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[ERYFKRAD]

To get the best endings in AToTK you need to be extremely OCD and check in ridiculous places. The easiest thing to miss is

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Using "Look" while you're standing inside one of the stables in town to find the horseshoe.

And yeah, also the rope. You need it to get either the best or the evil endings.
To really drive yourself mad try to find all the cutscenes, and get full Wisdom and Honor points in a single playthrough. Yes it's possible.

Not to mention

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Searching through the haystack when the stableboy's not around.

 

[Fizzii]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to bring to your attention that we're getting close to the finish line with this game!

We have a page on IndieDB here: http://www.indiedb.com/games/heroines-quest/
Includes a little writeup added yesterday on the team behind Heroine's Quest, and some things to expect to see in game.

For those who may have missed it before, we also released a voice preview trailer about three months back:



Let me know if you have any questions about the game!

 

[Berekän]

Oh boy, it's finally coming, looks fantastic, kudos to all your team Fizzii

 

[Luzur]

Now where have I seen this garden before?

first thing i got was "Heroes of Might and Magic", but i dunno...

also, i want a choice option of gender.

 

[evdk]

Think QfG.

 

[Fizzii]

also, i want a choice option of gender.

Ha! I'm not sure how well 'Heroine's Quest: You want to be a male hero?' would go.

But if you only like playing male characters, there is QFI, Mage's Initiation and even Hero-U in the works. You'd just miss out on the Scandanavian mythology

 

[AngryKobold]

That's what an adventure game needs: talking heads and voice acting. You instantly feel your money is well spent.

The girl sprite seems to be a replica of main character from Legends of Kyrandia 2. I wonder if they also copied other things. Like say, the idea of protagonist losing her clothes several times. Or at least the inventory interface. I kinda liked those things. Fizzii?

 

[ghostdog]

Looks amazing, excellent pixel art and surprisingly good voice acting. I'm really looking forward for some new QFG-like experience.

That's what an adventure game needs: talking heads and voice acting. You instantly feel your money is well spent.

 

[Zed]

It does look fantastic. Congratulations on getting it this far. Get it all polished and sparkly (and done) and I'll play it!... eventually (when I've got time ).

 

[Fizzii]

The girl sprite seems to be a replica of main character from Legends of Kyrandia 2. I wonder if they also copied other things. Like say, the idea of protagonist losing her clothes several times. Or at least the inventory interface. I kinda liked those things. @Fizzii?

She retains the same outfit throughout the game. It gets a bit too cold to wash and change clothes in winter, especially when you're busy trying to save the world and all that.

It is pretty common to base new sprites on something existing for the initial walk cycles, but a lot of work was done with new animations. The side view probably does look most like Zanthia (I think the front view looks different, myself), but I suppose there are only so many ways of drawing a head of hair especially when dealing with the difference between 1-2 pixel adjustments.

The screenshots are exactly as you will see in game, so the interface is less like Kyrandia. The inventory interface is similar to Sierra style with a pop up inventory box. And there are keyboard shortcuts to bring GUIs up more quickly than using mouse.

That's what an adventure game needs: talking heads and voice acting. You instantly feel your money is well spent.

Indeed, especially when you don't need to spend anything! Seriously, I did not really care to have a voice pack myself at first, as I often play games with no sound at all, but some of the acting in the game is really superb, and it really does give characters more life. We had well over 100 separate people audition, and were quite lucky to come across some very talented voice actors. Plus it helps with remembering the various Nordic names.

And portraits are a staple to Sierra-style games

 

[Insane Psychic]

It looks damn sweet. I was worried that it'd peter out like so many other QFG-likes. Kudos to you for pulling through!

 

[evdk]

That's what an adventure game needs: talking heads and voice acting. You instantly feel your money is well spent.

Actually the problem is the missing John Rhys-Davies.

 

[V_K]

I'm more interested to see how good is this on the role-playing side. Mage's Initiation (judging from the demo) looked rather weak in that department.

 

[Luzur]

also, i want a choice option of gender.

Ha! I'm not sure how well 'Heroine's Quest: You want to be a male hero?' would go.

But if you only like playing male characters, there is QFI, Mage's Initiation and even Hero-U in the works. You'd just miss out on the Scandanavian mythology

i played QfGI-III, so i know how this game will be, and no i can play as a girl, but i like the choice, and im from scandinavia so i prob know more about our mythology then what the dev does.

but after that Leisure Suit Larry debacle i kinda view these kind modern version of clikc and point games with alot of suspicion.

 

[kaizoku]

This looks pretty cool.
I think the portraits and the voice acting make a very nice addition as well.

Fizzii will you be selling the game on GOG?
It would be the perfect sales environment after all.




For those who have already forgotten, here is the 8 months old trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgzU3nybN5Y

 

[kaizoku]

also, i want a choice option of gender.

Ha! I'm not sure how well 'Heroine's Quest: You want to be a male hero?' would go.

But if you only like playing male characters, there is QFI, Mage's Initiation and even Hero-U in the works. You'd just miss out on the Scandanavian mythology

i played QfGI-III, so i know how this game will be, and no i can play as a girl, but i like the choice, and im from scandinavia so i prob know more about our mythology then what the dev does.

but after that Leisure Suit Larry debacle i kinda view these kind modern version of clikc and point games with alot of suspicion.

Requesting Luzur to work as a beta tester.

 

[Luzur]

also, i want a choice option of gender.

Ha! I'm not sure how well 'Heroine's Quest: You want to be a male hero?' would go.

But if you only like playing male characters, there is QFI, Mage's Initiation and even Hero-U in the works. You'd just miss out on the Scandanavian mythology

i played QfGI-III, so i know how this game will be, and no i can play as a girl, but i like the choice, and im from scandinavia so i prob know more about our mythology then what the dev does.

but after that Leisure Suit Larry debacle i kinda view these kind modern version of clikc and point games with alot of suspicion.

Requesting Luzur to work as a beta tester.

ach, pl0x dont.

im burned out since i replayed that VGA remake of Police Quest a year ago.

 

[Aeschylus]

Fizzii will you be selling the game on GOG?
It would be the perfect sales environment after all.

Pretty sure the game has always been (and still is) freeware. Unless that's changed recently.

 

[Fizzii]

Fizzii will you be selling the game on GOG?
It would be the perfect sales environment after all.

Yes, as Aeschylus has stated, the game is freeware. We are not selling it, and it will be free to download by anyone interested in playing it. So you will be paying a total of $0.00.

im from scandinavia so i prob know more about our mythology then what the dev does.

Requesting Luzur to work as a beta tester.

Fortunately, one of our beta testers is very familiar with the Prose Edda, and has been correcting minor myth discrepancies which snuck in, which also included some graphics discrepancies. Mind you, there may be one or two minor references which have deviated slightly to suit the character's personalities, but nothing major. And I'm pretty sure the programmer/writer read the whole Prose Edda in order to construct the story anyway, knowing him

and no i can play as a girl, but i like the choice

Well, it wouldn't be called Heroine's Quest then! But from a technical perspective, that's effectively nearly doubling the sprite animation work. The original QFG series never had a gender choice, and the team is making the game we want to make, which is with a female protagonist. For what has basically been a solo effort by our lead artist for the sprite animations, I don't think he'd have it in him to do a second set of protagonist sprites anyway

 

[dragonbait]

Quest for Glory with a female character and a story/setting based on Norse mythology?

OH GODS ITS HEAVEN

But yeah the voice acting is kinda bad but who the fuck cares about that. Those graphics are incredibly beautiful.

This Quest for Glory style graphics are awesomely cool. I've played one of the QfG games a long time ago and have fond memories of it but usually prefer turn based party based crpg's, but this is something that I would be interested in playing again now.

I also first thought that that this would be more related to the board game Hero's Quest...

I used to play Hero's Quest allot when I was a kid. that was a great game. Just out of curiosity I did a search for Hero's Quest and found that there are still people playing today and someone has a current blog about Hero's Quest. Check this thing out.
http://yeoldeinn-heroquest.blogspot.com/

 

[Fizzii]

I'm more interested to see how good is this on the role-playing side.

Well, I guess it plays quite similarly to QFG with respect to RPG elements; the story line and puzzles are very much like a traditional adventure anyway.

There are a number of creatures which you will come across to battle - some of them are common like bandits and hungry vargs (wolves) in the woods, and there are also some creatures which are out only during night. As you progress through the story, more difficult monsters will appear.

Monsters are a random encounter, and when they are there, you will see them walking onto the screen and start to pursue you. You can choose to fight, or run away, and the monsters will chase you for a little while until you lose them.

Your character also has stats and skills - strength, agility, etc. You can choose how to distribute some points when you first make a new character. While in game, you can learn some new moves (if you discover them or help someone out; abilities aren't handed to you on a platter), and the skills you have are levelled through using/training them (for example, if you cast a magic spell in combat, you will likely increase your skill in that spell).

Your character can also feel too cold, hungry, tired etc, so you will need to make sure that her basic needs are met, otherwise her health will drain away and she will die.

Regarding combat, I believe it is similar to QFG2, but I have never played the game myself (I don't really play many games as I much prefer painting graphics). The interface is easy enough to use (plus there are keyboard controls). Mage's Initiation is different in that you have to move/walk your character around, but you won't need to do that in Heroine's Quest (in my opinion, positioning characters in a 2d environment is quite tricky to play, and is more suited to 3d environments).

For those which don't enjoy combat as much, there is a difficulty slider too.

 

[V_K]

Thanks, Fizzii! Sounds really nice!
And what about magic system, will it be mostly combat-oriented or spells can be used to solve puzzles too?

 

[Fizzii]

And what about magic system, will it be mostly combat-oriented or spells can be used to solve puzzles too?

Spells definitely are used to solve puzzles too! Each class has its own solution for a number of puzzles, so there is a bit of a replayability element there as well.

 

[Fizzii]

Here is a preview of a couple of monsters you will see in game, as well as the combat and interfaces:

http://www.indiedb.com/games/heroines-quest/news/heroines-quest-monsters-combat-and-interfaces

 

[V_K]

Nice! So far seem's to be the most exciting of the QfG-likes to come.