Prototype - Tales From The Yggdrasil

INTRODUCTION

Hugin and Munin

fly each day

over the spacious earth.

I fear for Hugin,

that he come not back,

yet more anxious am I for Munin.

- Edda Saemundar Hinns Frôda, Benjamin Thorpe, 1866

Welcome to Tales from the Yggdrasil, an endless runner game where you take the role of Odin waiting for your crows Hugin and Munin to come back after their journey throught the nine realms of the Yggdrasil. 

BACKGROUND

You are Odin, king of Asgard, and you see the nine realms of the Yggdrasil from your throne. The realms are vast and you find impossible to travel through them to know all the news, so everyday you send your two ravens to do it. 

Hugin and Munin, your two faithful servants, will start a journey through the nine realms and come back to you every night. They will whisper to your ear everything they saw and hear, and they will help you to reign wisely. 

GAMEPLAY

This game is an Endless Runner game but with a twist: you control two characters instead of one. Those two characters are Hugin and Munin and you make them collect runes that will appear randomly on the screen. 

One raven is black an the other one is white, and you will encounter black, white and red runes. If one raven touches a rune, there can be two options: 

• If the rune matches the color of the raven, you will collect the rune. 
• If not, you will lose one feather. 

If you lose all your feathers, the game will stop and you will gain a number of runes equal to the matched runes you have collected.

The rune you have collected can be used to construct buildings and unlock tales on the full version of the game when it arrives.

NEXT STEPS

This is a prototype so the game will change over time. A few features that I want to add are:

• New kinds of obstacles inspired on the realms.
• City builder aspect, with buildings that give the player benefits when constructed.
• Storybook with lots of tales based on Norse mythology  that the player can unlock. 

TOOLS USED

This game has been created using Unity and free assets from the Unity Store webpage, Craftpix, Itch.io, GitHub and Open Game Art. 

TEAM

This game has been created by: 

Javier Morillas - Game Design 

Oscar Escudero - Coding

Miguel Gomez -  Art

Alba Gil - Art

DOWNLOAD

You can download the apk and installing it directly on your Android device or you can play it on your browser using this link. 

If you play this game on your browser, you can control the white raven using WASD buttons and the black raven using the directional buttons.