Our game is out!! This game has been a personal dream of mine and although it's not perfect, I'm very proud of what we achieved! 😊 En garde! 🤺

Lesbian Swordfighting is becoming an actual game genre 🤺

Je viens de finir le dernier jeu de @theACETeam Clash: Artifacts of Chaos, la suite spirituelle de Zeno Clash 1 et 2. Encore un sacré jeu, et avant tout une expérience hypnotisante et émouvante (petite larmichette à la fin lol).. Bravo aux frères Bordeu ! https://t.co/wsRgLm8Kdo

It is time for the big announcement... Symphonia will release the 5th of December 2024 on all platforms ! After all those years of hard work, it is really happening ! 🥰 Favs & RTs particularly appreciated ❤️ https://t.co/0JKHL825q5 #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

Road 96 hit 2 Million players! Thank you to every single one of you for hitting the road and making this journey unforgettable! Here’s to many more adventures ahead! 🌄❤️

Soooo... The thread blew up somehow 🥲 I've just published an extended version on Medium, with better reading experience and lots of extra nerdy info 🤠 Read it here: https://t.co/L4r5IMp4gF Hope you'll like it!

Soooo... My thread blew up somehow 🥲 I've just published an extended version on Medium, with better reading experience and a lot of extra nerdy info 🤠 Read it here: https://t.co/L4r5IMowr7 Hope you'll like it!

By the way, regarding my fascination for Swashbucklers. Disney’s Aladdin, The Mask of Zorro AND the first Pirates of the Caribbean, 3 movies I can’t stop rambling about... were all written by the same dudes , Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. I guess I should thank them? 😂

Now, you can re-read this whole thread and replace "Musketeer" with "Zorro" - it works too 🥲

Moreover, new generation of artists are rediscovering the works of Alexandre Dumas. Check out the @dumariolles collective's amazing work! Maybe one day, some company will finally take a chance to make a proper musketeers video game adaptation. 24/24

But who knows what the future holds? There are still movies and series being made about the Musketeers, and some video games in adjacent settings (En Garde!, Greedfall, Assassin's Creed Unity...). @HildringStudio have a promising indie comedy platformer coming soon! 23/24

Since video games tend to stick to mainstream, we do get some great pirate games! Basically, captain Jack Sparrow killed any chance for d'Artagnan and the boys to star in their own video game. 22/24

Pirate films had always been, initially, a sub-genre of swashbuckler. But in the 2000's, swashbuckling became synonym with pirates. Pirates became the dominant genre, and in the process, overshadowed all the other old-fashioned fencers in tights. 21/24

According to its authors, The Curse of the Black Pearl was designed from the ground-up as a revival of the classic Swashbuckler formula, with added grittiness and fantastical elements thrown in. It was a mega-hit, and made pirate stories mainstream again. 20/24

In the early 2000's, and despite Antonio Banderas' best efforts as Zorro, classic Swashbuckler films had fallen out of fashion. This was until... 2003, when Pirates of the Caribbean came out! Remember how kids described En Garde! as a "pirate game"? 19/24

Why none of these games ever gets made? Well, my explanation is that popular video games tend to inspire from mainstream settings. Medieval fantasy, sci-fi, zombies, you name it. And unfortunately for me, musketeers haven't been mainstream for... a while. 18/24

I've heard about several devs and studios having ideas for musketeer games, here and there. In a blog post for Playstation, @brian_fleming from Suckerpunch told they considered musketeers as their next game setting, before going for feudal Japan with Ghost of Tsushima. 17/24

So, there's still no proper musketeer game then. En Garde! isn't one. But why isn't anyone else doing it? I've been wondering for years. Apart from a bunch of obscure abandonware, it's still an unexplored setting. 16/24

En Garde! was made as a melting pot of references. Older generations will "get" the nostalgic swashbuckler feel. Some younger players have described it as a pirate game - which is fine too! It also came out right during the Puss in Boots hype 🐱 (Art by @casynuf) 15/24

Initially, I barely knew about all this, I only had some clichés in mind - sword fights, feathered hats, swinging chandeliers... But that's what works so well about En Garde!' concept. You don't need to know. The swashbuckler tropes are rooted in popular imagination. 14/24

We loved the hispanic flair, and the Golden Age Spain setting also felt more original to us than doing French Musketeers - which is ironic, considering my initial thought on the lack of Musketeer video games. 13/24