Ok come on guys, be nice. This is the first work by this author and seems to have gotten limited amounts of people volunteering to beta test it before release, so if there’s something you wish was different, phrase it nicely rather than making assumptions about why the author has done something. First game often has a big learning curve for a lot of first time authors out there myself included. If there’s possible issues, it’s good to hear them, but it can be done constructively with some consideration that the author is human and wanted to make something enjoyable for the IF community.
I’ve only looked at this up to the first timer which admittedly is not far in. My feeling about it I think is correct, I’d be very surprised if it doesn’t have a strong inspiration from “the sword in the stone” cartoon which is whimsical and meant to be a bit silly in a mildly humourous kind of way. This game feels very modern rather than medieval in some ways, particularly the speech. It won’t be to everyone’s taste, to be honest I’m generally more into more serious takes on the Camelot stories, but that’s the trickiness of writing humour. I’m pretty time poor at the moment, but given this game is FREE, I’ll likely come back to it and see where it goes.
Yes it does seem to be written as a semi defined character with some set characteristics. Shouldn’t be surprising since this is a retelling of Arthur of Camelot, a character that already exists. IMO this one probably could have done with being a totally set character if there’s a particular story the author wanted to tell IMO, but that is generally very poorly received as there is a strong preference for character creation rather than guiding characters so I can see why they’ve coded gender variables in but then left it as you tend to be classed as a boy or a tom boy type character. I detected no malice there. This is not a COG game which seems to be possibly where the confusion comes in. HG rules are much, much looser with regards to character creation.
It’s happened before. I’m sure it was an accidental oversight particularly given the time of year. The other option is if the author makes a release thread before COG gets to it they often don’t make a second one. This game and the author have nothing to do with other game’s release schedules, this discussion does not belong here.