Arcanum: Rise from Ruin

The Wizards of the Arcanum have protected the civilized nation of Galthuum for centuries with their magical might. Flanked to the east by the Demon Empire of Agmore, to the west by the Seas of Mir, full of pirates and aquatic beasts... and to the north, the Decrepit Old Kingdom full of Immortal Malevolents with their ruinous tombs and treasures.

Your master shall prepare you to enter one of these lands, and defeat a monster of great power. This shall be your trial. Should you fail, only death will await you. It will not be easy. It will require a full understanding of the principles that guide the sorcery that flows through the veins of the world.

Do you have what it takes?

Update:  The Blood Maze has been added. This is now a buggy  'complete' version (V5).  The game is about twice as long now. A final (optional) boss has been added, along with a dungeon with multiple endings, 2 mutually exclusive spells and multiple ways to complete the dungeon. Music has also been added to some sections.

There are still a lot of bugs in the dialogue that I'm not sure I'll ever get around to fixing but I figured since so much work went into the Blood Maze I should release this version anyhow. Perhaps it will be revisited and cleaned up. I'm still surprised I put this much work into adding to a gamejam game. I will leave V4 up for now since it is far less buggy and still works as its own thing.

Controls:

• WASD to move.
• Space to whack things with staff.
• Click and aim to fire an arcane blast.
• Click to progress dialogue.
• E to examine items of interest
• F/Q to cast a learned spell

To play, extract the zipped folder and run the executable inside.

Known Issues/Bugs:

• Clicking outside of a choice sometimes breaks the game, you'll have to quit and restart
• It's very easy to click through dialogues too fast or by accident
• Clicking too fast through dialogue can accidentally make choices for you, since they appear at the middle of the screen
• Animations are not lined up fully with the new spell
• Sometimes door puzzles break upon skipping dialogue options