Desmond's Castle
A downloadable game for Windows
The vampire Desmond woke up from his long sleep and attacked the villagers of Burnsley.
A knight sent by the realm, will go to the vampire's dwelling to settle this matter.
Form room to room, he will have to face the enemies and take the different secret passages of the castle to be able to face the terrible Desmond!
This game was made in a month for the GameOff 2024.
WASD : Movements
Left Mouse Button : Attack
Middle Mouse scroll : Switch Weapon
Some secrets can take time to be discovered, so here are all of the secrets exposed :
Unlock the weapons :
There are more weapons than the default one : the axe and the hammer.
01. To find them, you will have to find rooms with a shadow on the center :
02. Once you find one, you can notice that the shadow have a collision.
03. Hit the shadow and a Chest will appear.
04. Hit the chest again to open it and you will unlock a new weapon.
-The blue chest give you the axe.
-The red chest give you the hammer.
Unlock the cheats :
01. To unlock all the cheats, you will have to get the axe and the hammer.
02. Explore the rooms of the castle until you will find one of these cracks on the wall :
03. Then, you will have to smash them with your weapon !
04. Each cracks is associated with a weapon :
-The top-left crack is related with the sword (default weapon).
-The top-right crack is with the axe.
-And finaly, the bottom-left crack is related with the hammer.
05. Theses cracks will lead you to a room where the cheats (the orb) can be picked by the player !
Cheat can be enable in the main menu or in the pause menu.
Secret boss :
01. You will have to defeat Desmond to unlock the secret boss
02. Once you have defeat Desmond, the gates will open. Instead of going upward and leave, go to the previous room.
03. In the top-right, a symbol will be activated, hit it with your weapon :
04. You will be teleported to the hall of the castle, take the entry door to leave.
05. Find the monster in the center of the room to trigger a dialogue and then, the fight will start.
06. To defeat the secret boss you will have to use the hammer. He does not take any damage from the others weapons.
-Game made by Nth Brnd, no assets used
-Palette has been created by Polyphrog : https://lospec.com/palette-list/dustbyte
Software used :
-Unreal engine 5.4.4
-Fl studio
-Aseprite
-There are some bugs! I will try to fix them so feel free to let me know if you find out one or more.
-English is not my first language so if i made some mistakes, like for the bugs encoutered, feel free to notice me about them!
-This game is far from perfect, so I'd be interested in hearing your feedback!
Download
Install instructions
01: Download the file
02: Extract "Desmond's Castle.rar" into the folder of your choice with an Extraction software (Winrar, 7zip, Winzip...).
03: When the extraction is done, open the folder "Desmond's Castle" and run "Desmond's Castle.exe".
Development log
- 1.1 Version Uploaded18 days ago
Comments
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I liked the art style, it's very good
But I have a couple problems...
First one is a technical problem. The direction of the attack range you control with mouse, needs to be fixed. Since it gets the rotation by taking the distance from character to the mouse pointer, it rotates when the character moves. And this is not beneficial during combat.
Secondly, starting the timer after entering the castle could be a better idea. Because it lets the player to get used to controls and appreciate the art style this game has without pressure.
And finally, because the game is repetitive, seeing that cutscene at the beginning over and over again made me frustrated. It would be great to have a button that skips all of them.
I wish you luck and I hope the game becomes better in future.
Thanks for your feedback!
Can you port this to Android with gamepad support?
Hi, that's a good idea but unfortunately, at the moment, I don't have the time to make a mobile port of the game.
I'll try to make an android version later when I have time!
Hi, would it be possible for you to make a patch that has the game translated into several languages? I also want to say that your game is amazing.
Hi! Thanks for your comment! I'm glad you liked my game!
It would be possible to integrate several languages into the game, but unfortunately I don't have much time to devote to this task at the moment, maybe I can take care of it later.
But I'm curious to know what language you'd like the game to be translated into!
No way I found a game about me
You have lots of potential, keep it up!
Thank you for your comment !
i like it!
very cool grafik !
Thanks for your comment!
is there a reason that you need internet explorer and not just a click and download
Hi, I'm not sure I understand your problem, you don't normally need Internet Explorer to download the game. The download button should work with any web browser. Has this happened with other Itchio games?
how do we defeat secret boss
Hi! To defeat the secret boss, you'll need to use the hammer:
It doesn't take the damage of other weapons.
I just realized that I'd forgotten to mention this on the page.
I hope it helps!
Oh yes I saw the solution on itch.io youtube video. Thanks anyways! :)
Hello nice game you got here. Where can I contact you?
I still haven't gotten past the point people point and laugh at my programmer art. So jealous! Keep it up :)
Thanks for your comment!
I can't get past the room with the bat
Hi! To get past the bat room, you have to go around it to the next door.
If you approach the bat, it will fly away.
In the newest version of the game, things are (hopefully) more obvious.
your an inspiration for me. thank yo
Thank you for your comments, I'm glad that you liked my game !