Indie studios and homebrewers are still making great new RPGs with a 25-year-old King's Field toolkit

The days of yore: A quarter century ago, Dark Souls creator FromSoftware released a toolkit with King's Field so fans could try their hand at modding and level making. It's hard to believe those tools are still around and cranking out modern classics that will take you back to the late 90s. In 2023, a little-known indie developer released Lunacid – a retro dungeon crawler that paid homage to FromSoftware games, King's Field and Shadow Tower – the progenitors of the Elden Ring series. The studio, Kira LLC, just posted a new Steam page confirming it is ready to release a follow-up called Lunacid: Tears of the Moon. What is interesting about both of these releases is that they were created using FromSoftware's 25-year-old RPG maker Sword of Moonlight. The developer released the toolkit bundled with King's Field in 2000, but only in Japan. Purchasing the game granted buyers an unlimited license to use King's field assets to make homebrewed games with Sword of Moonlight. Creators could ev ... Read full article.