Rival Blades

RIVAL BLADES - PLAYER MANUAL
(C) Copyright 1988 HugBug Ent. Inc.

INSTRUCTIONS

• Click the floppy disk to start.
• Arrow keys or WASD to move. (Hold shift to strafe)
• Mouse click action buttons to attack, speak, and interact. Weapons take time to recharge before you can use them again.
• If the game is running slow for you, Click the fishbowl icon in the upper right to toggle effects.
• Your choices move the nobility track, affecting your ending. That's the duality bit. :)

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THE STORY

A hired assassin is challenged by a royal guard during an attempt on the King's life. Amidst their struggle, a frightful storm witch appears and kidnaps the King for herself! 

The assassin and the guard both need the King returned -- albeit for different reasons. With a Goblin War looming and time running out, they must band together and find passage to the witch's cursed island.

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In this classic dungeon crawler, build a party of two characters, one wicked and one kind, and guide them on their quest. How you choose to balance their duality will determine the fate of the kingdom!

THE ENDINGS

I ran out of time for making the game  display the different endings for Chapter One (yikes!), so you'll have to read them here.

• 100% Wicked - You murder all of the pirates and take over their boat. Ahoy!
• 50% Wicked/Kind - You survive the pirate voyage, ready for the next challenge.
• 100% Kind - You convince the pirates to give up their life of crime and join you on your quest, or something.

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This game was made in 7 days for the Dungeon Crawler Jam 2023.

• Story, coding, design, illustration by me, HugBug
• Incredible character portraits commissioned from J. Zhou
  
• Sounds from Freesound.org:
• Floppy read - https://freesound.org/people/MrAuralization/sounds/259291/
  
• Floppy insert -https://freesound.org/people/ullvieib/sounds/329062/ 
•  Ocean waves -https://freesound.org/people/pulswelle/sounds/676105/ 
•  Door https://freesound.org/people/SeanSecret/sounds/440644/ 
•  Door squeak https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/346212/ 
• Wall bump - https://freesound.org/people/Osiruswaltz/sounds/457741/ 
• Textures based on set licensed from https://thegameassetsmine.com/ 
• Kobold by Eldrikke - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/25579027/ 
• Dead pirate illo by Matt, https://dribbble.com/shots/6238570-Dead-Pirate
• Music licensed from pond5.com
• Box illustrations generated with  Stable Diffusion AI and a lot of Photoshop

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