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- Hi, I'm Ido Yehieli, the creator of Cardinal Quest 1.
- And I'm Ruari O'Sullivan, the lead designer and programmer on Cardinal Quest 2.

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IDO: Cardinal Quest 1 is a streamlined
dungeon crawler that is played by

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hundreds of thousands of people,
and introduced roguelikes to a

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whole new generation that
never played them before.

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It was released last summer on
Windows, Mac and Linux

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and is now out on Android and iOS.

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RUARI: Cardinal Quest 2 is a much bigger game.
We've got more items, more skills, and more enemies.

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But more importantly, we've gone from
three basic classes in the first game

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to a range of 6 in the second, each
of which has their own skill tree

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which lets you customise your character
and play it the way you want to.

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For example, the Thief here has just
acquired a new skill through the skill tree.

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He's going to sneak in close and
trigger that skill, "Flash Bomb",

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blinding all of the enemies nearby,
so he can cut a few down in the chaos,

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and then use his speed to
escape whilst they recover.

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One of the new classes,
the Ranger, 

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is perhaps the most diverse of all.

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It starts with a bow to attack enemies
from a distance,

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as well as a dog you can
send in to fight them.

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His skill tree lets you focus on
either of these aspects, or,

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if you prefer, on taking them
down yourself.

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RUARI: The game's about halfway done so far.
We've been working on it since January,

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and we've put together the demo you can
play down below.

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However, that's cost us about
$15,000 of our own money so far,

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and in order to get the game finished,
and done to the level of quality we would like,

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- ...we need your help.
- IDO: We need the money for new sprites...

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...new music, new background
images for the cutscenes,

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and of course, some more phones
and tablets for testing purposes.

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RUARI: So please check out the demo,
tell us what you think, and thanks for watching.