Overview

The Mercenary of Knowledge is an action-adventure 2D platformer and partially souls-like game. It takes place in a fantastical world inspired by the Islamic Golden Age and the middle ages as a whole.

• The player will take control of a mercenary warrior as they travel across the land in search of a rogue sorcerer whom they’ve been tasked with apprehending.
• The player will traverse through deserts, canyons, mountains, dungeons, castles, seas, and a host of cities and settlements on the journey to capture and defeat the sorcerer. The mercenary is an expert warrior and has the opportunity to learn martial art skills, magic, and holy powers across the game. Skills learned can be used for both platforming and combat as the game bridges the two concepts together into one unified gameplay style.
• There are a host of different skills and methods of playing the game, either using magic, invoking God, or using learned skills, each method has its own skill tree that the player may choose to level up.

The game explores themes of religion, faith, science, and history in an effort to create a cohesive and intriguing game world as well as to implore players to think about the world, history, and religions around them. The game will be moderately difficult, but will remain approachable to all, however it will test the players more and more as it progresses and only the determined may be able to complete it.