To Carry a Sword

The playtest is over and the file has been removed from Itch.io; you can purchase the full game on Steam!

To Carry a Sword: It's About the People Who Need You.  Become the guard of a medieval caravan in a journey where the social connections you make are just as important as the money.  Help the people who hire you in ways far beyond swinging a sword and scaring bandits for them, including tending to their animals and telling stories to their kids.  Strategically plan your route across a procedurally-generated world, taking advantage of the text events you encounter to pursue your own goal, whether that is to become skilled and famous enough to join the escort of Her Majesty the Queen, or to see a religious pilgrimage to its destination.  In the end, it's about the people who need you.

• FTL meets The Oregon Trail in medieval Europe.
• Rely on your social skills as much as your battle prowess to see caravans safely to their destination.
• Serve the needs of the land's factions, aiding the Noble, Criminal, Religious, and Heathen.
• Select routes and explore the procedurally-generated map, seeking the clues to advance each questline.
• Relax in a self-paced narrative experience of over 85,000 words.
• Mod the narrative and add your own text events (release version only).

This is a student project now made into a full videogame experience.  Find it on Steam here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1813370/To_Carry_a_Sword/

We would love to hear from you on our Discord server, where you can see the development team posting updates and screenshots (and the occasional confused .gif):

https://discord.gg/wRJjEwhm4X

We are also streaming weekly development updates on Twitch:

https://www.twitch.tv/namingcollision

And we are:

Richard S. Hetley — Producer, designer, writer, programmer
Soahm Korgaokar — Art director, programmer
Enan Munzar — Composer, programmer
Elliot Privateer — Programmer
TingYu Chang — Artist
Alex Theodoreu — Artist
Joseph Lu — UI/UX designer
Paul Gresty — Editor

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