"Kingdoms of the Dump" Kickstarter Campaign Launched | SNES Inspired RPG With a Focus on Elevated Map Design, Grid-Based Combat and Timed Hits

[Dancrane212]

Kingdoms of the Dump

A SNES-styled RPG with platforming elements set in a fantasy world of trash for Windows, Mac, and Linux!

www.kickstarter.com

Kingdoms of the Dump is a game about a world of trash created by two real-life janitors. While designed to evoke the 90's JRPG flavor, we have incorporated adventure and platforming inspirations as well as modern design innovations to the genre.

The King of Garbagia has been trashpicked! Disgraced squire Dustin Binsley is blamed for the kidnapping and must embark on a mission to clear his name. Cross the Lands of Fill, uncover hidden secrets in the trash, and expose the evil organization trying to destroy the Kingdoms of the Dump!

• A narrative based game with a quick moving story and interesting world
• Jumping, climbing and other on-field skills to add to exploration and navigation
• No random encounters
• Turn based combat with a tileboard grid encouraging placement and movement
• Timed hits! (Press a key during the peak of attack animation for a critical strike)
• Quickly toggle between main characters to make use of their field moves
• A large Mode-7 inspired World Map. (Travel by land, sea, and air)
• SNES-inspired visual aesthetic with detailed environments and expressive sprites.

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Platforms are Windows, Mac and Linux only with console ports kicking in at the 80 000 stretch-goal target. The game has been in the works for a while now so it's great to see it reach this milestone.

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[RLCC14]

The Earthbound looking overworld made me go into fight or flight mode but the combat stuff looks neat.

 

[Razorrin]

This looks pretty fantastic, I hope it gets funded!

 

[Velocity:Design:Comfort]

Absolutely fantastic looking, got my backing.

 

[Lucas M. Thomas]

Love the hero design. Keeping my eye on this one.

 

[Canucked]

Super cute.

 

[Laxoon]

Are those Final Fantasy and Live-a-Live style battles I'm seeing in there? Pretty neat.

 

[Katana_Strikes]

Missed opportunity to not bring back Dusty Bin.

 

[eXistor]

It looks decent enough, but I've learned my lesson; these things almost never work out the way we want them to.

 

[Buckle]

I was in the minute I saw a playable trash can.

It looks decent enough, but I've learned my lesson; these things almost never work out the way we want them to.

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What are you talking about?

Lots of kickstarters have produced excellent games.

 

[eXistor]

What are you talking about?

Lots of kickstarters have produced excellent games.

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Some have, but lots turn out...not that great imo. I'm not kickstarting anything anymore, I've been burned too many times for various reasons. I've also learned not to instantly get hyped on a trailer alone. This looks pretty decent, but it also tells us nothing about the actual game design. I'd rather wait and see. If it's good I'll get it later on, but I'm not taking my chances.

 

[Deleted member 21709]

Very charming.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Great project. Stupid name.

 

[werezompire]

I just backed it. They've been showing good progress, what they've shown looks great, and the estimated release date is far enough away that they ought to be able to come out on time or early.

 

[Glass Arrows]

I've seen this game before on reddit. It looks quite a bit better than most kickstarter projects for the genre, with a much more original and humorous hook to it.

 

[1upsuper]

I've seen this game before. Looks really good to me.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Finally we know what Hiroyuki Ito has been working on

 

[RPGam3r]

I will support if they hit the console goal. No consoles out the gate is suboptimal for me. Excited though to see if they make it.

 

[Etrian Darkness]

I'm down

 

[sir_crocodile]

I backed it because the amount of work already put in seems significant.

It's a risk though, in that the people leading the project have zero experience (and I'm not sold that $60K pays for 3 years of a programmer + Art/Music, I guess they will have to put more of their own money into this, but they have obviously been doing that already). But yeah, given the pre-kickstarter progress I'm happy to take the risk.

 

[Mudo]

Holy shit this looks SO. GOOD!!
I really want the $100 tier for the SNES box and physical instruction manual. Gonna think on it.
Estimated release is over 2 years out and I always worry about abandoned kickstarters when they are really far out and small goals...

 

[Xavi]

This instantly sold me. I miss my games with an overworld and ships! Backed.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

The "Mode-7 world map with mountains depicted as 2D sprites" reminds me of Yoshi's Island

 

[Akelisrain]

Just backed it. I can dig it.

 

[Deleted member 5621]

The music in the trailer 👌
If this manages to be to turn/party based SNES RPGs what CrossCode is for action SNES RPGs, I am so very in. Hard not to draw the comparison with those platforming scenes/jumping around the town gifs.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

The music in the trailer 👌

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And Secret of Mana's Hiroki Kikuta is a stretch goal!

 

[Deleted member 5621]

Ooooooooooh boy!

 

[AuthenticM]

Weird. I thought this game had a kickstarter campaign around three years ago.

 

[Buckle]

Weird. I thought this game had a kickstarter campaign around three years ago.

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Same.

I thought I had already seen it before.

 

[Glass Arrows]

Weird. I thought this game had a kickstarter campaign around three years ago.

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They've posted about this game elsewhere before, I remember seeing it on reddit 2-3 years ago. I don't think there was a kickstarter though.

 

[Heretic Kazuma]

Cautiously optimistic about this. I want this to succeed because I love everything I see and hear; but a single programmer, no producer to keep the team on task, and their overall lack of experience (aka, previously released games) are flags for me, nonetheless.

I've been proven wrong before though, and will gladly eat crow to see this release.

Edit: Typos galore...

 

[Weebos]

I'll keep an eye on it and see if the console stretch goals are hit.

 

[BlueManifest]

They've posted about this game elsewhere before, I remember seeing it on reddit 2-3 years ago. I don't think there was a kickstarter though.

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It's been in development for 3 years and is just now starting Kickstarter? So 3 more years until release then?

 

[werezompire]

It's been in development for 3 years and is just now starting Kickstarter? So 3 more years until release then?

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The Estimated Delivery Time for the rewards is Oct 2022 so yep.

 

[ILikeFeet]

It's been in development for 3 years and is just now starting Kickstarter? So 3 more years until release then?

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games take a long time to make

 

[Elven_Star]

Looks great. Unfortunate name.

 

[Deleted member 28523]

I'm super excited for this game! I've been following it for a long time. Some of the music they've been posting has been great.

 

[Manatron]

I've been following this since last summer and I'm super excited. 2022 seems like a lifetime away, but I'm still hype.

 

[Don Fluffles]

They've got some good tunes on YouTube. Looking forward to it.

 

[AppleKid]

First kickstarter I'll have backed since Yooka-laylee.

2022 though... 😭

 

[AuthenticM]

William Kage is a guest composer. I just listened to a bunch of his stuff, and he's very good.

 

[werezompire]

Less than a day in and it's already over 30% funded with about $20k/$60k raised.

 

[ILikeFeet]

Looks great. Unfortunate name.

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No, the name is perfect. What else could you use that encapsulates the world of trash?

 

[Burt]

Found out about this on Twitter the day before it launched, backed it immediately. Glad to see it doing well. Getting solid Super Mario RPG vibes with the timed hits and environmental platforming.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

William Kage is a guest composer. I just listened to a bunch of his stuff, and he's very good.

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William Kage is awesome! I love his original Chrono Trigger music:

 

[C.Mongler]

Man, I really dislike Kickstarting games, but I'm tempted here I will admit.

 

[UF_C]

Why should I help fund this? It's only going to get picked up by a publisher, get a hat full of money, and become exclusive with little to no care for the folks who made it all possible.

 

[werezompire]

Why should I help fund this? It's only going to get picked up by a publisher, get a hat full of money, and become exclusive with little to no care for the folks who made it all possible.

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Because that happens ALL the time with indie retro-style JRPGs. /s

 

[Deleted member 4494]

Looks great. My days of backing games on Kickstarter are over, but I will pick up the game when or if it releases on the developer's terms.

 

[Andrew J]

Looks neat. Backed at the $50 tier.