Posted April 16, 2015
ETA: This Kickstarter project has now been cancelled
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From the Kickstarter page:
A classic old school pen and paper RPG brought to life in a classic, old school way, in the style of the Bard's Tale.
A few years ago I received permission from Dan Proctor, the author of Labyrinth Lord, to make an official Labyrinth Lord computer game. At the time the plan was to make an online web based game which would run in a web browser but real life got in the way of that and the project was started back up again as a desktop game about a year ago. Now I have a working prototype, which the screenshots below are from, which I would like to develop into a full game...
The dungeon engine is similar to games like Eye of the Beholder, the Bards Tale and Legend of Grimrock. There is also an outdoor engine for wilderness exploration similar to games like Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge. The combat is similar to games like The Bards Tale and Wizardry, though with some extra tactical options thrown in for good measure. These are all game styles which have (largely) disappeared but were terrific games.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/552978902/labyrinth-lord-the-computer-game
"Labyrinth Lord" is a ruleset very similar to the classic Dungeons & Dragons Basic and Expert rulebooks from 1981.
(I am not associated with this kickstarter project).
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From the Kickstarter page:
A classic old school pen and paper RPG brought to life in a classic, old school way, in the style of the Bard's Tale.
A few years ago I received permission from Dan Proctor, the author of Labyrinth Lord, to make an official Labyrinth Lord computer game. At the time the plan was to make an online web based game which would run in a web browser but real life got in the way of that and the project was started back up again as a desktop game about a year ago. Now I have a working prototype, which the screenshots below are from, which I would like to develop into a full game...
The dungeon engine is similar to games like Eye of the Beholder, the Bards Tale and Legend of Grimrock. There is also an outdoor engine for wilderness exploration similar to games like Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge. The combat is similar to games like The Bards Tale and Wizardry, though with some extra tactical options thrown in for good measure. These are all game styles which have (largely) disappeared but were terrific games.
"Labyrinth Lord" is a ruleset very similar to the classic Dungeons & Dragons Basic and Expert rulebooks from 1981.
(I am not associated with this kickstarter project).
Post edited April 20, 2015 by 01kipper