The Mandate - Happy Holidays

Perihelion Interactive wishes everyone a happy holiday, and released a new behind-the-scenes video for everoyone to watch.

Happy Holidays from The Mandate

New behind-the-scenes video released for Tsarist space opera RPG as well as info on BackerKit support | http://www.mandategame.com/

18 December 2013 - California, USA/… As an early Christmas present to its supporters, Perihelion Interactive has released a procedural textures video for The Mandate, This short test demonstrates colour tinting, decals, rust and armour damage.

Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57T_YWpMr4Q

The Mandate is a six-player, cooperative, sandbox sci-fi RPG (playable online and over LAN), which is currently in development following a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign that raised over $700k and concluded earlier this month (the original funding target was $500,000).

A dedicated The Mandate BackerKit page will run through to 31 March 2014, allowing those who have already pledged their support to make changes to their order. This includes additional options like extra digital copies of the game, unique features like ‘Name a Marine/Enlisted/Ship’, ‘Design an Officer/Captain/Marine Platoon/Light Craft Squadron’, and even the option of being able to write the history of a past event to be included within the game’s lore. Latecomers to the cause can still join in and pledge their support via PayPal. Perihelion has also set up Knighthood and Medal docs, which backers can fill in names of friends and family who they plan on giving extra copies to, and then print these docs and put in an envelope under the Christmas tree.

Ole Herbjørnsen, Executive Producer, Perihelion Interactive said:
“It’s fantastic that we reached our first two stretch goal funding targets before our original Kickstarter campaign ended earlier this month, meaning that away missions on planets and starbase boarding operations will be included within the final game. We’re currently looking into how we will implement this, and are discussing two types of away missions: the classic Star Trek-style as well as more elaborate small-scale skirmishes between armies.”

If The Mandate is on course to reach its next stretch goal of $800k, where Perihelion will add Mod Support. The developer is a huge fan of the mod communities that have sprung up for the likes of Total War, Mount & Blade and The Elder Scrolls series. At this stretch goal it will be in a position to allocate more programmer and designer time to plan the code and data structures to greatly simplify the process of creating total conversions for The Mandate. Developer tools will receive extra polish and documentation so they can be used both by the devs and by the mod community. Start planning your mod or total conversion project today!