Welcome to the Press Kit page for ‘Horizon To Crinoa: Have Faith in Radiance -Prototype-’!
Detail Summary
Developer: Second Morning Works
Genre: Single Player Action RPG
Release Date: October 2023(October 27th~)
Platform: Steam
Price: Free Prototype, $5 for the Soundtrack on release
Language: English
Contact: TDaniels@secondmorningworks.com
Website: secondmorningworks.com
Socials:
twitter.com/SecondMorningW
https://www.youtube.com/@secondmorningworks1948
Game Description
‘Horizon To Crinoa: Have Faith in Radiance -Prototype-’ is a party focused, stylish, action RPG inspired by classic JRPGs, fighting games and character action/hack and slash games. This version of the game is a short and simple prototype meant to act as demo/proof of concept for a larger project we’d like to create afterwards that is based on it!
You follow our main character, Yellette Slanade, a Hero of the World, who is on a small request on the Island of Ezelpor to retrieve cooking ingredients for her older sister. Though her trip was meant to be simple, it turned out to be more than she expected after a creature called a Jeletan begins to follow her around.
In the prototype you visit two primary locations:
The Red Isles: Ezepor - Highleaf Heights: A small area of a larger island during the Jeletan Season, a period where the majority of wildlife you encounter are of the Jeletan species.
The Twilight Memoryscape: A mystical world where it is said one can come to the realization of oneself in order to make their dreams and hopes come true.
Gameplay
The gameplay is focused on fast paced character action and stylish combos with fairly in depth character building, stats, skills and abilities to mesh with the classic feeling one may find familiar if they’ve played older Japanese style RPGs.
The prototype contains two main party members:
-Yellette: Our main character whose gameplay is relatively complex and in depth!
-Ermli: A Jeletan whose gameplay is simpler and serves mostly as support!
Some gameplay mechanics include:
-Active Character Switching Mid Combo.
-Character Assists akin to a fighting game assist/striker.
-Parrying, including both a standard parry and perfect parry.
-Style Meter that increases rewards such as skill points, ability points, money, EXP and so on, as you score higher.
Game Trailers
Screenshots
Second Morning Works
Second Morning Works was officially started in 2022, but our time with game development started some time before that! At the start we were a two member team of Myself(Telly/Noctis) and Sai both starting off totally fresh and learning every aspect of game development from scratch including programming, design, audio work, modeling, animating and so on.
At the time we weren’t sure exactly what we wanted to make, how we wanted to do it or how it would even work, but we spent a lot of timing trying to develop multiple projects in order to learn. At a point we eventually decided on a 3D action RPG based on an idea that I had written some time prior and because of our love for character action games, fighting games and Japanese RPGS!
Getting used to designing everything correctly, making a proper workflow, programming the mechanics, affording models, animations, VFX and voice acting and the like took a lot of getting used to but after we settled on a core concept and idea, Horizon To Crinoa was born! At the moment, Sai is unable to work with the team as their job takes up their time, but their support has been nothing short of the backbone for development as they had originally did a lot of work on the project alongside me!
Our name, “Second Morning Works” stems from an ideology within the context of the story of Horizon To Crinoa, which involves one surpassing the boundaries holding them back with the Hopes and Dreams they have within their hearts to push them forwards! When one is able to move “Beyond their Horizon”, they have reached the climax of their lives and lived to see what is known as the “Second Morning”.
We always had a dream to create and develop a game based on our own ideas, with the joy and passion stemming from all of the games we loved in our youths and adulthood and those now. Similar to the ideology mentioned, the Hopes and Dreams to complete a full length action games based on our prototype is what keeps pushing us forwards, so please look forward to our future endeavors! Thank you!
Artwork
Music
Voice Acting
Heidi Tabing as Yellette
VFX
Animation
Modeling
Programming
Telly Daniels(Noctis)
Sai
Director
Telly Daniels