Epsylon PC, Linux game

Epsylon - The Guardians Of Xendron

Most informations here are taken from the webpage and shortened. Look at the webpage for all informations. 

Project Epsylon

This game is part of Project Epsylon which includes Dragonscript (a GPL scripting/programming language), Drag(en)gine (a GPL game engine) and the final game itself. Main focus on this project is to create a free crossplatform gameengine and game originating from linux systems. 

Story - (short, see webpage for Background and Story)

It is late this afternoon where Sam and Tedeon are taking a nap on the near hillside. Georgo joins up to tell them about the informations he squeezed out of his informant from the shany towns. They learned some days ago that the old laboratory in the valley side has found some new people inhabiting it. A couple of month ago they took out a drug dealer ring which used that laboratory as their production and shipping facility. Since then the building had been neglected. But now there seems to be life in their, non autorized one. Sam and Georgo assume that those guys might have returned. Deciding to pull off once more a night operation they decide that both of them are enought to deal with
it and that Tedeon and Sean should take a nap. Approaching the car though Sean shows up on the window pulling of their sad little face. Sam knows quickly that she wants to participate in this one. As Tedeon does not use his veto as her father she is up for the party too.

After the nightfall the three take on the laboratory. They notice quickly that the building has been befitted with a couple of guards. It is thus time for some stealth operation to get in there unseen. They
know from their last intrusion that this building holds subterrain laboratories and appropriate equipment. Down they search through the labs and find out that those people in charge here somehow managed to get their hands on the old research documents of Sam that he created back in those days where he researched his portal generation device. Sam knew that with the uncomplete documents nobody would be able to recontruct his portal. Unfortunatly those people seem to have knowledge about xendronite crystals which goes beyond what physics can explain at the time. After some more searching around they find out who might be responsible for this and an address of a dimension: alpha-10, the world Odjin comes from. Knowing that in this world do exist people that would love to own such a device they decide to head over to alpha-10 with the entire team to investigate further. They have to make sure that this technology is not misused by the wrong people.

The next day they set off for alpha-10 not knowing that they just ended up in one of the most tricky cases they ever had. 

Gameplay

All your actions have large influence on the events in the world. It is better to solve your missions without lethal force if possible. You can take enemies on with your bare hands or use tranquilizing
devices to knock them unconcious. Take advantage of the Energy based fight system to overcome your foos. If you knock somebody's energy low he will act completly different than if he has full energy. Get
Physical Boost by triggering your Adrenaline-Meter to get out of desperate situations. But beware, what happens to your enemies can also happen to you.

• Use Lock-Picks or Electro-Hacker devices to open doors or disable various kinds of electronical devices. Hack computers or security terminals to gain entrance to shut of areas or to get yourself an advantage.


• Misuse objects for the most crazy contraceptions. Use everything as sort of weapon if you want to knock off your enemies or try to build up a nice trap to catch them. Play MacGyver and dazzle
  your oponents with creativity.


• Take advantage of different camera perspectives and the Dragon-View mode to get a much better and more lit up view of your surroundings.


• Use Bionical Implants of Characters equipped with them to get throught tight and deadly spots. Use their Neural Interface to gain entrace to computer systems and security panels or stick to their Vision-Enhancer Implant to have a better insight into the current battle ground.


• Solve missions in team work with up to all team members working in parallel to achieve the goal. Give them orders and proceed with all at the same time or position them at key points to be able to proceed on a certain path more easily.


• Check the abilities of your team members and develop them independently to help the team the most. Each Character has his unique skills and abilities.