I’ve been prototyping a lot of different games and trying out a lot of different engines recently.
While doing so, I whipped up a quick little Arvale game which you can of course download for Free here.
It’s called Arvale: Really Short Tale. It involves Duncan after the events of Arvale: Journey of Illusion, and all Arvale fans will enjoy seeing him and Entoque again, I’m sure.
Veteran RPG’ers will most likely breeze through it in about 15 minutes.
Veteran Arvale players will probably occupy themselves for about an hour just checking things out 
(yes, there are a few Wheelbarrows)
Anyway, I’ll be prototyping a few more games over the next month or so, and I’ll try to share whatever I can with anyone who wants it. So I might as well set up a Free Games page here.
Install: Simply download the installer, and it should set it up on your computer just fine. (PC only, I’m afraid).
Controls: Pretty simple, mostly arrow keys and Enter/Space Key. Escape Key is the cancel button. You can also mouse around and click on characters (if you want, but I reccomend arrow keys/space as some mouse actions are wonky). You can also toggle Full Screen by hitting Alt+Enter if you really wish to. The rest, I’m sure you’ll figure out on your own.
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I like it. I hope that a new release is coming soon.
Regards
Glad you didn’t quit game developing. Hope to *hear* from you soon
Glad to see some people are still following what I do
I have a few more things in the works in the upcoming months, so be sure to keep an *ear* out
Very Nice! I thought Silk died at the end of Arvale I, how could she be with Duncan when the Orb exploded?
Thanks for the freebie. I also hope this is pointing to a new release (and on the iPhone/iPod Touch too)!
@kresh:
Official unofficial Walkthrough here: http://pdamill.com/files/Arvale_Walkthrough.zip
Read stuff on how to get the good ending, and hope it’s not too late
Thanks Jason, I will finish it again from my last save.
I did a little grind to see how the magic combat system works. I really like it. “Thunder” is really nice. The graphics are well done and the damage is nice!
Sorry for posting twice in a row, but I was wondering if there are more monsters than slime, rat, imp and the one werewolf? I was going to keep leveling up to see if there were any more monsters in this map but thought I would ask.
I still may do it just to see what spells will unlock.
Don’t go too crazy, it’s just a small demo
Just the slimes, rats, imps and werewolves I’m afraid.
I can’t remember which skills I assigned to Duncan as he leveled up, but I believe he has quite a few as I was testing things out.
Since then, I’ve actually changed the battle system to a side view (more like the original Arvale and FF games) and incorporated multiple parties, a Quest system, Auto-save and a bunch of other nice stuff… I think it’s ready for me to make a full game out of it when I have time.
But next week, I’m going to try to release a prototype for a Graphic Adventure game (similar to Monkey Island, DOTT, Sam n Max etc) called Broken Blueprint, which I’ve had on the back-burner for years.
Can’t wait to see it.
Great work! Loves it!
You really must start your own forum. The PDAMill one is so extremily inactive…
Ha!
If this site ever garnered enough comments, I would consider it of course. But until then… I think the comment threads are a good place to chat for now.
On that note, I hope to release the new demo tomorrow.
Due you gotta release a full length version of this for the iphone!!! PLZ i LOVE arvale! thanks
Well, if you love Arvale… Arvale II was just submitted to Apple and should be released very shortly on the iPhone
when is the release date?
@me:
Of the new game I just began development on? http://jaybot7.com/blog/new-arvale-game-development-started
I haven’t set a release date yet, but development should be approximately two months before it is finished.