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Starting old-school RPG project

Kostas here, after completing Omelette I decided to go for a bigger game project. This will be a retro-styled dungeon RPG with story elements from Final Fantasy games and combat elements from Hammerfight.


More on the game story will be announced later on. The gameplay is largely physics-centered, powered by ExtremePhysics.

Features designed so far:

  • Animated characters
  • Physics-based combat
  • Ragdoll-animation character deaths
  • Slow-motion and blur effects (shown on character death)
  • Breakable crates with gold and items
  • Inventory system
  • Lighting system


A glimpse of the inventory system:


You may find it hard at first to get used to the combat system. I may change it to a more traditional system later, but I find this one quite interesting. It takes from Konstantin Koshutin's game Hammerfight, which is one of my favorite games and I recommend trying it out.

The game has a long way to go yet. I expect to put a lot of work on developing the story and designing characters, monsters, items and environments.

You can try out the bare-bones prototype pictured in the screenshots here:

Download for Windows
ZIP file - download, extract and run saga.exe
5 MB

Thanks for reading. Stay in touch for more info on the game's development.

- Kostas V

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