14 DAY TRIAL // Prodigy is an ambitious project aiming to combine the world of miniature gaming and video games, something akin to a mixture of Skylanders and Dragon Age.
French developer Hanakai Studio has just started a crowdfunding campaign for the game on Kickstarter, and it's already gaining momentum, with a third of the necessary funds already secured and almost an entire month to go until the campaign's end.
Blending the real with the virtual, the game offers a new tactical role-playing game experience that will challenge the way you play video games and will offer you another excuse to buy toys. Beautifully crafted toys.
A very important part of Prodigy is the special technology that the studio has been developing for years now, allowing the seamless transition from physical objects to in-game effects. As such, the player can manipulate magical objects (high-quality figurines and ability cards) to fight epic multiplayer battles and engage in a heroic solo campaign.
Prodigy's gameplay focuses on squad turn-based combat on a physical board and fast-paced 1v1 fights, allowing gamers to play without any keyboard, mouse or gamepad.
Users will just use their Symbols of Power to access their unique player profile, then move figurines on the board and characters will be immediately identified and translated into the virtual medium, then employ various Arcana Cards to give orders.
Prodigy is currently in development for Windows PC with the Unreal Engine 4, and so far the team has a working prototype that includes the first figurines and displays a wide range of NFC (Near Field Communication) interactions and demonstrates the basis of the combat system.
The game is set in the fantasy world of Thasys, where Mana, the magical energy most races rely on to survive, is becoming a scarce commodity, and the ensuing wars for survival are devastating the land, as magical beings of immense power fight over the last remnants of Mana.
Entire civilizations are engaged in battles that aim to destroy each other, and the end seems to be drawing ever nearer, as the All-Mother of Darkness threatens to devour the world. An omen, a blazing comet, has trailed the skies heralding a time for heroes to rise, and a few chosen ones are rising to save Thasys, the prodigies of the feeble and powerless humans.