About

Your are a brave little knight who is determined to steal the mighty dragon's treasure. But first you have to fight your way through his 6 henchmen.

Combat is inspired by Puzzle Quest and done through a match-3 game where you have to build a line or column of at least 3 gems of the same type.

How to Play

You control the curser to mark gems for swapping to form a new match. Different gem types have different abilities:

  • Green and Yellow: deals damage to enemy
  • Red: heals player
  • Blue: Player gains Mana Points (MP)
  • Pink: Enemy gains Mana Points (MP)
  • Skull: Deals damage to player

If you have enough MP you can cast spells that will help you on your quest. But be aware the enemy can gain MP an cast spells as well.

You can only swap neighboring gems and get 5 damage if your move didn't form a new match.

Controls

  • Use the arrow keys to move the curser
  • Use the Z,  C key to mark a gem (O)
  • Use the X, or V key to open the spell menu (X)

Spells

  • Healing: costs 10 MP (15 MP for the enemy), heals 5 HP
  • Fireball: costs 20 MP, destroys a gem of your choice
  • Thunderbolt: costs 40 MP, destorys a line of your choice
  • Curse: (only for certain enemies) costs 15, deals 10 damage to player

Scoring

For every match you get you gain XP for every destroyed gem. How much can you get?

Credits

Programming and art by Steffi Jung @Schete_Jurf
Music by Lars Jung @lars_jung

Thunderbolt and healthpotion art by  Nerdy Teachers

Changelog

1.0 Initial Release

1.1 Bug fixes

1.2 Cross matches now possible
When curser is over skull gem it's eyes blink red
Curser color swapped
Knight cheers when more than 3 gems are matched

1.3 Fixed a bug where one gem to much was cleared
1.4 German language support

Added binary files to download for Windows, Mac and Linux

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Rating
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
AuthorSchete
GenrePuzzle
Made withPICO-8
Tagsmatch-3, PICO-8, Pixel Art

Download

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popel-quest-win.zip 961 kB
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popel-quest-linux.zip 533 kB
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popel-quest-mac.zip 3 MB

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Wow this is so cool. Thank you guys

There seems to be a glitch whenever a match is made. If the match is vertical, the gem below the match disappears, and if the match is horizontal, the gem to the right of the match disappears.

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Thank you for telling me! Seems I replaced one bug with another one of my previous versions. Fixed it now.