Pirate Jam 15 - Asqueria: Distilled Soul

Well, it's a bit late to "Announce" but I figured I'd post here -- with the semi-annual Pirate Jam in full swing, of course, I had to throw my hat in the ring. We're a couple days out from the deadline, and I've crafted a small side story game set in Asqueria -- although a very different version than the one you know. So let's talk about that! **Updated, added the link now its live**

Asqueria: Distilled Soul -https://darkscream.itch.io/asq-ds

Asqueria: Distilled Soul is set in Asquerian Era 5 - The Era of Corruption.  This game, Asqueria: Origins, is set in Era 1 - appropriately named, the Origin era. They're a few thousand years apart. Very little asset crossover between the two, except the combat stats and skill systems which remain familiar across games (similar to other RPG series with multiple games).

It's the RPGMaker equivalent to a "one shot adventure" in D&D. In Distilled Soul, the events of Asqueria Origins are mostly forgotten myths and legends. From Era 2 onward, Asqueria became mortal-centric, Unlike Origins.

The Game Jam theme is Shadows and Alchemy -- Distilled Soul will use the Asqueria combat engine(RMMV+Yanfly+customs) with 4 new characters, classes and items, with a refined/reduced skill pool. The story focuses on 4 shades/soul fragments of different people trapped in a shadowy prison, and their vengeance upon their captors.

 While Origins had an element of gold/loot hunting and mercantilism, Distilled Soul has a focus on alchemy and crafting with elemental motes, and some rogue-like loot moments (big event = pick 1 of 3 big rewards). 

TLDR; PJ14's Asqueria: Origins of the Dream (this itch page/devlog) is set in the same canonical universe as PJ's Asqueria: Distilled Soul,  and they use the same game engine, But they are different games set in different time periods and continents. 

Oh, and it feels weird to just write a block of text like this so I've included a little sneak preview, as we do. I'll edit this post with the game page once ready - 3 days left from time of posting.