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Crystal Shard is proud to announce the release of Heroine’s Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok, available for FREE download!

Heroine’s Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is an adventure / RPG hybrid. Like in many adventure games, you have a world to save, and must use your wit, guile and inventory to puzzle your way through. Like in many roleplaying games, you can customize your character with various classes and skills, and must train yourself in combat to stand a chance against the fierce monsters in your way.

The game is designed in the spirit and atmosphere of the classics, and strives to have the same high quality of art, music, and plot. With multiple character classes and several solutions to many puzzles, the game has excellent replayability.

Features:
- Explore the rich world of Norse mythology!
- Three character classes with separate side quests: use your strength as a warrior, the arcane arts as a sorceress, wit and guile as a rogue, or create a hybrid with skills from multiple classes.
- 32 distinct voice acted characters with animated portraits.
- Over 100 hand-painted backgrounds and 10,000 sprites in animations.
- Many monsters, including giants, trolls, and svartalfar.
- High replayability due to optional quests, alternative solutions, and the three different classes.

Available for download from http://www.crystalshard.net/hq.htm .
Also available on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/283880

Trailer available at:

Voices preview teaser:

Soundtrack: http://www.indiedb.com/games/heroines-quest/downloads/heroines-quest-soundtrack

Oh yeah, I forgot about Heroine’s Quest when speaking of the QFG-style resurgence.

I still haven’t played A Tale of Two Kingdoms, but it looked great and as one of the better indie titles, so I’m looking forward to Heroine’s Quest as well.

Heroine’s Quest looks amazing.  While there are a handful of QfG-like titles, I believe that Heroine’s Quest most matches the style and tone of the originals.  It also sounds like a really interesting story, and I can’t wait to get into it!

Thanks for sharing the trailer!

Thanks for the positive feedback on the trailer!

From a gameplay point of view, the RPG elements will make Heroine’s Quest quite a bit more different to ATOTK. Like in QFG, you can play a warrior, sorceress, and rogue, and these will have different moves to use in combat. Also, this can affect the way you deal with puzzles and situations.

ATOTK has multiple endings which include lesser endings and is a lot more open ended. HQ has optional side quests, but doesn’t follow this same format (so it is still possible to get a satisfying ending).

HQ also has more humour than ATOTK, as well as moral choices and better character development.

From a technical perspective, it is a bigger sized game, a lot more animations and rooms, and (imo) looks a lot better than ATOTK.

And for anyone who is interested, we have just released a small teaser showing some of the characters and voices in the game:

Enjoy!

The voices sound really professional.

Zifnab - 06 August 2013 04:39 PM

Except it didn’t need it. Which means all the kickstarters telling us how they “need” all this money are outright lies.

Not really. Most game developers want actually get paid for the work they do and not do it as a hoppy. Besides money helps to finish faster, Heroine’s Quest has been in development for god know how long.

Everybody has to eat!

You can either make a game in your spare time while working a full time job, or you can work a full time job making games.

That is basically the difference between professionals and amateurs. Sometimes we can get some great games from amateurs, but if you want a steady flow of high quality games we need professionals.