(18+) Ascension II: Arcane Prodigy
A downloadable game for Windows
Ascension II: Arcane Prodigy
Join Emily Branson, daughter of Duke Edgar and Duchess Isabelle on her journey as she attempts to become one of the world renown Mages of Eymont. Help her get close and find, if not love, at least a good time with dozens of possible romance options from simply steamy to outright naughty.
Manage her money, her time and her arousal as she explores everything Eymont has to offer and even handles challenges outside of the magical city.
Upgrade her skills and unlock her talents, both in the 7 magical schools and in 5 bedroom skills. Also modify her body with the aid of magic to fit your and Eymont's current fashionable tastes.
Finally help her through difficult dungeons using a custom D20 based combat system, where you get to use Emily's increasing powers and summons to battle pirates, undead, bandits, minotaur, dragons and other fantastic like creatures.
Please support us on Patreon, where you can also download the most recent version of the game.
You can find Ascension I: From Rags to Riches by going here. While not needed to play Ascension II: Arcane Prodigy, it does provide fun and interesting background on some of the characters.
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Development log
- Version 0.3.0 Public Release2 days ago
- Ascension II: Arcane Prodigy First Public Release17 days ago
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The game's interesting and definitely has potential, but I'm sorry to say that combat, as it is currently, is... annoying, to put it mildly:
1. Lack of Information: What do the actions do? My first guess would be Fire Attack, Ice Attack, Lightning Attack, Acid attack, 4 slots to be filled later, Party?, Stealth??, Items, Run away. This needs tooltips, preferably with information about how much damage it would do etc so that the player can make informed decisions and doesn't have to rely on trial and error.
2. Pacing: This is in my opinion the much bigger issue, and why I couldn't finish this version - turns take WAY too long. When sitting around a table with friends, rolling dice feels good because of the social aspect and the tension. Animated dice in a video game for really important skill checks can be ok. Watching the dice very slowly tumble over the screen to see whether the pirate hits you... well, for the first roll it was amusing. By the third roll it was just frustrating, and by the fifth I was actively looking for a surrender button - I'm slightly exaggerating, but it seriously is fun-draining.
Please consider adding an option to skip the diceroll (whether as a menu option or just a click to skip to the result).
Thank you for the feedback Xarza. I'll add these recommendation to the backlog. A lot of the information is available with the talents, but it would not go amiss for me to add them as tooltips as well.
Good to hear :)
I took a look at the talent tree, and I think I found a bug: The tooltips for the left tree (Evocation) display normally, but the ones for the right one (Necromancy) are half inside the window and half outside, and scrollbars appear. It's possible to scroll the window to see them, but if the mouse cursor moves from the talent icon the bars disappear and the window snaps back to the left - so to read the tooltips you have to scroll the window to the right with keyboard input while moving the mouse slowly to the left. Maybe relatedly, the trees also look misaligned to the text - I've attached a screenshot:
This is at fullscreen, 1080p, font size 16.
I feared that might happen with smaller screens. I'll need to relook at how I implemented the tooltip. Thanks for the screenshot.
Glad to help.
BTW, sorry if my initial post came across as... a bit too hostile, let's put it that way. I did enjoy the game (finally finished it, alt-tabbing after every command in battle), but that kind of slowdown really does annoy me, and I'm kinda prone to snarky stuff XD.
I seriously do think the game is good, but that the slowness of rolling is a significant annoyance (probably not to everyone, but to me and I'm reasonably sure quite a few others). I'm here for the writing, the erotic scenes, the combat, not twiddling my thumbs while waiting for the results of an RNG :)
(Edit: And while this does kinda sound like reemphasizing the bad points, What I do want to highlight is rather the good points: The combat detracts of all the great stuff :) And I'm kinda bad at expressing that)
Don't worry, I'm not prone to taking things personal. I doubt I'll be able to completely remove the dice rolls (by way of an option) without a significant rework of that module, but I can likely truly speed that up via toggle. I'll experiment with it and see if I can implement something by release 0.9.
MGTOW, mind toning down the all caps? More chances we'll hear what you have to say that way.
On my end I plan on including more black characters (and not in stereotypical roles). I had already planned for quite a few, on top of the ship captain and the power Mage Miranda. In the first game I made sure do the same thing, putting them in important rich roles, despite having issues with the AI I was working with at the time (changed to permit more options for me on Ascension II).
I know this isn't the all or nothing you were looking for. Thing is I'm building this primarily for myself, for fun as a hobby. I'm not making any money out of this despite investing a lot of time in. Most creators here are doing the same.
If you do want to see more black people represented in games, you should try building it. There are bunch of people here who'll be willing to give you some time and guide you on that journey, because ultimately we all benefit from different perspectives and backgrounds in game creators. It creates more interesting games for all of us to play.
NO
Pity. I'll need to block you from this group.
goodness gracious that is one angry man indeed , that or just a internet troll ,
ONCE AGAIN, BLACK PEOPLE SOMEHOW NEVER EXIST IN FANTASY GAMES, HOW SAD AND TYPICAL AND JUST AS I EXPECTED
Actually they exist in this game ;). For example Captain Anne is black. You may just have not reached that part of the game. You'll also find a good amount of different ethnic backgrounds in Ascension I: From Rags to Riches, the first game in the series.
I'VE LITERALLY ONLY PLAYED 1 VIDEO GAME WHERE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE BLACK AND THATS "MAFIA 3" AND YET IT REDUCED THE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE GAME TO SLAVES AND DEALING WITH RACISM
ALSO, I SAID BLACK PEOPLE, I DID NOT MENTION OTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE I DONT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT OTHER GROUPS OF ETHNIC, I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE THINK BLACK PEOPLE AND OTHER GROUPS ARE THE SAME
Nobody cares.
Stop being a low T wuss.
DON'T WORRY......WHEN BLACK PEOPLE TAKE OVER AMERICA(AND WE WILL) WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE EVER TV SHOW, COMIC BOOK AND VIDEO GAME IS ONLY BLACK PEOPLE, THEN MAYBE YOU MIGHT UNDERSTAND
So you're a black fascist. Great. We need those as much as the white ones...
YEP, I'M A BALCK FASCIST,.......... NOW, CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHY MOST TV SHOWS, COMIC BOOKS AND MOVIES IN AMERICA ARE HEAVILY WHITE, ESPECIAL WHEN BLACK PEOPLE BUILT THIS COUNTRY, I MEAN ISN'T THAT WHITE FASCISM?
ADDING 1 BLACK PERSON AIN'T BLACK PEOPLE AND DELETING MY COMMENT, DOESNT MEAN YOU WON THE CONVERSATION
Sorry for feeding the troll. If you have ingame reasons for different ethnic backgrounds to travel, all the better.
But remote villages representing modern day US demographics are immersion breaking.
LOL EVERYONE'S A TROLL WHEN THEY DISSAGREE WITH YOU AND IT'S FUNNY HOW YOU CAN'T DENY MY CLAIMS THOUGH RACIST BUT WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM WHITE PEOPLE
The way you write, the way you post, the incoherent ramblings and insults, that marks you as a troll.
You do not disagree with me. For that you would have to argue against my points. You do not do that. You argue against me personally, based on your assumptions of my skin color and my nationality.
Oh, and please, claiming <skin color> people can't be <insert anything> is making a statement about people based on their skin color, which is the essence of racism. Since you claim to be that skin color you disprove yourself.
You act like a stereotypical American. Shouting, demanding, giving insults instead of reason, justifying your own wrongdoings by accusing others. All this brings even more shame to your culture. Your culture is American. Not African.
Being American might be the reason, why you still did not point out any African mythology or games about it. You just do not know any, because you are American and do not care about such things.
Instead you try to approprate Egypt mythology based on skin color. It is as nonsensical as claiming to be have built Stonehenge because you have Italian ancestors and the Romans conquered the British Isles.
Oh wait, the Romans were the bad guys, weren't they, what with oppressing and enslaving so many places. Better to identify with Egypt. A culture that never used slaves. Except maybe that Moses guy and his fellows and maybe a few others.
And to spell it out for you: if you are proud to be black because "EGYPT IS BLACK" you are proud to have a tradition of enslaving people.
OH YEAH AND FYI, BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED THE SLANG "TROLL" AROUND 2014 AND THE WAY YOU'RE USING IT, ISN'T WHAT A TROLL MEANS BUT I DON'T EXPECT MUCH INTELLIGENCE FROM WHITE PEOPLE
EGYPT IS BLACK CULTURE AND IT ALWAYS WILL BE.........THE COLONIZERS IN EGYPT ARE NOT THE REAL EGYPTIANS AND WHITE PEOPLE LYING ABOUT HISTORY ISN'T FOOLING ANYONE........AND FYI THERE ARE ENTIRE YOUTUBE CHANNELS AND REAL-LIFE SCIENTISTS THAT HAVE DEBUNKED ALL THE WHITE LIES ABOUT EGYPT, THAT WHITE PEOPLE KEEP PUSHING
YOU WHITE PEOPLE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT BLACK PEOPLE AND THIS COUNTRY WOULD'VE NEVER GOTTEN BUILT WITHOUT US AND YET Y'ALL CLAIM TO BE BETTER THAN US BUT DON'T WORRY, BLACK PEOPLE WILL TAKE EVERYTHING FROM YOU, RIGHT AFTER WE GET REPERATIONS(AND WE WILL GET IT)
You can make, your own game with many colors as you want.
YEAH, BECAUSE BLACK PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME ABILITIES TO DO THAT............(LOL I BET YOU'RE GONNA BRING UP A RICH BLACK PERSON AND TRY TO SAY, ALL BLACK PEOPLE CAN GET RICH)
This is called immersion. And it hinges on things like plausibility. Unless you have a setting where people travel a lot and very far away, they will look mostly the same in the region where the story takes place. They are "closely" related! Humans do not breed different skin color offspring by chance. Children look like their parents.
So a low tech fantasy version of medieval Europe will look a lot different from a fantasy version of any region in Asia, Africa, Americas and the smaller places. As they will also look different from each other.
"Fantasy" is often mimicking olden European folklore, society, concepts and stuff. So Europeans you have there. If your fiction takes place in fictional Japan, you will have to explain white/black characters. And if fiction takes place in an African place you would have to explain why some of the villagers are looking like Latinamericans, Europeans, Asians...
There unfortunately is not that much "African" fantasy lore available. At least it is not common knowledge in the "western" world. A fantasy creature like Dryad, nobility concepts like Duke, hidden alleyways for thieves to sneak and lurk, ... , all these are European stuff.
I do not know any African mytholgy. Some Egyptian stuff maybe, but they are north of Sahara. I know more about Japanese or Chinese mythology. And middle eastern things, obviously, what with all the Bible things taking place there.
So, where is African based fantasy genre? I would love to see some. And no, I do not count Egypt, just because it is technically in Africa. Their mythology is as known and exploited as the Greek and Roman mythology.
EGYPT IS BLACK, ALL THE AMERICAN HISTORY YOU KNOW OF EGYPT, IS FALSE
JUST SAY YOU ARE RACIST A BE DONE WITH IT, ALSO AFRICA HAS A REALLY DEEP MYTHOLOGY HISTORY, JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE A RACIST, DOESN'T MEAN THE HISTORY DOESN'T EXIST
YOU PALE PEOPLE ALWAYS TRY TO ACT SMART WHEN BLACK PEOPLE R THE TOPIC OF DISCUSSION.........OK NOW, GO AHEAD AND EXPLAIN TO ME WHY EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE BLACK KRYPTONIANS AND VULTRIMITES, SOMEHOW THE ENTIRE KYPTONIAN AND VULTRIMITE RACE IS HEAVY WHITE PEOPLE(OTHER THAN WHITE WRITERS THINKING THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND THEM OF COURSE)
Why ru so obsessed with black people tho?
You might notice that I pointed out, that sub sahara mythology is not widely known in the "western" world, and since I do not know any, I would like to see fantasy games based on them. But you chose to go forward and construct your racism narrative. Simply point me to games made about such mythologies.
Insulting people just shows that you do not have an argument. And playing the racism card makes any discussion pointless. Your demands for out of place characters in non African fiction degrades any actual African original creations. It perpetuates the notion, that there is no such things and all fictional representation that black people can hope for, is to approprate and hijack other source material.