A retro laptop sport impressed by Ultima and The Bard’s Tale. Playable on Apple II or on a contemporary Mac or PC. Defend the realm!
Nox Archaist is a tile-based, 8-bit, sword-and-sorcery role-playing sport modeled after the enduring video games of the Eighties.
Our objectives for this venture are to seize the retro-gaming expertise from the Eighties and discover what may need occurred if industrial RPG improvement had continued on 8-bit computer systems to the current day. Nox Archaist shall be playable on each unique Apple II {hardware} (128k enhanced Apple //e, Apple IIc, and Apple IIGS) and fashionable Mac and Windows PCs via emulators. For actual {hardware} you’ll want both twin floppy drives or a tough drive (such because the CFFA3000 or FloppyEMU).
We are growing Nox Archaist from scratch, in meeting language, on actual Apple II {hardware}. We’re speaking handmade high quality bits right here. All 8 of them.
The Nox Archaist kickstarter has a number of reward tiers, containing objects similar to:
- Digital obtain of the sport, guide, and music
- Full-color sturdy sport field
- Paper or material map of the realm
- Printed sport guide
- Unique sport artifacts
- In-game rewards similar to naming rights and dungeon design
- Special titles similar to Baron, Count, or Lord
You crawl ashore, spluttering out sea water, nonetheless clutching your sword. Every muscle aches from struggling in opposition to the storm, then later, in opposition to the waves. You had been so near discovering the key of the magical barrier that threatens your homeland. Your investigations led you to a mysterious cult. But, after listening to fell voices on the winds of the storm that rose up out of nowhere, you concern that bigger forces could also be at play. You thought you heard the title Vazarath whispered amongst them. Now, shipwrecked and together with your companions useless, how are you going to hope to perform your mission?
Raising your head, you see a determine strategy, carrying a glowing torch. As the determine steps nearer, you see that the sunshine comes not from a torch, however from the tip of an oak workers. A black gown envelopes the determine, with a low hood that fully obscures the creature’s face. A cultist? With a cry you wrestle to free your sword from the clinging seaweed. As you search for, you see that the determine is solely standing there, holding out their hand. You slowly take the hand and pull your self to your toes. As they decrease their hood and smile warmly, you notice that despite the fact that you swore to defend the realm from shadow and darkness, maybe you don’t must do it alone.
Nox Archaist is about in a sinister realm dominated by swords and sorcery. Adventurers courageous sufficient to discover Nox Archaist will encounter partaking NPCs and an unlimited storyline inside a sandbox world with linear storyline components. Hordes of vile enemies will block your path to fame and riches.
Much greater than only a “hack and slash” sport, Nox Archaist will supply a wealthy and rewarding world to discover and uncover, with many secrets and techniques, attention-grabbing tales, and a deep historical past to unravel.
Gamers will get pleasure from options like skills-driven character improvement and strategic turn-based fight situations which combine with the sport’s storyline and push the boundaries of the Apple II platform.
Features that push the Apple II envelope embody:
- Complex world with each linear storyline and non-linear sandbox components
- Hiding in tall grass, horse leaping, swimming
- NPCs with impartial motion and adaptive habits
- Advanced mob fight techniques
- Popup home windows and different fashionable consumer interface components
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