Crystal Story: Awakening by Bred Frown

WHAT IS CRYSTAL STORY: AWAKENING? #

Crystal Story: Awakening is an Action-RPG that blends charming retro-style graphics with fast-paced action, heavily inspired by 16-bit classics! 

SERIES? #

I’m taking it easy with the project right now, starting things off with Crystal Story: Awakening! I decided that the best fit for this game would be to make it a series of games to fit my development schedule (I work full-time with game dev as a hobby).I keep my devlog and the official twitter  updated to share progress along the way.Originally, this was known as the “PREVIEW VERSION”, but I felt like this was a great intro to the series, so I decided to let it stand on its own!I recently wrapped up development for the sequel for Awakening – Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk! I am gearing up to release it very soon.

CONTROLS (Keyboard) #

ARROW KEYS – Movement (you can even do diagonal movement by holding Up + Left, Down + Right, etc.)SHIFT (Hold while moving) – Run
“I” Key  – Open MenuALT + ENTER – Fullscreen Mode
For players using a QWERTZ keyboard layout, you can substitute the “Z” key with the “Y” key.

CONTROLS (Controller) #

**Please read the included Read Me file for additional information!****Also, this game has some moving and flashing colors and imagery.**

WHERE CAN I STAY IN THE LOOP? #

The following places will keep you up-to-speed on the development of the game!The Official Crystal Story Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecrystalstoryThe Creator’s Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/bredfrownInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/fredbreezyfosheezy/

CREDITS #

Fred “Bred Frown” Brown – Creator, Game Designer, Director, Animator, Lead Artist, UI Designer, Art Director, and Writer https://twitter.com/bredfrown
Tetrix450 – Lead Composer and Sound FX Design https://soundcloud.com/user-482788149 https://twitter.com/tetrix450Satoko “Holly” Young (SkittleGirlHolly) – Lead Composer  https://soundcloud.com/skittlegirl https://twitter.com/skittlegrlHollyJoie “Cheesecake Lumps” Brown – Character Designer and Story Advisor and Editor https://twitter.com/CheesecakeLumps
CQ** **– Guest Composer https://twitter.com/C_Q_Creator

SPECIAL THANKS #

Melissa Troubls – Super Fan
https://twitter.com/MTtravaux
Andrew Alford – Super Fan and Video Wizard! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkhMu2Qlt_dH-5-8ypkDe9w
Brian “Artblaster” Farrar – Super Fan and Lead Artist on Toasty!**** https://twitter.com/art_blaster
**Max “Mr. Tenda” Ponoroff **– Super Fan, Advisor,  and Game Developer! Currently working on Starstruck! https://twitter.com/_mrtenda https://twitter.com/playstarstruck

Quincy Pringle – Creator and Developer of OTHER: Her Loving Embrace******** https://twitter.com/qpringledev https://twitter.com/otherRPG
Bryan Cox – Co-Developer of Blue Omen Operation https://twitter.com/BryanCoxDev
Matt Espiritu – Super Fan and Awesome Artist https://twitter.com/CapnCocoCharms
**Friendly Cosmonaut **– Creator of the FC Dialogue System https://friendlycosmonaut.itch.io/dialoguesystem https://friendlycosmonaut.itch.io/
**Toby Fox **– Creator of Undertale and Deltarune  https://twitter.com/tobyfox
bnapky – Co-creator of Hammer Dongers and assistance with CSS with the Itch.io page https://itch.io/profile/bnapky
**Crave **– Co-creator of Hammer Dongers https://cravecraw.itch.io/
**Rachel Harder **– Creator of Catto https://balloonpuppy.itch.io/catto