Legacy of Verintia
PLEASE NOTE: This is just a demo version with very limited content (only 1-2h of play time). The full game is still in development.
Welcome to Verintia!
Legacy of Verintia is an open-world fantasy RPG for the original Game Boy developed in 2023. The game lets players choose their own path. As you can earn experience points from every meaningful action, you can make progress in whichever way you want – help the local townsfolk, hunt monsters and sell their materials, collect and sell ingredients, help out on a farm, go fishing or play a card game at the local pub.
Game features:
- NPCs have names, backstories and daily routines
- build your own character with stats and equipment
- all new turn-based battle system with action-based hit detection
- learn magic spells for combat
- time system with day/night cycle
- buy your own houses in each town
- cook your own food to recover health
- learn about the rich lore of the continent
- enjoy many different mini games
Still in development and might be changed in the future:
- music and sound effects to be added (obviously)
- explore a whole continent with different biomes
- join one of two rivalling guilds of mages
- 8 towns
- work as a travelling merchant
- rebuild a city destroyed in the war with the orcs
- different endings
- postgame content for infinite replayability
Controls:
| Game Boy Controls | Keyboard Controls |
|---|---|
| D-Pad | Arrow Keys |
| A | Z |
| B | X |
| Start | Enter |
| Select | Shift |
This is the first game I have ever released and the first game I ever developed for the Game Boy. So there are probably still quite a few bugs. If you should come across anything, please let me know: contact@niklasdrude.com
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Development log
- ~10 Bugs FixedMay 31, 2023
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Alright boss, I've played through most of what you've got posted on itch. My mind is blown! You're such a talented dev and artist! Sad to see you're not currently working on this one, as it's a total gem! This feels like the early portions of a Zelda-level GB game. You've got so much variety packed into this fun-to-play action/RPG-esque adventure game! The artwork, the dialogue, the character progression. It all feels so well designed.
I had put this on my flashcart a month or so ago, got busy and forgot about it. Just picked it back up and played until I think I ran out of stuff to do and was like "Well, let's go buy the full game!" Only to rediscover that it was in development, but looks like it's not anymore...
I totally get it. Reworking an old project such a drag! So take this either as encouragement to push through the pain to complete it, or as accolades for a fantastic old project. Whichever you please.
Looking forward to whatever you've got in the works. Thanks for posting this one. I enjoyed the heck out of it and will replay again focusing on different skills next go around.
Thanks so much for all of the praise and the words of encouragement 🙏
It's not completely off the table that I might continue working on this one in the future. But it was just way too ambitious for a first project.
When I return to working on Verintia, I want to make sure I am well-equipped and can build the game into the best version of itself it could possibly become 🙂
Hello brother! I'm wondering if you're still developing Verintia? just curious, thanks! :)
No, I'm currently working on other games. I have since learnt so much more about developing for the Game Boy. I should probably completely redo big chunks of the scripting and I am kind of dreading that 😅
I might revisit Verintia in the future. But I want to finish other games first and then apply what I've learnt to Verintia 🙂
Du machst hier noch weiter, oder, oder, oder? ;D
Das ist mein Plan ja :)
Ich habe schon rund das Doppelte an Fläche der bisherigen spielbaren Welt gebaut. Durch das neue GB Studio Update ergeben sich aber nochmal neue Möglichkeiten. Da werde ich nochmal einiges umbauen. Bis das Spiel wirklich fertig ist, wird es mindestens noch 2 Jahre dauern, auch weil ich noch ein paar Nebenprojekte angefangen habe. Aber wahrscheinlich bringe ich zwischendurch eine neue Version der Demo mit upgedateten Systemen raus.
Hallo,
Danke für die ausführliche Antwort! Das mit GB Studio freut mich natürlich, da ich dann als Spieler wohl bald noch bessere Spiele bekomme :D Ich freu mich auf die Updates von Legacy of Verintia :)
the game is fantastic, beautiful the idea of the combact system, amazing!
Thank you so much 🙏
I'm currently busy working on a different project. But I can't wait to return to this one :)
This game is awesome but I ran into a problem:
I had 12G and went to buy a knife. The lady said "[Old Script] You don't have enough gold" even though it only cost 10G. The [Old Script] thing makes me think some strange bug is going on
Indeed! Thanks a lot for spotting this. I built a new shop mechanic, that automatically will adjust the amount of items you buy if you try to buy more than you can carry. (example: you have 95 potions, can carry 99 and want to buy 10. Now the game automatically reduces the selected amount to 4 potions to buy)
This meant that I had to change which script is called for every single shop. To make sure I don't miss any, I marked the old (no more functioning) script with "[Old Script]". But it seems like I missed the smithy 😅
I'll try to get a fix ready in a few minutes. So if you play the rom you should be able to continue with your save file and buy that knife 😊
Should be fixed now :)
Awesome :) Thanks for the quick fix