A narrative text adventure exploring the rise of cities through salt, trade, and human ambition.
Portraits in Brick and Time – Brine and Coin is an interactive text adventure that invites players to step into the streets of historic cities, uncover hidden stories, and experience the lives of the people who shaped them.
Set in Schwäbisch Hall during the heyday of salt trade, the game combines rich historical detail, branching narratives, and decision-driven gameplay to create a compelling journey through time.
Players explore city districts, interact with notable personalities, and make choices that affect how the city evolves and how its stories are remembered.
- Branching narrative engine with multiple outcomes
- Explore historic cities and their districts
- Discover influential figures and untold stories
- Decision-driven gameplay with lasting consequences
- Modular design – easily add new cities, eras, and storylines
- Educational and culturally immersive experience
To run the project navigate with a terminal to the src directory and type dotnet run.
The project is configured to build the assets first. Sometimes when opened in an ide the compilation is blocked because the ide is currently using the dll. When the problem happens type dotnet build in the terminal.