Press kit :: The Fire of Ardor - Quest for the Soul Stone

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Factsheet

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Developer:
Carsten Pfeffer
Software developer, hobby game developer

Publisher:
No publisher

Platform:
Windows / Linux

Price:
Free

Release:
April 11^th, 2020

Estimated playing time:
30 to 60 minutes

Website:
http://cpfr.gitlab.io/the-fire-of-ardor

Contact:
pfeffer.carsten@gmail.com

Social:
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Description

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The Fire of Ardor is a free single player dungeon crawler with RPG elements and realtime combat.

You play a nameless hero who fights his way through a dungeon in order to acquire the soul stone that opens the dimension gate to the realm of the daemon lord Ardor.

In order to obtain the soul stone, you will explore the doomed town, visit its last inhabitant Randuras, an old wizard and fight your way through the upper and lower dungeons of the silver mountain, using your rusty sword and fireball spells.

The game uses a CPU-based rendering technique, called raycasting. This technique was originally used by the first FPS games in the early ’90s until hardware accelerated rendering was introduced.

News and Updates

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Patch 1.0.1 released on April 15th, 2020

The first patched version is released. The patch fixes a memory leak in the menus and adds more comfort when trading with NPCs.

Version 1.0.0 released on April 11th, 2020

The stable version of The Fire of Ardor - Quest for the Soul Stone is released for Windows and Linux desktop. Explore the dungeons at the top of the silver mountain in order to obtain the soul stone and enter the daemon realm.

History

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The game was originally developed for the Dungeon Crawler Challenge on GameDev.net from December 2018 to February 2019. The technical basis for the game was an unfinished raycasting rendering engine. During the challenge, the development of game features and engine features went hand in hand. The development of the game was the driver for the missing engine features. Due to the challenge deadline, some features had to be cut for the first release of the game. In the original plan, there were three dungeons with three soul stones and more NPCs (in the challenge submission, there was only one NPC). This version also used CC0-licensed stock music.

After the end of the challenge, a musician offered to write a custom soundtrack for the game. This was taken as an opportunity to fix problems in the game and develop further features that had been cut due to the time restrictions of the challenge.

The the first stable version 1.0.0 was released on April 11th, 2020.