Arto Koistinen
Creator of
Recent community posts
- I really enjoyed this! The viking setting is really cool, and the artwork hits home in its simplicity and well-designed palette. The shapeshifting mechanic was great, although it took me a while to get the hang of all the forms. When I first turned into the raven I was like "ooooohhh it's forest" :D
Some possible bugs/problems:
The mead of recovery didn't seem to recover hit points. - I didn't find a way to see items' stats
- Sometimes it said I see 'stones' i.e. the floor tiles
I'll check a walkthrough just in case then to see if I did something wrong, but this is what happened:
After waking up, I went to the right, saw Drissa, talk to her and when I tried to go back to the camp, the screen fades out but then fades in back in the room to the right. When I then go to the camp, it works but Witt doesn't return.
Hi!
So, way back in time so long ago barely anyone even remembers what it was like (2019), we did this game called Ignis Universia: Eternal Sister Saga for Ludum Dare. It was a mix of Visual Novel style storytelling with JRPG battles and had a lot of quirky humour (written in a near-comatose state of tiredness, as one does in a game jam).
The game did well enough in the jam and continued to gather follows and comments here on itch, so we decided it was time to do something with it. Thus was born the Eternal Sisters Saga DX, an expanded (now almost an hour long if you play all the content!) which was also released on Steam. Encouraged by the very positive reviews there, we started working on a sequel. The first demo and the Kickstarterfor that sequel is now here!
Ignis Univesia: Awakening of the Erudite Empress continues in the same vein as the previous game, but instead of just having JRPG battles in midst of dialogue, we expanded the concept to include full 3D dungeons.
Play the demo here: https://arzi.itch.io/ignis-universia-demo
It's the last song (Lunatic Dance) from here: https://wingless-seraph.net/en/material-music_vocal.html
I have to admit 80s London pop music scene is not exactly my forte, but having hanged in other similar music scenes, this was a very familiar phenomenon! The game's very well made and though it felt a bit overwhelming at first, getting started was easy enough and there were enough clues to complete it without resorting to guessing.
Great work! Looking forward to seeing more :)
Thanks for making it video! It was awesome!
If you're interested, I also wrote a short post-mortem here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/room44/room44-post-mortem