Epistory: Typing Chronicles

Epistory: Typing Chronicles is a game about a writer with a writer's block, asking a muse for inspiration to help write her book. The player controls the muse, riding a giant three-tailed fox in a fantasy world. The game is set in an origami world, starting with a small paper path that soon becomes a large papercraft environment. The fox can be steered in any direction and further interaction is done by typing. By pressing the space bar available words in the environment are displayed. The player can type these to alter the environment. For instance, if the word 'Jasmine' appears in an empty patch, a flower can be grown. Typing 'Stump' when the word is revealed, wood that blocks a passage can be removed. The player does not need to guess these words, interaction is only possible when they are displayed in the environment. Many words are thematically relevant. By typing in words, inspiration points are earned that add to an overall experience level. The game has largely a linear design, but the large environments can still be explored in many directions and with enough inspiration points portals can be accessed to reach new areas, or new sections are unfolded gradually for the main hub world. There are many enemies and these are also defeated by typing in one or multiple words that appear above them. The game can be played in several localized languages for the text and several keyboard layouts are supported: QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, BEPO, Dvorak, Workman and Colemak. Next to a general difficulty level an adaptive difficulty system can be enabled, where the game learns from the player's typing speed to adjust the challenge.