To Carry a Sword (tuxdb.com)

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Become the guard of a medieval caravan in a journey where the social connections you make are just as important as the money. In this roleplaying game, 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.

Experience text-rich interactive events alongside strategic planning and real-time combat.
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.

To Carry a Sword and its soundtrack, both available, both free!

To Carry a Sword is free on Steam, now and forever (well, as long as the service lasts), and in marking the event we have a no-longer-secret surprise: the free soundtrack! Yes indeed, our musician has pulled the tunes out of the belly of FMOD and created standalone tracks for you all to enjoy, reminiscing about that time you hit a higher Fame level and wondered why the title music didn't sound the same anymore. You can download it as DLC; it should be visible using Steam's usual system for these things.

We Three Nouns has (/have) been grateful for the support, conversation, and feedback during development. It began as a capstone project at Rochester Institute of Technology and today is a living thing off in the wild. We are "signing off" now, each of us on this team having moved on to the next things in life. We hope you have enjoyed the journey.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2937070/To_Carry_a_Sword_Soundtrack

[ 2024-04-23 18:50:28 CET ] [Original Post]

To Carry a Sword is going free!

We Three Nouns is (/are) pleased to announce that, as of this month, To Carry a Sword will become free for all. To mark the occasion, weve prepared a sparkly new update that addresses bugs and improves the experience, especially for those wanting to mod in new events.

Version 1.0.2 patch notes

Movement speed has been adjusted in combat.
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Enemy, player, and projectile movement speeds should now be less sensitive to processor speed.
Crossbow bolts are faster, enough so that they cannot be outrun by the player even at maximised running speed.

Save files, log files, and text event files have all been moved to sit snugly next to the main game files.

If save files are present in the old location, they will be moved automatically.
If event files are present in the old location with player mods enabled (i.e. the PLAYERMODSOFF.txt file has been renamed to PLAYERMODSON.txt), then all files there will be moved to an "Archive" folder in the new location. You can move them out of the archive into the Events directory to have the game read them as before.
Log files arent moved. Anyone playing with files may want to delete any remaining files at the old location. As a reminder, that would most likely have been at
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"[Username]\AppData\LocalLow\We Three Nouns\To Carry a Sword" for Windows users.
"/home/[username]/.config/unity3d/We Three Nouns/To Carry a Sword/" for Linux users.

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Whimsy Mode is no longer under construction. Check the last option in the "Game Settings" menu and go into combat to see some cheer added to your violent conflicts.

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We Three Nouns of video games are grateful to everyone who has taken an interest in To Carry a Sword: It's About the People Who Need You. Our student group has dispersed since the 2022 release of version 1.0.0, but we knew we wanted at least one more update in order to correct obvious bugs and do what future-proofing was possible. We direct anyone interested in contacting us to join our Discord, accessible from the store page; we would love to hear from you.

[ 2024-04-03 22:43:39 CET ] [Original Post]

Launch stream

We Three Nouns is (/are) to broadcast on Steam upon the occasion of launch, February 14, 2022, starting at 1:00 pm Eastern! We have been streaming our development process off-site this whole while, but at last we can demonstrate the game for curious newcomers.

Members of the dev team will appear (by voice at least) as they come available, and we expect to broadcast for at least an hour within the demarcated time. For those who have never watched a broadcast on Steam before, it should be easy to find on our game's Steam page once live. We hope to see people there!

[ 2022-02-12 02:04:34 CET ] [Original Post]

To Carry a Sword, out of playtest and onto Steam

We Three Nouns is (/are) pleased to announce our arrival on this platform! Those who followed our playtests or our streams will be familiar with our history, but for those who did not, introductions are in order.

We are a group of now-former students of the graduate program in Game Design & Development at Rochester Institute of Technology. To Carry a Sword: It's About the People Who Need You began as our capstone experience in Fall of 2020, and took four of us in the program and one outside artist. Since then, we took what we created and continued it over the summer thanks to RIT's MAGIC Spell Studios, our publisher, and ultimately we brought in the talents of two more artists and an editor.

Playtesting was a constant in the program, but the public playtest began around August of 2021, and your feedback has been invaluable. Thank you to everyone who showed an interest and dropped us a word. At last, we feel the game is complete enough that it should deliver the experience we had envisioned when first we started more than a year ago. We can't wait for you all to enjoy it.

February 14th, 2022 is the date. Version 1.0.0 is near. We will see you then.

We Three Nouns is:

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