Earlier this month, 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault developer Inkle unveiled its latest project, Arthurian-legend-themed strategy game Pendragon, and now the developer is inviting its community to submit bite-sized “campfire stories” to appear in-game.
Pendragon, as Inkle revealed previously, unfolds in the year AD 673. Camelot is on the verge of destruction, the Round Table is in disarray, and, among this chaos, players are charged with leading a band of knights, heroes, and peasants across Britain in an effort to reach King Arthur.
In some ways, it’s a big departure from previous Inkle titles, offering an experience built around “deeply strategic” turn-based combat, as players battle the likes of bandits, knights, and deadly creatures across the “randomised game board”. More inline with Inkle’s hugely acclaimed past games, though, is Pendragon’s promise of story-rich adventure, full of “love, suspicion, revenge, sacrifice and murder”.
And it’s here that Inkle is seeking assistance from its community, having earlier this week put out a request for “500-word, lightly-interactive ‘campfire tales'” to include in Pendragon.
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As characters settle down for a night under the stars, it explains, whether that’s “in the ruins of a castle, or beside a trickling brook”, they tell each other “ghost stories, fairy stories, tall tales of magic, or the deeds of old heroes”. Interested parties are invited to try their hand at creating such a tale, which must be presented as dialogue between two characters, “the first telling the story, and the second butting in with the occasional dialogue choice to pace the flow.”