Sword & Squire

Sword & Squire is an RPG focused on tight resource management, with a twist: one of your party members has a mind of his own! You can spend a turn getting his attention, but it's only temporary...

Features:

• A 1.5-2 hour adventure served alongside a compact narrative.
• Original music by yours truly.
• A unique battle system that emphasizes thinking on your feet and carefully managing limited resources.
• Tightly-tuned fights and balance that will push you to make the most out of a small but meaningful set of tools.
• An easier difficulty for folks who would like to enjoy the systems and narrative without as much pressure, or just folks who aren't as experienced with RPGs.
• A harder difficulty for sickos.

The game's core concept is inspired partly by the Berserker Ring in Chrono Trigger - I found it interesting how tossing the ring onto a party member dramatically alters the mental stack during fights, and wondered if I could lean more into that concept with skills and enemy designs specifically tailored to it.

This game was made while I learned how to use rpgmaker 2003 over the course of 1 week (roughly 55 total hours) for the cookie cutter rpgmaker 2003 jam! I am probably never going to make another game in rpgm2k3 ever again but I had fun!