A world destroyed by nuclear war...
A conspiracy to free mankind by all means necessary...
A young farmboy trying to avenge his father's death...
A mysterious amulet that may be the key to many secrets...
A guitarist in search of the greatest song in the world...

Welcome to the world of Götterdämmerung




In the year 2012, a series of unexplained terrorist attacks pushes the world into nuclear war; civilization as we know it is completely destroyed. The war's few survivors gather in small villages and struggle against famine and disease. In the following decades, six charismatic leaders appear in various parts of the globe and begin shaping new civilizations from the ruins. It does not take long before these new empires start to fight among each other, and new wars break out.
Slowly, gradually, the new empires learn to live with each other; today, one hundred years after the nuclear war, the world lives in a fragile peace.
In the trading post of Dikea, on the southern border of the Saharan desert, a young boy grows up in a peaceful culture of farmers who shun any technology that is not absolutely necessary for growing crops. When a mysterious flying object falls into his father's cabbage patch, his life is suddenly about to become a lot more interesting...

Features:
* Drive cars and tanks, fly fighter planes and airships
* Discover various minigames hidden throughout the game world
* Travel around the world through seven distinct areas
* More than 50 hours playtime
* Soundtrack by Moreno, Fastmono and Portinari.
* Projected release date: Sometime in 2010
* Engine: RPGMaker XP




Characters
You are Marduk, a 16-year-old farmboy who is bored with life in his village and dreams of growing up to become a rock star, or at least a smuggler like his best friend Sheena.

Sheena has grown up in the neighbouring village; she is two years older than Marduk and constantly taunts him for being a stupid, useless farmboy who doesn't know anything about the world. Despite this, the two are the best friends you could imagine.

Marduk's father does not like Sheena; he doesn't like that she's a smuggler, he doesn't like her monstrous car, he doesn't like that Marduk spends time with her instead of learning how to become a farmer, and most of all he doesn't like that she's fond of using all sorts of technology - because the way of the farmer is one of being in tune with nature, not of fiddling around with machinery.

Demo released now!
Updated demo version 1.4 is available now on defaultgames.de.

*Play in one area of the world (out of a total of seven areas in the finished game)
*Provides at least two hours playing time
*Download size: 30MB




Demo download, Screenshots etc
See the default games website for more info.

Sounds interesting, downloading this one.

The game looks very great
I like to download it

I'll download it later ^^ (my dad says no now )

The story plot seems interesting, but i guess your map need more improvement....

Delphinus, you should play it first, before saying something about the mapping from 2 or 3 screenies.

cant wait to download it

There is now an updated Demo (Version 1.1) available for download.

Changes/Fixes:
*Fixed an annoying crash bug in the tutorial where the game would crash when you tried to equip the assault rifle
*Fixed various map/shadow issues
*Added music to the second father scene
*Added visible corpses for all enemies
*Tweaked balancing for the first enemies you encounter in the jungle

Unfortunately, saved games from version 1.0 will no longer work in version 1.1...

I just wanted to say, I definitely think this game has tons of potential! The demo was great, and I really enjoy the modern/rock theme! Can't wait 'till January

Thanks, glad you liked the game's atmosphere! If you like the rock'n'roll theme, I think you will enjoy the next area after the demo once the full game is released

X3 Sounds cool! I like rock'n'roll too, but I don't listen too often. >>;

Here are a couple new screenshots of stuff I've been building recently:



Lost in the caves



Unlock the amulet's secret!



Go diving in the ocean!



Find creative ways of fooling those pesky Marauders!



Win the lottery!



This will most probably not appear in the game for copyright reasons, but as my main aim is to bring the spirit of Rock'n'Roll to RPGs, I had some fun with creating a couple of album covers like this

I just uploaded an updated version of the demo, there is now music everywhere (added music to the tutorial and the starting city). Download it here.

Awesome! Keep it up Sven. Now I have 2 things to look forward to in January, Aveyond and Gotterdamerung!

So Sven, how come you didn't post those screenshots on the games forum?

The screens you don't know yet are from the latest beta version, I posted them here after uploading the last beta. I'll probably update the screenshots section on the site in the next couple of days.

I have uploaded yet another updated demo, available for download from http://defaultgames.de/download.html. New stuff in version 1.3 includes:



Facesets, finally.



A new shop dialog that shows armor stat changes at a glance.

Plus tons of map fixes and small improvements here and there...

A couple new screenshots:



The Underground city of Ghehenna



Bridge over the city



Japanese Village



A new minigame



Tattoo parlor

At this point, it's becoming obvious that I won't be able to release the game in January, as initially planned - but the game will be released in a couple of short months, and it will be worth the wait

This is looking great! Good luck with your release!

Wow, this game seems really interesting and the screenshots look great. Not to mention the cool features. ^^ I'll give it a shot asap.

I just spent the weekend adding mouse support and completely redesigning the GUI, here's what it looks like:



New title screen



Faceset selector. Faceset 2 still needs some polishing and has a couple missing faces, that's the main reason there is no updated demo yet. I will upload an updated demo as soon as I have all the final faces for faceset 2...



The new layout for the quests system



The save/load screen now shows a screenshot of the selected savegame in the background (plus, there's a warning now before you overwrite an existing savegame...I've lost lots of savegames because the games I played didn't have this feature, seems rather obvious to have that )



The new look for the ingame menu



New features for the worldmap, speaking of which...



...this is what the world map looks like now, with clouds and a more uniform color palette.