Edit: The Combat Mechanics Milestone Demo is over, if you'd like to be considered for future playtests, you can email me at britown.cohost@gmail.com

If you'd like to try out the Chronicles IV Combat Demo currently brewing, I made a little form where you can submit your info and receive a copy.

This demo is designed as a smaller game than the full vision. It exists to narrow my scope and also start iterating on feedback from the Big Complicated Combat System.

Still not 100% sure when these will go out (very soon!) but I promised it would be this year and so it shall be!

If you even remotely liked Ultima back in the day (U1-5) then please for the love of heck take a look at Moonring. Free, and an absolute ton of fun so far. I'm so lost and so curious about this world, the gods, what the heck is up with the moon, and all the weirdness of the cities.

It's got a great progression system, a heck of a lot of odd lore, and best of all: Tons of QoL stuff. Tab to auto-finish text parser things, thought bubbles of things your character knows they should ask an NPC, maps, full journals, the whole deal.

Let me count the ways:

• It's $3 on Steam with the launch discount.
• On itch.io, also $3.
• For Pico-8 users, here's the cartridge.
• And here's the source code, with external tooling for the map and dialog tree.

Been at it non-stop this week and it's at a point where I'm comfortable with it's capacity and performance enough for the demo.

It's a really exciting system and it just launches the whole project forward.

Look forward to another Big Writeup™️ about how it works.