Nox Archaist
Nox Archaist is a role-playing video game released in December 2020 for the then-historical platform Apple II, alongside contemporary macOS and Windows systems. The game was inspired by the early-to-mid Ultima games and The Bard's Tale. The story unfolds in a sword and sorcery setting of a world named Vali: Sent to an island region to investigate a cult, the player character finds companions and undertakes excursions across diverse terrain, encountering NPCs, monsters, and magical hazards along the way.
Nox Archaist
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Genre
- role-playing video game
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Nox Archaist is a role-playing video game released in December 2020 for the then-historical platform Apple II, alongside contemporary macOS and Windows systems. The game was inspired by the early-to-mid Ultima games and The Bard's Tale. The story unfolds in a sword and sorcery setting of a world named Vali: Sent to an island region to investigate a cult, the player character finds companions and undertakes excursions across diverse terrain, encountering NPCs, monsters, and magical hazards along the way.
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A DLC named Lord of Storms was released in 2023. Beginning in 2015, development was conducted by 6502 Workshop, a retrocomputing group headed by programmer Megan Lemmert. Programming was done in the assembly language of MOS Technology 6502, the original Apple II processor. The 8-bit game engine is tile-based and uses the HGR mode (pixels). The RAM requirement for the Apple II release is 128k. Following the announcement of the project in 2016, a technical presentation was held at the 2017 edition of KansasFest, an annual event for Apple II enthusiasts. A Kickstarter campaign was launched later in the same year but failed to reach the funding target. A second Kickstarter campaign to publish the game ran successfully in 2019. Apple II lead designer Steve Wozniak makes a cameo as a non-player character. Richard Garriott, creator of the Ultima series, appears as Lord British, his in-game personification from that series. Lemmert won the 2021 KansasFest Apple II Forever Award for her work on the game.
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• Title — Nox Archaist • Platforms — Apple II, macOS, Windows • Released — 2020 • Genre — Role-playing video game • Modes — Single-player • Programmer — Megan Lemmert • Developer — 6502 Workshop • Publisher — 6502 Workshop
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