A Swashbuckling Action-Adventure Game
En Garde! is a student game prototype, featuring story-driven action in an open level for a total play time of about 30 minutes.
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En Garde! is a swashbuckling action-adventure game set in 17th century's Spain.
Play as Adalia de Volador, a noble & impetuous swordswoman!
Fence against multiple opponents at once by using your rapier and your ruse.
Turn the tables by intuitively using props from your surroundings against your opponents.
Move, fight & improvise with complete freedom in a palace thanks to your acrobatic skills.
Humiliate your enemies with panache to win the hearts of the crowd.
The game is powered by Unreal Engine 4.
En Garde! was made in 2018 as a graduation project by a team of 8 students from Supinfogame Rubika.
The team reassembled to build its own studio: Fireplace Games ; and work on a new project.
Adrien formed a brotherhood of eight musketeers to embark on this adventure. He envisioned, directed and wrote En Garde! like a modern-day Alexandre Dumas. Sort of.
Captain of the guard (as his name implies), Valentin made sure that all of Adalia’s opponents were worth a fight. He also was the main contact point with our playtesters.
Corentin was the chief architect of the Volador’s Palace. He worked carefully to make sure our level felt both coherent, fun and thrilling to explore and fight in.
Both buffoon and mastermind, this trickster always comes up with crazy ideas but also have a strong technical understanding, which allowed him to develop the gameplay.
As some sort of supreme being, Pierre used the power of AI to gift the game’s characters with a behavior, and built the laws of the universe to make our game world interactive.
Our master marionettist Tim literally brought life to the game’s cast of characters, and used technological witchcraft to ensure our game would look good by today’s standards.
Like a tasteful scenographer, Anaïs meticulously made the characters, their costumes, and adorned the Volador’s Palace with details, passion and authenticity.
Julien is not only an artist, historian and erudite, he’s an actual Italian swashbuckler and the incarnation of Panache descended to earth. You would believe it if you met him.
Ludwig Wu - Music Composer
Ilse Zamarripa - Adalia's voice performance
Jordan Jaminet, Valentin Picard, Maxime Conquy, Thibaut Moitel, Loup Druet, Guillaume Faguet.
Thanks to everyone who helped us with the game!
We are always open to answer questions or to talk about game development.
If you are a game publisher interested in the project, feel free to contact us!
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