Show HN: Python 3 port of Umbra, an unfinished Lovecraftian CRPG from 2001

Posted by networked 10 hours ago

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Comment by vunderba 4 hours ago

Nice job. Did you ever play the Sword Quest series of top-down RPGs for DOS? The screenshots of your game remind me of the first-person battle scenes from those games, which I really liked. I still find that artwork very charming.

https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2018/06/game-293-sword-quest...

Comment by networked 1 hour ago

Thanks. No, I haven't played Sword Quest. The comments on the blog point out how it resembles Dragon Quest and Ultima IV for the NES, while Mark Hughes' page for the original Python 2.1 Umbra (https://mdhughes.tech/software/umbra/) says it's influenced by dungeon crawlers and console RPGs. I think that's the clearest visual connection. If Sword Quest uses drawing primitives to create its enemy graphics in vector, that's another.