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Latest Release: “Last Gasp of Winter” Alpha v010 (2/12/2021)
What is it?
To Ash and Ember is a singleplayer Dark Fantasy RPG about making hard choices. It plays like a board-game without needing to shuffle decks, set out a board, or read manuals. This is a game of time management and decisions, of who to save and who to sacrifice, and of a city whose windows and streets grow darker and stranger the longer your battles continue.
What does it play like?
If you like the Arkham Horror boardgame, World of Horror, Darkest Dungeon or the Consuming Shadow: this is going to be a bit like a mashup of all of those with its own unique flavors. If you don’t know what any of those are this is going to play something like an oldschool RPG that’s shacked up with a dice-based boardgame.
**(Still not a Trailer but it is an) Early Alpha Teaser **
(Not a Trailer either but is fun to listen to while browsing screenshots below to get a feel for the mood of the game)**
(Bard’s Art is a placeholder here)
Who’s making this?
Just me except for some of the music; the cool tracks up above are from memoraphile who is graciously donating their time and sound to the game for free. “The Forgotten Workshop” is just the name I set up to put all my works under the label of.
What’s this running in?
It’s Unity! I’ve got a ton of custom inspectors and editorwindows I built to make this project possible to do solo without going mad myself.
When is this thing going to be ‘done’ done?
I’m hoping to launch Winter 2021, but it may be as late as Jan/Feb 2022 for the full release. I’d love to go faster on all this but there’s a ton of work yet to be done on the game, I’m not able to work on it full-time because I have to work to keep the lights on and feed two mouths, and I don’t currently have the money to hire outside help. (Who knows what the future holds though)
Are you going to Kickstarter?
I’m thinking about it – but my release schedule for this thing’s already pretty tight I feel and I’m just unsure how much attention it’d even get on crowdfunding platforms. Slap me with some data and interest if you feel I should be getting on it and/or getting on it immediately.
Why does your username sound familiar?
If you’re one of the folks who was in the Star Ruler or Star Ruler 2 thread: howdy, long time no see. I was co-lead developer on those projects and did a lot of yacking about them here. This one’s a solo act though – there’s no studio or co-lead developer or publisher behind me (at least at the moment; I’m thinking about pushing this to Humble Games).
Useful Links
You can grab the Alpha on itch.io if you’re up for grappling eldritch stuff while at the same time grappling with eldritch software (be warned there’s no manual and no tutorial at the moment):
Link to the Alpha: To Ash and Ember by Firgof
Patreon (some game-related swag and you’d really be helping me survive this pandemic apocalypse hellscape to develop this game about preventing the world from becoming an apocalyptic hellscape):
And the Discord if you’d want to join it before the game’s even officially out:
I do journalist/lets-play things and think my audience is up for some eldritch horror
PM me! More than happy to toss a few copies out there if some folks want to parade it around. Due note: on a scale from 0 to 10 where 0 is a simple prototype and 10 is a complete game, I’m presently at 2 here. Currently there’s about 20-50 minutes of gameplay in the game’s tank right now.