Hang up Los Angeles (Kickstarter + Steam Greenlight) Thread

On kickstarter at: Kickstarter.com
On steam greenlight at: Steamcommunity.com

Hang up Los Angeles is a fast paced action game inspired by Hotline Miami that is made with a different engine, played from a different perspective, and uses all original music/story/assets/code/art.

From start to finish Hang up Los Angeles is a frantic thrill ride with an amazing soundtrack that compels head bobbing. Ways to describe the music are as; fast, adrenaline pumping, dance, 80's electronic, hypnotic, arcade, electronica, house, outrun electro, retrowave and synthwave.

Story
The protagonist is known only as ‘Leo’, a nickname assigned to him. He has been given a lion mask to wear by a criminal kingpin holding his wife Violet hostage and they demand that he carry out various criminal activities if he ever wants to see her again. Leo was a gruff firefighter before these events took place and so wields a fire axe as his weapon of choice.

As you might imagine Leo becomes increasingly frustrated by what he is being asked to do and the story reaches an epic climax when the blackmailer feels his influence is slipping and turns on Leo with tragic consequences.

Features
Featuring:

• Amazing music
• Creative gore filled deaths
• Widely varied missions – rob a mall, storm a bank, take an armoured truck, fight in antagonist induced trippy mission zones, lay siege to a warehouse, confront the antagonist after slaying numerous different animal masked henchmen in the same stage and more, all in Hang up Los Angeles
• Stunning lighting effects
• Enhanced screen display from the engine default
• A gripping story about a mastermind ruling by blackmail to force citizens to wear animal masks and commit notorious crimes.
• Different playable characters on certain missions as a plot device
• A prologue and 20 stages as well as exposition scenes
• New game + and new game ++ for replay value and added game length
• Value for money
• Controller support
• High speed gore filled action game with a killer soundtrack and lust for your adrenaline

Music
Please see the music section on the kickstarter page- Kickstarter.com

Art
The game has some very creative art for character deaths that help give an air of ultra-violence when coupled with the pounding music.





Future of the game
A lot of work has been done but a lot of work still needs to be done.
One of the future levels I am looking forward to creating involves sabotaging a parade and it looks great in my mind. There will be floats slowly following a road for the player to destroy, while faced with opposition. I think designing the floats in whacky ways and using bright colours etc. will be one of the most rewarding parts of the project and I think that particular level will be enjoyable for players. I don’t think a mission like this appears in many other games. It will probably take quite a while to design the floats, to allow the floats to move 4-directionally and to set the AI of them to move following a road but the result will be worth it.

Trailer


I'm very excited to bring this game to you, thank you if you decide to support the project.