

Hopefully in a few years you will be able to get a fully realized product - no hard feelings! If you decide to contribute to the project and buy the game in its current form, please understand that you're not buying a final product - it's far from that! The objective at this point is to gather a community to help bring this vision to life, and if you’re looking for customer support or a fully developed experience, don't buy it now. That said, it's important to make clear that this is not (yet) a product. In 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic, I had the opportunity to start learning Unreal 4, and decided to turn all my years of gaming and RPGing into something new: a BlackThorne Keep ARPG with next gen technology - gathering all the stories of friends and foes along these years of online and analog gaming to create an original electronic Action RPG.Īnd that's why I'm on itch.io! Here I intend to gather the enthusiasts of this world and genre to help fund the project, while keeping a line open with the people interested. I've been passionate about gaming and RPGs for all my life and studied Screenwriting, Cinema and Filmmaking. 10/10.Hi! My name is Roberto Garcia and I'm the founder of the BlackThorne Keep gaming community and writer of the PARAGONIA RPG, a low fantasy tabletop RPG that takes place in a world akin to 16th century Europe and Americas. I spent a few minutes playing it: the controls are a bit awkward, and there's no pace at all, but the reverse shotgun blast more than makes up for that. It's also been lovingly created: the manual opens with a 20 page short-story setting up the shotgunning anti-hero's tale of going commando on an alien world. But it's an old game that's new to me, so I had to come up with something. The cheeky scamp also uploaded it to Battle.Net, and it's free to download.Īlmost none of the above is true, apart from Blizzard re-releasing Blackthorne for free on. Well, it looks like a Blizzard employee found it's Wikipedia entry and decided to make Blackthorne work on modern systems via DosBox. And thus the 2D platformer was consigned to history and a bit of Wikipedia.


The helpful shop assistant handed the customer Blackthorne, who looked at and then said: "I actually wanted Warcraft". The last time anyone ever said the word " Blackthorne" aloud was in 1994: a young man went into a games shop and asked the teller for the "new Blizzard game".
