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The Blind Swordsman: A Real Game!

Posted by Evil-Dog - April 4th, 2014


So we've released The Blind Swordsman on April 1st.

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While the idea was originally an April Fools prank like "You play as a blind swordsman and it's a black screen and you can't do anything ha! ha! ha!", we decided to push the idea much further and make it into an actual game.

We worked hard on creating a unique experience and obviously some people really hated the idea haha but some really loved it.  In any case, the people saying it's just an april fools prank are lying and what's even funnier are people trolling and saying things like "woah the bears on level 5 are really hard" or whatever, oblivious to the fact that there ARE further levels and they are the fool lol

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So yeah, The Blind Swordsman is a fully playable game where you must listen carefully where the enemies are and listen to their attack patterns to defeat them, best played with headphones on for a better sound placement effect. I worked on a system where each sound is actually 4 sounds, a front close sound, a front far sound, a back close sound and a back far sound.  Each with their own particular effect to sound close, far, in front and behind you (with headphones).

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The way to play the game properly as a blind swordsman is to start the battle on the defensive to determine the enemy's pattern and movements. Rashly attacking enemies is a sure way to die.  You can parry attacks by pressing the parry button right before the attack lands, the enemies always have a grunt sound before the attacks land like eeeeeYAH, ooooooHA, hmmmmpHAA, etc.  That is your cue to parry.  Now each enemy has an opening when you can attack and defeat them, THAT you must find!

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There are 10 levels, each with its own kind of enemy or group of enemies. It's all doable but clearly a difficult game. We hope you give it a shot now that there are medals to be earned and that you know it's all possible to beat.  We had fun working on the game and crunched really hard to get it done by April Fools, we still decided to release it on April Fools, just for the fact that it's a unique, almost joke-like, concept.  But we put our whole into it and made it more than a prank.

We hope you enjoyed it and if you didn't, we hope you'll give it another go :)

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Thanks to everyone who gave us genuinely good feedback about the game and how to make it better, v1.2 is currently out and contains a bunch of fixes, medals, highscores, etc.  Working on some more fixes and tweaks as well.

Cheers!

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Comments

With all the patterns and blocking and parrying It's kind of like playing Dark Souls... blindfolded D':

Hahaha yeah you're not the first to reference Dark Souls, a compliment for sure.

I loved it,it was easy though

OH WEALLY!

This game is awesome i just wish i was better at it.

Haha yeah it's pretty hard and unconventional

It's great that you put this post up, Evil-Dog. Maybe now people will understand that it's not a joke game. I'm enjoying it so far, but I have a question to ask...

By any chance do you have any tips for the guardian knight?

I know this isn't the place to ask, but I'm stuck as hell. Please help?

The problem with the knight is that he's turning while doing his 10 attacks so gotta follow him and then strike after the 10th :D

The game was amazing do to the fact that it is the first game that gave me a challenge in one of my senses it is amazing in graphics (that are berly seen) and the game play it self.
I give u a 5 star on this game :D

Thanks glad you enjoyed the idea

In all fairness, you DID post this game around April Fool's Day... and I do remember a certain game about a certain segway... So you could easily see how people would think that this was a prank.

After reading other people's comments and finding out that it is, in fact, a game that can be played, I LOVED it. Really freaking hard, but damned rewarding when you win. Congratulations on making something truly innovative. You're the greatest!

haha thanks and yeah we did want the ambiguousness of april fools day, but the other thing is that we know that once april fools is gone, most people don't really think about it or check the release date

A resourceful read on strategy! Where there's a medal there's a way.

As for a potential visual version of the game, you could always go with... 'The Sighted Swordsman'. :P Like a parody on a parody.

Next year is The Blind And Deaf Swordsman lmao

Well, now that I read this post, I HAVE to check it out; the idea seems so cool!
Good job on coming up with the concept, as well as making it into a reality ;)

Thanks, give it a shot :)

Well I didnt like the game that much.No offense but games like this I dont like. I know you worked hard on it but still.

Yeah, can't please everyone, especially not with something different and odd like this.

This is one of the best games i have ever played, and it has the most unique gameplay too. This game is definitely worth more than 5/5 stars.

thanks man!

Well that trully is an interesting experience, but I'll have to wait 'till I get decent headphones to play this since I only have shitty speakers for now but I somehow managed to go through the first enemy ... I'll try to make a real comment about it once I'll meet he ideal conditions to play this, it'll train me for locating enemies in games such as CS:GO that uses their sound system to the tiniest piece of detail such as this one ! :D

haha good training for CS

When's it out for the Oculus Rift?

Would be awesome wouldn't it? :)

as always ED you have out done everyone's expectation, but I just have one question...
HOW IS A DEFT PERSON SUPPOSE TO PLAY A GAME LIKE THIS?????????

Same way blind people can play every other game :)

I refuse to believe you. Maybe it's my own loss, I'm okay with that. But I believe this all a very, VERY elaborate ruse.

oh god haha yeah your loss, but really, it's not.

I might just try and give the game another shot. I mean I think I might been a little mad because of the archers so I will try to beat them again.

You can do it

april foolception ;D

lol shut up you're not helping

Welp, I finally beat it. Yo, evil-dog, what's with you and and bad endings?

RotD had a bad ending.
RotD2 had a sorta bad ending.
And now this game's ending... which is sort of like a "what the fuck" moment. It was fun though. The Warlock was kind of difficult, but easy once you understood what to do.

Oh, and bub, don't forget: If anyone tells you to "make the game easier,"-- don't. They just need to suck it up and get better.

Haha yeah I LOVE bad endings :)
I've got another game with the most bad ending of all....it gives me shivers

dude, what test-object said ... this on fucking oculus rift ... holy fuck.

Hahaha I wanna try to port it to mobile with the gyrometer so you yourself turn to face the enemies :D would be cool
On the OR would be cool

Apparently, you have made an april fools game by NOT making april fools game.
Also, cool idea, great game. Sequel maybe?

Yeah we have one in mind. PM me if you want more details, it's pretty spoilery

I got Aphil-fooled by playing a not-Aphil-fool Aphil-fool-like game thinking it is a Aphil-fool game. :/

*brain melts*

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