Patched Tunics!

Patched Tunics! is a fork of Tunics!, a roguelike-like adventure game based on the look and mechanics of The legend of Zelda – A link to the past for SNES.

It’s a tier-based action RPG where the player progresses through randomly generated and increasingly difficult dungeons.

It’s made for the Solarus game engine. See more at https://solarus-games.org.

Story

Hyrule is at peace, princess Zelda is safe, there are no supervillains running amok but our hero has found himself in the unfortunate situation of having fallen down a hole and now he needs to get out. The only way out is through the dungeons.

Concept and gameplay

Starting with basically nothing the player progresses through several tiers of dungeons with increasing difficulty. Each tier will present new challenges and the player will need to use familiar skills and items from Zelda games, acquired through the quest to progress.

Each new tier is randomly generated and each play-through will fell unique. For each dungeon, the following elements will be random, some purely computationally, others from a vast database of components:

Dungeon layout
Dungeon treasure and obstacles
Room size and shape
Room content
Graphic tileset design
Graphic tileset palette
Music
Enemies

The game uses permadeath, meaning the player will have to start over on dying.

A full playthrough will last about 30-40 minutes but the player can choose to continue beyond the final tier. Things will get increasingly hard but there may be rewards in the deeper dungeons.

Patched Tunics! will give you a new, unique Zelda adventure whenever you want it.

Download

The packages below only contain the game files. To play this game, you also need Solarus.

Releases

Version 0.4	First release of *Patched Tunics!*	in development	download
Version 0.3	Latest release of Tunics!	2016-11-06	download
Verison 0.2		2016-10-08	download
Version 0.1	First public release of Tunics!	2016-09-09	download

Controls

Controls work fairly intutitive with configured game controllers. Keyboard controls are as follows. qwerty-iso

Game

Directional keys	Move Link
Spacebar & Enter	Action / Interact
S key	Swing your sword
W key	Access inventory screen
A & D keys	Use items. Assign to keys in inventory.
Tab	Access map
Esc key	Pause menu

Directional keys	Move cursor
Spacebar & Enter	Confirm
Esc key	Cancel

Misc

F5	Cycle
F11	Toggle

Development

Development and design of the original game, Tunics!, was headed by Mattias Päivärinta and Jan Sandström, and with considerable contributions from Thomas Kwarnmark.

But the development of the game is paused for several years. So, few interesting contributions from the community were never released. That’s why Patched Tunics! is born.

Patched Tunics! is now headed by Franck Jousseaume.

Project repository: https://gitlab.com/syllan-games/patched-tunics.

Project documentation: https://gitlab.com/syllan-games/patched-tunics/-/wikis.

Acknowledgement and credits

To Mattias Päivärinta, Jan Sandström and Thomas Kwarnmark for Tunics!
To Christopho for the Solarus game engine and the extensive documentation and community surrounding it, for the quest data assets in zsdx, and in the alttp resource pack. Oh, and thank you for the mention in PC Gamer.
To Wrightmat from whose zbom project we got some additional quest data assets.
To Neil Richardson for the Lua CRC32 implementation.
To Steven Johnson for the Lua MWC implementation.
To Emmanuel Oga for the Lua HSL-to-RGB implementation.
To Nintendo for the original Legend of Zelda - A link to the past, and other Zelda games, which have inspired and entertained us for many years.

Media

First impressions and let’s play of Tunics! by Christopho (in french).

License and legal

Patched Tunics! consists in part of materials under various free and open-source and public licenses, and in part of unlicensed materials, mostly from Zelda games, under fair use. Open Patched Tunics! with Solarus Quest Editor for details.

The content of this site is licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0.