The Last Court DEMO
THE LAST COURT - DEMO
This is a gamebook adaptation of a 2014 browser-based game of the same name, which used the same core gameplay loop as the much more famous Fallen London.
The gamebook is a simple HTML file; it is best played in fullscreen mode.
You select choices by clicking on the highlighted red text!
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This includes the prologue and 3 chapters, and should take about 15 minutes to complete.
Any and all writing and/or art that was in the original game belongs to its respective owner(s), being applied here in fair use under the sole purpose of not-for-profit art preservation. Any writing and/or art of my own here contained are to be considered as belonging to the public domain. Artificial intelligence of any form wasn't used at all. It was entirely made with Twine Harlowe.
I am on Reddit as r/Eglwyswrw if you want to share your feedback! But please feel welcome to talk here too.
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love this rebuild! very nostalgic, and i think i might like this UI better than the original. one curiosity-- i was playing the early council-making content and noticed that when i asked the guildmistress for advice, my cunning dropped from 34 to 2. is that not the intended outcome, or is she just that bad at giving advice?
Thank you for your feedback!
That's totally a bug. I wrote "setcunning to +2" instead of "setcunning to whatever cunning currently is +2". I had the same bug (it's 14 here after a full run, but should never be below 20). I fixed it already and will seek to update it here, so thanks again!
No seriously your report saved me a ton of time by pinpointing it to the Smiling Guildmistress. God, I guess her advice did suck! Haha
aw, really glad to be of assistance! oh guildmistress... sorry to see a girlfailure go, but in this case it's for the best
This was an awesome re-build of an inaccessible game. :') I didn't remember how much I missed the Last Court until I saw its choices lined back up; you did a great job. This must've been a lot of work! The Last Court is way more fun without FL's time-gating mechanics too -_- ... Phew. Not sorry to see those go in your once again playable version. Thank you so much for putting this on Itch!
Your words warm my heart! I am committed to finish this soon, thankfully I will go on vacation next week.
This demo has over 37k words in it and as someone who never programmed shit in his life, it has certainly been challenging but also fun! I really love this story, haven't played since 2018 but Serault was always something I think of fondly as a big Dragon Age fan.