DotLabs Studios – Game Development
Ethernal DriftersThe floating ruins of Asteria are waiting.
Four painted heroes, six Oaths that change how each one looks, and a Star Gate the others come through: a turn-based JRPG for phones, played in landscape.
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Four heroes, four ways of standing in battle: one strikes, one shields, one heals. They are the ones the story begins with. Pick an Oath and watch them change: six steps, and a new look at each one.
DPS · LightningWanderer of Asteria
A longsword and lightning: quick blows on a single foe, and every skill raises his critical chance. At the third one, the critical hit is certain.
Awakening
Tempest of Asteria
Eight slashes at random foes, then a 300% ATK blow to the target: every foe is left Shocked.
Oaths
0The start
Traveller's clothes and a plain iron weapon.
From the start
Tank · LightOath of the Radiant
Spear and shield: she taunts the enemies, blocks their blows and gives them back. With her on the field the party stays up even against the bosses.
Awakening
Bastion of Asteria
A Shield on the whole party worth 25% of her HP, damage taken −30% for two turns, one debuff removed from every ally and every foe Taunted.
Oaths
0The start
Traveller's clothes and a plain iron weapon.
At the first summon
Support · IceFrost Oracle
She heals the party, gives their skill points back and slows the enemies down with frost: she is the one who keeps everybody standing when things go badly.
Awakening
Northern Lights
Every ally's gauge moves 50% forward and each one heals 20% of their HP; every foe's gauge is pushed back by 30%.
Oaths
0The start
Traveller's clothes and a plain iron weapon.
At stage 1-2
DPS · FireCrimson Arrow
A bow and burning arrows: he hits several foes at once and leaves them scorched, then burns up all the flames that are left in a single shot.
Awakening
Crimson Phoenix
A phoenix of fire: 250% ATK to every foe, and every one of them left Burning.
Oaths
0The start
Traveller's clothes and a plain iron weapon.
At stage 1-1
Six things the game does, told the way you will see them on screen.
Everyone's bar fills in real time: you always know who acts next, and you decide whether to spend skill points now or wait.
Every copy of a hero renews their Oath: six steps, and each one changes the armour, the weapon and the way they fight.
The crystals open the Star Gate: every summon brings a new hero, with their rarity — blue, purple or gold.
Seven pieces per hero, four rarities, upgrading and sets: what you find in the stages changes the battle.
Ten stages per chapter, one after the other on the map, in 2.5D dioramas: three stars to earn in each, an elite halfway and a boss at the end.
All by touch and with wide targets, auto-battle and double speed for the stages you already know.
Asteria is a city of islands floating above the clouds, and someone has taken it. The first two chapters climb from its ruins, covered in ash, to the gardens the forest has taken back.
Kael wakes beneath the shattered gate of Asteria with no memory of the fall: only a sword, a name and the hum of the floating isles. From there the road climbs through soldiers of ash and obsidian hounds, up to the top of the spire.
Beyond the ash, a gate of white stone swallowed by moss and roses. In the hanging gardens the thorn sprites laugh at the strangers, and the oldest of the woods is asleep, but not for long.
These screens are the real game, not an illustration: the battle, the Star Gate, the party, the Oaths, the map and the formation.
Ethernal Drifters is written with React, TypeScript and Three.js: the battle is an ATB turn system with its numbers in JSON files, and the scene is a 2.5D diorama that breathes, jolts and flashes — the sprites are not animated, it is the world around them that moves.
Everything you see is painted: heroes, enemies, items, backdrops, and six sets of armour for every hero. The game runs as an installable web app, and the same build travels inside the app: pictures and music live on the phone, and it plays offline too.
Ethernal Drifters is in development and will come out on Android and iOS. Write to us to play it before everyone else, or to know when it is out.
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