Descending - Curse of the Blood Crown - Pre Alpha

CURRENTLY IN PRE-ALPHA STATE. 

DISCLAIMER: Not much to it at this point. Features are missing and broken. This is mostly a testing/debug build that I am making publicly available to make distribution easy.

My newest attempt at the modernization of my favorite old time RPGs like Bards Tale and Might and Magic and bring it to life in a low poly 3d world. My goal is to create an atmospheric, world-spanning, fantasy epic with a little but of old school feel and modern features. I have tried a free roaming, first person project but it felt like it was missing something. With this attempt I hope to capture the magical feeling of playing these old games using a scaled down, simplified world (easier to design and build) and mechanics which are much closer to Might and Magic World of Xeen.

PLANNED FEATURES

• First person, grid based movement and rotation with an unlockable camera for freely looking around (coming soon).
• Turn based combat with ranged attack options for most heroes.
• Permadeath - party members can be killed or maimed. New heroes can be hired to replace your losses.
• Build a party of 6 Heroes from a variety of fantasy races (Human, Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, Half Orcs, etc.) and Professions (Recruit, Mercenary, Scout, Thief, Apprentice or Acolyte) with branching Mythic Classes.
• Huge, hand crafted, tile-based Fantasy world made with the included Map Editor. World is made up of smaller maps, each up to 50x50 tiles.
• Deadly dungeons full of monsters, traps, treasure, hidden rooms and ancient secrets.
• Day/Night cycle with weather, fog and particle effects.
• Ability to change tiles in the world through quests, events and powerful terraforming spells.
• Steam demo and release planned as well as free alpha and beta builds here on itch.

CONTROLS (key rebinding coming soon)

• W,A,S,D to move
• Q,E to rotate
• Left Alt toggles Free Look Camera
• C opens Character Window
• J opens Journal Window
• M opens Map Window
• ~ Opens Debug Window
• Esc opens Menu screen
• Click enemy to attack during combat
• Spacebar skips hero during combat
• 1-9 to activate top bar actions
• shift + 1-9 to activate bottom bar actions