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1vs1 Dark Forest "We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. The goal is to create something that will." Chuck Palahniuk

Intro

Ancient Beast is a turn based strategy indie game project played online against other people featuring a wide variety of creatures to acquire, putting them to use in order to defeat your opponents. This project was carefully designed to be easy to learn, fun to play and hard to master. We hope you'll enjoy it!

Lore

The game takes place in a dystopian future, where people have excelled in power thanks to the use of technology, specifically advanced 3d printers. The world is split into 7 factions, based off the seven deadly sins (Avarice, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Pride, Sloth, Wrath), fighting each other for resources, land and supremacy. This is not a chance based game; are you skilled enough to survive?

Hardware

The game is designed to be lightweight and run on most devices out there as it adjusts on the fly thanks to various optimizations and it will be playable using pretty much any input method you can think of. So far you can play it using mouse, keyboard, touchscreens and pretty soon with gamepads, voice commands, AR/VR glasses and even brainwave headbands.

Bottlenecks

Besides the main bottleneck, it's creator, Dread Knight (hence why development decisions will eventually transition to Freezing Moon DAO), the game is currently pre-alpha prototype and lacks some important features (for now), such as online multiplayer, bots and unit animations. Given time, with enough love and support all those major issues will be addressed and the game will be able to reach mainstream audiences.

Roadmap

We're working hard on the next version - 0.5, codenamed Chimera. What we're aiming for are the following:

3 new playable creatures
3 new epic sound tracks
one new combat location
revamping some abilities
balancing creatures stats
sound effects for actions
sprites for ranged attacks
many user interface tweaks
lots of usability enhancements
a ton of bug fixes all around
partial code base restructuring
development workflow improvements
more project lore & documentation

Contribute

You can help out the project by hitting that ★ from the upper right corner & you can also pin it to your profile. Here's a chart showing the project's growing popularity over time compared to some of the main competition:

Star History

If you wish to set-up a local copy of the game for your pleasure, read our repository "CONTRIBUTING.md" file. Or dive right into development from your browser by using this button to set up the project: There are more ways you can help out this project, check out the "Make Your Contribution" guide & help out!