The Bard's Tale
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Welcome to The Bards Tale, a story of a mighty prince, Matis, seeking to marry a princess and unite two major powers under a commonwealth: The Rudawa and Arcadia Kingdoms! Everything is fine until a sorceress puts him in a time loop a day before his wedding, hoping he will perish, breaking the bond. Can you help Matis escape his fate and restore order to the medieval kingdoms of Rudawa and Arcadia?
In this game you have a time limit to complete the story or the day is reset. You will get reset a couple of times which is absolutely normal as the game relies on you remembering how to perform tasks, in order to complete it faster. That is how I implemented the theme anyways.
Good luck!
IMPORTANT
You have 2 min 30 seconds to complete the game so expect for the game to reset you a couple of times. After learning what the route is, the player can skip dialogue and speed through the level to complete it and break the loop.
Once the player interacts with the notice board they have acquired the notice and can go back to the elf. Sorry for no UI to mention this I was real low on time.
This game was made for the Ludum Dare 47 Compo challenge. The theme was "Stuck in a loop".
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/the-bards-tale
Due to this being made in under 2 days there are probably bugs and improvements that can be made. Please be sure to let me know in the comments section so that I can update this game once the Ludum Dare Compo is finished.
BUG/NON BUG PROBLEMS AND IMPROVEMENTS
- UI
- Change relieve to re-live on start cutscene
- Add time left to let player know how long they have
- Add something to let player know they picked up the notice
- Camera glitches when switching areas
- Dialogue too slow and should be directly on screen without type effect.
- Increase speed of going into cutscene.
- Programming
- Replaying the game after finishing makes movement impossible (update so the game does not think it is game over)
VERSIONS
Download available.
WebGL build discontinued due to increased bugs over the downloadable.
CREDITS
Font (in line with Ludum Dare Rules):
Copyright 2012 The Press Start 2P Project Authors
Licensed under the Open Font License
All remaining assets:
CursedSoldier
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Comments
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You've got this listed as supporting Linux and Mac, but the download is only a Windows build.
I am so sorry, I must have completely overlooked how unity does this. :( I will export to mac and linux asap! :D
Not bad not bad, let's see...
First of all I really appreciate your character's animations being in the same tempo as the music. The gameplay was basically a solid loop of "Talk to person, get item, repeat." although I guess that fits the theme(?) It was pretty satisfying to get a little further each reset tho, even if that limited the length of the game
Thank you! I had to compromise on the quests due to the 2 day Ludum Dare Compo time limit so I stuck with fetch quests. As for the theme, each reset means you are stuck in a loop and once you finish the game you break said loop. I'm very happy you enjoyed it, definitely worth the 2 day grind :D!