Just over a year ago, developer Thing Trunk released its Book of Demons game on Steam on the desktop. More than ten years ago, practically in a different life, some of the people in charge of Book of Demons were also working on mobile titles like Captain Binary and Boogiemons. After a successful start on the desktop, the circle has come full circle, as Book of Demons is now heading for the iPad. But what is the book of demons? Well, it’s an isometric hack ‘n slash dungeon crawler that takes place in a pop-up book style world. You will do what you do in these types of games by choosing a character class, picking up quests from various townspeople, and then diving into a dungeon to beat a few nasty enemies to death. The really nice twist in Book of Demons is that everything outside of your regular old baton, like special offensive skills and healing spells, is handled through a deck that you put together with cards that you will discover during your adventures. This is a bit of an older video, but I think it does a great job of highlighting what Book of Demons is about and showing it in action.

Book of Demons is a really cool concept that has received a lot of praise on the desktop, and it seems like the perfect fit for the touchscreen too. That’s why they’re bringing it to the iPad! However, you need help. Before the launch of Book of Demons: Tablet Edition, Thing Trunk hopes to get as much feedback as possible from testers willing to try an early version of the game. If this interests you, you can find a link to the Testflight version of the game on our forums. I think it’s inevitable that whenever a game is announced for iPad-only, people will ask if an iPhone version is in the works. I imagine that Book of Demons, such a UI-heavy game, would take a lot of work to reconfigure things to still be playable on the much smaller iPhone that might not be on the cards right now. (Did you get it? In the cards?) Of course, feel free to ask this question yourself on the forum thread, but if you are an iPad owner and want to get tests, go there to find the link to the beta and to dive further in Book of Demons: Tablet Edition.

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