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A screenshot of the Bard from the game Silversword. Silversword is a fantasy role-playing game created by Mario J. Gaida. [1] It was released for the iOS operating system on 13 January 2012 and is available for the Apple iPad and iPhone. [2] Gaida modeled Silversword after the 1980s The Bard's Tale series of games, but provided a new storyline ...
The Mage's Tale (2017): A side-story game set in the Bard's Tale universe, developed by inXile alongside The Bard's Tale IV and released in 2017. Like other games in the series, it is a first-person dungeon crawler, but is built for virtual reality , featuring action-based spellcasting, rather than turn-based combat.
The Bard's Tale is a fantasy role-playing video game designed and programmed by Michael Cranford for the Apple II. It was produced by Interplay Productions in 1985 and distributed by Electronic Arts. [3] The game was ported to the Commodore 64, Apple IIGS, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Mac, and NES.
The game was marketed as a humorous spoof of fantasy role-playing video games. It is neither a remake nor a sequel to Interplay Productions' Tales of the Unknown, Volume I: The Bard's Tale (1985). The Bard's Tale was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in October 2004, and for Microsoft Windows in June 2005.
In the January–February 1985 edition of Space Gamer (Issue No. 72), Craig Sheeley was not sure if the average player should buy the 1983 edition, commenting that, "The Compleat Alchemist is a worthy supplement, but if you don't think you'll ever have an alchemist player-character in your game, and you already have enough magical items and don't want to add any more, then this supplement is ...
Michael Cranford (born June 5, 1963) is a video game designer and programmer. As a designer and programmer his works include The Bard's Tale , The Bard's Tale II , and Dark Seed . Cranford left the video game industry in 1992 to pursue an academic career as an ethicist.
Unlike other games in The Bard's Tale series, The Mage's Tale focuses on a single character and class, a mage. Combat is real-time, using physical gestures to throw spells, and a magical shield to block incoming attacks. The game makes use of a deep spell-crafting system that allows players to mix various ingredients to create different effects.
The Bard's Tale Construction Set is a computer game creation system that allows for the creation of dungeon crawl video games based on the Bard's Tale game engine. It was developed by Interplay Productions in 1991 and distributed by Electronic Arts. It was released for the Amiga and MS-DOS.