The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure between game and novel. Read through a fallen kingdom, make choices at key moments, and face the weight of memory and sacrifice.

The Broken Crown<video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline crossorigin="anonymous" poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4943760/extras/58709b2a26054e43a49f1d7f3de0382b.poster.avif?t=1784357666" width=640 height=360 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4943760/extras/58709b2a26054e43a49f1d7f3de0382b.webm?t=1784357666" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"></video>The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure set in a fallen kingdom. The crown has broken, the old order has collapsed, and you awaken in a land already turning into ruin.Survival in this world does not depend on fast controls or combat skill. What matters is what you remember, what you believe, and what you are willing to give up when the moment comes.<video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4943760/extras/616b598023db8b299eb9fbb7e793c25f.poster.avif?t=1784357666" width=640 height=360 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4943760/extras/616b598023db8b299eb9fbb7e793c25f.webm?t=1784357666" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4943760/extras/616b598023db8b299eb9fbb7e793c25f.mp4?t=1784357666" type="video/mp4"></video>Players read, choose, and follow the memories and secrets of a broken kingdom. However, this is not a fully open branching game. It is closer to a text-driven narrative experience where choices appear at important moments within a mostly guided story.<video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4943760/extras/ccced9b874062fd02790ccff807d88d7.poster.avif?t=1784357666" width=640 height=360 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4943760/extras/ccced9b874062fd02790ccff807d88d7.webm?t=1784357666" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4943760/extras/ccced9b874062fd02790ccff807d88d7.mp4?t=1784357666" type="video/mp4"></video>The Broken Crown focuses less on complex systems or flashy visuals, and more on atmosphere, moments of choice, and the lingering weight those choices leave behind. It is a work that stands somewhere between a game and a novel, built around the experience of slowly reading your way through a ruined world.Features<ul class="bb_ul"><li>A text-based dark fantasy adventure</li><li>Story-focused progression with choices</li><li>A ruined kingdom filled with a dark atmosphere</li><li>Single-player narrative gameplay</li><li>Simple read-and-choose structure with no complex controls</li><li>A story focused on survival, memory, sacrifice, and consequence</li></ul>Development NoteAt first, I chose the text adventure format to reduce the burden of creating graphics. I thought a text-based game would be relatively simple to make, but the reality was very different.Creating choices and branches, then making each decision lead naturally into a different flow, turned out to be far more complicated than I expected. The workload became much larger than I had imagined, and there were limits to how much I could make every choice lead to a fully separate outcome.Because of that, The Broken Crown is not the fully branching game I first imagined. It is closer to a novel-like story with moments of choice placed along the way. I am still not entirely sure whether it is more accurate to call it a game or a choice-based story.Even so, what I wanted to express through this work is clear. I wanted to create an experience where the player moves through a ruined kingdom, feels the weight of choice, and thinks about what to believe and what to abandon in a broken world.It has its limitations, but The Broken Crown is a personal dark fantasy story created through that process of trial and error.

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