Tactics - Survival - Loot

Knights Errant is a Tactical-RPG with Roguelike elements. Inspired by classics like Final Fantasy Tactics, Faster than Light and Dungeon Crawl:Stone Soup.

The Quest

In Knights Errant you play as a vassal stripped of land and title by an invading empire. It's up to you to free your kingdom's land and people from the invaders!

However, you can't accomplish your quest alone... Along the way you'll recruit mercenaries and train volunteers for your liberation army. Watch as your individual units grow and level up through a dynamic class system.

Explore ancient dungeons for lost treasures, siege castles, hire mercenaries from taverns, discover magical books to learn special skills, and much more!

Choose from a wide array of factions, from the Human Aldarian Empire to the Restless Undead.

Check em'

One day the demo will be finished.

I've been mostly working on the backend, so no new sprites. I added about 20 skills just to see if the framework is flexible enough to add whatever I want.

Oh, and there are now specific off hand items like shields, and I also made it so skin color for units is randomized.

Tutorial level WIP.

So the scenario mode works like this, it loads a map with pre placed units for both you and the enemy.

The maps will have all sorts of scripted events, such as dialogue, custom objectives, reinforcements etc. And because there is no randomness in the game, there will always be a set solution.

Demo still in production!

How time flies...

Few things:

When I started work on the combat alpha I realized how bad of shape the codebase was in. So for the past month I've been working tirelessly on refactoring all the things that have been causing me problems.

Besides that, I've also created a very simple scripting system that allows for mid-battle events. For example enemy reinforcements, dialogue or whatever. It works pretty well so far and it should make both the scenario battles and campaign battles more interesting.

Combat Demo Soon!

Depending on real life events, I'm shooting for a playable combat alpha teaser sometime this March. It'll probably a tutorial level as well as 3 or so different pre made battles.

I'm going to plan my next move depending on how well received the combat system is. If people like what they see, then I'm going to go forward with setting up a kickstarter to allow me to afford to develop the game over the summer (and also get an awesome OST).

Because I don't like posting without pictures:

As always, I love feedback, so please drop a tweet on Twitter or a reply on Tigsource

Second #Screenshotsaturday

Knight-Errant's second Screenshot Saturday!

I put some time aside this week to polish up some of the visuals. I got some feedback regarding contrast between units and the ground so I've made some contrast changes; It's not perfect, but I'm working on it.

I've also been receiving some interesting feedback regarding the class system. Instead of having a large number of factions with a few classes each, I'm now leaning more to having 3 or so factions with a large amount of classes and sub classes. Anyway, the class structure part of the game has been up in the air since conception, so its subject to change. Right now the class count for the human faction is around 23.

If you have any suggestions post them on my Tigsource thread.

Also, I modified the sprite structure so now the cloth on the armor reflects the player's color.

Upcoming goals include working on the overworld by adding quests, dungeons and finishing the boss system.

Tigsource thread is up!