Swords And Claws
This is a game developed under a nudist/naturist perspective [Nudity is here depicted as something completly normal and is explicitly presente througout the entire game.], set in a fantasy world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
A Young cat named Nicholas, retuning home from his morning training, finds out that his family and friends got kidnapped, and now he must face lots of challenges and enemies with the help of new allies to get them back!
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Install instructions
After downloading the file, unzip it and open the folder. The game executable is the one named "Swords and Claws" inside the folder... just play it.
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Pretty hard game but I managed to beat it twice lol
Love the concept and the artwork is brilliant! <3
Aaaaww!
Thanks a lot! ^^
Glad you liked it so much! ^^
Sorry it was a bit hard... was just beginning in game development, and had no one to playtest it, soo... ^^;
Anyyaw...
I am actually turning Swords and Claws in a whole franchise...
Have an account in DeviantArt and Furaffinity where I post more stuff related to this universe, like images, stories, comics and so on.
Right now I have the Stone Idol game, that has the Demo already available here, but more games for the franchise will come for sure! ^^
Quite hard game. I made it only to the third level. The only big problem is when you die all enemies that you did not get rid off do not go away and new appear so amount of enemies grow bigger. Thank you for all your work.
Edit: I have comleted the game. It has some flaws but it is fun and it is a naturist game and there are a very few like so. Thank you again.
Thanks! ^^
Glad you liked it! ^^
And... yeah... I've heard people complaining about this glitch...
I honestly tried to fix as much as I could, but no matter how many times I died, I could not replicate this problem in my own computer... So I couldn't tell for sure what was causing it to happen... ^^
Sorry... ^^;
So that doesn't happens in every player's game? That's interesting.
Nope... the idea wasn't for that to happen... ^^;
Hey, so I'm unable to beat level 6 for some reason? Like it looks beatable, but I can't figure it out. Sorry if it's that I'm dumb, but I just don't get how to do it.
Level 6?
Could you be more specific about which part is causing you problem?
If the problem is the beginning, then all you gotta do is be a little quick. Firstly you activate the first crystal to move some of the platforms, and the n you gotta fastly swap to the bunny character and run to the platform, jumping on it before it is too late, so you can access the upper level of the mountain.
Once there, you will find another crystal that, after you activate it, it will open the path so you can proceed.
Then you use the platforms in their new position to go back to the beginning, enter the mountain again, and now the path is open so you can continue your way! ^^
Don't even forget to remove the nipples and vaginas from girls.
Answered in the comment below.
Please remove the penises.
I've already answered that on comment section of my other game, but I will answer it here again, so other people seeing the game can read it as well...
This is not an adult game.
It is just a 2D platform adventure with puzzle mechanics... nothing wrong about that...
In fact, I even bothered using a "punch" sound for the hits, instead of slices, just to make it less violent.
However, this is a naturist game.
Therefore, the nudity is here depicted as something completely normal and natural, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Knowing that there are people who are offended by nudity, I've even put a warning message in the game, so no one will get in it unknowingly.
But again, the body is not an "adults only" stuff. In fact, naturist environments are pretty family-friendly, and it has been proved that people who grow in these, tends to be more emotionally and psycologicaly healty than most people who don't.
The naturist life-style is not only not harmfull, but it also have several benefits for physical, psycological and emotional health, and also it teaches us to be more accepting and respectful towards ourselves, the others and the nature.
Even so, the naturist comunity has a very low notoriety, with most people and the media only perceiving it through several erroneous and offensive prejudices and misconceptions.
So, as a part of the naturist comunity, I've decided to create content with a larger mainstream appeal aiming for, and representing our comunity, which has almost none of it, and also to try and show to the world a more natural, casual and taboo-free view on nudity and the body.
So no... sorry... I am not going to remove the nudity...
Hope you can understand.
Nice!!! we need more games with casual/normal nudity content like this !
Would be nice to have humans playable ( if possible)
Thanks! :D
And yes, I agree! I do believe that media content depicting nudity as something normal is one of the best way to fight all of these taboos about the body!
And unfortunately no... there will be no playable humans for this game.
I wanted that, in my game, nudity felt as natural as possible, to a point I wouldn't even have to bother explaining why the characters are nude, and people would still be able to simply accept that nudity as a natural part of that world. That is why I decided to go with animal-like/anthro characters.
Besides... animals are cute! That combined with what I said before made me realize that using anthros would be a good way to reach more people that, if the characters were humans, would normally avoid the nudity and close the game instantly... ^^;
Now... I do intend to make more games set in this same universe. Expand the lore and stuff like that.
But yes, I also intend to make nudist/naturist games with human characters... but that is for a more distant future, when I have more skills and, with some luck, maybe a team. :)
(sorry for late reply)
OK, no problem , its cool ,and that would be nice if possible ^^.
The game was well done in my opinion. Good artwork, plot, animation, and level layout design for the most part. Although the castle layout kinda annoyed me with having to backtrack after hitting a switch. If you are willing to listen to 3 suggestions as an avid gamer, it would be: 1 instead of K to switch make it Q or E so it is easier to hit with one hand. 2 make coins/stars worth something, if even for a high score it makes a reason to bother getting them. 3 ether make enemies easier to kill, or not have them re-spawn after death. Reason for this is simple it makes killing them all a nuisance combine that with no reward for doing so, ended up just running past them all. To end it though, I love the idea of making nudity more mainstream, but it will be hard as most people a taught to hide their body before they are even self aware. Which translates to being offensive, which in turn, has it being blocked from mainstream.
Thanks for the feedback! I am so glad you liked the game that much!
But indeed... the game has lots of flaws... mainly because I am still a beginner, and have no much understanding of programming and design.
I tried to take some inspiration on Dark Souls... that is why the castle is such a maze, and that is why the enemies respawn when you die. The only way to prevent them from respawning is getting to a checkpoint after defeating them. Still, I wanted the player to manage to defeat all of the enemies within each area without dying to achieve the 3 stars on the level.
And that is also why the enemies are difficult to defeat. I wanted the combat to be way more strategic than agile, with the player having to, some times, separate the enemies or get strategic places to the combat or even attract them to pits and stuff like that...
I am still not good in picking the buttons for each action (mainly because I normally game in consoles), so I decided to separate the movements for one hand and the other actions to the other, and once I wasn’t sure about the best option, I decided to create 3 different buttons sequences to attack/swap character/defense. Maybe one of the options fits you better.
About the coins... yeah... In the end, just like defeating the enemies, it is only to get the 3 stars on the level and be able to see the game 100% completed in the levels menu.
It was a bit complicated, because I wanted it to be a browser game that the player could play whatever level whenever it wanted, so all the levels had to be unlocked already from the beginning and I couldn’t give upgrades to the characters... that is why most of the stuffs are basically just for the completionism indeed...
Unfortunately, once I got some problems with Unity, it would be too difficult to regain access to the game to fix these problems, and with the time that passed since I published it, I don’t think it is worth the effort.
But I got a lot of feedback from different websites and friends who played the game.
I am planning to do another Swords and Claws game (it will take some years to be completed), and I will deal with all of the issues of this game in the new one! :D
And finally... yes, indeed!
Most people are taught from the very beginning of their life that nudity is bad, and that the body is either weird, ugly, disgusting and something to be ashamed of, or something necessarily lewd... and once pretty much everything in our society and media reinforces this point of view, people are simply unable to break free from it.
And that is why our society grows with such a negative view on nudity and the body.
That is one of the main reasons I’vd made the game, and the reason why I will try to make even more games... maybe even animations, and encourage other artists and developers to do the same!
As I already explained in this comment section, I really think that, if we manage to get more media content depicting nudity as something normal, people will start getting used to it and, sooner or later, end up getting rid of these taboos! \(^-^)/
Nicholas' dick flopping around is hilarious, I love this game.
Glad you liked the game! I am but a beginner, but I really put a lot of effort in it! XD
Actually... the idea on that wasn’t exactly to be funny... I just wanted to get the physics right on every detail from the animations.
But I understand that reaction... in our modern society, nudity is such a huge taboo, and normally no nudity is shown, unless the idea is to make fun of it, cause strangeness or be used as sex appeal, so it is kind of expected most people will always make the connection to one of these every time they see a nude body.
But one of the main purposes I made this game, and the main purposes me and some friends of mine will make even more games (and perhaps even animations) is because we truly believe that, by creating media content where nudity is depicted as something completely normal, people’s perception on it will start to change and, eventually, this whole taboo will simply go away...
What is your opinion in that? ^-^
I think it's a cool effort. I did kind of expect there to be lewd scenes at one point xD
This kind of reminds me of Anubis and the Buried Bone
Thanks! XD
But nah...
Nudity is too strongly connected to lewd in most people’s minds, but in this game I wanted indeed to break that link. So I wanted indeed to avoid any sexual theme in the game.
Besides, it is just to be a 2D adventure... the nudity... well... is just there... so it wouldn’t make sense to put it in the game anyway ^^;
And... hhmmm... I may have heard about this game. I can’t remember it right now.
Why does you make that connection?