Lorehallow

Early, and subject to change

The world

A warm, lantern-lit corner of a storybook fantasy: mossy forests, a timber town and old stone ruins on the hills. None of it is playable yet, and all of it may change.

The mood

Lorehallow is the hour after sunset. Cottage windows glow, someone has lit the lanterns along the road, and fireflies are coming out at the edge of the woods. It's a cosy place first and a dangerous one second: the danger is out past the last lantern, in the deep forest and the ruins nobody remembers building.

The world starts small on purpose: one town and the land around it, handcrafted so every path leads somewhere. It grows only once that first place feels alive with people in it.

Places

  • The town. Timber cottages with red roofs, a well, a market stall, an inn. Where players meet, trade and set out from.
  • The mossy woods. Old oaks, ferns and mossy rocks. Wolves and worse, and paths that are easy to lose.
  • The ruins. Broken arches and standing stones on the hills, older than the town and the start of most quests.

Names, places and the map are all still being worked out. Follow the devlog to see them take shape.

The village at dusk: four adventurers on a dirt path between timber cottages, a great oak, a stone well and a market stall.
The village at dusk, the landing page's key art. The painted scene came from an image generator; the four adventurers are hand-drawn.
A small scene built from hand-drawn tiles: grass and flagstones, an oak, a mossy rock, a lantern post, the corner of a cottage and the hero.
The style reference: every new piece of art is checked against this little scene, built entirely from hand-drawn tiles and sprites.
A traveller with a lantern on a winding path through dark hills toward a lit village and a mossy stone arch.
The road in. A traveller with a lantern on the path to town.
The hero standing lost on a forest path beside a signpost, with a question mark over their head.
The woods, where it's easy to lose the path.