"It's high noon...i mean, Sky Noon!"
Independent game developer Lunar Rooster and indie games partner Reverb Triple XP have officially announced that 'Sky Noon' will be launching into Steam’s Early Access program in Q2 2018. This first person shooter has been set in a quirky Wild West set high in the sky.
Taking place in a reinvented Wild West universe where the frontier floats among the clouds, powerful cartels crave to control the most precious resource in the west: water. Players take the role of hired gunslingers that battle opposing fighters across floating islands in the sky.
There are no health meters in Sky Noon; instead, to eliminate enemies, players use various super-power compressed air weapons to send them flying over the bounds of land and into the abyssal sky. The game gets a host of equipment like:
Sky Noon is the two year long adventure started by lead designer Craig Taylor who, along with the other “core four” of Lunar Rooster, began creation of the game while studying game development at Auckland’s Media Design School in New Zealand.
“The feeling of bringing your first video game project to life is absolutely surreal and amazing,” states Craig Taylor, lead developer of Lunar Rooster. “The idea was really simple – let’s make a first person shooter that felt familiar, yet different. We’re delighted that there’s gamers that wanted this type of experience and the team is really looking forward to the feedback from players to improve Sky Noon during the Early Access development.”
Independent game developer Lunar Rooster and indie games partner Reverb Triple XP have officially announced that 'Sky Noon' will be launching into Steam’s Early Access program in Q2 2018. This first person shooter has been set in a quirky Wild West set high in the sky.
Taking place in a reinvented Wild West universe where the frontier floats among the clouds, powerful cartels crave to control the most precious resource in the west: water. Players take the role of hired gunslingers that battle opposing fighters across floating islands in the sky.
There are no health meters in Sky Noon; instead, to eliminate enemies, players use various super-power compressed air weapons to send them flying over the bounds of land and into the abyssal sky. The game gets a host of equipment like:
- Grappling hooks
- Lassos
- Steam-powered jetpacks
- Jump pads
- Teleporters
Sky Noon is the two year long adventure started by lead designer Craig Taylor who, along with the other “core four” of Lunar Rooster, began creation of the game while studying game development at Auckland’s Media Design School in New Zealand.
“The feeling of bringing your first video game project to life is absolutely surreal and amazing,” states Craig Taylor, lead developer of Lunar Rooster. “The idea was really simple – let’s make a first person shooter that felt familiar, yet different. We’re delighted that there’s gamers that wanted this type of experience and the team is really looking forward to the feedback from players to improve Sky Noon during the Early Access development.”
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