Annalog Fully Funded on Kickstarter

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Independent publisher The Retro Room Games and developer mdsteele have announced that the Kickstarter campaign for Annalog has been live since yesterday and has already reached 100% of its goal.

If the next stretch goal of $12,000 is reached, the game will include extra stickers and pins for all backers who sign up for physical rewards, allowing them to show off their love for retro gaming and indie developers.

Annalog is a brand new Metroidvania adventure for the NES, inviting you to rediscover technology, reprogram machinery, and reboot civilization as you explore a sprawling world filled with mysterious lore, open-ended puzzles, and heart-pounding boss fights. Journey through an unknown post-apocalyptic landscape scattered with abandoned machines that you can freely reprogram to do your bidding, and as you uncover the story of how this high-tech civilization fell, you’ll face a defining choice: restore it or destroy it forever.

This game is already 100% finished and extensively play-tested and works on real NES hardware. The source code is open and freely available. We’re running this campaign to raise funds to publish Annalog with a complete-in-box treatment, including a physical NES cartridge and a printed manual. You can even get the original soundtrack on CD and your name in the game’s credits! Or, if you don’t want a physical cartridge, you can still get digital versions of the soundtrack and game manual, as well as early-bird access to the finished game ROM. We’d be thrilled to have your support, at any level, to help get this game into more people’s hands.

Features

• Responsive platforming, with tight controls.
• A free-form programming system, allowing you to solve each puzzle in many different ways. Overcome weaker platforming skills with superior puzzle-solving, or vice-versa!
• A polished experience, from start to finish. No lag, and no sprite flicker, even on vintage NES hardware.
• Battery-backed saved progress, with automatic saving between every room.
• Thirteen different regions to explore, each with its own environment and original music.
• Eight different bosses, each one presenting a unique challenge.
• Dozens of characters to meet, with thousands of words of in-game dialogue to advance the story.
• Fifteen upgrades and forty-five lore pages to collect.
• An extra-challenging, optional collection side-quest for the bravest players.
• Three different story endings.