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Everything needed to write about or show The Central Nexus accurately. The game is in development and everything here may change.

Fact sheet

Title
The Central Nexus
Genre
Cyber-fantasy role-playing game
Status
In development. A private prototype exists.
Players
Single-player at the moment
Platforms
Planned for Steam and itch.io. Nothing is available on either yet.
Price
Not announced
Release date
Not announced
Developer
Rocky Cremeans, solo developer, United States
Website
thecentralnexus.com

Contact

Write to rockycremeans@thecentralnexus.com.

Descriptions

Short

The Central Nexus is a cyber-fantasy role-playing game in development. You arrive in an impossible city with no logout, and decide what to do beneath a hundred-floor Tower.

Medium

The Central Nexus is a cyber-fantasy role-playing game in development, based on its creator's homebrew tabletop campaign. You arrive in an impossible, inhabited city with no logout and three lives, talk with the people who live there, make choices that sometimes turn on a die roll, and fight turn by turn. A hundred-floor Tower stands over the city. A private prototype exists. No public demo is available yet.

Long

The Central Nexus is a cyber-fantasy role-playing game in development, based on its creator's homebrew tabletop campaign. You arrive in an impossible city that appears to have no exit: the logout is missing, and you have three lives. At the centre of the city stands a Tower of a hundred floors, and a figure named Aethereon announces the rules from the sky. Around the Tower is an inhabited city of taverns, shops, lanes and rooftop gardens. In the early prototype you talk to the people you meet, choose what to say, with some choices decided by a visible die roll, fight turn by turn, and shape how your character looks. The wider game is planned around portals to other worlds. A private prototype exists for Windows. Nothing is public yet. It is planned for Steam and itch.io, and no price or release date is announced. The Central Nexus is made by one developer in the United States.

Downloads

Please use the original logo file and do not retype, recolour or redraw it. Gameplay images are frames from footage of the game in development. Most are from the current development build with its on-screen interface hidden, and any from an earlier version are labelled as such in the press kit.

A busy timber tavern with stone fireplaces and a glowing menu board; pixel-art patrons of several kinds stand and sit at long tables. Gameplay
The Endpoint Tavern. Development build.
A crowded tavern with a dialogue box at the bottom listing two choices, each marked with a skill check and a difficulty number. Gameplay
Dialogue choices carry skill checks. Development build.
A tall dark tower with glowing bands rises into a wide sky of pink and blue clouds, seen from below. Gameplay
The Tower. Development build.

Notices and credits

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