Mystic Land: The Search for Maphaldo - Old school RPG inspired by W7 and EoB

[Casual Hero]

That lowercase "search" is killing me, but this is great!

Also, you sound like a southern cowboy in your description text:

But, after more than 25 years, we found all them early unfinished DOS versions, maps, concept art and documentation lying on old disks collecting dust.

 

[negator2vc]

The system requirements for the linux version are really weird. Ubuntu 22.04 seriously?
It should be Ubuntu 20.04 since it a still supported version until 2025.
I really hope it a mistake while setting up the page.

 

[SirBlabsAlot]

The system requirements for the linux version are really weird. Ubuntu 22.04 seriously?
It should be Ubuntu 20.04 since it a still supported version until 2025.
I really hope it a mistake while setting up the page.

We don't know exact requirements yet (for any system), so I just put something there.

 

[SirBlabsAlot]

That lowercase "search" is killing me, but this is great!

Also, you sound like a southern cowboy in your description text:

But, after more than 25 years, we found all them early unfinished DOS versions, maps, concept art and documentation lying on old disks collecting dust.

Will ask staff at GOG to fix "search" to "Search" (their mistake, as they are the ones putting up the page - I just sent material )

 

[Contagium]

Speaking of teleportation puzzles, will an automap be included? I can see a small map on the top right, but unless I am mistaken and it was shown earlier, there is no large dungeon map. That will make it difficult to impossible for many players to progress if there is not one.

Automap is included, but the quality depends on how good any of your character is in "Mapping" skill.
It can also be enlarged over the whole viewport easily (by clicking on the small automap).

An old school game with modern conveniences like automapping is the best of both worlds. It's part of what made Grimoire so good.

 

[Lady Error]

Will ask staff at GOG to fix "search" to "Search"

Steam also hasn't updated the name yet.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Well, it could be worse.

Could be completely inverted capitalization or just random typo crap: MYsti ClanD: sEArch 4madalpho

Anyway, is there an ETA for the release date of the release date/demo yet?

Announcements to prepare you for announcements are my favourite things.

 

[Cohesion]

Will ask staff at GOG to fix "search" to "Search"

Steam also hasn't updated the name yet.

Why dude is blaming them?
Some coincidence both gog and steam used lowercase, but not me submitting my game, pinky swear!

 

[mediocrepoet]

Will ask staff at GOG to fix "search" to "Search"

Steam also hasn't updated the name yet.

Why dude is blaming them?
Some coincidence both gog and steam used lowercase, but not me submitting my game, pinky swear!

Dunno, but we had this conversation a month and a half ago.

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...pg-inspired-by-w7-and-eob.147748/post-8703434

 

[SirBlabsAlot]

Will ask staff at GOG to fix "search" to "Search"

Steam also hasn't updated the name yet.

Why dude is blaming them?
Some coincidence both gog and steam used lowercase, but not me submitting my game, pinky swear!

On Steam, it was first my mistake, but I submitted order for correction awhile ago now. Someone even posted the link where we discussed the title with users of this forum (so you see It's not hard for me to admit to a mistake ).
I double checked now.
On Steam store setup, everything is as it should be, I don't know why the title on Steam store still "serves" lowercase "search".
Will try to contact them again.

I also now checked all the correspondence and the contract with GOG, and the title I submitted was with uppercase "Search"

It's not a big deal really - I will submit tickets for correction.
But this time, it really wasn't our fault

 

[SirBlabsAlot]

Well, it could be worse.

Could be completely inverted capitalization or just random typo crap: MYsti ClanD: sEArch 4madalpho

Anyway, is there an ETA for the release date of the release date/demo yet?

Announcements to prepare you for announcements are my favourite things.

Currently the release date for demo is "End of 2023 / Early 2024".

 

[SirBlabsAlot]

Will ask staff at GOG to fix "search" to "Search"

Steam also hasn't updated the name yet.

Why dude is blaming them?
Some coincidence both gog and steam used lowercase, but not me submitting my game, pinky swear!

On Steam, it was first my mistake, but I submitted order for correction awhile ago now. Someone even posted the link where we discussed the title with users of this forum (so you see It's not hard for me to admit to a mistake ).
I double checked now.
On Steam store setup, everything is as it should be, I don't know why the title on Steam store still "serves" lowercase "search".
Will try to contact them again.

I also now checked all the correspondence and the contract with GOG, and the title I submitted was with uppercase "Search"

It's not a big deal really - I will submit tickets for correction.
But this time, it really wasn't our fault

I was told it's fixed on GOG now (and as far as I can see, it really is).
Also, the "coincidence" of both sites having it wrong was the fact that GOG can "harvest" basic data from Steam (title, description, ...) ... and so you can see where this is going and why this error happened on GOG as well

Anyway. It's fixed on GOG and I already asked Steam support to do the same about 2 hours ago.

 

[The Limper]

Who is Maphaldo anyway?

Is he an Ancient ArchLich who was only brought down by the combined might of good? (Nah, been done before…)

Maybe an Archpriest who destroyed the cult of the followers of Sodom for their enslavement and daily rapes of all dwarven smiths? (Only because he secretly wanted them all to himself? Maphaldo the Smith-Poker?)

How about a geneticist who is the creator of the one and only albino Dark Elves? (Nah…he’s probably just color-blind!)

Or better yet, he’s the level 3 mage spell version of the Phaldo spell?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Who is Maphaldo anyway?

Is he an Ancient ArchLich who was only brought down by the combined might of good? (Nah, been done before…)

Maybe an Archpriest who destroyed the cult of the followers of Sodom for their enslavement and daily rapes of all dwarven smiths? (Only because he secretly wanted them all to himself? Maphaldo the Smith-Poker?)

How about a geneticist who is the creator of the one and only albino Dark Elves? (Nah…he’s probably just color-blind!)

Or better yet, he’s the level 3 mage spell version of the Phaldo spell?

It's Phaldo's mom, don't overthink it.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Who is Maphaldo anyway?

Is he an Ancient ArchLich who was only brought down by the combined might of good? (Nah, been done before…)

Maybe an Archpriest who destroyed the cult of the followers of Sodom for their enslavement and daily rapes of all dwarven smiths? (Only because he secretly wanted them all to himself? Maphaldo the Smith-Poker?)

How about a geneticist who is the creator of the one and only albino Dark Elves? (Nah…he’s probably just color-blind!)

Or better yet, he’s the level 3 mage spell version of the Phaldo spell?

It's Phaldo's mom, don't overthink it.

There's map in guy's name so we're probably looking at Golden Kamuy knockoff.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Who is Maphaldo anyway?

Is he an Ancient ArchLich who was only brought down by the combined might of good? (Nah, been done before…)

Maybe an Archpriest who destroyed the cult of the followers of Sodom for their enslavement and daily rapes of all dwarven smiths? (Only because he secretly wanted them all to himself? Maphaldo the Smith-Poker?)

How about a geneticist who is the creator of the one and only albino Dark Elves? (Nah…he’s probably just color-blind!)

Or better yet, he’s the level 3 mage spell version of the Phaldo spell?

Maphaldo is the 2nd cousin of MacGuffin

 

[Butter]

 

[0sacred]

Who is Maphaldo anyway?

Is he an Ancient ArchLich who was only brought down by the combined might of good? (Nah, been done before…)

Maybe an Archpriest who destroyed the cult of the followers of Sodom for their enslavement and daily rapes of all dwarven smiths? (Only because he secretly wanted them all to himself? Maphaldo the Smith-Poker?)

How about a geneticist who is the creator of the one and only albino Dark Elves? (Nah…he’s probably just color-blind!)

Or better yet, he’s the level 3 mage spell version of the Phaldo spell?

I hope the plot twist will be that Maphaldo is just an old bum and that he can't help you sAvE tHe W0rLd

only the McGuffin can

 

[mediocrepoet]

It turns out Maphaldo was all the friends we made along the way~ <3

EDIT: ... Now I totally want a blobber that ends with this sort of shitpost ending.

 

[Infinitron]

Updated trailer:

Just a re-upload - a small fix on the end screen of the video.

 

[0sacred]

gameworld is literally called Mystic Land

 

[Melan]

Very tasteful. Both the Wizardry VII vibes and the Kyrandia high fantasy look (e.g. on the cottage) are looking strong.

 

[Bara]

First game I've actually bothered to put on a wishlist so I don't forget about it.

Got hopes for this one.

 

[SirBlabsAlot]

Hey guys/gals, quick question.

We are discussing the mythology skill and potential additional penalty if you don't identify monsters in the fight (so when you get ?? rat ?? instead of Giant rat for example - like in Wizardry).
The idea is, that if you don't know the monster, all physical attacks would have a bit of a penalty (not too much, but let say in the range of 10-20% ?) - as the fighter wouldn't know where (on the body) the monster is most vulnerable to attacks
This would also add additional utility to mythology skill.

What do you think about this idea?
Would you be up for it? Do you think it's no good? This is another one where we WILL listen to you and will go with what the majority of you will "vote for".


I will also have new material to show any day now, along with a few news tidbits. We are "building" the game every day - So stay tuned

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Sounds good.