Crystal Story: Awakening
A downloadable game for Windows
WHAT IS CRYSTAL STORY: AWAKENING?
Crystal Story: Awakening is an Action-RPG that blends charming retro-style graphics with fast-paced action, heavily inspired by 16-bit classics!
SERIES?
I'm taking it easy with the project right now, starting things off with Crystal Story: Awakening! I decided that the best fit for this game would be to make it a series of games to fit my development schedule (I work full-time with game dev as a hobby).
I keep my devlog and the official twitter updated to share progress along the way.
Originally, this was known as the "PREVIEW VERSION", but I felt like this was a great intro to the series, so I decided to let it stand on its own!
I recently wrapped up development for the sequel for Awakening – Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk! I am gearing up to release it very soon.
CONTROLS (Keyboard)
ARROW KEYS - Movement (you can even do diagonal movement by holding Up + Left, Down + Right, etc.)
SHIFT (Hold while moving) - Run
"I" Key - Open Menu
ALT + ENTER - Fullscreen Mode
For players using a QWERTZ keyboard layout, you can substitute the "Z" key with the "Y" key.
CONTROLS (Controller)
**Please read the included Read Me file for additional information!**
**Also, this game has some moving and flashing colors and imagery.**
WHERE CAN I STAY IN THE LOOP?
The following places will keep you up-to-speed on the development of the game!
The Official Crystal Story Twitter:
https://twitter.com/thecrystalstory
The Creator's Personal Twitter:
https://twitter.com/bredfrown
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/fredbreezyfosheezy/
CREDITS
Fred "Bred Frown" Brown - Creator, Game Designer, Director, Animator, Lead Artist, UI Designer, Art Director, and Writer
https://twitter.com/bredfrown
Tetrix450 - Lead Composer and Sound FX Design
https://soundcloud.com/user-482788149
https://twitter.com/tetrix450
Satoko "Holly" Young (SkittleGirlHolly) - Lead Composer
https://soundcloud.com/skittlegirl
https://twitter.com/skittlegrlHolly
Joie "Cheesecake Lumps" Brown - Character Designer and Story Advisor and Editor
https://twitter.com/CheesecakeLumps
CQ - Guest Composer
https://twitter.com/C_Q_Creator
SPECIAL THANKS
Melissa Troubls - Super Fan
Andrew Alford - Super Fan and Video Wizard!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkhMu2Qlt_dH-5-8ypkDe9w
Brian "Artblaster" Farrar - Super Fan and Lead Artist on Toasty!
https://twitter.com/art_blaster
Max "Mr. Tenda" Ponoroff - Super Fan, Advisor, and Game Developer! Currently working on Starstruck!
https://twitter.com/_mrtenda
https://twitter.com/playstarstruck
Quincy Pringle - Creator and Developer of OTHER: Her Loving Embrace
https://twitter.com/qpringledev
https://twitter.com/otherRPG
Bryan Cox - Co-Developer of Blue Omen Operation
https://twitter.com/BryanCoxDev
Matt Espiritu - Super Fan and Awesome Artist
https://twitter.com/CapnCocoCharms
Friendly Cosmonaut - Creator of the FC Dialogue System
https://friendlycosmonaut.itch.io/dialoguesystem
https://friendlycosmonaut.itch.io/
Toby Fox - Creator of Undertale and Deltarune
https://twitter.com/tobyfox
bnapky - Co-creator of Hammer Dongers and assistance with CSS with the Itch.io page
https://itch.io/profile/bnapky
Crave - Co-creator of Hammer Dongers
https://cravecraw.itch.io/
Rachel Harder - Creator of Catto
https://balloonpuppy.itch.io/catto
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows |
Release date | Dec 31, 2019 |
Rating | Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars (48 total ratings) |
Author | Bred Frown |
Genre | Role Playing |
Made with | GameMaker, Adobe Photoshop |
Tags | Action RPG, Episodic, Exploration, Female Protagonist, GameMaker, Pixel Art, Retro, Top-Down, Top Down Adventure |
Average session | About a half-hour |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Xbox controller |
Links | Twitter/X, YouTube |
Download
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Development log
- Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk releases on 1/12/2024!Dec 15, 2023
- The Dawn of Dusk title screen! :DDec 07, 2023
- Awaken.Dec 01, 2023
- ZzzNov 10, 2023
- Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk - Demo VersionMay 11, 2022
- Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk - TeaserSep 07, 2021
- Dungeon puzzles with Luras! :DAug 31, 2021
- Mode 7! ;DMay 21, 2021