{"id":2247,"date":"2017-04-04T18:31:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wannabe-studios.com\/2017\/04\/la-nascita-di-astralis\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T12:36:47","slug":"the-conception-of-astralis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wannabe-studios.com\/en\/2017\/04\/the-conception-of-astralis\/","title":{"rendered":"The conception of Astralis"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]My name is Marco Cavicchioli<\/strong> and it’s with great pleasure that I announce Astralis – Forgotten Fighters<\/a>, a videogame of which I am the Game Designer. I would like to tell you the story of its conception, if you have some time to spare.<\/p>\n

In the last few years I’ve been appreciating a lot MOBAs<\/a> gameplay experience. With a bit of presumption, during a hot summer, I thought of giving birth to a tabletop game that could use the same fun components of MOBAs, elevated to a strategic level.<\/p>\n

I liked the idea a lot and I managed to get a working prototype in a couple of days. It took a couple of months of work to get it in a polished state. I then concentrated on testing, asking all kind of people, even if most were gamers like me, to give feedback on all aspect of the game.<\/p>\n

All the good feedback on gameplay, convinced me that I actually had a really good idea. I started searching for resources to bring this project to life, not only in the tabletop environment, but also in the videogame world. I always had the dream of making a videogame since I played Dune<\/a>. My studying career took a very different path (I’m a bachelor in History, specialized in Medieval Times), so it was by pure chance, or maybe it was destiny, that I met Marco Piccinini, an computer engineer and longtime project manager. This made it possible to get to the next step.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_color=”#ffca0d” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”40″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column centered_text=”true” column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

High Concept<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”Small Line” line_thickness=”2″ divider_color=”accent-color” animate=”yes” custom_height=”50″ custom_line_width=”80″][testimonial_slider style=”minimal” star_rating_color=”accent-color” disable_height_animation=”true”][testimonial star_rating=”none” title=”Testimonial” id=”1479736102-1-64″ tab_id=”1479736344463-8″ quote=”Into the darkest reaches of a galaxy dived by war for energy control, courageous space warriors, called Forgotten Fighters, fight each other for space supremacy.”] Click the edit button to add your testimonial. [\/testimonial][\/testimonial_slider][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”see-through” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”http:\/\/www.wannabe-studios.com\/en\/portfolio\/astralis-forgotten-fighters\/” text=”Go to Astralis page” margin_bottom=”40″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1\/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Marco Piccinini<\/strong> is the founder of Wannabe-Studios, entertainment division of J3Tech<\/a>, a studio based in Modena specialized in innovative projects (web applications, Apps, AR\/VR, video games, creative installations). After some initial talk to get acquainted, we decided that Astralis could be transposed into a digital format. Marco proposed to build the prototype of the game using his experience in the field, thankfully without asking for a bill.<\/p>\n

Even if we were making a prototype, I wanted to make it right, to build a solid foundation for the project. I needed still two figures to complete the core of the team: a writer, possibly multilingual, and a competent artist. Getting a programmer out of sheer luck was already much, so I began worrying that finding the other two would be hard.<\/p>\n

I remembered having played a tabletop role playing game some years before with a guy that had a passion for everything Sci-Fi, Riccardo Piccinini<\/strong> (No, he is not a relative with Marco), that impressed me with the stories he created. He jumped on board the project as soon as I talked him about it. Second stroke of luck. And the third was right behind the corner. He knew an artist that also had a passion for Sci-Fi, Fabio Carretti<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if it’s just blind luck or there is something more, but Astralis seems off to a good start. And after some months of work, I can tell that it wasn’t just the beginning that went well.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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