Muspelheim

[Kingetos]

Can we have some screenshots of the new Muspelheim nation ?

[Kamiyama]

I played Castle of the Winds 1 & 2 when I was younger and enjoyed the story of Surtr and his invasion of the human realm with the fire giants. It was a lot of fun. Also the strange icelandic names made everything mysterious.

I'm guessing Surtr will be a pretender chassis?

[Duuvian]

Castle of the Winds was great. The first one was on sale on cd in the middle of the local grocery store next to the bread aisle. It made no sense.

[freek_o_nature]

Originally posted by Kingetos:

Can we have some screenshots of the new Muspelheim nation ?

Check out the trailer on the store page, and stop it at 0:09 seconds! You can at least see the nation info card, which shows its special features and previews of its national units. The Muspell jotnar look pretty baller, imo!

P.S. CASTLE OF THE WINDS WOOOO!!!

[Sniperjolly]

Giving a race of shock vulnerable giants air magic hopefully won’t result in too much friendly fire. Their scales shenanigans should be interesting, with heat aura and heat power sacreds trying to fight in friendly ice dominion. Looks like they don’t have skratti either. The vibes are immaculate and giants are (I think) getting buffed by the system change so I hope they’re worthy to inherit the Ubar/Naba throne of fire/air nation supreme now that genies are getting glamour.

[nymersic]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

Castle of the Winds 1 & 2

Oh man, those games rarely get mentioned. As a totally unrelated-to-this-thread side-note, I can't fathom why the CotW inventory system hasn't been more used in simplistic RPGs & roguelikes. I've only ever seen it in that 30 year old game, and I think it's one of the greatest: instead of inventory "slots" based on some visual size, or just giving items only a weight as most simplistic games do, it gives each item a weight and bulk, and containers not only a maximum weight they can hold but maximum volume of stuff to hold...
then you can have the magical "of holding" containers that can magically hold extra bulk, etc...
it just makes for an inventory system better than pretty much any game that's ever existed.

And for some reason it just got lost to time. RIP Castle of the Winds.

(edit: actually, 35 years old now iirc. oh man, time really never stops...)

[Tzyder]

Wow I guess I missed Castle of the Winds growing up. It was publish by Epic so there was a 1 year embargo to port it to the Apple IIc. Nice clean interface. My 15yo self made a Dragon Warrior/Ultima clone in computer camp around that time (with no where near the depth) and I wonder how many games like this were made and not followed up on. Internet says there are emulators like winedbm if you want to play it again.