Through the dense fog our hero noticed a dark silhouette of a dark castle. Eventually his old rain-soaked map brought him to his target. He didn't have anything with him except for his favorite sword and remainings of an old armor with an unusual device – a sword-breaker. The hero looked around and stepped on the castle bridge...

The plot of this game is a story of a hero with an unusual and complicated life, who looks for treasures in an abandoned castle. On his way he is going to overcome lots of obstacles, fight the most unusual enemies, and solve the mysteries that are happening in the castle. In the end of it all he will get the treasures he deserves!

This game is a representative of quite a rare genre – interactive comic strips with exceedingly beautiful illustrations by a professional artist, and interesting nonlinear storyline. All actions and decisions in the game will change a storyline and the ending of the game. Every player's action will change the main hero's karma, so everyone can finish the game their own way. The achievement system will reward curious players with a big reward. Sometimes, you will have to make the most unusual decisions to survive... Every decision can be your last!

In our game you get:
- Interesting, nonlinear storyline.
- Variety of the game endings.
- The huge and mysterious castle.
- Variety of interesting locations and situations.
- Interesting enemies and castle inhabitants.
- Unbelievably beautiful illustrations.
- Achievements

Release in Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/411760
Release in PlayMarket: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swordbreaker2.game.android

Watch our new trailer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKANNwSMrvs

Join!
Our public: https://www.facebook.com/groups/swordbreakergame/
Our site: http://ducats-games.com/swordbreaker-the-game/

We will be glad to any responses and questions on future game! We will be a demoversion soon and you will be able to play it!

Nice pictures but the less said about your grasp of the English language the better.

"We will be a demoversion soon"... oh dear.

Yes, I not really well write in English...))
But in game all text is translated by the professional translator so don't worry!

According to your website, this is a game for iOS/Android, with a future PC version. Is this not made with Quest?

No, the special game engine is used. I don't remember the name...
The main thing that as a result will turn out the beautiful illustrated comic book (a text quest) with a set of options of passing!)

All right

I removed your post the first time, because it wasn't really relevant to this forum and treated it as spam, but I'll leave this one as long as you keep the discussion to this thread.

Best of luck to you and your game!

Edit: As a side note, I noticed you posted this exact thread on numerous other sites, some of which were removed as spam. If the site you're posting to isn't entirely relevant, it might be better if you ask the moderators/whoever beforehand so it isn't just automatically removed

Thanks!
It is ready to answer any your questions on game. And as there will be a demo - at once will allow you to play!))

Not everywhere it is convenient to ask moderators about possibility of placement of a post...

Our site completely working. It in two languages - Russian and English.
Also we can communicate on social networks.

The art is good - if a bit cutesy for my tastes.

Thanks!
Our artist tries! It not all illustrations... We don't show many of them not to spoil impression of game!

Before you do anything else, you really need to get your "professional translator" on the job. Your website is riddled with typos and wrong word usage and very offputting. It doesn't come across as professional at all or the kind of thing a respectable games company would do. If you expect people to buy this, you're going to need to fix the website before anything else.

"Sometimes any logic has to be rejected and help only curiosity and an independent way of thinking of the Player can!" from your website makes no sense at all.

Well I wasn't going to come right out and say it, but since David already did...yeah, the writing is pretty bad. Just looking at the Facebook page is enough to make me lose confidence in the quality of the actual game.

We develop game about adventures of the Hero who got to the lock in search of treasures.
Game in style of a text quest with the most beautiful illustrations from the professional artist!

Game for the Android and iOS platform. There will be also a version for the personal computer a bit later!

Join! It will be interesting)

If it were another type of game I might not have so much trouble looking past translation issues, but one with a heavy focus on text? It just comes off as unprofessional and honestly would make me wonder about what other major parts of the game are unpolished or unfinished.

Hello guys! Sorry for this english mistakes, but all we have right now it two people (me and author of scenario plus our greatest illustrator, lulz), and game at the moment sponsored by two of us. So it comes to conclusion - "We don't have enough resources to do extra professional translation for 10+ different languages". BUT don't worry - all text in game was made by professional freelancer, we don't even try to do translation of such big amount of text (300+ scenes) ourself. I hope you, players, can say to us - good our translator or not.

As for site... Well, yeah)) I rewrite it as I have time to this - right now I doing last preparations for code in demo.

Thanks for your replies guys, this forum one of few, that somebody answer to us)) Maybe we post story intro video here, you can watch it and "taste" translation.

Best regards, Mike.

Today we present you a demo of our game! It not big, but partly will be able to give you an idea of future game. We wait for your responses!
Download Swordbreaker Demo

Considering the game currently has 1 review of 5 out of 5, I'm guessing the site allows you to rate your own games? If not, I pity the language skills of the poor bastard who gave it that rating.

Seriously, get someone with a good grasp of English to test this for you BEFORE it's released. You've already lost me as a potential customer and I haven't even played the game.

Demo...)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swordbreaker.game.demo.android

So, guys... Did you try to play demo? What do you think about our game demo?

Somebody here?)))

You ignored all the suggestions about getting your game proofread properly before release and now wonder why no one wants to play it?

But in game demo - translation is made by the professional translator!
At first play, and then you speak about quality.

I'm gonna give your demo a whirl. It's for Android (your links here don't specify that) and I have an Android phone. Is it optimised for phone use?

Yes, this game demo for phones which 4" diagonal and bigger. For Android OS.

We need your help to test english text in game! Please, tell us if you find errors in game text. It is very important for us! Errors in game, not in this forum!))

Ok.

I gave it a quick look - I like the styling and how the gui works. As for the writing - there's some issues such as at the store page it says trasures rather than treasures and the translator doesn't appear to know about the apostrophe and the possessive s... that aside it isn't unreadable although the descriptions read more like a translation than how someone more fluid in English might have constructed them. Quite a nice app, I'll probably buy the finished thing.

Silver wrote:I gave it a quick look - I like the styling and how the gui works. As for the writing - there's some issues such as at the store page it says trasures rather than treasures and the translator doesn't appear to know about the apostrophe and the possessive s... that aside it isn't unreadable although the descriptions read more like a translation than how someone more fluid in English might have constructed them. Quite a nice app, I'll probably buy the finished thing.

Thanks for your answer!) Probably, we will be change english translator and fix text errors!

I'm not sure if the translation is 'wrong' as such, different languages construct sentences differently and they have that part right; and they may well have substituted your words (Russian?) for the right English ones. But it definitely reads like a translation if you see what I mean. It isn't incomprehensible or anything though.

Yes. We are russians))
OK! We try to find and fix this problems.

These problems (plural)

Yes))
I dont speak english very well... Sorry!)

I'm only playing. Your English is better than my Russian.

Hah!)))
Thanks!)

I have to ask why, if you've got this freelancer doing the translation for your game, don't you get him to take a look at the text on your website? First impressions are all important. A lot of people would take one look at the description of your game, with its typos and errors, and not even bother trying the demo because the assumption would be that the text in the game would be as bad.

Я с вами согласен.
Это тоже будет исправлено. Сайт сделали не
давно, а перевод текста делался раньше.

Sorry... I forget to change keyboard!)
I agree with you.
It too will be corrected. The site was made not
long ago, and the translation of the text became earlier.

ducats-games wrote:Я с вами согласен.
Это тоже будет исправлено. Сайт сделали не
давно, а перевод текста делался раньше.

Google translated this to:
I agree with you .
This will also be fixed. Site not done
long , and the translation of the text was made earlier.

I checked to see whether you were calling David names or not.

No)))

Pleasant news: our demo appeared in "A top free" in Adventures on the 304th place!)) And it only beginning!)

Already on 267))

We go up on PlayMarket!)
Now 243 place!
And we continue work...

Our Swordbreaker game demo have more than 1000 downloads!

If only my Android phone wasn't crap...

jaynabonne wrote:If only my Android phone wasn't crap...

What happened with your phone?

He probably means it's a slow/old model.

It doesn't have much memory, and the SD card is either failing or worse, so I have insufficient memory to install pretty much anything.

Mine goes through periods where it switches itself off and then flashes the Samsung logo incessantly until it decides it wants to switch itself back on again. Usually when I need to access my email account to show the travel tickets I bought online. I've got no idea how they manage to get away with charging what they do for them, but I decided to go sim only at my last upgrade opportunity and I'll just pick up a used one when this finally dies a death.

I understend you. But demo is 23Mb... It is very small)

Indeed.

New art)

How this art was made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVSR8vm4iZk

I hope you're going to make a donation to textadventures.co.uk given how prolifically you're using the forums to seek advice for and promote a commercial game not made with the Quest system.

As long as it's text-based it's on topic here.

If we make some money on this game...)

New art!)


55% of game illustrations are ready!

New sexy art)

Guys, we need your help in check of the new translation of the video.
Found the new translator, here and we want to check) Please!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y2rfgFGaoo

Update:
- New translation into English! All text was completely replaced!
Try new Swordbreaker!

Magnificent news, friends!
We were published in Steam Greenlight! And now we ask from you the maximum support!
It is possible to vote YES here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=457597315

Friends!
We need your help: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=457597315

45% done!

66% done!)

So, news of the last hour: we were published on a crowdfunding platform of IndieGoGo: http://igg.me/at/swordbreaker-game/x/11016196



We will try to collect bucks on payment of the artist and the translations into different languages since all this is very expensive to us....
Who wishes - can financially help.

Work in progress!)
Need your support on IndieGoGo: http://igg.me/at/swordbreaker-game/x/11016196

So, there aren't a lot of news!)
A lot of work on game scenes is made already. Still slightly we will add an art)
We took into account your responses concerning music (it wasn't pleasant to much) and we can tell that it will be partially or is completely replaced + a lot more melodies that the melody didn't seem monotonous will be added.
So wait! Already relatively soon!

Hi, everybody! With you the Swordbreaker project is also the next portion of news!)
Actually, already everything works in game. Now we are engaged in search and elimination of mistakes, testing of achievements, etc.
Also we study a question of porting of game on the next Linux and Mac platforms.

Attention to all!!!
6.11.2015 the game Swordbreaker release in Steam!
At first the version for the personal computer, all other platforms (including mobile) will be later.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =457597315

Our page in Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/411760

Release!))

Guys what you think of game?

Hi everyone!

As we promised to you, we add feature that you asked - Steam Trading Cards! There some cool cards, badges aaaaaand emoticons that waiting for you!

We also want to thanks everyone for yours bug reports, live streams, replies, it means a lot to us, as this game is our first real project that we made alive.

So, while game is on sale in Steam on Windows OS we don't stand still and already we work on the Mac-version of game!
In general, it is already started and works, it is necessary to finish a little more it))
Mobile versions will be later...

Nice pictures that's all www.etuicoquesamsung.com etuicoquesamsung.com

sophia107 wrote:Nice pictures that's all..

That's all? You joke?)) And how nonlinear storyline?

Now the game Swordbreaker The Game is available to users of the Apple Macintosh platform in Steam!
Try, write about the found mistakes if are.))
http://store.steampowered.com/app/411760

Christmas sale in Steam!
Swordbreaker The Game is 10% cheaper!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/411760

Happy New Year 2016!

We will start working on mobile versions of our game soon! Wait for iOS and Android!

Little review on our game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qUCgf2UBaM

New DLC contains 324 in-game scene + 9 ending scenes in full HD quality (1920x1080p), so you can set any of them as wallpaper for your PC Desktop.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/446890/

Good news!
In honor of the 8th of March (though the last) we have discounted our game at 15%. The discount is valid until the 14th of March.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/411760

looks awesome. a very talented illustrator you have there.

HawkenV wrote:looks awesome. a very talented illustrator you have there.

Thank you)

Hi, everybody!
We already work over the Android version of our game)
I hope that already very soon you will be able to play Swordbreaker The Game on the tablets and smartphones!

The long-awaited event has come true!
Our game Swordbreaker The Game came to PlayMarket open spaces: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... me.android
Now all owners of devices on the basis of the Android OS can play it. We long reflected on that to make game paid or free and have stopped on paid option.
In game achievements also work.

9.05.2016 In honor of a Victory Day we do a discount for our game in Steam for a week!

New update 1.0.4 version!
Fixed:
- achievements
- small errors

New gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30eKgYbEcVo

Ok. I don't know if i should be already typing this, but lets go.

I did buy the game, but only played it for 15 minutes, what means i cannot talk much about the story itself.

The best things are the images and the sound track. The images are very competent. I do not think it should deserve an award, as illustration, but it is very cool. The sound track is the best. Very interesting and looks to be very well used.

May people here already pointed the text problems. I believe it begins when you can only get introduction movie on Russian or whatever be that language. Polish, perhaps? You may only change game to English after the opening video, what suggests there is not an English option. Ok, lets move on. It doesn't matters.

But, hey? Why doesn't matters? Because as you can feel at the very beginning of the game, there is only a barely believable argument for the character entering into a castle and steal everything. The game was designed to be a dungeon crawling without many motivations or character deep development. The character is treated as "our hero", what means it has absolutely no name. No personality. No nothing. It is ok for old games and many theorists even prefer this lack of character, as it allows player to fill the gaps himself / herself. However the game also gives you no motivation. The idea is you get inside and steal everything. "Here" her is a dubious term, as the guy is a burglar.

Then problems follows. One guy somewhere pointed it was a crap having to click on text in order to scroll it down. Actually, i thing is not an issue at all. The real problem is that the player gets absolutely vey few texts and very few information. The game offers at each step two or three options where the player must just guess things. There is no real information. Do you want to get the skeleton's sword, the game asks? "I don't know" is the most proper option - not possible in the actual game - because you have just a clue abou the character's items based on the pictures displayed. The dungeon crawling games simply lacks a system where player would base choices knowing about the character. As the text also gives no clues, the player must just guess about the options. This is very uncomfortable.

As a good point, there is always a picture illustrating every single scene, and every single move. The artist worked a lot for this game, and actually did a good job!

You may only expect to be walking around a huge castle as monsters pops in front of "our hero" as the player must guess how to deal with them. Each scene has not many steps. I mean, when planning what i call myself "conflicts" - a situation where player must make choices in order to outcome any kind of oppositions, be it a fight, a discussion, a persuasion task - there are steps. You win this little particle of the conflict and takes an edge, and then goes to the next step until you get victory somehow. Most of the conflicts are split into two steps or "all or nothing" steps. Do not even bother trying to figure out if there is a certain course of action more effective. There is no system to encourage you acting a given way or a good text indicating what would be best doing.

In short, the game has impressive props and a very competent design. But a poor planning. And a terrible text. Seems while a team was working on good pictures and an inspiring music, the head developer was concerned about making it big. Just big, like the old times quality measure for parser games - the number of rooms!