Audiogames.net Monthly Digest - June 2023
Welcome to yet another edition of the audiogames.net monthly digest! For this month, we have a bunch of new releases and updates from all over the world for you, which is pretty appropriate considering we’re entering the holiday season, which is also when a lot of companies start running sales and we have one of those for you as well!
Before we begin, here’s your obligatory reminder to spread the word and send your friends a link to these digests!
New Releases
Hel-Hunter: Damned Soul (Windows, Mac)
Hell Hunter: Damned Soul is the frightful story of Elyon, a dhampir, the son of a vampire and a human. In this sequel, The Damned Soul, the story of Eylon continues a few months after the previous chapter. Elyon is in Transylvania with his objective always clear in his mind, to slay Dracula, the Lord of Darkness. This sequel has improvements and new features in the combat system including new gimmicks and AI enhancements. The chapter also introduces the new relic system, and environmental gimmicks. Follow Elyon in this sequel, I hope you are ready, because a new threat lurks within.
长生界: a new martial arts RPG (Windows)
This is a new Chinese game combining turn-based combat with first person exploration. Both for this game and another release coming up later, you will need to use the translation features offered by your screen reader to play. More details from Nuno:
- The game requires locale emulator. It is showcasing a new game engine.
- Hotkeys:
- F1: Opens the character panel
- F2: Opens the backpack panel F3: Opens the pet panel.
- F4: Opens the equipment panel
- F5: Opens the skills panel
- F6: Opens the task panel
- W/S/A/D: Movement Operation like hunting and fishing will be described in the game. This game seems to be incomplete yet, and there's only first epizode. I have played for a while and... for such a primitive engine its very good.
Open Alpha of Elves of Allalhill, a new browser game, based upon lotgd
Hi all, It has been a long time since Nonvisiongames did post another game release. This time however, it will be an open alpha of our new browser game Elves of Allalhill. Elves of Allalhill (EOA), is a browser game based upon the LOTGD codebase and takes place in the continent known as the ForestLand. Players will register as a New Elven assassin which are part of the Assassins Guild located in the town Allalhill. The town Allalhill is situated in the Southwestern Regions of the ForestLand and suffers from raids by the Forest Orcs. During your play you'll be gaining experience, TreeCoins, Adamantine Fragments and most important, levels so you eventually can seek out the Forest Orcs and confront their unholy leader. But, will all be as it is presented? Or is there something else going on? Well, there is only one way to find out. ;) This game is being worked on for some time and there are still quite a bit of things needed to be done. But i think the bases is placed and now i am looking for the community that wants to give the game a try and help us searching for spelling mistakes, grammer issues and all that's not right. This essencially means that i feel the game is ok to be called an open alpha version. To early to be a fully working release, but ok enough to attract some early players. What does the game offer for now: - Several locations, like the town of allalhill, longview farm, tyler's textile mill, HopsHill Brewery, The Mountains of Milah and several others still in the works. - A new Elven race which is accessible from the start, with Forest Gnomes, Dark Elves, Centaur races lined up at some point to be unlocked, together with their own cities. More are in the works. - Specialties which are available from the start are: Archer, Fighter and assassin, with druid & sorcerer lined up for later. More are in the works. - Several systems for quests, like the bounty office, quests given in the inns & the fruit orchard. The quests for the inn still need some looking over. - several images are hand made by one of my partners, the rest will follow soon. - An info center that highlights some of the thermology and lore in the game, this is still being worked on. - Most events will result into your feed being added in the daily news. For example, when you accept a contract in the bounty office or work a shift at your labour job. - at the login screen and on all locations the last 4 news highlights are presented. - And much more!
Sourcefable - A new French adventure/RPG/fighting browser game
Following is a description combining the original announcement posted by Obert01 to the forum and a machine translated version of the developer’s post on Facebook
Sourcefable is a French accessible game. It is an interactive narrative fiction including strong fighting and RPG elements. It wil play on any web browser, is compatible with screen readers, written and coded by a blind french author. It includes musics and illustrations with alternate descriptions. Play as a hero such as Alice from wonderland, Narcissus from greek mythology or Jack the ripper casted in the strange world of Sourcefable. Choose your path, morale, romance, animal partner and struggle for your life in tactical fantastic martial fights. The game also features some nice replay value ... will you find the 6 different endings? The game is in french but we think it may be enjoyed with a screen reader and auto translation addon. You can for instance use the NVDA Translate add-on: https://nvda-addons.org/addon.php?id=168 For any comment, questions or if you want to report about playing it with translation please contact : confrontationsaga@gmail.com
The game will be updated on Sunday, July 9, 2023 to correct a bug. This only affects games in which Cassilde is in love with the heroine or hero, inspiring her perfect attacks. On this date, all games will be reset. It is recommended to finish any adventure started before this date. For those of you in a hurry, or if you're about to start a new adventure, a corrected alternative version of the game is now available here (will not be altered on July 9): https://dashingdon.com/.../wysty.../sourcefable-safe/mygame/ The initial link to the full game, formerly the demo link (will be patched on July 9): https://dashingdon.com/play/wystygry2/sourcefable/mygame/ Link to the game teaser: https://youtu.be/ZDOxWfA6BbI Enjoy the game!
ios and android: Empires Order
Empire's Order is a unique sci-fi game that takes players on a journey on a distant planet in the galaxy where a precious ore is waiting to be mined. As the chosen one, it is up to you to settle on the planet, extract the ore, and deliver it to the Empire in a timely manner. Players will have the ability to build their own deck, research new technologies, upgrade their equipment, trade with other players, and run operations with their agents. With a variety of gameplay options and the use of all means necessary to deliver the ore, Empire's Order offers an engaging and challenging rogue-lite incremental deck-building experience. The game features 42 different cards, 37 different buildings, 33 events, and 84 achievements, as well as a variety of events, perks, and specializations to keep players engaged and challenged. links: https://apps.apple.com/br/app/empires-o … 6446022485 https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta … iresorderp https://discord.gg/xEbAa8qCxe
Bounce Bounce (Windows)
Bounce Bounce is an arcade game in which the player is flying upwards, but losing momentum and will eventually begin to fall. To prevent this, the player must collect items that give them a boost in momentum upwards. But since the player is constantly moving, this can be quite a challenge. The game is divided into levels, each level is 100 squares high. At the end of each level is a platform that the player needs to land on to continue. The game also includes a second mode, details about it can be found in the readme. Please note that since this is considerably more complicated than anything I've ever coded before, there might be bugs. To download the game, click the following link. https://kavyapriya.itch.io/bounce-bounce
Pattern Play Story (iOS)
Welcome to a match 3 game for everyone. Make lines clear the levels and keep the time bonus high or the game stops. Features
- Easy to play
- Limitless gameplay
- Offline play
- NO in app purchases
- 100% voiceover compatible
Legend of the Sword, new wuxia game (Windows)
Description by Tuohai:
This is a single player real-time action rpg game Hotkey operation Arrow keys: move in the specified direction Ctrl+arrow keys: Move quickly in the specified direction by performing lightning skills Spacebar: Launch attack Enter key: confirm operation/trigger event/pick up items delete：Discard items Shift+delete: Discard all similar items `：Pick up the item
> Shift+: Drop the item `> Tab：View surrounding targets Esc key: return to the upper level Q, E: switch items, skills Shift+Q, E: switch package categories home & end: quickly switch to the first and last item bar Page up, page down: move item position forward and backward W: use items/upgrade skills f1 to f12 are the default skill hotkeys Ctrl+f1 to f12: set skills Large keyboard numeric keys 1 to 0: use items, equipment shortcut keys CTRL+Large keyboard numeric keys, set item and equipment shortcut keys G: View the currently selected target Z: view map coordinates; X: view character status; C: view items, skills utility; V: start/end meditation B: open/close detection mode; N: open/close profile mode; M: switch to view the type of target Shift+C: copy what you just heard to the clipboard; Shift+D: additional copy of what you just heard to the clipboard The game uses the Moon Legend engine, which is relatively mature for a martial arts game, so be sure to use the English state to play the game. In the game, there are many conversations and tasks, or to get all kinds of free drugs, drinks, etc., is regularly refreshed, including bosses, once a boss appears, then enter the battle state, and trigger the same battle plot, can not be saved, dialogue and a series of operations, please pay attention to the player. In the battle, be sure to retreat to advance, do not fight hard with the opponent, most of the plot bosses are the same ability as the protagonist, quite difficult to deal with, need to think outside of those previous games to fight. In the case of strong teammates to help, try to take your teammates to fight while retreating, if you stand in place and let your teammates carry, it is easy for your teammates to die in battle, once your teammates die in battle, the protagonist basically can not meet the enemy If the enemy has a group attack skills, even if teammates in front of the block, you will be hit, if the gap is very large, basically you will try to escape, your hands are futile, because the protagonist of that battle is not you, but your teammates. Some battles, many teammates, then the protagonist also help teammates together to kill the enemy, although you stand in place the enemy may not be able to hurt you, but teammates if all killed, then the protagonist alone is also very difficult to the enemy, because more teammates, on behalf of the enemy will also be a large number, please pay attention to the players. The refresh time in the game to enter the game shall prevail, do not do save processing. Temporarily only wrote a map for everyone to try to play, the future game will be more exciting.
Much more details as well as a tutorial how to get through the first few sections of the game as well as a download link can be found in the thread linked above.
First public build of my accessible game engine Unseen RPG (Windows)
Hello everyone! I just released a very early build of my RPG engine. The goal of this engine is to be an introduction/starting point for people who are interested in making games but are scared of potential barrier to entries. So it's going to be focused on allowing users to build turn based RPG's as quickly as possible. I expect if this finds an audience, it will be among children, casual hobbyists, story tellers, and musicians. I am a sighted developer that is doing their best based on feedback to make an engine that is usable from screen readers, but I have a feeling I'll need a lot of guidance. Read more and find the download and several demo games here: https://ericbomb.itch.io/the-unseen-rpg … -available
Game updates
- Warsim’s Necromancy features got a refinement in Version 1.0.6, which now lets you raise corpses from the local graveyard, as well as adds a number of potential consequences of going down the dark path of Necromancy such as losing public opinion and new throanroom events. You can read the full patch notes here
- Hearthstone patch 26.6 introduces a number of exciting changes, including a new Twist game mode, prepares battlegrounds for the return of quests later in July, and gives you a taste of the upcoming Titans expansion coming in August. Separately from the game, the Hearthstone Access mod has also been updated. In addition to supporting the newest patch and its new Twist mode, support for Heroic Duels was implemented.
- SoundRTS is now at version 1.37. Units can now attack from vehicles or defensive structures (such as Gates or Towers). In addition, this update includes various fixes and features helpful to modders. Speaking of which,
- The SoundRTS ancient War Mod has been updated to take advantage of the new features and now also includes its own single player campaign.
- Sanctuary in Time 0.3.7 allows you to change your relationship with a follower (IE propose marrige or break up), adds more coaching bonuses, adds various new cosmetics options including new hairstyles and more. A bigger update, version 0.3.8 was released for patrons and will be available to everyone else 2 weeks from now. This update introduces various options for dismissing followers, the ability to build outposts, a barbershop, options to rename your followers and even more tweaks to the coaching system and gameplay. You can read the changelogs for both updates by clicking the links above.
- Periphery 2.1.0 - makes many enhancements to the audio mix, which should make finding items much easier. The update also adds a playable musical instrument to the title screen and includes other bug fixes and performance improvements.
- June updates to Alter Aeon introduced many changes to spells for all classes, cartography and crafting, as well as new additions to the “labyrinth” group of areas. In addition, the Solstice event is still running until July 4th, in which various special areas will be available for both small and large groups. You can find more details in the post above.
Other news
The Steam Summer sale has started and is running until July 13th. Almost every game available on the platform is discounted, so whether you’ve been eyeing audio games like The Vale or Blind Drive, fully accessible mainstream games like Brok or Skullgirls, games which can be played thanks to community mods like Slay the Spire or Stardew Valley or any other playable game, now’s a good chance to pick it up!
Authors
This edition of the digest has been written by:
- Piotr Machacz (@pitermach on Twitter and pitermach@dragonscave.space on Mastodon)