New Fantasy Arcade Adventure Hack & Slash Online Game

We’re currently in the very early planning stages for our next independent release Flash web based game. I’ll be trying to post frequent updates about where we are with it throughout the development process.

We’re going to be using the same top view tile based game engine we used for the Cyberkill game with a number of expected improvements to the lighting effects and hoping to add extra atmospheric effects such as mist/fog.

The basic idea for the game is to bring together all the best elements of three of our favourite retro fantasy games, these being: Moonstone – A Hard Days Knight (Amiga), Golden Axe (Arcade) and Gauntlet (Arcade). The player’s character will be a knight and there’ll be a series of levels to play through, fighting various enemies and monsters along the way. At the end of each level there’ll be an end of level guardian to fight and defeat. We’re going to be putting the emphasis on combat action, with just a few RPG elements to help the gameplay (probably just the ability to buy better armour, to increase endurance and swords along the way). We want it to be primarily an action arcade adventure game and don’t want to get bogged down with too many of the strategy elements associated with RPGs.

It’s going to be a pretty big project, so we’re expecting at least six months development time, maybe longer. There’s also a pretty good chance there will be sponsorship opportunities with this game, which we’ll give details of later.

I’m hoping to post more details as they are finalised, including artwork, screenshots and gameplay videos as the project progresses, so keep checking back for more details.