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The Mage's Tale (2017): A side-story game set in the Bard's Tale universe, developed by inXile alongside The Bard's Tale IV and released in 2017. Like other games in the series, it is a first-person dungeon crawler, but is built for virtual reality , featuring action-based spellcasting, rather than turn-based combat.
A compilation of all three classic The Bard's Tale games, entitled The Bard's Tale Trilogy, was released for DOS by Electronic Arts in 1990. According to programmer Rebecca Heineman, the name of the overall series was to be Tales of the Unknown, and the three games were to be entitled The Bard's Tale, The Archmage's Tale, and The Thief's Tale.
The initial The Bard's Tale II release was part of a series of evolving 1980s fantasy role-playing video games. [28] Drawing from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons' roots in the 1970s, these included the Wizardry and Ultima series. [28] The game followed the Bard's Tale I's 1985 release. [29] Work began as soon as The Bard's Tale was complete. [30]
Bards Tale, The: Interplay: EA: Fantasy: APPII C64: The first CRPG to put Interplay on the map as a future CRPG developer. US 1985 (JP/PAL) Black Onyx, The (JP/PAL) ザ・ブラックオニキス (JP) Bullet-Proof: Bullet-Proof ASCII: Fantasy: FM7 MSX [55] Dungeon crawl [37] [38] JP 1985 (JP) Cosmic Soldier (JP) コズミックソルジャー ...
Cranford was the designer and programmer of 1985's The Bard's Tale [1] and 1986's The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight role-playing video games published by Interplay Productions. He also programmed the Apple II version of Donkey Kong, the Commodore 64 version of Super Zaxxon, as well as Maze Master (a spiritual predecessor of The Bard's Tale).
A dungeon map created for a tabletop role-playing game. A dungeon crawl is a type of scenario in fantasy role-playing games (RPGs) in which heroes navigate a labyrinth environment (a "dungeon"), battling various monsters, avoiding traps, solving puzzles, and looting any treasure they may find. [1]
The Bard's Tale is an action role-playing game developed and published by inXile Entertainment in 2004 and was distributed by Vivendi Universal Games in North America and Ubisoft in Europe (The game was originally going to be distributed by Acclaim Entertainment there, until they filed for bankruptcy [2]).
A screenshot of the Bard from the game Silversword. Silversword is a fantasy role-playing game created by Mario J. Gaida. [1] It was released for the iOS operating system on 13 January 2012 and is available for the Apple iPad and iPhone. [2] Gaida modeled Silversword after the 1980s The Bard's Tale series of games, but provided a new storyline ...