Black Powder \\ Red Earth is a 2D isometric tactical action game where players control 2 man cell teams conducting night raids into sprawling non-permissive environments. Inspired by John Hill's classic board game Squad Leader and Bullfrog's Syndicate; the game is class driven, offering a diversity of tactics and strategy without sacrificing run-and-gun shoot outs. It's a game where stealth is a means to approach and assess a target, the player is not punished for killing enemies and collateral damage is accepted as a necessary evil. In short, BPRE is a canvas, with an objective. Not a corridor crawler with pop up targets spawning grenades at your feet to keep you moving along or a stealth game where killing enemies earns you admonishment and empty moral standards.
After 2 years, the storyline of Black Powder \\ Red Earth continues with a new graphic novel series that serves as a companion to the upcoming BPRE game being developed by Echelon Software.
Picking up 6 months after the events in Black Powder \\ Red Earth Volume 4, Cold Harbor Special Operations Contractors run a new kill-capture program targeting jihadists from the Islamic State and paramilitary officers from the Syrian Republican Guard inside a new Kurdish nation-state. With clients ranging from competing interests within the Kurdish government to Saudi Intelligence and the US Department of Defense, each operation serves multiple masters with their own mission statement and agenda to be carried out.
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While Echelon Software continues work on the playable world premier of our isometric action game, Black Powder \\ Red Earth, the creative team has developed...
Help support development of the new BPRE game by picking up a Cold Harbor Special Projects Group shirt and ball cap!
Spartan.AT interviews design lead and series writer Jon Chang about his work on Black Powder \\ Red Earth and the forthcoming title being developed by...
Available for a limited time, Echelon Software has run a few shirts to help support the development of their new title. Every order also comes with a...
Any more news on this title? Maybe some new screen shots? :)
We have a lot of working assets but when we debut the actual game, it will be in action :) Thanks for checking in :-D
We're cranking away. We're shooting to have an alpha playable in the next few months for the people who backed our first crowd funding effort. We'll be hopefully working with them to tune alpha 1 and then go loud :) Very much appreciate your interest ^o^
Cool, is the game still open to funding?
We want to get our a demo level up and running before we take anymore $ from people, but thanks!!
This game looks really good, looking forward :D
Thanks! We're hard at work :)
This looks and sounds great and I really enjoyed Syndicate. Will be tracking! I love tactical shooters.
Thanks! We're hard at work building the first level out :)
This game looks really cool!!
Guys, we ran a limited number of tees to allow people to help support development of the game. Each order comes with a free 5 sticker - sticker pack. Please help us out and pick up a shirt here : Blackpowderredearth.com