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BareHand                                                                                        Summer 2014                                                        edwin@barehand.co
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BareHand History

Following a AAA game studio layoff, Edwin Jack started the company with $200 in his name (most of what went into rent) and began pre-production for Cede quarter 1 of 2015. It was here that Edwin shared an idea with his Aunt (who doesn’t game) about the personality of their main character and asked her who in The Holy Bible aligns with this character’s traits. Before she passed on due to cancer, she lead Edwin to Joseph in the book of Genesis. Edwin decided to base the main character Seph from Joseph. Joseph did a lot of farming and the studio then moved forward with combing one of their favorite genre’s “action” within this. Cede will be in memory of Edwin’s late Aunt for her powerful influence on Cede. Moving forward, BareHand has been slowly and consistently establishing the world and mechanics of Cede testing their unique combat farming gameplay at various conventions such as PAX East, Dreamhack, GDC and more.

BareHand is a studio built on the foundation of their faith in God. To make games that are fun as well as edifying for the mind, body, and spirit. As a direction extension of their faith, BareHand has value in being real with people instead of sugarcoating.  The Bible has beautiful and ugly situations in it, miracles happen as well as violence and killing. The studio decided to display this in Cede where the game references the story of Joseph from the book of Genesis. 

Cede Description

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Cede is a Strategic Action-RPG modernized by a unique mechanic called Combat Farming. Dive into the shattered pieces of your planet with 3 additional friends online, burst swarms of foes into seeds, and transform them into vegetation known as “changers”. Synchronize with your squad building the best loadouts for optimal changer benefits! Cede will initially release on PC with an online 4 player co-operative campaign through an early access model, releasing chunks of the game while polishing based on community feedback. Cede will later release on consoles along with a PVP mode for all our competitive players out there! Sign up for the email list or join the discord community to be notified about releases on platform releases.

Story Synopsis

Conflict between factions has caused a catastrophic event known to all lifeforms as “The Fall”, shattering the planet into pieces. Years of conflicting ideals between these factions has caused the planet to become very unhealthy full of wastelands. These factions all strive to obtain a lifeforce energy known as “glee” to make their individual ideals become %100 reality. To obtain glee a faction must conquer territory and this endless battle for territory has sucked the lands dry from food and plant life causing a horrible drought. Our main character Seph and his creations The Lils, are stuck in the middle of these conflicting ideals and must decide which path they want to take.

Cede Game Features

COMBAT FARMING
Upon defeating a lifeform will transform them into “changers” (plants) that assist you through combat in various ways. Dropping health, increasing stats, help fighting against opposing lifeforms, and more. The power of your squad is primarily based off how many chane you have grown.

4 PLAYER CO-OP STORY CAMPAIGN
Cede will have a powerful story campaign with unique cast of characters (big and small) all with unique abilities in combat farming. Experience the campaign locally or online.

SWARM COMBAT
Combat will be crazy hectic with swarms of opposing lifeforms attempting to overthrow you and accomplish their goals. This means upon defeating them more beautiful plant life will fill the environment and these plants will drop loot for you to take back to your hub farm. 

YOUR OWN FARM
Bring back loot you've found while combat farming in different areas to your own personal hub farm to grow and harvest crops. Use these crops to get stronger and build custom loadouts. Sell these items to other players for real world currencies such as ENJ coin.

Team

Edwin Jack                           
Founder,Game Director             

CONTRIBUTORS:

Kris Carter  Nic Biondi      Manuel Madera    David Wayne         
Lead Concept Artist    Programmer Programmer Composer

                

Contact

For press and inquiries:
edwin@barehand.co