I think it’s time to share my own game for the first time—Fading Faith, a dream project born from my deep love for ancient history and dungeon exploration games.
Civilization grabbed me when it launched, and Civ 2 stole my nights with empire-building, rival outsmarting, and Gandhi’s nuclear surprises. I’d dig through encyclopedias—pre-Wikipedia—to hunt down the history it showed me, from rulers to breakthroughs. My dungeon love kicked off with Eye of the Beholder and Waxworks, especially its Egypt level, where historical fiction sank deep into teenage me.
And here I am, mixing Civilization’s history vibes with a dungeon crawler that even offers Wikipedia integration (I’m calling it the "DungeonPedia" for now) to let players expand and immerse into the historical real facts that inspired the game.
In those moments of doubt you have while crafting a monumental task like a game, one day I discovered myself while playing on the Steam Deck, devouring facts about my own city (Cartagena, Spain) from where the main character is originally. Not just about Hannibal Barca crossing the Alps with elephants from there, but all the Roman history that happened after that.
From that moment, I always thought there would be someone like me willing to play this experience I’m trying to do. DungeonPedia became my refuge.
I’ll admit, I worried it might seem odd, a dungeon crawler with its own "DungeonPedia" that is even showing Wikipedia to expand more about the game discoveries, but for history lovers like me, it’s pure magic: a ‘mixed media’ bridge to the past, reviving the old Encarta’s charm.
Love from Athens (Greece),
The Dev.
Fun Fact:
The game uses the "Baghdad Battery" (year 250 BC) as the item needed to power up certain artifacts (ancient elevators, connect and disconnect traps...) Did you know that The Discovery Channel program MythBusters built replicas of the jars to see if it was possible for them to have been used for electroplating or electrostimulation, producing 4 volts of electricity?
