French Revolution

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Aegis, a living automaton, is on a quest to free France from Mad King Louis XVI’s tyranny in this dark souls-like game set during the French Revolution.

I asked OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate 31 different videogame ideas, one for each day of Blaugust, each dealing in some way with that particular day of the month. Here’s its idea for August 16th: “The 16th King”. Number: 16. Genre: Text-based adventure game. Title: “The 16th King” Outline: King Louis XVI was the 16 King Louis and the final king of France. You play as the king during the French Revolution, and must escape from prison and flee to safety. ...

I was initially a little unsure about playing Banner of the Maid. It has a lot of things in it that I like – deeply tactical gameplay a la Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem Houses. It’s set in a sort of alternate French Revolution era which isn’t all that familiar to me, though I’m pretty sure Napoleon didn’t have a little sister as one of his generals. But why wouldn’t he? She is, after all, a Maid, a hero that, like* *Jeanne d’Arc, the Maid of Orléans, would rise to save France from her martial ambitions. She and her fellow Maids will command the revolutionary forces throughout their European conquest. ...