NEOTOKYO° Kshatriya Windows, Linux game

Level 2 of NTKS is the entirety of the original Kshatriya Prologue, remade in source, but played from the eyes of Isaac, the character you are chasing after in the original. The following is a (nearly) "direct comparison" of all the shared areas. Source version on top, FPSC version on the bottom. These are imgur links so you can view them more closely.

I took some artistic liberties with the map this time because I was looking to improve it, and make it feel more "NT°" and not to exactly recreate the original. As such a lot of the original geometry has been resized to get a more cramped and "Kowloon Walled City in 2055" type of vibe. I also wanted to rely much less on clipping large areas with little detail to pitch black to hide FPSC's limitations, and instead use source's nice radiosity to bleead lightcolors around and make the place a bit more vibrant. I like to think it's just as depressing but I try to do that more with visual storytelling and mapscripting now while having a world that is just a little more inviting to get lost in aesthetically with more harmonious color interactions. (hopefully)

I basically made what I always wanted prologue to look like, but maybe you'll like the original oldschool look better!

I look forward to the community's opinions. I apologize for the lack of updates, this one map has been my project for the last year. I'm sure I have created at least 100 new assets or textures for this one, or at least remastered something from my old FPSC/GG library and gave it a better texture/shaders.

We will go level by level, starting with:

P.S.

I was really excited to be able to fit 3 FPSC levels into a single source map with a lot of room to spare. I was able to widen the whole world and create a lot of extra explorable areas to cater to the parkour/climbing/walljumping that couldn't previously be accessed and add a bit of replayability hopefully. Here are some pictures of areas in level 2 with no comparison. All these and the original comparison shots (no comparisons) can be seen in the images section.

Thanks for your patience with this project (and this super long article) so far. It is still a very small hobbyist indie project, and the friends working on it are all employed full-time in the creative industry so there's often very little inspiration left at the end of a long workday to devote to this project from all sides. Still, It will continue until it is finished, no matter how slow.

If you haven't played it, and you have patience for a little bit of "amateur game designer" jank, I urge you to play the other Kshatriya episodes available in the files section. Both episodes will shed some light on the plot, as all episodes are part of the "Kshatriya Universe"