Adrien Poncet ⚔️ En Garde!
@ledrien.bsky.social
Game designer 🤠
⚔️ I made En Garde! the swashbuckler action game
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⚔️ I made En Garde! the swashbuckler action game
http://bit.ly/EnGardeSteam
🔥 With Fireplace Games
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"Why isn't there any musketeer video game?" 🤺
In 2017, as a game design student, I pitched a game inspired by The Three Musketeers. This game turned into En Garde!, which we released in 2023 ✨
Despite that, I'm still asking that same question to this day. Thread 🧵
In 2017, as a game design student, I pitched a game inspired by The Three Musketeers. This game turned into En Garde!, which we released in 2023 ✨
Despite that, I'm still asking that same question to this day. Thread 🧵
Reposted by Adrien Poncet ⚔️ En Garde!
Très honoré d'apporter ma petite pierre à cet édifice contre le fascisme le week-end prochain !
Et très content de faire revenir une fois encore Adalia pour cette grande cause !
Et comme on dit:
FUCK ICE !
Et très content de faire revenir une fois encore Adalia pour cette grande cause !
Et comme on dit:
FUCK ICE !
January 27, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Très honoré d'apporter ma petite pierre à cet édifice contre le fascisme le week-end prochain !
Et très content de faire revenir une fois encore Adalia pour cette grande cause !
Et comme on dit:
FUCK ICE !
Et très content de faire revenir une fois encore Adalia pour cette grande cause !
Et comme on dit:
FUCK ICE !
Reposted by Adrien Poncet ⚔️ En Garde!
This week I asked my friends if they had a "pirate vybes" game to recommend me. Little I knew that what I needed was En Garde! Not only I get to be a parry god, but I also felt like inside one of Jackie Chan's movies using any stuff in the environment to help me during the fights!
"Why isn't there any musketeer video game?" 🤺
In 2017, as a game design student, I pitched a game inspired by The Three Musketeers. This game turned into En Garde!, which we released in 2023 ✨
Despite that, I'm still asking that same question to this day. Thread 🧵
In 2017, as a game design student, I pitched a game inspired by The Three Musketeers. This game turned into En Garde!, which we released in 2023 ✨
Despite that, I'm still asking that same question to this day. Thread 🧵
January 14, 2026 at 6:07 AM
This week I asked my friends if they had a "pirate vybes" game to recommend me. Little I knew that what I needed was En Garde! Not only I get to be a parry god, but I also felt like inside one of Jackie Chan's movies using any stuff in the environment to help me during the fights!
Reposted by Adrien Poncet ⚔️ En Garde!
Toujours plus de jeux indés pour 2026 : c'est le 3e épisode de la compilation qui ajoute un nouveau lot d'une vingtaine de titres qui ponctueront l'année !
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Partages très appréciés ♥
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Partages très appréciés ♥
December 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Toujours plus de jeux indés pour 2026 : c'est le 3e épisode de la compilation qui ajoute un nouveau lot d'une vingtaine de titres qui ponctueront l'année !
www.youtube.com/watc...
Partages très appréciés ♥
www.youtube.com/watc...
Partages très appréciés ♥
Lesbian Swordfighting is becoming an actual game genre
1348 Ex Voto | Reveal Trailer
▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=BPhj...
▪️Single-player, third-person action adventure set in medieval Italy
▪️Made by Italian studio Sedleo, coming to PS5, Xbox, PC in early 2026
▪️Play as Aeta, a young knight errant on a brutal quest to find and save her closest one, Bianca
▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=BPhj...
▪️Single-player, third-person action adventure set in medieval Italy
▪️Made by Italian studio Sedleo, coming to PS5, Xbox, PC in early 2026
▪️Play as Aeta, a young knight errant on a brutal quest to find and save her closest one, Bianca
August 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Lesbian Swordfighting is becoming an actual game genre
Tellement de reviews en si peu de temps c'est ouf aussi !! 😱 Bravo 🪲
June 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Tellement de reviews en si peu de temps c'est ouf aussi !! 😱 Bravo 🪲
Reposted by Adrien Poncet ⚔️ En Garde!
NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!
Shadowhand Solitaire is coming very soon to Steam and @itch.io
Please wishlist and share, thank you!
store.steampowered.com/app/3199380/...
We're super proud of this swashbuckling solitaire adventure and we think you'll love it!
Shadowhand Solitaire is coming very soon to Steam and @itch.io
Please wishlist and share, thank you!
store.steampowered.com/app/3199380/...
We're super proud of this swashbuckling solitaire adventure and we think you'll love it!
November 7, 2024 at 6:29 PM
NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!
Shadowhand Solitaire is coming very soon to Steam and @itch.io
Please wishlist and share, thank you!
store.steampowered.com/app/3199380/...
We're super proud of this swashbuckling solitaire adventure and we think you'll love it!
Shadowhand Solitaire is coming very soon to Steam and @itch.io
Please wishlist and share, thank you!
store.steampowered.com/app/3199380/...
We're super proud of this swashbuckling solitaire adventure and we think you'll love it!
Do I hear SWASHBUCKLING??!!! 🤯🥰
November 7, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Do I hear SWASHBUCKLING??!!! 🤯🥰
I've just published an extended version of my thread on Medium, with better reading experience and lots of extra nerdy info 🤠
Read it here: link.medium.com/oyCn6wyRcOb
Hope you'll like it!
Read it here: link.medium.com/oyCn6wyRcOb
Hope you'll like it!
November 2, 2024 at 9:43 PM
I've just published an extended version of my thread on Medium, with better reading experience and lots of extra nerdy info 🤠
Read it here: link.medium.com/oyCn6wyRcOb
Hope you'll like it!
Read it here: link.medium.com/oyCn6wyRcOb
Hope you'll like it!
I've just published an extended version of this thread on Medium, with better reading experience and lots of extra nerdy info 🤠
Read it here: link.medium.com/oyCn6wyRcOb
Hope you'll like it!
Read it here: link.medium.com/oyCn6wyRcOb
Hope you'll like it!
link.medium.com
November 2, 2024 at 9:42 PM
I've just published an extended version of this thread on Medium, with better reading experience and lots of extra nerdy info 🤠
Read it here: link.medium.com/oyCn6wyRcOb
Hope you'll like it!
Read it here: link.medium.com/oyCn6wyRcOb
Hope you'll like it!
By the way, regarding my fascination for swashbucklers. Disney’s Aladdin, The Mask of Zorro AND the first Pirates of the Caribbean, 3 movies I can’t stop rambling about... were all written by the same dudes , @tedelliott.bsky.social and Terry Rossio. I guess I should thank them? 😄
November 2, 2024 at 8:32 PM
By the way, regarding my fascination for swashbucklers. Disney’s Aladdin, The Mask of Zorro AND the first Pirates of the Caribbean, 3 movies I can’t stop rambling about... were all written by the same dudes , @tedelliott.bsky.social and Terry Rossio. I guess I should thank them? 😄
Exactement ! C'est de cette réflexion qu'est venue l'idée d'En Garde! à la base 😊
November 2, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Exactement ! C'est de cette réflexion qu'est venue l'idée d'En Garde! à la base 😊
Animated GIFs don't work on Bluesky? Some of the pictures in my thread were supposed to be moving... 😢
November 2, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Animated GIFs don't work on Bluesky? Some of the pictures in my thread were supposed to be moving... 😢
Je crois qu'il y a des systèmes de Panache ou équivalent dans tous les jeux du genre 😆 Pour le coup, les JDR de cape et d'épée / mousquetaires sont assez bien représentés ! (il y a aussi 7th Sea...)
C'est vraiment en jeux vidéo que leur rareté est étonnante
C'est vraiment en jeux vidéo que leur rareté est étonnante
November 2, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Je crois qu'il y a des systèmes de Panache ou équivalent dans tous les jeux du genre 😆 Pour le coup, les JDR de cape et d'épée / mousquetaires sont assez bien représentés ! (il y a aussi 7th Sea...)
C'est vraiment en jeux vidéo que leur rareté est étonnante
C'est vraiment en jeux vidéo que leur rareté est étonnante
Pitié non 😂
November 2, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Pitié non 😂
Ahah je sais pas ce que ça vaut, j'ai littéralement découvert son existence en cherchant "musketeer game" sur Google 😂
November 2, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Ahah je sais pas ce que ça vaut, j'ai littéralement découvert son existence en cherchant "musketeer game" sur Google 😂
Oh non je connais pas celui là 😮 en JDR français il y a aussi les Lames du Cardinal
November 2, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Oh non je connais pas celui là 😮 en JDR français il y a aussi les Lames du Cardinal
Now, you can re-read this whole thread and replace "Musketeer" with "Zorro" - it works too :D
November 1, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Now, you can re-read this whole thread and replace "Musketeer" with "Zorro" - it works too :D
Moreover, new generation of artists are rediscovering the works of Alexandre Dumas. Check out the Dumariolles collective's amazing work!
Maybe one day, some company will finally take a chance to make a proper musketeers video game adaptation. Let's just hope they'll get it right! 24/24
Maybe one day, some company will finally take a chance to make a proper musketeers video game adaptation. Let's just hope they'll get it right! 24/24
November 1, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Moreover, new generation of artists are rediscovering the works of Alexandre Dumas. Check out the Dumariolles collective's amazing work!
Maybe one day, some company will finally take a chance to make a proper musketeers video game adaptation. Let's just hope they'll get it right! 24/24
Maybe one day, some company will finally take a chance to make a proper musketeers video game adaptation. Let's just hope they'll get it right! 24/24
But who knows what the future holds?
There are still movies and TV series being made about the Musketeers, and some video games in adjacent settings (En Garde!, Greedfall, Assassin's Creed Unity...).
'Sacre Bleu' is a promising indie comedy platformer coming soon! 23/24
There are still movies and TV series being made about the Musketeers, and some video games in adjacent settings (En Garde!, Greedfall, Assassin's Creed Unity...).
'Sacre Bleu' is a promising indie comedy platformer coming soon! 23/24
November 1, 2024 at 8:56 PM
But who knows what the future holds?
There are still movies and TV series being made about the Musketeers, and some video games in adjacent settings (En Garde!, Greedfall, Assassin's Creed Unity...).
'Sacre Bleu' is a promising indie comedy platformer coming soon! 23/24
There are still movies and TV series being made about the Musketeers, and some video games in adjacent settings (En Garde!, Greedfall, Assassin's Creed Unity...).
'Sacre Bleu' is a promising indie comedy platformer coming soon! 23/24
Since video games tend to stick to mainstream, we do get some great pirate games!
Basically, captain Jack Sparrow killed any chance for d'Artagnan and the boys to star in their own video game. 22/24
Basically, captain Jack Sparrow killed any chance for d'Artagnan and the boys to star in their own video game. 22/24
November 1, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Since video games tend to stick to mainstream, we do get some great pirate games!
Basically, captain Jack Sparrow killed any chance for d'Artagnan and the boys to star in their own video game. 22/24
Basically, captain Jack Sparrow killed any chance for d'Artagnan and the boys to star in their own video game. 22/24
Pirate films had always been, initially, a sub-genre of swashbuckler. But in the 2000's, swashbuckling became synonym with pirates.
Pirates became the dominant genre, and in the process, overshadowed all the other old-fashioned fencers in tights. 21/24
Pirates became the dominant genre, and in the process, overshadowed all the other old-fashioned fencers in tights. 21/24
November 1, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Pirate films had always been, initially, a sub-genre of swashbuckler. But in the 2000's, swashbuckling became synonym with pirates.
Pirates became the dominant genre, and in the process, overshadowed all the other old-fashioned fencers in tights. 21/24
Pirates became the dominant genre, and in the process, overshadowed all the other old-fashioned fencers in tights. 21/24
According to its authors, The Curse of the Black Pearl was designed from the ground-up as a revival of the classic Swashbuckler formula, with added grittiness and fantastical elements thrown in.
It was a mega-hit, and made pirate stories mainstream again. 20/24
It was a mega-hit, and made pirate stories mainstream again. 20/24
November 1, 2024 at 8:54 PM
According to its authors, The Curse of the Black Pearl was designed from the ground-up as a revival of the classic Swashbuckler formula, with added grittiness and fantastical elements thrown in.
It was a mega-hit, and made pirate stories mainstream again. 20/24
It was a mega-hit, and made pirate stories mainstream again. 20/24
In the early 2000's, and despite Antonio Banderas' best efforts as Zorro, classic Swashbuckler films had fallen out of fashion.
This was until... 2003, when Pirates of the Caribbean came out!
Remember how kids described En Garde! as a "pirate game"? 19/24
This was until... 2003, when Pirates of the Caribbean came out!
Remember how kids described En Garde! as a "pirate game"? 19/24
November 1, 2024 at 8:53 PM
In the early 2000's, and despite Antonio Banderas' best efforts as Zorro, classic Swashbuckler films had fallen out of fashion.
This was until... 2003, when Pirates of the Caribbean came out!
Remember how kids described En Garde! as a "pirate game"? 19/24
This was until... 2003, when Pirates of the Caribbean came out!
Remember how kids described En Garde! as a "pirate game"? 19/24
Why none of these games ever gets made?
Well, my explanation is that popular video games tend to inspire from mainstream settings. Medieval fantasy, sci-fi, zombies, you name it.
And unfortunately for me, musketeers haven't been mainstream for... a while. 18/24
Well, my explanation is that popular video games tend to inspire from mainstream settings. Medieval fantasy, sci-fi, zombies, you name it.
And unfortunately for me, musketeers haven't been mainstream for... a while. 18/24
November 1, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Why none of these games ever gets made?
Well, my explanation is that popular video games tend to inspire from mainstream settings. Medieval fantasy, sci-fi, zombies, you name it.
And unfortunately for me, musketeers haven't been mainstream for... a while. 18/24
Well, my explanation is that popular video games tend to inspire from mainstream settings. Medieval fantasy, sci-fi, zombies, you name it.
And unfortunately for me, musketeers haven't been mainstream for... a while. 18/24
I've heard about several devs and studios having ideas for a musketeer game, here and there. In a blog post for Playstation, Brian Fleming from Suckerpunch told they considered musketeers as their next game setting, before going for feudal Japan with Ghost of Tsushima. 17/24
November 1, 2024 at 8:52 PM
I've heard about several devs and studios having ideas for a musketeer game, here and there. In a blog post for Playstation, Brian Fleming from Suckerpunch told they considered musketeers as their next game setting, before going for feudal Japan with Ghost of Tsushima. 17/24