Craze Creative Studios

Craze Creative Studios is a newly formed branch of Craze Productions, owned by Christian Andersson. Christian started to code games in the mid 1980s on C64 using assembly language and has since then created games on several platforms from Amiga 500 to modern PCs, now including the latest business models with licensing of sound and graphics. Very welcome visit the other branch of Craze Productions - Craze Music - where you can license music to use with your own projects.

Lord of the Dark Castle is basically a 1-man project, although graphics has been licensed from freelance artists and stock art sites (see Credits in the game). Programming, testing, music, level design and even some level graphics is all done by Christian Andersson at Craze Creative Studios. Initial game development started Q1 2013 as an educational project and has slowly accelerated from 5-10% allocation / week up to currently 100%. The final release is a result of 12 full man months of work.

Developer's Thoughts:
When I decided to go all the way with Lord of the Dark Castle, the goal was to create my own fun favorite RPG dungeon crawler game with lots of replay value. Many RPG/roguestyle games exist with pixelated graphics, or cute looking big eyed anime-styled heroes or cartoonish funny dwarf characters. Not my taste. I want gothic darkness - Diablo style - and non-pixelated graphics.
I also enjoy using the brain, not just rushing into hack'n'slash action. Afer playing a turn-based board game with less but more important fights (Descent - a Journey into the Dark), I discovered that turn-based action with fewer fights and an emphasis on strategy and smart game play can be just as fun.
Another aspect has been to avoid the time consuming character creation process seen in many games. Having a family and a small child, there is no time for long gaming sessions and time consuming studies into game stats and optimal play styles. I wanted a "casual" game with minimum start-up time where it's possible to beat the whole game in a couple of hours, still challenging and exciting! With all this mixed together - Dark Gothic style, Turn Based, Casual and Challenging - I came up with Lord of the Dark Castle. Enjoy! ;-)