The Birthday (IceBlink RPG)

Story and Turn-based role playing game (RPG) with a classic old-school style.

The Birthday (an IceBlink Engine RPG)

This is an adventure module originally written (by Zach Holbrook) for Obsidian’s first Neverwinter Nights 2 contest (theme: “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”). Converted to the Android version of the IceBlink RPG Engine.

Zach has won numerous awards and accolades for his NWN2 modules (The Birthday and Harp & Chrysanthemum) including Module of the Year 2007, Reviewers Award, Obsidian Contest Winner (2nd), Golden Dragon Award, and two Hall of Fame awards.

This is the fourth adventure module converted for the IceBlink Engine Android Version (The Raventhal, Lanterna and Red Carnival are also available on Google Play).

Story, music and some artwork by Zach Holbrook

Coding and some artwork by slowdive_fan

IceBlink Engine and port to Android by slowdive_fan (me)

Features:

- designed for phones, but scales well on tablets

- FREE, NO ads and NO in-app purchase stuff.

- turn-based combat similar in style to the SSI Gold Box games.

- great RPG story telling conversation system.

- multiple very different endings.

- single player RPG (you control all party members) game.

- solo adventure, no companions in this module.

- three races, four classes and many spells to choose from.

- multiple saves available (save often).

- lots of items to find and wield with unique names and awesome descriptions (back stories).

- this is a short story (1-3 hours) so, yes, it is short. It was designed for the NWN2 contest and was required to be short.

Progress Reporting Feature:

A fun new way to share your play through experience with others. There is a toggle button on the main map screen labeled "PR" (bottom right toggle button). Pressing this button will turn Progress Reporting on and off. If you do not wish to share your play through experience, no problem, just turn off Progress Reporting. If you do wish to share, leave the "PR" button on. If Progress Reporting is on, then at a number of milestone events, it will send your party's current stats to our Google Analytics Dashboard. I will post the listings of Progress Reports to our forums (see our website link below) for others to share in the experience. No personally identifiable information is collected, just information about your party. The tag that will separate your Progress Report from others is your main PC's name. We are excited to see how others are enjoying our adventure stories so we hope you enjoy this new feature as well.

The Birthday Adventure Module Description by Zach Holbrook:

"OVERVIEW: This is a mod written for Obsidian’s first NWN2 contest (theme: “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”). It is a medium-magic, high-wonder adventure, as befits a story adapted from a fairy tale. But which one? You'll have to find out!

SYNOPSIS (no spoilers): Today is a festive day in the small village called Schafberg. A talented foundling, raised by a shepherd and his wife on a nearby farm, has come of age, and now the young paragon's adoptive parents have brought their ward to town to speak to the Matron. Before Schafberg can rightly celebrate the birthday, a coming-of-age tradition known as "the birthday errand" must be honored, and the Matron reveals what that errand is to be."

The Birthday was originally Created by Zach Holbrook for the Neverwinter Nights 2 Obsidian "Grimm's Fairy Tales" Module Contest. I converted the module (with Zach's permission) to the Android version of the IceBlink Engine (IB). I ported the IB engine (original engine and toolset I created for the PC) to Android and converted The Raventhal, Lanterna - The Exile, Red Carnival and now The Birthday adventure modules from the PC versions to Android. The IceBlink Engine is inspired by some of my favorite cRPGs (many being old retro style RPGs) such as the SSI Gold Box Games, original Bard's Tale, Ultima, and the Infinity Engine games (like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale) and my 6+ years of experience with building adventure modules in Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2.