Bladeweaver Demo
Orphaned at birth under mysterious circumstances, you are adopted by two Masters of the Bladeweavers' Order - an institution of elite warriors and weaponmasters as ancient as the very cities they are based in. When cataclysm strikes, the Order is left scattered and broken, and you are left aimless in a hostile world, without purpose.
In your search for it, what else will you find?
Bladeweaver is a text-based grimdark fantasy interactive fiction game developed in Twine, focusing on your customizable player character as they grow up and navigate their way through a crumbling world wreathed in esoteric magic, dark secrets and murky morals, loosely inspired by the late medieval/early Renaissance periods, with a heavy touch of a more fantasy/steampunk influence. Customise your Bladeweaver - their appearance, gender and personality are yours to choose. Master your chosen weapon, make friends (or perhaps more?) and enemies along the way as societies rise and fall, as alliances strengthen and collapse, and loyalties are strained to their breaking point.
Bladeweaver is a mature game with heavy themes and content, including but not limited to violence, strong language, possession, mental issues, drug use, discrimination against a fictional race, gender roles, kidnapping and abuse.
Current wordcount (incl. code): 328k
Here's a link to the tumblr for Bladeweaver: Bladeweaver (tumblr.com)
I'll be posting updates on Discord, too: https://discord.gg/bWGefvYFrF
Development log
- Demo Update (07/12/2024)7 days ago
- Hotfix83 days ago
- Demo Update (21/09/24)83 days ago
- Demo Update (14/04/24)Apr 14, 2024
- Bladeweaver APK Now available!Apr 06, 2024
- Hotfix (06/04/24)Apr 06, 2024
- Demo Update (05/04/24)Apr 05, 2024
- Hotfix (26/01/24)Jan 26, 2024
Comments
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I don't think that I'll ever get over how absolutely outstanding the opening scene is where you can kill a man in cold blood, awkwardly hand the victim your blade to defend herself in the future with and then rob the corpse for change so she can buy herself a meal down the road--all because you can't comfort a person normally.
Especially since the woman is both terrified and baffled but just goes along with it anyway. Lol.
Honestly, this is one my my favourite IF's, but that scene??? It is definitely my favourite over any other I have EVER read. Well done. And thank you for sharing this masterpiece. It's good to see you back again.
Just binged through it and wow! Absolutely loved it, especially the banter between Callen & Sonia
(the scene where Callen puts on his armour and does a jig made me crack up real hard lmao)
And the innocent budding crush between mc and Sam is just adorable ๐ฅฐ
Definitely looking forward to updates, as I desperately need to know what happens next!
Just wanted to let you know (I may also send this in on Tumblr so if you see a repeat of the issue it may be me) but during the festival the guardian who is battling switches often. My normal gameplay would have Sonia as the fighter and Callen as the escort but during certain paragraphs that switches around or Callen will be given she/her pronouns. I think this may be messing with the relationship stat to? My Sonia relationship went from 77 to 64 (the same as Callen) during the festival when I've chosen all positive interactions.
Thanks, I'll take a look at this section before updating. I think I caught most of it before but evidently there's still some parts I didn't manage to catch.
dumb question but how are you supposed go back to the game after opening one of the menus on the left?
You can use the back buttons in the sidebar to return. I'm going to improve this system in the future, where all submenus will open in a pop-up so you can just click them away to get back to playing, but this is the temporary solution until I get around to that. Sorry!
all good. was just confused if i was missing something
YOU COME BACK AND KILL MY AUNT!? (I love this IF so much, looking forward to how it continues.)
Update seems to be...Just a blank screen?
If it helps, I'm on mobile, but going to a desktop site I still just got an endlessly scrolling blank screen.
I've just put out a fix for this. Twine likes to remove the starting point for the story sometimes, so I had to fix it. Sorry! It should be fine now.
Thanks, that was really fast!
Glad to see an update
Heyyy! I know you're on a break, but I still thought you might've wanted to be notified about errors, soooo
Still, I'm loving this IF and I'm really enjoying the prose, it manages to be both really funny and witty but also vivid in its descriptions. Also I'm already soooo invested in the characters it's actually not funny ๐๐
Thanks. I'll take a look at this once I'm back! For reference, does this still happen later into the game? This can also be an issue if you haven't restarted since the last update, since I changed the names of those variables specifically.
Honestly, as soon as I saw this error I didn't continue the game for fear of failing something due to the missing numbers in the variables lol
I'll start the game again and let you know if this problem persists, thanks for the reply!
Problem solved! You were right, all I had to do was restart the game. Thank you for the help!
Great game! Love the mc's adoptive parents!
Hi! First of all, i'm loving the story for now! I'm so excited to continue to reading! The plot and the world is very interesting.
Also maybe you know about this but, just in case, in chapter 2 when Callen is scolding you for coming home alone with Sam the third option gives some type of error.
I played it with high and low relationship with Sam, but it seems the error stays.
Hey, I've just put out a hotfix for this, though it includes a few other fixes that mean you'll need to start from the beginning. Sorry!
awesome! I love it >3> so cute ......but the cliffhanger really XD?
the story is just chef's kiss omg
Thank you ๐
I love it, gonna wait for a lot of slaying ๐
this is so so gooooood
THIS IS AMAZING OMG??
Thank you! ๐
this game is amazing!!! Thank you for creating!!! ๐๐๐
another banger update bro, ur doing great work ๐
a post eleven seconds ago just as I click this for the first time
Marvelous. Let's see what this game has to offer. It is very rare to still find an active IF on Itch, so I'm very excited about this!
Love this! The lore is rich and teases enough that I want to keep playing and learn more, build up my character more. Uncle Callen and Aunt Sonia, my beloveds! <3
Oh that blades weaving...
For what it's worth, the tumblr links on this page and at the end of the demo are currently broken (they go to the wrong url, which no longer exists).
Thank you, I'll fix those! I changed my tumblr name a while ago and I'd forgotten to change the links.
Thanks for informing me of this. I'll have a fix out later today, sorry!
Another peak update! Love the family vibes and I can't wait to see how the family visit pans out. Appreciate all the hard work you put in to give us such a great game :D
I'll leave the bugs I found on my playthrough down here if you're interested,
The choice to sit with Callen appears to have the wrong emoji
Choosing the music box as your present spits out an error for me
and sitting with Sonia, then choosing the patient option afterwards seems to take you to the wrong passage.
Thanks for letting me know about these! Very sorry. I'll push fixes for these issues later today.
Absolutely adooooreddd this. Gosh I love the family dynamic
um I'm getting 2 errors right on the present for patient or inpatient.. can't get past either option...
*cant right click and paste but the gist is that it is saying the scene doesnt exist..
Hi, apologies! I made an error in naming my passages, if you reload the page everything should be fine now. Please let me know if not!
yes! all fixed up!! Thanks.
I already love this! I can't wait to see more!
The characters have great and engaging personalities and backstories. I really like the personality traits options for our MC in this one. I'm curious about the rest of the plot and our MC's past, for sure.
Can't wait! ๐
adore this story n cannot wait for more updates <3
Perhaps this is a dumb question but I found nothing in the tumblr saying, will there be further gender options later on? I assume so but I'd just like to make sure
Yes, there'll be an option later on to transition your character's gender, including the option to be non-binary :)
Thanks for confirming :)
Will there be the option to choose our name then too?
You'll also be able to change your name at that point, too ๐
Thank you <3 :)
Would like to hear more from this and dam it's a good story
I'm so excited to meet the other characters โจ your writing skills are phenomenal and I adore everything about the plot (โ โ โโ โฟโ โโ โ )โ โก
The update was fantastic! I cannot wait for more! Found a few bugs, thought you might want to know so adding the screenshots:
P.S. Thanks for the "light mode" (reading dark screens with white writing actually makes your vision worse if you are a person with astigmatism so my eyes appreciate it ๐)
Thanks, I've updated the demo now to fix that issue. And I'm glad the light mode is helpful for you!
Sonia's dialog always makes me laugh so much. I absolutely love her. I love imagining an MC that's slightly violent with a potty mouth and too much energy having her as a guardian as opposed to a kinder more reserved MC with Cal as a primary guardian. The update was so great tho. That talk with Sonia and Cal actually made me tear up alil. It was so emotional. You did wonderful with this update and Sam is an adorable bean who I'm already inlove with โฅ๏ธ
Ps the interface looks really good too ๐
I'm glad you're enjoying the characters so far haha. I really try to make each of the mentors' personalities distinct and I'm glad that's coming through in the writing! I've heard a few people talk about how they want to base their MC off of Callen and Sonia's personalities - being the opposite or similar to them, and I'd love to have text in the game that references this.
And thanks, the interface is still a work-in-progress but I wanted to overhaul it a little for this update, it looked fairly basic initially.
i loove dis already !
Thanks!
This is such an incredible beginning.... definitely excited for more โจ
this is so amazing!!!! ๐๐๐
Very excited for the rest of the story! currently, it's just the prologue but it's set up in a way that makes me want to learn more about the characters (aka callen/sonia) and the world itself.
cannot wait to blade some weaves in later chapters ๐๐
Tonight seems to be my night for finding really good reads. I must say tho as a new mom the panicked "wtf do you do with a uncomfortable baby" bit made me laugh. this was sooo pleasant to read. You are really talented at drawing in a reader. Like dude. Great job.
This is going into my fav to watch for list. Good writing at its finest. If this is just the start I can't wait for the rest. ๐
Thank you so much for the kind words! More is coming soon, hopefully haha.
Prologue is very well written so far. Was very engrossed and could get a feel for the setting and characters, there's not much out now but am keeping an eye to see the rest.
Thank you for the comment! I'm hoping to have more out soon, including the first chapter.