The game is a classic fantasy RPG. The core gameplay is simple. You go and explore the dungeon where you find treasures, fight monsters and discover stairs to the lower levels of the dungeon. You get experience and gold from battles, once you level up you distrubute attribute points to make yourself stronger, you also need to heal yourself. Nothing surprising here.
The unique twist are items, resistances and variety of monsters. The upper levels of the dungeon are simple and easy, but the further you go the more complicated it gets. For example starting at level 5 you can meet a dragon, which is very nasty to fight unless you have fire resistance. To get fire resistance you can simply go to the town’s shop and but a proper ring. The deeper you go the more resistances you need while the amount of equipment slots stays limited. Soon you will strive for more powerful items which grant 2 or more resistances which are not easy or cheap to get. The item management starts to become more complicated and more fun then.
In the future versions the will be separate themed locations (like Ice Palace where you stumble upon cold type monsters only), travelling merchants who sell unique and rare items, predefined artifact treasures to find, speciments to eat (upon killing the dragon there will be a chance of a Dragon’s Heart drop which can be made into a resistance potion in the town’s alchemist), quests from the king, NPC, etc.
At the moment the game is under development, first playable version should be ready on 11 December, you can play it here: http://www.moonstone-rpg.com
By Chris
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