A Tale Written by Blade
A downloadable game for Windows
In this game you play a handsomely armored ghost figure in his quest to avenge a lost kingdom ravaged by war. Fight your way through possessed blades, armors and other spirit entities with your own deck of cards that you build along your journey. Meet remnant souls of the old kingdom who want to aid you in your adventure, or simply start a new life as ghosts.
The road to the answer you seek will be dangerous, with many enemies, traps and perilous path for you to conquer. Thankfully, some old powers and artifacts, remains of the past, awaits you. With these upgrades, what may have been an impossible goal might become a reachable destination. Whether you make it or not depends only on your determination.
Salvation rests in your phantasmal steel plated hands. You may be already dead, but you have yet to rust. So grab your sword brave warrior, and fight, to Victory!
Game Features:
- An adventure platformer with card battle and powers upgrades that will open paths that were previously close.
- Combats are turn bases where the player uses cards, the enemies have ability patterns, and speed determines the turn order.
- Speed matters, twice the speed means twice the turns.
- Use your hard earned gold to buy cards, remove them or level up your character.
- Modify your deck and equip the perfect relics that will fit your play style.
- Play the old reliable build that you know and love or try something different with for example the new speed stat.
- Find cards of higher rarity as you progress.
- As you level up, lower level enemies' combat will skip, letting you pass through rooms without interruption.
- Interact with other friendly ghosts and discover their story.
This is a demo
A Tale Written by Blade is still under development. This demo showcases only 11 rooms, one power, a handful of different enemies, one boss, a few relics, two friendly characters and around 30 cards. It's pretty much only the tutorial of the game, but more content of the game is already done. For example, powers are 80% done, and 60 cards are fully done, with many more to come.
That being said, suggestions and critiques are welcome and reporting bugs and typo would be amazing. The demo was made public for these reasons after all.
Enjoy the game.
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Hello!
Gave the demo a shot. Didn’t have a ton of time to play unfortunately but I felt I got a rough idea of what the game could offer had I kept playing further and continued to build out a better deck, gain relics etc.
I think right now I like the idea of the game but I feel the two genres don’t really play off each other much yet. Id love to see more things like swinging your weapon and starting a fight with an enemy allows your first card to be played off your deck before the battle starts. Perhaps there could be cards that are added to your deck that help you double jump or do cool things on the platforming portion of the game but just clutter up your deck in the deckbuilding portion of the game. As you mentioned it's really early on so you might have some ideas like that in the roadmap but …yeah I love what you have here to start I just think it needs just a little bit more cohesion before it becomes something truly addictive.
Some small types/confusion I ran into:
*The first tutorial screenshot says: "Combat Explaination" ( thinking you wanted: Explanation)
*Some sentences have a period at the end, some don’t - I feel this is a typo of sorts and would recommend either sticking with all instructions having a period or none of them.
* “Turn order is decided base on speed” is grammatically odd - would say “based on your speed” or “based on your speed stat”
* Boot’s dagger - technically I believe inanimate objects cannot be possessive so you’d just say Boots Dagger unless your boot is alive which is really sorta cool thematically and I hope you draw eyes on it.
* After Image card says Increase Blocking Value by 2 but mouse over mentions dexterity - should this card say dexterity instead of blocking value?
* Speed stat is a bit oddly written - speed up for example says increase speed by 2 but the mouse over says it increases base speed by 5 so an increase of speed of 2 is 10 base speed increase? Just feel like it might confuse new players
Hope some of my rambling helps, cant wait to see where you head with it!
Thank you for playing!
I'm am definitely taking your rambling as valuable input and I'll make sure to draw an extra eye rather than removing a simple ' :)