Knights of the Chalice Released

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HeroicFantasyGames informed us of the Knights of the Chalice release, a 2D party-based fantasy RPG with a focus on tactical battles. More info can be found on their site where you can also download the demo.
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I hope that there is a way to change the font; very tough on my eyes.
 
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With £15, it's a bit pricy considering the low production values.
 
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You get used to the font, it may take awhile, but it happens...

Overall, quite a number of people should ultimately get a kick out of this---especially if they found things to like in ToEE and the old DarkSun games.
 
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Too bad there isn't a Mac version ... project work now has me focused more on Mac ...
 
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It might work in one of the Windows emulator dealies...worth a shot with the lot of them I reckon. It isn't resource intensive so perhaps it'd luck out and run decently?
 
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Yep, old Ultima and the Dark Sun games were major inspirations for it----moreso Dark Sun though.
 
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Is it on purpose they made it look like a game from 1985 ?? I am ussually not picky about graphics but on a modern screen this is literally painful for the eyes. A pity looked interesting otherwise :p
 
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That was my problem as well. I would have happily given it a try, if I hadn't started to get a headache within the first 30 seconds (literally).
 
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getter77 said:
It might work in one of the Windows emulator dealies...worth a shot with the lot of them I reckon. It isn't resource intensive so perhaps it'd luck out and run decently?
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Since I generally use Bootcamp (dual boot) I don't have emulators ... nor the desire to pay for one ;) It isn't that I have a problem dual booting, just that this is the sort of game that would get more play if I didn't need to.
 
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It looks just sooo cute ! :)
 
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What's with the extremely low-res?

For the life of me, I can't figure out why you would deliberately go low-res...
 
They explain it in the FAQ and I think in the interview on RPG Codex. When they say they are Indie---they really mean it. For what it is worth, you do get used to it after awhile...though I am on a CRT monitor so I can't really wrap my head around whatever LCD folk would be encountering.
 
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Ooh, splendid news! I thought KotC was still some months from release. OK, need to quickly go home from work and start downloading the demo!

Hopefully the resolution issue won't be too much of a pain (i.e. headache inducing). Can't you play it in a window and thus slightly mitigate the blockiness (and the like)?

The font is something I don't much like either. If the game had featured lines and lines of text it would've been a major issue, but I estimate from the screenies, that the text is mostly given in smaller doses in KotC, so maybe it is at least tolerable. Oh well, I'll see for myself soon.
 
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The biggest problem of the game is the font and the low-resoution.
The combat are fun.
 
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getter77 said:
They explain it in the FAQ and I think in the interview on RPG Codex. When they say they are Indie---they really mean it. For what it is worth, you do get used to it after awhile...though I am on a CRT monitor so I can't really wrap my head around whatever LCD folk would be encountering.
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Yeah, but the thing is that extreme low-res doesn't make sense, even for an indie production. When you draw graphics, you simply pick whatever resolution you find fitting - and most indie productions go for 800x600 or 1024x768 - because that's what everyone can support.

Unless it's because they really don't like pixels or a high color palette, I just don't get it. Maybe they're more comfortable drawing art for that res because they're not using a modern package like Photoshop - but it'd be weird anyway.
 
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