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''Traction Edge'' is top down squad fighting game with roguelike mechanics. You choose agents and their equipment for each map then proceed to kill everything that moves. Current version features three fixed levels to fight through.
''Traction Edge'' is top down squad fighting game with roguelike mechanics and a steampink theme. You choose agents and their equipment for each map then proceed to kill everything on the opposing side. Current version features three fixed levels to fight through.


== Story ==
== Story ==


Pulled from the comfortable surroundings of your village constabulary and recruited into a shadowy government agency, you are drawn into an inexplicable mystery of disappearing townsfolk and strange sentient mechanical contraptions. Slowly you uncover a sinister plot that appears to have no aim nor instigators. Who is behind these atrocities in Victorian England? and what actually is the Traction Edge?
Pulled from the comfortable surroundings of your village constabulary and recruited into a shadowy government agency, you are drawn into an inexplicable mystery of disappearing townsfolk and strange sentient mechanical contraptions. Slowly you uncover a sinister plot that appears to have no aim nor instigators. Who is behind these atrocities in Victorian England? and what is the Traction Edge?


== Features ==
== Features ==


Implemented;
Major Features Implemented
* Steampunk setting
* Squad based Xcom-style combat with roguelike elements
* Story driven static maps
* Destructable terrain
* Reaction fire


Planned;
* Fully destructable terrain
* Skill based progression system
* Ranged weapons
* Procedural maps interspersing the story arc
* Reaction Fire
* Skill system
* FSM AI Framework
Planned
 
* Melee
* Procedural Maps
* XP spend and skill progression
* Tech tree and research system
* Tech tree and research system
* Item interaction


== Development ==
== Development ==


Traction Edge was first released for [[2010 ARRP]] for MacOSX and Linux source. Closed systems are now abandoned and development is for open source systems only.
Traction Edge was last released for [[ARRP]] 2011. It is distributed as source only and requires cmake and SFML 1.6 to build.

Revision as of 09:56, 18 September 2011

Traction Edge
Alpha Project
Developer Mongrol
Theme Steampunk
Influences UFO/Xcom
Released 19th September 2010
Updated
Licensing GPLv3
P. Language C++
Platforms Linux
Interface
Game Length
Official site of Traction Edge


Traction Edge is top down squad fighting game with roguelike mechanics and a steampink theme. You choose agents and their equipment for each map then proceed to kill everything on the opposing side. Current version features three fixed levels to fight through.

Story

Pulled from the comfortable surroundings of your village constabulary and recruited into a shadowy government agency, you are drawn into an inexplicable mystery of disappearing townsfolk and strange sentient mechanical contraptions. Slowly you uncover a sinister plot that appears to have no aim nor instigators. Who is behind these atrocities in Victorian England? and what is the Traction Edge?

Features

Major Features Implemented

  • Fully destructable terrain
  • Ranged weapons
  • Reaction Fire
  • Skill system
  • FSM AI Framework

Planned

  • Melee
  • Procedural Maps
  • XP spend and skill progression
  • Tech tree and research system
  • Item interaction

Development

Traction Edge was last released for ARRP 2011. It is distributed as source only and requires cmake and SFML 1.6 to build.