Firesquid Reveals Demo and Kickstarter Campaign for Tactical RPG Blade Prince Academy

Firesquid Games, in partnership with Angel Corp, has launched a demo for Blade Prince Academy, a tactical RPG game featuring an anime art style and real-time with pause combat. Players can now try out the game's demo on Steam, which includes over an hour of gameplay, four missions, and a boss battle. The demo takes players through the dark and magical city of Abjectalia and encourages them to create a team of diverse Blade Princes to achieve balance on the battlefield.

The game's main feature is the ability to create powerful combo attacks in battle using ‘true real-time with pause.’ By manipulating the order and timing of each attack, players can dodge enemy spells, use the environment to their advantage, or push their opponents into a disadvantageous position.

Blade Prince Academy's Kickstarter campaign aims to grow the game's community and create more content for players. Backers will be rewarded with perks such as a discount on the game, access to digital goodies, direct involvement in the development, and exclusive information about the game's future. The team plans to bring new heroes, bosses, and more missions to the game through the Kickstarter campaign.

The game's Talent Tree feature allows players to manage upgrades and unlock skills to improve the Princes. As players gain more experience, they will earn access to more powerful spells. Heroes can also be endowed with Pacts, granting them both negative and positive effects. This system innovates in the accumulation of Pacts, allowing for the development of powerful yet flawed heroes.

Players can assemble a squad of different heroes, each with their own unique strengths, weaknesses, and backstories. The choices made throughout the game will impact the Blade Princes and how they feel about each other, affecting their lives as well as the best strategy to adopt. Players can also equip characters with the game's arsenal of spells to find the perfect strategy for the missions ahead. The game features challenging boss fights that require players to have complete mastery of the combat system.

Features:

•  Talent Tree: Manage upgrades and unlock skills to improve the Princes. As you gain more experience, you will earn access to more powerful spells. 

• Pacts: Heroes can be endowed with Pacts, granting them both negative and positive effects. This system innovates in the accumulation of Pacts, allowing for the development of powerful yet flawed heroes.

• Real-time With Pause Combat: Pause time during combat to strategically plan out every single movement and attack for your squad. Deal punishing blows to enemies by combining attacks and abilities with the right effects to generate powerful combos. 

• Unique Characters: Assemble a squad of different heroes, each with their own unique strengths, weaknesses, and backstories.

• Relationships: The choices made throughout your journey will impact the Blade Princes and how they feel about each other. This will affect their lives as well as impact which strategy will be the best to adopt. 

• Spell Load-out: Equip characters with the game’s arsenal of spells to find the perfect strategy for the missions ahead. 

• Challenging Boss Fights: Protect the city of Abjectalia from hordes of monsters like vampires, rebels, cultists, and more, all with terrifying powers that will require you to have complete mastery of the combat system.

The demo was released as part of this year’s TactiCon, which took place on Steam from May 11th to May 15th, 2023. Those wishing to follow the game's development can wishlist it on Steam, join the Discord for Firesquid Games, or support the Kickstarter campaign.

About Angel Corp

Angel Corp is a transmedia studio, specializing in the creation of video games and book publishing (novels, short story collections, mangas). The team works tirelessly to offer quality projects, with Blade Prince Academy being their main video game project.

About Firesquid Games

Firesquid Games is an indie publisher focused on games that include strategizing and thinking in their broadest sense, from tactics to city-builders or any other game where the brain is the most important muscle. Firesquid works closely with developers to help them make the best game they can and focuses on developing communities around their strategy games.