I would have prefered to have this demo more polished and tested but lately i have been having much less free time than i would like. So i decided to post this demo as it is now and trust people will have the patience to report crashes and bugs as they detect them Well, having said this here is my first proyect that i have been working on slowly.
Features:
- Most of the cast are beastfolk… Or furries, call them as you wish.
- Two lords, one is Daniel, a Fox who uses light magic and the other is Oliver, a human who starts in a trainee class and uses staves, he will also use dark magic after promoting to his real base class
- Some characters (including Oliver who is autistic) will have a disability that affects them in gameplay in one way or another, i recommend checking the status info of these characters when they appear,for now its just oliver, but my intention is that in the next version (ignoring bug fix updates) there will be 3 more of these.
- A new class called “sky soldier”, for birdfolk born with wings is is hard to fly while carrying weight or to figth while flying, Sky soldiers have passed trough a hard training to do so, they use lances and have less movement than pegasi or wyverns, but they can take advantage of terrain bonuses.
- currently 7 chapters, including a X chapter (it is not optional nor missable) a prologue, and a interlude
- Every playable character (and important enemies/npcs) have their own combat and map sprites
- Character-driven narrative
- Many portraits whose clothes where used as a base and edited to have a beastfolk character there, some look less good than others, but i guess that means i improved over time.
- Enemies do not cheat in fog of war, if you can see them, its likely they can’t see you (except obvius cases like thiefs)
- There are skills that will work differently from the official games, specially Rng based “attack” skills (for example, Luna ignores less defense but it doesnt depend on rng, it will always activate) there are other skills (like Provoke or Life and death) that will be usable as “commands” (for example you can attack normally or use Life and death and receive the stats changes for that round of combat and the enemy turn)
- Some skills will be upgradeable (for example dusk to Luna)
- five difficulties and casual mode (there is an ocassion where you can lose units even in casual mode and there will be more for example: imagine a recruitable green unit situation where you need to talk with them recruit, except they start as a blue unit but can die in casual mode until you talk to them, there will be a warning of any of these instances in-game)
- Legendary weapons will be overpowered (as they are in the prologue), but using them will have permanent negative consecuences on the units who use them , which can include dying even in casual mode
Lore (rewritten by JasonGodwin7)
At first I started fixing the grammar and tightening the flow, but then I felt it was too expository and long, so I went a bit overboard and rewrote it into the poetic structure of a holy text. You can use it with credit if you want.
In the age of fire and ruin,
When hatred ruled all hearts,
Esea was torn by eternal brother war.
War as common as breath,
Hatred as common as life,
To slay the hated “Other” was life’s greatest joy.
Each morning rose with slaughter and fell to mourning.
The Broken,
Those born crippled, mute, mad, malformed.
Cast aside like broken blades.
Those crippled in war were honoured,
But the “Others” were unseen and unlamented,
Starved and scorned, names forgotten.
Punishments from the Goddess.
Burdens.
Out of the darkest of times and greatest of wars,
Came a Sorcerer of greater darkness.
Mordred, who formed a pact with sin,
And a Demon answered his call.
None could stand against his might.
In the darkest night when hope fell silent,
When the heavens wept,
The Goddess descended, radiant, kind, cruel.
Her wrath was justice itself.
She tore the demons asunder,
And her might united us all.
She bore three sacred relics:
A blade, a bow, two tomes of light.
To touch them was to perish unless chosen by fate.
The enemy bore dark mirrors:
An axe, a staff, a tome of bloody cruelty.
Held by the Three Great Vampires.
The Goddess sought three souls,
Enduring and worthy.
Ragna,
Whose love for kin made him mighty.
Alexandra,
Who fought not for glory, but what was right.
And the Nameless One,
Whose soul was hollow,
Until the Goddess filled him with light.
Together, we rose,
The Three Great Vampires fell.
Mordred and his demon were cast down,
But Alexandra fell.
The Goddess returned to the stars with a promise,
She would return in our hour of need.
Peace came to Esea.
The swords turned to ploughshares,
The flames of war cooled,
Yet still, those born Broken were forgotten.
But the Goddess spoke:
“The Broken are not curses,
But mirrors of your deeds.
Their birth reveals your guilt.
Their lives offer your redemption.
To harm them is sin beyond measure.”
Her faithful rose-
Not with blades, but open hands,
To cherish and shelter, to redeem their eternal souls.
I, once lost, now take up arms,
Not a Sword, but a Quill,
Not war, but Scripture,
That her mercy and justice shall be remembered,
That her name shall never fade,
For I was the third,
The last of her chosen.
I, once lost and nameless-
Now named Prophet.
While i think the game would be rated pegi 12, i guess it is apropiate to give a warning of potentially triggering content given the premise of the setting.
Trigger warnings
- The most important is that in the setting those born disabled are considered “punishment of the goddess”, so there will be characters behaving in a ableistic way, also because of the setting a bunch of the disabilities wont be named ingame as they are in real life (for example, Oliver knows he is a “punishment of the goddess” but in game, in his status screen his autism is reffered as “deprived of bonds”)
- Mentions of children dying offscreen, one NPC is a child that you have to protect
A lot of assets where taken from the repository, i tried my best to make sure everything i took and was edited was F2E. Eventally i would also like to make a list for the music used and from what games it is taken
You can see the credits here and in the game Directory
You can dowload the game here
Expect bugs and possibly crashes specially from chapter 3 onwards, these day i dont have much free time to test the game so i would be grateful it you reported wathever bugs and crashes you find , with a screenshot of what the cmd terminal says and a save/autosave so i can have an easier time fixing the bugs
know issues.
- When dying in combat combat coyote archers “reswpawn” for a second then “unspawn” again
- The Ai doesn’t know how to use ballistae, for know as a workaround i have assigned them as items to the few archers who would be able to use them in the demo.
- in the prologue Enemies have 1 move is intended, what isn’t intended is that they dont move at all even if their ai is set to pursue, there are spawns that are also messed up.
i dont know how to fix the first two so i would be gratefull if someone helped me with that, with the third issue, its something that has low priority for now because the prologue is a glorified loredump so it doesn’t matter much in terms of gameplay.
*Dancing and Singing animations for Lila and chesire respectively do not play.
*Chapter 3 will not end if one or multiple of the four units that have to scape has leaved as a “rescued” unit by an ally, for the chapter to end, they must leave themselves