Din's Curse

[BasiliskWrangler]

Ah, our indie developer friends at Soldak are prepping their 3rd game: Din's Curse! No screenshots yet, but the description sounds pretty cool.

http://www.soldak.com/Dins-Curse/Overview.html

[Dragonlady]

Ah, our indie developer friends at Soldak are prepping their 3rd game: Din's Curse! No screenshots yet, but the description sounds pretty cool.

http://www.soldak.com/Dins-Curse/Overview.html

Thanks! This does sound interesting. I'll have to try and remember to check on it once in a while.

[Iane]

He's a workaholic don't know how he does it - making a game similar to FATE is gonna be a big challenge and I hope he pulls it off

[Rush]

I briefly took a look-see at the site...even bookmarked it for when I have more time to take it all in. At first glance, I see the games are listed as Action/RPGs. No...no complaints...just rambling on as usual. Thanks for listing it here.

---Rush.

[getter77]

Tis great looking stuff and as this is supposed to be their "hardcore dungeon crawl" foray, I'm expecting great things.

Then the trick becomes when will I get money/find work again so as to afford it sometime after release.

[Dragonlady]

Just popped into their forum section and found these two questions with answer. Thought you'd be interested.

Any idea, yet, whether it will run on a Power Mac with OS X 10.3.9 (your other games do!)?

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Can't wait! I'm willing to help with alpha/beta if you are accepting applications.
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Technically the plan is late Q4 right now.

I don't think we have changed anything that prevents the game from running on OS X 10.3.9.

I don't even know what we are doing for beta yet.
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Steven Peeler
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Depths of Peril, Kivi's Underworld, & Din's Curse

[Zeno]

Sounds like a Diablo clone.

Myeh. I got all action-RPGed out after playing Titan Quest obsessively. Plus, neither of their earlier efforts really stand out to me. Depths of Peril is fairly cool, I suppose, but it was incredibly generic-feeling. And Kivi's Underworld was more like an action game than an RPG.

[getter77]

Now available and likely chock full of awesome for $19.99 pre-order/beta access goodness. Some of the best menu/tooltip work I've ever seen in terms of the Options menu and such at least.

I go hardcore into the beta doings tomorrow morning.

[IJBall]

So, has anyone around here been playing the [EDIT:]Beta of Din's Curse?

From reading Soldak's forums on Din's Curse and the [EDIT:]Beta, it sounds like it's closer in style to Depths of Peril than Kivi's Underworld. And, from my standpoint, I'm a little nervous about that - I was able to play Kivi no problem and liked it (though I will admit that I still haven't replayed it yet...); but I never got the hang of Depths of Peril and so didn't like it.

So, anyone playing Din's Curse's [EDIT:]Beta wanna share their thoughts with the Eschalon crew?...

[EDIT: My bad - I meant to say Beta in this, but I kept saying "demo" in the original version by mistake!]

[BasiliskWrangler]

There is a demo out? I can't find a link for it on their site.

I am very anxious to play it though. Post a link if it is a legitimate version.

[Dragonlady]

There is a demo out? I can't find a link for it on their site.

I am very anxious to play it though. Post a link if it is a legitimate version.

I just checked the forums. They said if you pre-order it now, you'll be able to get the beta game. The 'real' game will come out in about a month. No demo's yet, from what I read.
Pre-order for either Mac or PC

[IJBall]

There is a demo out? I can't find a link for it on their site.

I am very anxious to play it though. Post a link if it is a legitimate version.

I just checked the forums. They said if you pre-order it now, you'll be able to get the beta game. The 'real' game will come out in about a month. No demo's yet, from what I read.
Pre-order for either Mac or PC

Yes, my bad - I meant to say "Beta", not demo - I've fixed my original so no one else will get confused.

My question remains, though - has anyone around here been playing the Beta of Din's Curse? Is the game closer to Depth of Peril in style? Etc.

[Iane]

Well I pre-ordered and have been playing the Beta for last couple days on and off and I find it a o.k game.
Being a Fan and supporter of Soldak (having DOP and Kivi already) I'm a little disappointed in the game as it is feels like I'm playing the 1st 2 games all over again but in a different setting.

[getter77]

I've been plugging away at it when stuff hasn't came up that's had me distracted or elsewhere---it is shaping up. The first meaty'ish patch came out last night for the beta crew, which is a good sign. Pretty much an action Roguelike feel, which makes sense considering all the lead up journals and such. I've not played their prior 2 games despite owning Depths of Peril, so the lot of it is fairly fresh to me.

So long as the patches continue to flow at a brisk and effective pace mirrored by the beta activity, I reckon this will turn out to be quite a nice and substantial game.

[Dragonlady]

I was surfing Softpedia and saw they had Din's Curse beta version to be downloaded. I double checked the company site but no download from there that I could find unless you preordered as said above. Not sure if this was legal or not. But, downloaded it anyway a few minutes ago to check it over.

This was Mac version. Don't know if they have PC version since I forgot to look (on Softpedia)
Anyway, here's the address for the download Mac version: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Games/Din-s-Curse.shtml