Aetheria: Wars - Forge your Legend

📍 Rennes, France (FR)

🏷️ Mobile Games

Aetheria: Wars: A Mobile Tactical RPG That Respects Your Intelligence

Tired of soulless mobile games that play themselves? So are we. Our project is to create a free-to-play, squad-based Tactical RPG with the strategic depth of a PC game and a spectacular visual universe of "Celestial Dark Fantasy."

Here, there is no auto-combat. Only your team composition, strategy, and decisions will lead you to victory. We want to gather a community of players who, like us, are looking for a rewarding challenge and a captivating story.

My name is Olivier. Since my youngest age, video games have been my greatest passion. I’ve spent thousands of hours on games that demand investment and strategy, like Dofus or League of Legends, and I am fascinated by the emergent complexity of masterpieces like Dwarf Fortress. For me, a great game is a world of opportunities, challenges, and stories.

This passion led me to study computer engineering, equipping me with the tools to one day create my own universe. A world inspired by the epic Heroic Fantasy and Science-Fiction stories of my childhood, like The Inheritance Cycle (Eragon), the Dune universe or Les Chevaliers d'Émeraude, and by the flamboyant aesthetics of webtoons and donghuas such as Soul Land or Battle Through the Heavens.

Aetheria: Wars is the culmination of this dream.

I have developed smaller games before, notably a Space Shooter on Unity. That experience taught me a crucial lesson: a good game mechanic is not enough. For a universe to come alive, it needs art and animation that transport the player. Back then, due to a lack of resources, I couldn't achieve the visual quality I aimed for.

With Aetheria: Wars, I will not make that compromise. This project is my chance to finally create a mobile game without sacrifice: deep in strategy, and breathtaking in presentation.

The video game market is risky. To convince future partners and publishers, and above all, to ensure the game is as fun as we imagine, we must go through an essential step: the creation of a Vertical Slice Combat Prototype.

The goal of this €70,000 Kickstarter campaign is to ONLY finance this crucial phase.

This investment will allow us to assemble an elite team (a programmer, a 3D artist/animator, and a technical artist) for 4 months. Together, we will:

• Build the core gameplay: A tactical, deep, and satisfying combat system.
• Forge the first Heroes: Create and animate an initial squad to prove the potential of our "Celestial Dark Fantasy" artistic direction.
• Demonstrate our vision: With a playable and beautiful prototype, we will have the undeniable proof that Aetheria: Wars is the game players are waiting for.

By supporting this project today, you are not just buying a future game. You become a Founder. You lay the foundation stone of a universe we want to see grow for years to come. You give us the means to prove our vision and build the tactical RPG of our dreams, and, we hope, of yours.