Pawn Upgrade

Warning: Mild language and sexual innuendo

Take on the role of Yssven, a black pawn looking to travel the world to find enough power to bring vengeance to the White Army.

Submission for 7DRL 2025 challenge.  Marked as Incomplete for now as there's still a lot of core gameplay which hasn't been implemented. The story kind of got away from me.

The heart of the game at the moment is the interactions between Yssven and the other characters - all voiced and acted. If you should die, play again, and the interactions will be slightly different.

Sadly at the moment that means the gameplay is quite lackluster in its current iteration, though still technically playable at the moment. Make sure to note the following things:

- To cycle through the dialogue, press any key. To skip the dialogue, press Esc.

- ALL ENEMIES (pawns and bosses alike) will move and attack by  moving one space orthoganally. They all have only one health. This means that it is fairly easy to defeat them using EnPassant.

- Drinking from the fountain (apart from the first one) wont give you any further abilities for now.

- You aren't actually able to upgrade/promote into a different piece. This was going to be a post-boss reward but it's not yet implemented.

- The castle levels wont be behind the same doors.

I'd like to add the following features in the future:

- Animations for enemies so you can see when they're taking damage, when they're moving, etc.

- More enemies, different types of enemies with different attacks.

- Better boss fights and animations, with a health bar at the top

- Loot - raiding a corpse might give you loot, which will give you added damage and movement range

- More dialogue options

- Better enemy and ally AI and pathing

- More UI - Menu button, Mute button, Info button

- See enemy stats on hover

- Tutorial mode

- Sound effects

- Better splash screens/win screen/lose screen

- Actual fountain upgrades.

Still, I've had a lot of fun making it. Thank you to all my amazing friends for helping make this happen!