Westerland Story: Mark's Quest

Notice:
This game is currently not in development, but I've done the basic system for the environment and player control. The screenshot is kinda old. The development continues once I've got some crew to build the rest of system.

About
Westerland Story: Mark's Quest is, currently, the working project along with Wandering Brawler. Takes several years before Wandering Brawler, Westerland Story: Mark's Quest tells you about the mythical event which involves black Magic and the rising of Undeads. In that time, the realm of Mediterania is in her restoration phase, and the Magic itself is really unstable that a little flick of Arcane may destroy a whole realm.

Westerland Story: Mark's Quest is a side-scrolling, platformer action game inspired from the Castlevania NES games. I tend to make kinda 16-bit assets for this game. Built with Ruby language and using Gosu and Chingu library.

The Game
Here's the documented story based on Thomas K. Luckmann's Heroes of the West book, which you can get a free copy in Wandering Brawler.

In 164 years after Magic War, a mysterious tower appeared on top of one of Westerland Highland's hill. Since the tower appeared when the mist which covered it disappeared, townsfolk decided to named it Tower of Mist. And along with tower's presence, townsfolk including warrior fellows of Warriors' Village felt the strange, dark-ish aura and everyone believed the crippling aura was emitted from the tower.

Even though most of people put a question to the tower and what is the mystery hidden inside, no one is brave and folly enough to walk through against amplified dark aura when approaching the tower.

One day, three years after tower's appearance, dreaded scourge of evil creatures swarming over villages around the highland, and Warriors' Village is one of the villages swarmed and razed because of it. Also, townsfolk--which mostly wounded believed that a girl namely Teresa was abducted when scourge outbreak.

Knowing his beloved one is in distress, Mark--a young blacksmith of Warriors' Village and a warrior as well drawn his sword and set a determined and dangerous quest to free Teresa from grasp of evil deed behind the scourge and reveal the mystery behind the Tower of Mist... when in other hand he wants to proof himself as a worthy warrior.

Yes, you control Mark, the young warrior who used to be a blacksmith in his hometown, Warriors' Village. Go through six levels against Undeads and the reanimated mythical creatures along the way to Tower of Mist, where Teresa might need your help to get out of Caprukhoven's grasp.

The Development
When Mark's Quest uses custom engine, the development is rather complicated and I decided to suspend the progress till Wandering Brawler reaches 50% of its entire storyline. Meanwhile, the new ideas may come to enhance the system, and buy times to create assets for Mark's Quest.