About the Game

Hunt for the Lost Folktales is an indie game in development inspired by folktale stories from around the world, the monstrous origins of where these folktale beasts come from, and exploring the wilderness.This a passion project of mine combining drawing mythical beasts, learning about folktales, and advancing my skills in game development.A bit about me, I'm working on this indie game in my personal time which I post about my indie game dev journey every 1-2 weeks on the other social media linked below.

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⚔ Turn Based Combat ⚔

💜🩸 Damage & Fear 🩸💜

Fear is both your Strength and Weakness.
Stack Fear onto your enemies to deal Damage equal to their Fear.
The more Fear a beast has, the more Damage it takes from Attacks.

🔥 Environmental Hazards 🔥

Be aware of your surroundings and use them to your advantage because the battlefield is just as dangerous as the fearsome folktale beasts on it.

⚡ Weather Events ⚡

Each region has its own weather event that can affect how you explore in free roam mode and how you take advantage of those weather tiles in combat mode.

🐾 Hunting Trails 🐾

Every beast has their own distinct scent and pawprint trail.
Discover new trail types as you capture and return folktale beasts back to the Library.
Follow the right trail in each level to track down the Elder of that folktale beast.

🌳 Explore the Wild Woodlands 🌳

There are 3 regions that make up the Wild Woodlands, each filled with their own escaped folktales for you to hunt down and capture their tales.
Each region has an environmental natural disaster that highlights the danger of wilds in response to the actions we take, from deforestation to flooding to wildfires.

🏕️🌳 Misty Grove 🌳🏕️

In the fog shrouded woodlands on the outskirts of town, we begin our journey through the dark tangled brush and murky swamps.

🌷🍄 Highland Meadows 🍄🌷

Among the birch trees and blossoming fields of endless flowers, this valley has experienced much flooding and a sporadic surge of poisonous fungi.

🌲🗻 Woodsmoke Pines 🗻🌲

With mountain ranges and lumbering pines overlooking the dry brush-scattered grounds, this region is prone to wildfires and long abandoned mines to explore.

🐗 Elder Challenges 🐗

💀 Elder Folktales 💀

There is an Elder Folktale Beast for every folktale creature you come across while roaming.
Track their trails, find their lair, and battle them in challenging combat to test all you have learned from fighting their kin in the wilderness.

🔱 Ancient Folktales 🔱

Defeat the Elder Folktales in the region to collect Letter Quills to uncover the name of the Ancient Folktale that carved their way out of their forgotten story that opened the rift for others to escape their stories.
Battle the Ancients to seal these story rifts and recapture their tales to never be forgotten.

🪶🎨 Ink Upgrades 🎨🪶

Return your captured folktale books back to the Library and get rewarded with Bones, Skulls, and Claws.
These can be traded to the Ink Brewer to upgrade your party of recruited folktales.

📚 Story Premise 📚

About folktales...
📚Folktales are a way to teach life lessons by turning negative human behaviors into physical manifestations deemed as monsters.
🐺Our main protagonist is cursed to become the very beast that they hunted.

In the beginning...
🐑As peasants turned forests into farmland and domesticated animals, the wolves from the woodlands began attacking their sheep flocks.
🧑🌾Sheep herders bribed the local huntress, skilled in tracking and trapping beasts of all kinds, to take care of their wolf problem.🏹Upon hunting the wolf pack, our huntress was bitten before their last arrow snuffed the life out of the last wolf of the pack.
🐺Trekking back to the village to collect their payment, but as our huntress emerged from the trees a peasant screamed "Wolf!" and arrows began firing in their direction.

Where in the world...
🩸Retreating back into the woodlands, our huntress finds themselves injured and bleeding out from the arrows protruding from their back.
🍄Wandering through the thicket of trees, they finds themselves in a small clearing and collapses inside a ring of mushrooms, losing consciousness.
📚Upon awakening to a blinding light, our huntress is surrounded by columns upon columns of bookcases filled with books and a little flittering will o' wisp.

To be or not to be a folktale in the making...
📜 An Owl greeted the huntress and introduced themselves as a Scribe for the Library of Long Lost Tales.
📖Upon hearing the huntress' story, instead of inscribing it into another book, the Owl Scribe offered them a trade instead.
✨Recover the lost folktale stories for them and they shall return them back to their former self before the curse.

The journey begins...
🐺🐾Hunt these lost folktales, return their stories to the Library, and discover the source of the Story Rifts where the folktales have been escaping from.

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