i have the Modded Original going on an alt elsewhere..,
Sosina Posted May 31, 2021 Posted May 31, 2021 I have never played Freecities not even sure where I could DL it now to give it a try >.> but from what I have read this seems promising
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