Do not bend The Crusader.
PT reader Nikos wrote in to tell us about Card Dungeon, a single-player roguelike due out next week on iOS from Indiana’s Playtap Games. You play as the Crusader, delving randomly-generated dungeons and collecting loot on a quest. There’s thousands of cards to find in the game, the devs say.
Now, Card Dungeon is going to look awfully familiar to anybody who’s played Card Hunter, Blue Manchu’s popular web-based free-to-play RPG that’s currently in development for mobile – they’re both doing this tongue-in-cheek channelling of 1980s tabletop games. I asked developer Fredrik Skarstedt about that today.
“There is no relationship between the excellent Card Hunter and our game,” says Skarstedt. “Both games use the same source material as inspiration: Dungeons and Dragons, board games such as Dungeon! and Heroquest from the 80′s, that I used to play as a kid, and collectible card games. I wanted Card Dungeon to look and feel like how I saw those games in my imagination when I played them as a kid.” Hmm.
There’s some substantial differences under that similar surface aesthetic: in Card Dungeon you control one character, not a party. It’s also a straight-up premium game that you pay for once and play to your heart’s content. There’s also that roguelike bit I mentioned earlier. “We also have corpse runs as a major feature,” says Skarstedt. “If you die during a run a grave marker will be placed at that location. If you make it back to your where you died, you gain all of your cards and money back that you were using the last run. If you don’t make it and perish again a new grave marker will be placed at the new location.”
Card Dungeon is out on October 1st for $3.99 — we’ll remind you next week.
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