Vepturegeng: Color Shooters

**Vepturegeng: Color Shooters** is an indie first-person shooter action/adventure game developed by 1001 Spears.

## Synopsis

The player's character awakens on an island in an alien world, where mentor Tice Ticara explains a conflict between the indigenous population and the Kaigian Empire; after the brutal colonization of the Cha-Pompano, an unknown reactionary dissident hijacked an aircraft and crashed it into the Imperial Capital, prompting a war on vigilantism. Instead of using direct tactics, the Kaigian Empire used a godforsaken power to permanently possess the inhabitants and conscript them among the Security Army, hellbent on destroying all opposition to their regime. Six retrieved Vepturegeng, a symbiotic demon, join the player's character in their crusade against the Kaigian Security Army and its benefactors, the most elite being the host of Untergeng, an enemy caste of the same species as Vepturegeng.

## Levels

### Grendel’s Beach

Coconut trees, sand, entertaining Caribbean music with steel percussion and jet-skis; only reinforced by some of the Stands being crustaceans and sharks.

1. Vepturegeng Mountain
2. Pirates Bay
3. Smashed Shipwreck
4. The Tsunami

### Gunner’s Castle

A massive fortress sprawling 100 acres, full of security guards, hidden rooms and paths, with a throne room at the heart and a river of molten rock going through it. Ceaseless night, dramatic, rainy thunderstorms, foreboding fog, spiderwebs, and chandeliers add to the atmosphere, as does the ghost Stand.

1. Abandoned Torture Chambers
2. Cleansing Factory
3. Scary Keep
4. The Dynamo

### Freezer’s Peak

A desert mountain in the shape of a beast with genital-crushing snowfall and ice, yet somehow, you're safe from hypothermia and falling off of the high, stone cliffs. A constant night for that Aurora Borealis look with echoing, bell-filled royalty free Christmas music... when you're not getting your ass mobbed, anyways.

1. Deluged Lowlands
2. Bluff Trail
3. Snowstorm Mountains
4. The Cave

### Ruffian’s Volcano

Ceaseless heat is a halkmark of this volcano lair filled with burning turrets and mills to complement its sizable tarns of lava flow. At least one Stand is a ship that transports you across the lava amid the furious and mischievous bass and drums of this hellscape.

1. Scorched Dirt
2. Volcanic Path
3. Burning Mine
4. The Hole

### Serpent’s Rainforest

A wrecked metropolis with Mesoamerican pyramids, thorny plants galore, and an army of restless, barbaric indigenous people (possessed by the Kaigian Empire, not out of their free will). Drums and jazz highlight this area, as do atrocious arachnids and supersized serpents.

1. Logging Post
2. Ancient Woods
3. Lost Shrine: An old city and castle where the death traps don't work anymore, the Mesoamerican-inspired faith and culture have died, but the threat of enemies remain. Naturally, it's now controlled by the imperialists.
4. The Dungeon

### 6. Bomber’s Dune

A wasteland of pyramids, acrogen, oil platforms and refineries, and both music and a village inspired by Arabia. To say nothing of the evil snakes, streams of sand in place of water, and the obligatory temple.

1. Wasteland Camp
2. Hopeless Refinery
3. Old Palace
4. The Wall

### Other

1. Perdita’s Lava Land
2. The Playground

## Visuals

The character design of Vepturegeng: Color Shooters takes inspiration from anime and manga, with possible cel shading. Many aspects of the character design in Color Shooters are intentionally politically incorrect to satirize different values in the 2000s, notably the physical appearance of the game's native group and their religion having a similar portrayal to Hinduism's depiction in *Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom*.

## Applicability

Using an anime-inspired aesthetic, Vepturegeng: Color Shooters also serves as a criticism of racism in Japan, the Kaigian Empire notably deriving its name from the anti-Korean Nippon Kaigi party. The Kaigian Security Army are based on real perpetrators of police brutality, which is largely concentrated in the United States and other western countries rather than Japan. A notable analogy is Officer Fukyagaku, who is based on Kimberly Potter, the killer of young African American Daunte Wright; conflicting sources of information and a general lack of consideration led to Trigger defending her on Discord before her trial, which he deeply regrets.