This game started as an entry to the "Historically Accurate Game Jam 5" game jam.
(January 1st-8th 2022)

https://itch.io/jam/historically-accurate-5

The game takes you on a journey through the entire history of the island of Ireland.
Manoevre the event tiles together to form the complete event image. Then switch to the Ireland map to place the event. There are 7 eras to play through and each era has 5 real events and one bogus event.

Desktop/Browser (Windows, linux, MacOS)
The game is controlled using the mouse.
Use left mouse click to activate all buttons, tiles, events etc
Use right mouse click to cancel an action.

Android
The game is controlled by touch.

Gameplay:
There are 7 Eras to play through.
Each era has 5 real events and one bogus event.
The events are made up of 4 or more tiles which need to be moved together to form the complete event.

Once the event has been created, it can be placed on the map of Ireland. When all 6 events have been completed, you move to the next era.

I hope you enjoy playing this game and learn something new about Ireland!

Credits:
All code, graphics and sound effects are original with the exception of:

The code uses Apos.Shapes graphics library for some graphical effects:
https://github.com/Apostolique/Apos.Shapes

It uses Monogame:
https://www.monogame.net/

Some images were sourced from public domain images on Wikipedia and https://unsplash.com.

The celtic font was sourced from the public domain; it was enhanced to include characters with fadas (accents over vowels e.g. é).

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ScealAndroid.apk 30 MB
Sceal-Win-x86.zip 37 MB
Sceal-linux-x64.zip 40 MB
Sceal-osx-x64.zip 40 MB

Development log

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There is now a browser version of Scéal (at the top of this page).

Enjoy!

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v2.0.3 for Android uploaded. Added a button to show the complete image for the next event. Also added a popup hint for the Window and for the new button.

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v2.0.2 for Android uploaded. There was a small but serious bug which ended the game prematurely. This is fixed in v2.0.2.

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v2.0.1 uploaded. This fixes a small but critical bug which sometimes caused the game to crash when activating the end of era tile.