Dark Blue Dungeon vs JACL Interactive Fiction

Dive into the world of Dark Blue Dungeon, a free retro dungeon crawler blending exploration and turn-based combat. This game was passionately developed by an independent developer and is inspired by board role-playing games. If you enjoy the experience, do not hesitate to leave a rating and a comment, and to share your adventure on social media. Thank you for playing and have a great game! INTRO Dark Blue Dungeon is a text-based turn-based combat RPG. A dangerous quest is waiting for you, in which only your choices will allow you to open up a path to the final battle. Many ordeals will punctuate your road : combats, riddles, mini-games. Your main asset will be your thinking. Inspired by tabletop role-playing games, many screenplay choices will be presented to you. Your nerves will be strained by several enemies from medieval fantasy (goblins, orcs, cyclops, dragons), with their strengths and weaknesses, including powerful bosses. In order to defeat your enemies, you will be able to optimise your equipments, spells and attacks. Concerning battles, spells and attacks are linked to a roll of dice of up to 16. PLOT The fragile peace between two rival kingdoms is disturb further to the discovery of legendaries amulets. The fate of the smallest of kingdoms seems doomed but the course of the conflict is disrupted when its king uses the amulets' mysterious power. The smallest kingdom is victorious and its king has established himself as world master. Nevertheless, the kingdom's apparent stability collapses when the king is betrayed and so defeated. Where are the amulets ? Who stole them ? The most audacious adventurers throw themselves in a quest with an uncertain outcome : an unrewarding death or the power to impose its reign thanks to the amulets' power. An enigmatic man gives you a mission : defeat the dragon who just evicted him from his dungeon. Will you dare enter the Dark Blue Dungeon and face its hazards and mysteries ? Will you succeed in defeating the dreadful magic devourer dragon ? And what does the safe, fiercely kept by the winged monster, contain ? Beware ! never open that safe, the dungeon master has warned you ! RED NIGHT DUNGEON Red Night Dungeon is an additional content (DLC) for the video game Dark Blue Dungeon. In Red Night Dungeon, you will embark on a new adventure in an alternate universe, where you will be teleported by a magician who masters the magic of the multiverse. This DLC allows you to choose new heroes, already at level 10, with their elemental affinities pre-set. You will also discover new equipment, spells, battles, and gameplay inspired by Rogue-Likes. You will explore a brand-new dungeon, an alternative version of the Dark Blue Dungeon, filled with new challenges to overcome. Get ready to experience something new that will test your skills and strategy in this rich, mysterious alternate world.

JACL brings the golden age of text adventures to your iPhone and iPad. There are no buttons to mash and no twitch reflexes required — you read where you are, type what you want to do ("open the door", "take the lantern", "go north"), and the story responds. It's interactive fiction the way it was meant to be: you and your imagination, one sentence at a time. The app comes with a shelf of ready-to-play adventures spanning several languages and moods — from a fantasy dungeon to a quiet stroll through Paris — so there's something to play the moment you open it. FEATURES • A built-in bookshelf of adventures, ready to play offline • Never lose your place — every game auto-saves, so returning to the shelf and coming back drops you exactly where you left off • Named save points for marking the moments you want to return to • A tap-to-open map that charts the rooms you've explored • Sound and music in games that support it • Tap and hold any word to look it up in the dictionary • Comfortable, adjustable serif reading — set your text size once and it sticks • Light, Dark, or System appearance for the reading screen • Designed for iPad, in portrait or landscape WHO IT'S FOR If you grew up with text adventures in the 1980s, this is your nostalgia machine. If you've never played one, it's the gentlest possible introduction to a whole genre of story-driven games. The bundled adventures range from family-friendly puzzles to mature, tongue-in-cheek action, so there's room to grow into. More adventures can be downloaded and opened directly in the app. Curl up with a story. Type your way through it.