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hERMETICA
A turn based deckbuilder roguelite
Red Mountain, developer of The Crown of Wu present Hermetica, a turn based card game inspired by alchemy.
The game has collected a few prizes:
-PlayStation Iokool 2023 Best Game by Press Proffesionals
-Devuego 2024 Most Anticipated Spanish Indie Game
-PlayGeneration 2024. Best Art Videogame
-Toledo Matsuri 2024 Honorific Torii Best Game
-Valencia Indie Summit2024 Best Game in Development
Hermetica is a roguelike turn-based card game. Players start with a basic set of cards and must forge their perfect deck in different runs, enhance it by practicing the great alchemical work, and use it to defeat mythical beasts and colossal enemies. Each card collected unveils new opportunities on the battlefield.
Cards can be transmuted and enhanced through alchemy, combining various elements and materials to create powerful potions and elixirs in our arcane laboratory. Immerse yourself in the occult science of matter transmutation, where lead turns to gold and the essence of life is distilled into the philosopher’s stone.
Inspired by tactical games, the movement mechanics randomly assign each card a unique movement pattern that players must use with cunning to avoid traps and dominate the battlefield. Ambush your enemies and use the terrain to your advantage.
Gameplay:
• Explore hidden dungeons full of alchemical secrets and valuable
resources.
• Discover and face unique alchemical beings, each with special abilities
and challenges.
• Use alchemy to enhance your cards and create items.
• Hundreds of cards to collect and build your perfect deck, divided into
three categories: sulfur, mercury, and salt.
• Tactical battles, based on movement, attacks, and the use of special
abilities.
• New cards, enemies, and levels in each game.
• Fight mythical beasts from medieval folklore.
• Set in 16th century Toledo. Visit iconic places in this legendary city.
• Enjoy art inspired by medieval codices.
Developer: Red Mountain
• Genre: Deckbuilder/ Roguelite/ Cards
• Number of players: 1
• Platform: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch
• Release date: —
• Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Turkish,
Portuguese from Brazil, Portuguese from Portugal, Japanese, Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Korean.
THE CROWN OF WU
Since 2018, Red Mountain and the Trazos school have collaborated together in the development of this adventure game to provide a visual, emotional and narrative experience that players enjoy. Initially conceived as a collaborative project between students, the idea takes on professional inertia as it was developed directly by the Red Mountain studio (formerly TRTLabs).
The origins focus on a joint proposal between the school and Jose Carlos Montero, professor in the area of Video Game Design and Production and founder of Red Mountain and TRTLabs, to develop a game where the knowledge contributed from all training departments comes into play. , art and animation to participate with students shaping a game of original narrative and design.
At that moment, J C Montero begins to work with a selection of students willing to contribute their time and knowledge to the project, so that while contributing their effort they learn how to work in a professional environment and shape their own portfolio. …
Thus, we begin by designing a narrative structure, a story behind the game that supports the gameplay, puzzles and interactions that we will later see in the project…
In February 2019, the game was selected as one of the components of the Play Station Talents for that year and now, in mid-2022, The Crown of Wu! will be released, initially on PS4 and PS5, PC, Xbox Series and One and later N. Switch.
The Studio
Red Mountain is a recently formed studio that is, however, made up of the entire human team of the award-winning TRTLabs (Berlin-Madrid 2015). Red Mountain responds to the need for developers to create products focused purely on the world of video games (previously, they obtained an IBT Prize in 2016 for the development of a project about the Berlin Wall in VR). Within the studio, innovative VR products have been developed for clients such as Sublimotion Ibiza or NTT Disruption and multiple real-time simulators in response to market demand for gamified solutions for training in contemporary times.
The Game
The game is an adventure, action, puzzle and platform game in 3rd person for 1 player.
It tells the adventures of Wu, a half-ape half-human being, who after having been the herald of the emperor, began to behave in a chaotic manner due to the use of the crown that gave him extraordinary powers. It is as if using it corrupts hearts… Over time, his crimes and atrocities led him to be captured and sentenced to a harsh sentence, freezing in a bio-static solution. After dozens of years almost conscious but immobile, one day he is freed from his prison and observes that everything is in ruins and decaying; In addition, his crown has been stolen and it is being used to cause a vibration that will lead to a gigantic explosion and with it, extinction… He will have to recover his crown and help those he once punished, in order to redeem himself and find peace. …
Wu’s crown must be found!
