Cardinal Quest

Arcade Roguelike

Fri, 08/12/2011 - 11:14 | by sixsixfive

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Release

Version:

1.2

Released:

8 December 2011

Changelog

Cardinal Quest is an arcade-style dungeon-crawler inspired by 1980s classics such as Gauntlet, Red-Box D&D and Golden Axe: Choose your champion and begin your quest to slay the Evil Minotaur!

System requirements:

CPU: 1.4 GHz
RAM: 768 MB
GPU: OpenGL-compatible
AND: Adobe AIR 2.6

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Official Product Page

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Demo

Developer: Tametick

Genre:	Arcade, Roguelike
Game theme:	Fantasy
Game features:	Singleplayer
Game modes:	Campaign
Graphic:	2D
License:	Closed
Payment:	Commercial, One-time

Comments

by Pit | Thu, 12/29/2011 - 11:05

Well....

Is anyone playing this? The Demo is flash, so I cannot test if the game itself runs fine. Especially as the needed AdobeAIR is no longer available for Linux this would be a mandatory thing.
And when I click on the 'buy' button on their homepage the gameolith page I'm directed to tells me my computer is infected with a virus or something. Very funny on a linux machine. I don't regard all this as trustworthy....

by berserk9779 | Thu, 12/29/2011 - 12:34

I don't get that virus

I don't get that virus message, strange.
On Gamolith, under system requirements they specify:

"Adobe AIR runtime is requied. It will be installed automatically upon launching the 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu package."

by Pit | Thu, 12/29/2011 - 20:29

Have it running now

Seems they were doing some checks based on the IP. Next time with a different one things went fine. I don't have Ubuntu, so I had to use the AIR package. They don't give any hint what to do with it.... I installed the previous (2.6) version of AIR that is still available in the archive at Adobe (very smart installer BTW, it created an RPM package!)
Finally CQ running without (technical) flaws.
But I'm not too impressed so far. Running around a maxze, killing monsters is no challenge at all, and it's not clear what to do with items that are not automatically equiped but only put in the inventory.
Worst thing came after some 5 levels or so, when I wanted a break: NO WAY TO SAVE!? WTF
Even for only $5 that is a bit weak....