In the Graal Seeker devlog you can read an article on optimzing the use of tiles on different resolutions.

And a new article series has startet as well:

Seeking the Holy Grail. Part 1: Doune Castle

I’ve started writing articles about the Arthurian myth and the Holy Grail. In my last blog post, I showed you a secret I found on the Lancelot du Lac movie. Now I take you on a journey with me to find the Holy Grail. Let’s start with Doune castle located in Scotland.

Doune castle is a medieval stronghold originally built in the thirteenth century and became a royal retreat in the fifteenth. Some great people like Margaret Tudor and even Bonnie Prince Charlie have set their foot into the castle…

…But neither Arthur nor the Grail were there.

I guess you wonder why I’m writing about this castle and the answer is simple. Doune castle was used to film parts of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. So it’s a place of pilgrimage for Monty Python fans from all over the world making him one of the most pleasant castle to visit in Scotland especially because Terry Jones himself is the narrator of the audio guide.

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Developer Lugludum announced on Steam their game Graal Seeker has been Greenlit.

Graal Seeker has been Greenlit!

I’m happy to share with you this fresh news. After being 7 months on the Steam Greenlight platform, it has been Greenlit this week! It’s a nice surprise that’s happening. Indeed, I didn’t make as many updates as I intended to make this campaign successful and to make the community growing. But here we are! That’s excellent news and I would like to thank every one who voted, commented and have spread the word. Thank you!

What does it mean?

Being Greenlit means that our game Graal Seeker will have the opportunity to be released on the Steam platform. So it’s a really big news because I know now that Graal Seeker will reach the Steam market when it will be released.

So, what’s next?

My recent experience being an indie game developer, with all the financial implications, leads me to say no ETA, but don’t worry I definitely believe that it will come in 2016. I’m very optimistic for the future, and now I have to manage all the resources I can towards game development itself and provide more updates for the community.

Lugludum posted an Indiegogo update for Graal Seeker last month.

Here is a quick update to let you know that I finally received all the physical perks and already sent some of them. I plan to finish all shipments next week. So if you ordered a t-shirt, a silkscreen or a postal card, check your mailbox :) I will give you some news about the game soon. Stay tuned and thanks again for your support.

Lugludum posted a new Indiegogo update for Graal Seeker last week.

Here is a quick update to let you know that I finally received all the physical perks and already sent some of them. I plan to finish all shipments next week. So if you ordered a t-shirt, a silkscreen or a postal card, check your mailbox. I will give you some news about the game soon. Stay tuned and thanks again for your support

Don Parsons of TechRaptor notified me of a new preview of Graal Seeker on his site.

This week, we take a look into Arthurian legends and the Matter of Britain with the RPG Graal Seeker, created by Lugludum Games Studio.

Graal Seeker takes us to the 5th century in Britain – a time of myths and legend. You play as an adventurer in this time, seeking the Graal, also known as The Holy Grail – the ancient and mysterious relic. What is it really? And why are you searching for it? Fame, and the notoriety it brings? Fortune, and the life that brings? Or do you seek it for your Faith, and your beliefs in its divine heritage?

That is up to you – as is the way you interact with a world that has far more going on around you. In this perilous time, both the Saxons and Picts threaten England. The Romans have left and the people in the lands are in many ways split amongst themselves. You may join King Arthur and his Knights in fighting off the invasions that threaten the land, ignore them, search for the mysteries in the invasions, or perhaps contribute to them yourself.

Lugludum's Indiegogo campaign for Graal Seeker is nearing the final hours, and the developer has managed to earn €2,177 of the €10,000 goal.

Few days left until the end of this campaign. Thank you again to all our supporters. Don't forget to vote on Steam Greenlight if you didn't already do it.

Lugludum notified me the Indiegogo campaign for Graal Seeker is nearing the last week. and told me they have a new update with more information.

Final week to fund Graal Seeker

Thanks again to our early and upcoming backers! We really appreciate your support! If you have not backed yet, remember that every little pledge is very important to us and helps to focus on our game and to not delay it too much.  Also, you can still help Graal Seeker by sharing our project. Help us reach the Graal ;)

Lugludum posted the next Indiegogo Update for Graal Seeker. The campaign has only earned €1,863  of the games €10,000 goal with 11 days left.

Today we will explain you details about the knight character and close combat skills. The knight is an elite warrior guided by the values of loyalty, courage, and honour. He wields a large number of weapons and he is built for close-combat.

You can choose to evolve your knight character with a various range of close combat skills. Some of them will give your knight the efficiency to destroy the armour of your opponents, or increase his damage. Others are more tactical, granting your knight the abilities to force opponents to target him, to stun and interrupt an opponent, or even put an opponent to the ground.

A strong knight can make a real difference in combat with his combo attacks. For example, your knight can tackle his opponent to the ground and then use a special combo attack to perform a deadly blow to the grounded warrior.

Lugludum posted the next Indiegogo Update for Graal Seeker. The campaign has only earned €1,863  of the games €10,000 goal with 14 days left.

We hope you liked our latest news with a focus on the bard skills, and the video devlog #2 made by Guillaume the composer of the music in Graal Seeker.

We also want to get your attention today on a particularity of our campaign. You may have noticed that it is a flexible campaign? It means that even if we can’t reach the initial goal, the fund raised will still go to the project. So every contribution you make is very important to us, don’t wait the end of the campaign to contribute, we need your support now!

And don’t forget you can win different prices in our referral contest. All you have to do is login and spread the word using the sharing buttons under the video. Then we can see how many friends are discovering Graal Seeker with your reference. The 5 best referrers win prices!

Lugludum posted the next Indiegogo Update for Graal Seeker. The campaign has been extended, and has only earned €1,823 of the games €10,000 goal with 18 days left.

We have important news to share with you today!

We are expanding the duration of the campaign until Sunday 02 of November. This will allow us to show you more content about the game, and answer all your questions.

Have a question for us about the game, the music, the graal stories? Want to learn more about us? Want to know how indie developers make RPG?

For that matter we have set up a special event with 3 other indie studios: Hydrogames, Overhype Studios, and King Dino Games.

Ask Us Anything "Indie RPG Developer" on Sunday 19th October!

We will be on Reddit to answer all your questions the 19th October at 3pm UTC (so 5pm from Paris, Berlin, Warsow, 4pm from London and 11am from New York) with the guys from Battle Brothers, That Which Sleeps and Dungeon Kingdom that is currently running a crowdfunding campaign as well, go check it out!

Also s new devlog video is unleashed! You will hear everything you need to know about the music in Graal Seeker. You will learn with Guillaume, our composer, which softwares and instruments he uses to make the music, how he makes real sfx sounds with his impressive collection of weapons, and you will discover a sneak peek of a new battle song. Hope you will like it!

Lugludum posted the fourth Indiegogo Update for Graal Seeker. The campaign is till off to a slow start with only earning €1,788 of the games €10,000 goal with 10 days left.

Here are two nice interviews of our director.

- On RPGWatch (in english)

- On Les-RPG (en français)

Thanks to our interviewers. It was a great pleasure to share some stuff about Graal Seeker and Lugludum. Hope you'll like it. 

Our referral contest is still running, you have until the 21st October to share the Indiegogo page as much as possible (please see the rules). For now, the best referrer has 563 points! Congratulations! If you want to reach the top 5 to get the rewards, you will have to beat only 10 points at this moment. So, keep sharing!

Thanks again for your support. We appreciate a lot!

Lugludum posted the fourth Indiegogo Update for Graal Seeker. The campaign is till off to a slow start with only earning €1,564 of the games €10,000 goal with 16 days left.

Today, we published a devlog video about the procedurally generated events in Graal Seeker. It includes some ingame footage from the prototype.

You can see in this video:

- a preview of a welcome event and how the player creates his background randomly,

- a preview of a Graal event and how it affects the game,

- the quest panel and how quests are handled (quest marker, ...).

Please see the video below or watch on Youtube. Turn on the subtitles if you can't hear me. Subtitles available for English and French languages.

We will be glad to answer your questions, so don't hesitate to do so.

See you soon for other updates and videos.

I had the chance to interview French developer Lugludum about their new Tactical RPG game called Graal Seeker on Indiegogo. To get you all stated here is sample.

Couchpotato: The website mentions the game will have choice and consequences how will they work? I'm also curious if they will alter the game world as you proceed through the campaign?

Lugludum: As mentioned before, all choices made in the game are analysed to make a profile of the player and lead him to a specific Graal quest. Indeed, the Graal can take different forms depending on the Graal Seeker's choices. So he could be redirected to a Christian story, Pagan story, or even something esoteric. For example, if the player always helps Christians and kills Pagans, we will definitely propose to him a Christian quest for the Grail. And of course, if he encounters Morgan, she will be his enemy and vice versa.

Lugludum posted the third Indiegogo Update for Graal Seeker. The campaign is till off to a slow start with only earning €1,339of the games €10,000 goal with 22 days left.

I will also have a mew interview tomorrow with the games developer.

We are pleased to launch an Indiegogo contest starting today until October 21th. You can win copies of the game, alpha and beta access & more! 

The rule is simple: Share the campaign with your friends, family and to the world.

Only 1 restriction: you need to be logged in to Indiegogo and use the sharing tools in the Graal Seeker page. This is how we count your score.

How to win: earn 1 point per click on your link and 10 points for each € spent by your visitors. The top 5 referrers will get rewards.

Rewards: 

If you have not contributed yet: you win The Druid.

If you already have The Peasant, The Archer or The Druid: you win an alpha access and a t-shirt.

If you have contributed for at least 20€: you win an alpha access, & a t-shirt or an Easter Egg. If you already have all of this, you win the opportunity to create an event for the game.

Lugludum posted the second Indiegogo Update for Graal Seeker. The campaign is till off to a slow start with only earning €1,107 of the games €10,000 goal in seven days.

At least once a week, we will have news for you adventurers.

But first we would like to say thank you to the #GraalSeekers spreading the word of our campaign, and also to those that will join them. We do appreciate a lot!  With your help, the first goal is getting closer every day, so keep on rocking.

Today we are opening the Steam Greenlight page for Graal Seeker!

So please call every adventurer to go vote for the game to be released on your Steam plateform. We need your vote now!

Lugludum posted the first Indiegogo Update for Graal Seeker. The campaigns off to a slow start with only earning €947 of the games €10,000 goal in four days.

Dear Graal Seekers,

This is our first news today and it’s just the beginning of the campaign for Graal Seeker. First we would like to thank our first contributors, you are truly awesome! You are the very first Graal Seekers, and we value a lot your feedback and support.

We hope you will have pleasure to discover everything we have prepared for you in this campaign. Contributors to the campaign can have a special place in our community, by helping us go throw a very rich alpha in November. To join the alpha in November, you just have to take the “Graal Seeker” contribution or above. This will also get you the game of course and all the previous awesome rewards.

The Indiegogo Campaign for Graal Seeker was launched today, and the games developer Lugludum is asking for €10,000 in the next thirty days.

What is Graal Seeker?

Graal Seeker is a 2D game that blends RPG with roguelike mechanics and real-time tactical battles. It recreates the initiatory journey of a knight seeking the Holy Grail in fifth century Britain.
 

Features

• Unique stories inspired by the Matter of Britain.
• Find your Graal based on the choices you make.
• Narrative game inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure book.
• Fast tactical battles. Prove your combat skills in real time.
• Procedurally generated events and maps. You always will have different opportunities to prove your courage.
• Permadeath and persistent world.
• Moddability. Create and share your own Graal stories.

What is the Graal?

The Graal (or Holy Grail), the subject of myths and legends, can take several forms depending on the tradition: a chalice, a cauldron, or even an emerald. All covet it for its famed magical powers. But what is it really?

In Graal Seeker, you are an adventurer from the fifth century seeking this relic for fame, fortune, or faith. You can also join Arthur's court in his fight against the Saxons and spread justice throughout the land. But is the recent Saxon invasion related to the presence of the Holy Graal on British soil, or is it merely an excuse for territorial conquest?

From Celtic origins to Christian and esoteric texts, the quest for the Graal has inspired seekers for centuries. Graal Seeker provides a truly initiatory and introspective quest that evolves with your choices and experience. So it is the player who makes the story!

I have another new game to share with eveyone today, and it's called Graal Seeker. The game is being developed by a French studio called Lugludum.

So without wasting time here are a few images, and short game description.

Game Information

Graal Seeker is an RPG with tactical battles. You are an unknown adventurer seeking for the Graal in medieval Britain during Saxon invasions. Find your Graal based on the choices you make. Build a team and choose how to evolve your character.

From celtic origins to the christian's or esoteric texts, the quest for the Grail is a true initiatory and introspective quest matching with the whole player's game experience. So, it is you who makes the story!

Please check this website later to get more informations. Release Date : TBD Q1-2015.

Features

• Unique stories based on the Matter of Britain.
• Find Your Graal based on the choices you make.
• Narrative game inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure book.
• Fast tactical battles.
• Procedurally generated events and maps.
• Permadeath and persistent world.
• Moddability.
• New feature release soon. Keep in touch.

And before I forget the developer plans to start a kickstarter to fund the game. So stay tuned for more information in the following weeks from the developer.