MYSTIQA

March 24, 2020

Mystiqa Backers to Receive Dale North Composed Five-Album Soundtrack

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Scarlet Moon Productions announced that every backer of the Mystiqa Kickstarter campaign would receive a Dale North composed, five-album, soundtrack package. North has been the composer for titles, such as Wizard of Legend and Sparklite. The Mystiqa soundtrack will feature natural ambiance throughout the game’s seven distinct biomes, and orchestral combat cues for the game’s boss encounters. Secret of Mana composer, Hiroki Kikuta, is also a part of the talented Scarlet Moon Productions team. If the appropriate stretch goal is hit, he will compose the title theme for Mystique. Developer Julian Creutz has been hard at work on Mystiqa for the past three years. The procedurally-generated top-down action RPG was inspired by The Legend of Zelda and incorporates many modern RPG features, including four-player local multiplayer. The world of Mystiqa focuses heavily on exploration. The action RPG combat emphasizes and rewards skill over grinding. Players will find epic bosses scattered throughout Mystiqa’s overworld and its underworld. Because of the procedurally generated nature of the game, every time a player plays,

March 18, 2020

MYSTIQA Launches Kickstarter Campaign

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For three years now, indie game developer Julian Creutz has been toiling on his big project…a procedurally generated top-down action RPG called MYSTIQA. The game is nearly done, except for one final step….the Kickstarter to get it polished. If you know Zelda, if you know Dragon Quest, if you know all the great RPG adventures of the 8-bit age, then you know what MYSTIQA is going for…with the twist of the environments being totally different each time you play. In recent years, “item randomizers” have spiced up older games…here’s what we’d call an “EVERYTHING randomizer.” Also, as a stylistic choice, the pixels are twice as large as Zelda’s. Creutz is asking for a mere $4000. This expense roughly equals the cost of a Nintendo Switch development kit and the price to request the services of Dale North (Wizard of Legend, Sparklite) on the soundtrack. This would be fine on its own, but MYSTIQA has one tantalizing stretch goal: a title theme created by Hiroki Kikuta (Secret of Mana) at $10,000.