Hey friends, I am ilvinas, I am the tech lead and producer of Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit. Its an exciting but also weird time for us right now! Only three days till Crowns and Pawns will be released, and thats cool dont get me wrong. It mainly feels good. But we have worked on the game for more than 5 years now, and it feels a bit strange to have to let go after such a long time. No matter how long you work on a game, you always find things that you could a) change, b) improve or c) expand. But this will come to an end this Friday at the latest! When you grow up as an adventure fanboy with classics like Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Broken Sword or Beneath a Steel Sky, your heroes have names like Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert, or Dave Grossman. And there are so many more names from the golden era of classic adventure games, and some we have had the honor of meeting during the development of Crowns and Pawns! It's such a cool feeling to meet these icons in person and get feedback from them for your OWN adventure.
Since we all are big fans of the Broken Sword series and were starting to create our own adventure back at the time, we really wanted to meet with Charles Cecil. He is the founder and CEO of Revolution Software, the studio behind both Steel Sky adventures and the Broken sword series. I had the chance to meet him during gamescom in 2015, where I started the conversation of Charles coming to Lithuania. And so, in 2016, we invited Charles to come to Lithuania for GameOn Vilnius, where he did a presentation. During his stay in Vilnius, we also got the chance to show him our demo and talk more about the story of Crowns and Pawns. We got some great feedback about the game and the plot, and it was an amazing experience overall to get acquainted with Charles. We couldnt be happier about his feedback: With beautiful graphics and a fascinating story, Crowns and Pawns is looking like it will be an excellent point and click adventure. Print, frame and hang on the wall.
The story with Bill Tiller is quite similar. For those of you who are not familiar with the name: Bill worked for LucasArts on several adventure games (Full Throttle, The Dig, The Curse of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine) and founded his own studio Autumn Moon Entertainment with releases like A Vampyre Story or Duke Grabowski. We were in contact with him for some time from following him on social media and talking about point and clicks. So, we also invited him to Lithuania, for a panel in GameOn Vilnius again, this time in 2019. We hosted a panel where arnas and Bill talking about his work at LucasArts and more. During the visit, we also had a chance to show him our demo and tell him more about our game. We got some really good feedback and advice on Crowns and Pawns and just had a good time getting to know him in person. And another one to print and frame: Crowns and Pawns is groovy. I dig it.
But the two are not the only cool peeps we have met in the five years associated with Crowns and Pawns. We always wanted to go all in for the dubbing of the game, and so we dreamed of having a professional actress give life to Milda. And that's how it ended up! Milda is voiced by Erin Yvette. She is the voice of Snow White in The Wolf Among Us, Alex in Oxenfree or Sister Mary Womhorn in Afterparty. In the game Milda is accompanied by her friend Joris, who is voiced by the great Matthew Curtis. There are no voices that could characterize them better! While you have been reading all this, the time until Friday's release has become even less. That's why I'd better take another look and see if I can't find something that I can a) change, b) improve or c) expand. Have an adventurous week everyone! ilvinas & The Tag of Joy Team https://store.steampowered.com/app/1125910/Crowns_and_Pawns_Kingdom_of_Deceit/