The Warriorlock

Story

Entranced into a deep dreamscape by the hallucinogenic spores of a mind-devouring alien creature, a young explorer is unwittingly recast a challenger in a realm of unconscious fantasy, where empowered with super-human abilities of might and magic, he must crawl a punishing gauntlet of dark entities and monsters to defeat the labyrinth of his captor's mind game—proving himself a champion morsel worthy of digestion.

Features

• Comical story-driven RPG with punishing strategic turn-based combat.

• Animated custom battle system, with enemy bribe option, stat-driven turn order and Action-Point charging gauges for unleashing special attacks and talents.

• Choice of party members to customize and balance your own 4-character battle crew.

• Randomized loot & spell drops—no two players will ever receive all the same items or skills.

• Rare enchanted items–rings, amulets and objects–that can be equipped to any party member class to channel powerful entities in battle.

• Immersive and extensive soundtrack.

• Created and developed by just a guy.

Development

The Warriorlock was created as a comically-inspired linear RPG, with a lighthearted picturebook-style presentation and original story.

I developed the game by heavily customizing a simple ruby script engine to create a one-of-a-kind homebrew grind crawler, with a 6-core character stat system akin to the original standard, a hybridized action/turn-based battle system, pre-rendered game paths, randomized treasure drops for nearly all items and spells, and a hand-tailored menu inventory system with detailed descriptions and bonus stat points for steady character progression.