Official Kingdoms of Heckfire Artwork

By Dexter Woltman

At Brunette Games, we recently had the opportunity to embrace our love for the fantasy genre on a narrative consulting project for A Thinking Ape's Kingdoms of Heckfire. In this mobile MMO, an army of goblins invades a small kingdom, prompting the townsfolk to strengthen their forces and save their home. Players can build a kingdom, raise dragons, train troops, and berate a squire! The Brunette Games team on this project (Anthony Valterra and I) analyzed the existing elements in the game and offered ways to enrich the story and player experience. In Kingdoms of Heckfire, the passionate team at A Thinking Ape presents an entertaining world with lovable characters, compelling gameplay, and witty dialogue.

After all, who could say no to helping out Cedric the Nude?

Official Description
Build your Kingdom, train your dragons, and start destroying things today. Goblins! Skeletons! People with weird Mustaches! Battle them all in this real-time strategy mobile MMO!

FEATURES
• Real-time, open world map filled with monsters and players from around the world!
• Raise a powerful Dragon army to strike fear into your enemies hearts (and other organs)!
• Create powerful Clans and Alliances to rule the realms of Heckfire!
• Complete epic quests issued by a semi nude wizard!
• Battle well groomed Titans for massive amounts of loot! Possibly even Ham!

Kingdoms of Heckfire is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

While our studio focus is designing and writing for games, we have made noted forays into traditional book publishing. This includes Anthony Valterra's publication of a roleplaying guide governing the romantic lives of characters from the bestselling fantasy RPG (The Book of Erotic Fantasy) and our founder Lisa Brunette's mystery series, The Dreamslippers. While the former is now sadly out of print, the latter is alive and well, and it's the subject of a big sale on ebooks. During 'Read an Ebook Week' from March 6-12, you can download copies at deep discounts from Smashwords.

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This week only, you can get copies of all 3 books in the Dreamslippers Series - plus the boxed set with bonus content - for the sale prices shown below.

Book #1 - Cat in the Flock - 75% Off!

Cat McCormick comes of age both as a Dreamslipper and a private investigator in this debut. Following a mother and daughter on the run, she goes undercover in a fundamentalist church.

"Gripping, sexy, and profound..." - Jon Talton, author of the David Mapstone Mysteries

Book #2 - Framed and Burning - 25% Off!

It was supposed to be a much-needed vacation in Miami, meant to snap Cat out of a persistent depression. But when her great uncle’s studio goes up in flames, killing his assistant, Cat must find out who’s really to blame.

"A brilliant, suspenseful whodunit..." - Qiu Xiaolong, Author of Shanghai Redemption, named one of the Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015

Book #3 - Bound to the Truth - 25% Off!

What happens when your client thinks she knows who the killer is, but you don’t believe her? Cat and Granny Grace don't believe Nina Howell fell under the spell of a domineering, conservative talk show host... until he starts to look guilty.  The case brings powerful new developments in Cat’s dreamslipping skill as she works to find the truth.

"A great mystery with lots of action." - JBronder Book Reviews

The Boxed Set + Bonus Story - 50% Off!

Get all three books in this boxed set, plus a bonus novella prequel - Work of Light, Granny Grace's origin story - only available in the boxed set.

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While you're getting your dream on, check out some of the other great buys in the Smashwords catalog, and happy e-reading!