Vampire: A Crown Of Thorns
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Vampire: A Crown of Thorns is a simple adventure game based on the popular tabletop RPG setting, Vampire: The Masquerade. Your goal is to subdue a number of enemy vampires, while making difficult decisions that can fatally destabilize the balance of power and kick start an era of chaos for creatures of the night, before they even had a chance to make peace.
NOTE: The macOS build of the game is not signed (= boring technical problem), which means that you might need to add it as a security exception on your system.
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Very cool - liked how you were able to greate a Vampire atmoshere with pixel graphics. The feeding system and how it would impact power balance was cool. Will share this with my Vamp players
One note - on one area I was able to walk off the map (left side of screen). Character just disapeared - luckily he was able to get back onto the map easily and finish his quest successfully. Not sure I understood dread gaze - didn’t crash for me but I am not sure I fully got mechanic.
Hey thanks for checking out the game! (and sorry for the late reply)
Yeah, I missed one of the spots at the edge of the maps, unfortunately. About Dread Gazes: if you succeed, they will lower the opponents defensive stat for the next two rounds. Unfortunately, I failed to come up with a way that can convey this easily in a visually clean way.
I love the retro spin you put on the vampire theme! This little adventure is very enjoyable. I appreciated the kind of system you invented to establish the final outcome.
Sadly, every time I pressed "D" the game crashed, so I never got to try the dread gaze, but I liked it anyway!
Thank you so much! I'm sorry you encountered an issue, I haven't heard this bug from anyone yet. I'm glad it didn't entirely ruin your experience though!
It took me back to the good old days, loved to see a classic retro game in the jam, and it was executed in a very faithful way to the genre!
Lovely story, sound, visuals, well executed! My only complaint is that I would like to hold down the arrow key to move in a direction continuously, because constantly tapping it was giving me hand pain. I understand that you made it so, so that the turn based combat would work, but my hand pain is still not very happy about it, so 4/5 great game, would highly recommend :)
Thank you very much and also for the video! You are absolutely right about the arrow key thing and I intended to fix it, but I as you mentioned, I was worried it would create usability problems for the other systems that rely on the game's turn based nature and that I wouldn't be able to resolve all design problems in time. Really sorry about your hand!
Loved it. Took my back to my Spectrum 48k days, I thought the idea behind it and the graphic style was excellent, great fun to play. I played it on my stream along with a few of the other submissions, I hope thats ok! Here's the link
I'm glad you liked it! Thank you so much for featuring it on your stream!