An 8-bit action-adventure in the honest 1988 shape. A country eaten by briar, a sun kept in eight pieces, and nine tombs to open. One of them is on no map. Battery saves, secrets in the walls, and a second quest that lies to you. Nobody is coming.
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SUNSTONE: A Tale of the Briar King
SteamAbout SUNSTONE: A Tale of the Briar King
You wake in a glade with empty hands. Nobody sent you; the cave mouth is ahead of you, and it has been waiting. There was a sun over this country once, and it was kept in pieces: eight of them, set under eight roofs, so no one hand could ever hold the whole of the light. Then the briar came. What is under those roofs now belongs to the Briar King, and what is left of the sun is under them with it. Bring back the stones and the light will hold. For a while, which is what light has always done.
THE ADVENTURE
THE SECOND QUEST
Finish the tale and the country deals again: the secrets you knew have moved, and some of the hints you trusted are now lies. The booklet will not help you. That is the point of the booklet.
THE SET
It ships the way a 1988 cartridge should: a battery save with a CONTINUE row, a pause, a mute, a tint knob with five settings and painted glass on the front of the tube, built under one rule: a game you can play on a grey television is a game you can play. The full instruction booklet is included, and it reads like 1988 meant it.
NOTHING IS LOADED FROM ANYWHERE
No image file, no sound file, no font file. Every sprite is ASCII in a source file and every note is arithmetic. 256×240, and a sound chip doing its best.
ALSO FROM QUORUM
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