The Spellthieves
A Lex Talionis Project by RandomWizard
The Boersgard Academy of Arcane Studies is the greatest school of magic in the land. Its Orthodox Mages have surpassed all rivals, and its dominion over education and sorcery now goes nigh-unchallenged - save for a few angry outcasts (and Bjorn), banding together for a chance at revenge by stealing the Academy’s greatest treasures.
In The Spellthieves, you lead a varied band of spellcasters from widely varied traditions (and Bjorn). Each one, however, casts their magic in a fundamentally different method. To escape the wrath of the Academy, you’ll need to master the skillsets and spell lists of all these thieves, and manage their tenuous allegiances to the cause - before time runs out.
Features
- Lots of cool skills and spells, powered by the Lex Talionis engine.
- The power to change the current map theme on the fly.
- Supports, including paired endings for all conversations. (No, seriously.)
- Tense, high-quality map design and enemy placement by a veteran FE hacker.
- Music from a variety of games, both well-known and obscure.
- Bjorn.
- An attempt at something resembling a deep, thematic story.
Screenshots
Credits
Credits can also be found in the credits.txt file within the game folder.
Map Sprites
- Artificer: N426
- Brute: Flasuban
- Ninja: DerTheVaporeon
- Orthodox Mage: SALVAGED
- Shaman: Ash3wl, L95
- Soldier: Rexacuse, Peerless, Alusq
- Sorceress: Leif
- Swordfighter: Nuramon
Battle Animations
- Artificer: JonoTheRed, DatonDemand
- Blood Mage: L95
- Necromancer: Eldritch
- Ninja: Pikmin1211, DerTheVaporeon
- Orthodox Mage: SALVAGED
- Shaman: JeytheCount
- Soldier: Alusq, JeyTheCount
- Swordfighter: Nuramon
Item Icons
- All Blood Magic: Beansy
- All Sorceries: Beansy
- All Jutsus: Orihara Saki
- Armored Spear: GabrielKnight
- Bard’s Flute: RandomWizard
- Blade Ward: Lisandra_Brave
- Bludgeon: Rivian
- Bone Cleanse: BatimaTheBat
- Combat Knife: Ereshkigal
- Dirty Mop: XVI, EldritchAbomination, Indogutsu Tenbuki
- Fire Bolt: Lisandra_Brave
- Ghost Touch: Beansy
- Interfusion Wand: SaintRubenio
- Katana: Ereshkigal
- Knight Ring: XVI
- Leg Ring: XVI
- Lore Dump: Cardcafe
- Magebane: GabrielKnight
- Magic Missile: Lisandra_Brave
- Minor Illusion: Lisandra_Brave, Nuramon
- Quarterstaff: Ereshkigal
- Ray of Frost: Lisandra_Brave
- Recover Ring: XVI
- Regal Staff: Ereshkigal
- Rock Shield: Seal
- Teal Gem: Pandan
- Tremorstones: BatimaTheBat
- True Strike: Lisandra_Brave
- Sea Breeze: LordGlenn
- Shillelagh: XVI
- Shocking Grasp: Lisandra_Brave
- Splinterblast: Kyrads
- Stride: Lisandra_Brave, Zelix
- Suspicious Syringe: Sindle, Mike, fizzly
- Vigorflow Ring: XVI
- Warp Powder: Zelix
Title Screen Background: Frederick Hawkesworth Sinclair Shepherd
Title Screen Book: yd (OpenGameArt)
Interfusion map icon: DragonDePlatino, DawnBringer (OpenGameArt)
Canterbury Font: Typographer Mediengestaltung (1001Fonts)
Status Screen: Feels
Skill Icons: LT Developers, Monkeybard, Black Mage, Intelligent Systems
Map Tileset: N426
Portraits: RandomWizard
Music:
- Academy: Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer
- Academy Combat: Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer
- Advancing Waves: Berwick Saga
- Approaching the Spirit Army: Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer
- Children of Sinca: White Knight Chronicles
- Dream Battle: Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer
- Echoing Library: Etrian Odyssey IV
- Mulsantir: Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer
- Mulsantir Gate: Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer
- Proud Fight: Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn
- Spirit Army Prelude: Neverwinter Nights 2 Mask of the Betrayer
- Tense Battle: White Knight Chronicles
- White Defender: Hollow Knight
Lex Talionis Engine: Mag, Rainlash, Rasta, Lord Tweed, assorted contributors
Playtesting: Leche, Rasta, AuraWolf, Mibbles, Xilirite
Download
Download the initial release version here. To play The Spellthieves, simply extract the .zip file and run double_click_to_play.bat.
Note: As of April 14, I’ve slightly updated the link. The only changes in this version compared to the initial release are fixing a game-crashing bug, as well as correcting a slight omission in the Credits.txt document.
I’m excited to finally put this chapter out into the world after over a month of work, and to see what a wider audience thinks of it - and of the many other amazing hacks and fangames people have made for the CELICA contest.