Save the Kingdom in Crestborn - A Guild for Teenage Heroes

12/5/2020

Crestborn is a fantasy-adventure Visual Novel that the students of our Young Artists' Initiative (YAI) program will produce together. Assisted by our industry partners, students will create individual characters, settings and arcs inside a universe that they have developed as a class.

In order to nurture its creative community, MediaContex has established an outreach program that assists aspiring artists and developers with producing their ideas.

Story Sight Studios, one of our longstanding partners, will assist the students of our Young Adults Initiative (YAI) program with the development of Crestborn, in which players may join a guild of Questers that will assist the royal families of their kingdoms.

In this visual novel, players are part of "The Crestborn", teenage champions who are chosen to protect their kingdoms. Before they can become full-fledged heroes, they are are enlisted into the Crestborn Elite, a guild that trains them to develop their skills.

Our students aim to develop this idea into a visual novel with the following features:

Customisable Characters

Players may create original avatars to use throughout the game. They may customise their character's name, appearance and abilities.

They will also have the choice to play as Questers from the following classes:

Regents, the royal heirs to the kingdoms' thrones.
Knights, the appointed protectors of the Regents.
Mages, the royal families' appointed sorcerers.

Multiple Story Routes

Players will be assigned to an Order - a team of Questers from various classes. Their interactions with their Order's members will allow them to unlock multiple characters and storylines.

Interactive Locations

3D Locations and Navigation Functions

Our game is equipped with more than twenty 3D locations with point-and-click navigation options.

Bonus Items, Levels and Areas

Players who explore their environments may unlock bonus items, hidden levels and secret areas.

Map and Navigation Options

Players may also complete side quests to unlock new levels and areas. They will also have access to an interactive map, which shows standard and bonus locations that they may access.

Quests and Upgrades

Quests

Players will have a Quest Log, which lists quests according to their level of difficulty and their status of completion. Quests allow players to gain experience points, which enable them to access exclusive features in our game.

Levelling Up

Players may use their experience points to increase their rank. Levelling up allows them to acquire new equipment, gain new skills, unlock new levels, and more.

Combat Options

Players who embark on Quests will gain experience points, unlock new locations expand their inventory by defeating enemies. They may also use their experience points to unlock elixirs, weapons, spells and additional bonus items, which will be shown in their inventory.

Inventory

Large Range of Items

Players may fill their inventory with a range of tools, weapons, potions, elixirs and bonus items. They may collect for themselves, or give them to the members of their Order.

Unlock and Purchase Inventory Items

Players may unlock new items with their experience points. They may also purchase items with Coins, a universal currency that is accepted across all kingdoms.

Wide range of Characters

Aside from the members in their Order, players may interact with a range of more than thirty characters. They may invite members of the Crestborn Elite to join their Order, or extract information from NPCs who may assist them with their Quests.

cast List

Crestborn's production team would like to thank our talented VAs for bringing our characters to life. We've created character posters with credits to their Twitter profiles: