Kite

A Utopia on the Brink

Retake control of the secret weapons base Arch City and try to pick up the pieces left by a mysterious robot uprising. Prepare for the assault by customizing your load out with a vast arsenal of beam rifles, laser swords, explosives, revolvers, mines, flame throwers and rail guns. Equip your H.O.R.D. chassis with technology reclaimed from battle and become the ultimate soldier. Blast your way through classic lush pixel art environments - crippling enemy infrustructure and rescuing any survivors.

Protection comes in many forms including point defense drones, energy shields, and mini-bots. A meaty stat system gives you room for limitless flexibility. Strive to obtain the highest 'S' rank on each stage to fully upgrade and unlock your character. Find the most overpowered combinations of weapons and abilities and maximize your damage per second or become the ultimate bruiser and turbo into battle weilding beam swords!

Features

• Massive destructible pixel art environments.
• Endless customization and viable builds aplenty.
• All original retro-future synthwave 3D audio.
• Rescue a huge cast of characters, each granting new upgrades.
• Descover the truth behind the robot uprising and secure the master databanks!

What is Kite?

It's frenzied bullet hell action covered in a candy RPG shell. Kite's goal has always been to get the players adrenaline pumping, make them pucker up and finally deliver them into a zen garden of customization. Gameplay is classic twin-stick shmup, but each level has a different objective chain to complete and focuses on a specific mechanic or feature. After completion, players are ranked and features are unlocked based on their performance. Next, it's time to prepare for battle by customizing character load out - changing the items/abilities/weapons/companions and tweaking stats.

Alpha Build

Kite is moving into the final stages of Alpha and there is a build available for playtesting. The tutorial is a weak point and requires the player to tab through some dialogue while NPCs info dump all the mechanics at once. Currently all items/abilities are unlocked from the start, so beating levels and gaining EXP is the only progression. Gating the player experience and metering out mechanics is a design focus and will be a milestone for the Beta version. That being said, there are 7 levels for players to obtain an 'S' rank on. Survive turrest, droids, mines and grenades, save scientists, decrypt data and destroy infrastructure - the faster the better!

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