Severance: Blade of Darkness

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	** breakable objects: wood (barrels, crates, tables)		** breakable objects: wood (barrels, crates, tables)
-	** other: eat (apples, bread crust, cheese, meat), light on fire: barrels, crates, torches; pull levers; push loose wall stones	+	** eat: apples, bread crust, cheese, meat
		+	** light on fire: barrels, crates, torches
		+	** other: pull levers; push loose wall stones
	==NPCs==		==NPCs==

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• circa: 2001
• genre: action-RPG
• developer: Rebel Act Studios
• website: Severance: Blade of Darkness

Contents 1 Engine 2 Player character 3 Level design 4 NPCs 5 Other

Engine

• Rebel Act proprietary at Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• Atmospheric/environmental effects
  • water: reflection, waterfall splash
  • weather: clouds
• lighting: dynamic, colored; flickering; candles, torches
• reflection: wavy water
• shadows: real-time, projected, dynamic, multiple light sources, fade, scale, vertical angle adjustment--everything!
• physics: thrown/knocked objects bounce and ricochet off other objects
• transparency: blood, cobwebs, fading broken objects, water
• other: dust: falling wall stones, breaking objects, sword impact (+ sparks & surface debris: wood, stone), eating food crumbs

Player character

• character: incremental body damage, stamina (can only attack so much before needing to rest)
• moves: attack (swing weapon in at least 4 ways), block, climb, duck, jump, pick up, ready/stow shield/weapon, run, sneak, throw (+ drop), walk
• view: 1st-/3rd-person, seamless transition, body and shadows rendered in 1st-person, camera moves with character's breathing

Level design

• environmental interaction
  • breakable objects: wood (barrels, crates, tables)
  • eat: apples, bread crust, cheese, meat
  • light on fire: barrels, crates, torches
  • other: pull levers; push loose wall stones

NPCs

• incremental body damage
• AI: dodge, duck, evade, encircle

Other

• sound: stereo, EAX