Lanternfall

About this game

Lanternfall is an original top-down skilling RPG built from scratch as a GBA ROM, written in plain C with no SDK. Start in the harbour town of Kettle Cove and work your way from copper to starmetal: chop trees, mine rock, fish the docks, cook your catch, smelt bars and hammer out your own armor.

The island is 112 by 88 tiles of forest, bog, quarry and cliff. Explore Whisperwood, the willow-choked Mirefen, the mining hamlet of Copperbrook, a bandit camp in the eastern woods and the plateau of the Giant's Stair, where ogres, trolls and the Ember Drake wait. Light the waylantern in each region and travel between them in an instant.

Chunky hand-drawn 16x24 sprites wear every piece of gear as its own layer, so a mixed set really shows on your character. Satisfying XP drops float up the screen, level-up fanfares play, and a round minimap keeps you oriented.

• 12 skills to 99: Attack, Strength, Defence, Hitpoints, Woodcutting, Firemaking, Fishing, Cooking, Mining, Smithing, Prayer and Thieving
• Five metal tiers, each with sword, helm, platebody, platelegs, shield, axe and pickaxe
• Turn-timed combat with attack styles, bones to bury and five prayers
• Five quests, pickpocketing, a bank, a general store and loot piles
• Run energy, battery saves, and it runs on real hardware or any GBA emulator

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