#game of runes

[20kmemesunderthesea]

🦑Nemo's Fury🦑

I'd been looking forward to playing an indie RPG game, "Nemo's Fury," by Chris Hunneysett and Niall McLoughlin. I got the demo on my iPhone, but alas, I've an old phone which does not support the full version and I could not purchase it! 💔

⬆️ (This is actual footage of the developers consoling me with the assurance that they are currently working on a desktop version.)

In the meantime I splurged and got the paperback book version of the game, which is much akin to those old "choose your own adventure" books I love so dearly.

Premise: You play as an Irish-American who immigrated as a child when your family fled Ireland because of famine and land clearances instigated by aristocratic English landowners. Your family died of illness during the voyage to America, leaving you reason to be embittered at the British.

Your name is T.K. O'Connor. (Your appearance and gender is left up to to your own imagination.) Now as an adult you're an aspiring journalist who's been sent by your editor to investigate the reports of a sea monster which has been attacking ships.

You're sent aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (dun-dun-DUUUUUN!) along with a certain harpooner, a marine biology professor and his valet. Thus the adventure begins!

Gameplay: You join the crew of the Nautilus, and Captain Nemo sends you on various missions

I will say there were actually quite a lot of typos. I noticed, for example, a point in a journey mission where I had to make a decision to "turn left" or "turn left." (I made the difficult decision to turn left in that situation.) Ned Land was referred to as "she" and "her" in at least a couple places, and I don't think the master harpooner would have been thrilled to be misgendered. (No hate; you'll notice my writing is rife with mistakes as well.) As far as I could tell, however, none of the typos I found really effected the essential mechanics of the game, which seemed pretty solid —and a lot of fun!

All you need is two 6-sided dice, a pencil and paper:

Storyline and characters: The book version is apparently simpler than the app version in terms of storyline and choices the player can make. I would have liked to have done a mission related to Captain Nemo smuggling gold to revolutionaries. Apparently there is such a mission in the app version!

That being said, although simpler, the book was still long and complex enough to be fun and interesting.

Captain Nemo did seem rather different in this story than he did in Jules Verne's books. Notably, instead of carrying a lot of barely repressed rage, his rage was, well...definitely not repressed. On a scale of Vladislav Dvorzhetsky to James Mason he was definitely more James Mason. (If you know, you know.)

The idea, so far as I understood Mr. Hunneysett, was to let the player come to their own conclusion as to wether Captain Nemo was evil/untrustworthy or not, which I thought gave the game storyline a very compelling, suspenseful quality.

I always imagined the crew of the Nautilus as being highly disciplined, loyal and intelligent, and that Captain Nemo would have carefully hand-picked them from people he'd met in his travels as a young man.

In Nemo's Fury, however, the crew members are quite chaotic, and some of them are downright untrustworthy. Mr. Hunneyset imagined Captain Nemo having taken in "all the waifs and strays nobody else would touch," offering a semblance of belonging in his rag-tag crew. That creates an interesting dynamic where you as O'Connor must think through your interactions with the crew, because some of them have it in for the Captain, each other and possibly you. Having to decide if any given crew member is in the right or if they're really treacherous adds an intriguing dramatic element.

Apparently there's more little subplots in the app version, such as something relating to Captain Nemo's love life (leaving me both worried and intrigued) and steampunk cyborgs!

I enjoyed the paperback version of "Nemo's Fury,” which is available on Amazon. The demo version of the ✨deluxe✨ game is free for Android and iPhone, with a desktop version currently in the works:

The same developers also have a delightful fantasy rpg series called "Game of Runes,” also available in paperback form on Amazon.

Additionally, they have a desktop version FREE TO PLAY on itch.io which I have been spending copious amounts of time on:

I hope you all enjoy these games as much as I have!

Mobilis in Mobili! 🦑

Also see...

Nemo's Fury 2

Nemo's Fury 3

[akanemnon]

Clearly the correct answer

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MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[rannnem]

I drew em again super fast because I had all day to kill, this time with more clarity on their appearance and more funky outfits! I decided that their hoodie should have the Delta Rune on it, minus the angel part purely for design purposes

Twin Runes is by @akanemnon of course

[trisexyual]

rb and respond with your top unromanceable video game character/s that you think should have been romanceable

[aldi-spice]

Feeling like a senior citizen when people compare Fields of Mistria to Stardew Valley when it's clearly more whimsical like Harvest Moon and Rune Factory.

[noirnil]

[maybevarric]

at the end of tresspasser we see many of the elves mysteriously disappear across thedas correct? honestly this should have been the origin story for the veil jumpers: they get recruited by solas under the guise of restoring the ways of the elvhen.

initially these recruited elves would have been generally supportive across the board because finally there’s some kind of reclamation of their history and their past. finally there is an explanation and some kind of hint of a future as a whole. things are looking up under the protection and guidance of the dreadwolf.

but as solas’ plan would progress we’d start to see a divide amongst his followers, and i reckon this is where the veil jumpers would begin. as a pushback to this. as an act of defiance against what was coming. learning what solas’ plans are for the future of thedas and tearing down the veil and all that. the veil jumpers choose not to reclaim their history and past through these kinds of designs, but instead to learn for themselves because they are owed it. they deserve it. but not at the cost of the world ending.

idk i think the worldbuilding and the lore could have been SO much better. and i think it’s really strange that solas had agents in tresspasser and then suddenly had nothing come the start of datv.

[lgbtpopcult]

Top 21 Video Games That You Can Play Gay (As a Woman)

Fields Of Mistria

The Walking Dead by Telltale Games

Life is Strange True colors

The last of Us 1 & 2

Baldur’s Gate 3

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

The Sims Franchise

Lake

Echoes of the plum grove

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Stardew Valley

Rune factory 5

Mass Effect

Little Goody Two Shoes

Dear Althea

Gone Home

Sword of the Necromancer

Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town

A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986

Dragon Age Inquisition

[corvlth]

Provide enrichment to your local retired spartan general

[rainbow-nijisaki]

Runey Factor 5'd some studies!

[shelbiewillhoite]

I guess I should probably post these here with the new rune factory trailer.

RF4 characters in the style of Fields of Mistria. VERY WIP. I wanted to sketch out the whole cast first before finishing them.

[starspice-y]

In my 3D Studio Art class we had to make enlarged objects out of cardboard, so my made my 3DS running my favorite game, Rune Factory 4 :D

If I had more time I would have made it waaaaayy more polished, but I'm proud of what I finished with :)

[akanemnon]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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(NOTE: I will be taking a small break after this comic. I got a lot of stuff going on and plenty of recovering to do. Asks will still open for 24 hours after this comic drops. But the comic itself will return on December 8th!)

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Damianos (“Damen”) of Akielos/Laurent of Vere - Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat

Rhy Maresh/Alucard Emery - Shades of Magic by V. E. Schwab

Addam Saint Nicholas/Rune Saint John - The Tarot Sequence by K. D. Edwards

Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard - All For The Game by Nora Sakavic

[lastoneout]

"[New Farming Sim] is copying Stardew Valley!!" Harvest Moon came out for the Nintendo 64 in 1999

Edit: My apologies, Harvest Moon came out for the SNES in 1996