Editing Crowns: Frostbite

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|<div style="text-align: center;">Windows</div>
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|<div style="text-align: center;">Indie, Action, Adventure, RPG, Open World, Fantasy, Turn-Based Combat</div>
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|<div style="text-align: center;">Studio Aurum</div>
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|<div style="text-align: center;">October 16th 2017</div>
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|<div style="text-align: center;">November 3rd 2017</div>
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'''Crowns: Frostbite''' was a free pre-release demo intended to show off the [[fusion]] system of the final game. The demo story, which takes place in a small section of [[Frost Province]], is canon to the overall plot and occurs one year before the events of ''[[Monster Crown]]''. It can be downloaded on the [http://crownsgame.me/?q=frostbite official website].

== Gameplay ==
The player (appearing as an unnamed woman) starts the demo with two monsters at level 45, [[Molkuran]] and [[Taupsy]]. Item inventory consists of 99 [[Normal Pact]]s, and party space is completely unrestricted since monster storage is otherwise unavailable. Regular wild spawns include [[Canite]] (in a special Frost Province breed palette, which changed in the final game), [[Frigidile]], and [[Ix]]. A level 50 [[Stamlanche]] can also be obtained as a boss encounter in a cave.

Battles are basically the same as in the final game, but with the addition of [[Dilla]], which can be triggered with the '''L''' key to absorb one enemy attack per battle. The Dilla mechanic ultimately did not make it into ''Monster Crown'', though the [[Player's Mom|player's mother]] still ends up keeping some as pets.

== Plot ==
The player is traveling in northern Frost Province where they can meet June, the older sister of July, from [[Hewston]]. June is staying in a cabin owned by Monty in order to test her fusion machine invention, which is aided by the frigid environment. June apparently went missing shortly after the events of the demo and has not been seen since, though her sister holds out hope that she may return one day.

If the boss Stamlanche has been tamed or defeated, the player can also challenge [[Rodney]] and his powerful level 60 [[Gridag]] in a tamer battle.

=== ??? ===
Stepping on a specific tile will force an encounter with a ghostly canid monster called "???", which automatically flees after a moment. Its appearance is based on a white [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Jindo Jindo dog].

This monster doesn't appear at all in the final game, but stepping on the same tile causes a normal wild [[Gualop]] to show up instead; this is likely due to the fact that it used ID #082 in the demo which is Gualop's ID in the final.

== Contest ==
A contest ran alongside the demo which encouraged players to share hybrids that they made using the Twitter hashtag [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23crownsfrostbite&src=typed_query&f=live #CrownsFrostBite]. The winner, ZaiWolfgang, was drawn randomly and got to design a monster for the final game, which ended up being [[Hymeraden]].

There was also a secret link hidden in the demo itself, which encouraged the finder to email a specific address to receive a prize. The only player who successfully found and responded to the secret link was Dandey Mond, who went on to design the monsters [[Ghawlin]] and [[Alfric]].

=== Artwork ===
Developer devotedtoneurosis ended up illustrating some of the hybrid submissions from the contest.
<gallery>
File:Canite_Relentless_hybrid.jpg|Canite hybrid
File:Frigidile_Unstable_hybrid.jpg|Frigidile hybrid
File:Stamlanche_Unstable_hybrid.png|Stamlanche hybrid
File:Molkuran_Malicious_hybrid.jpg|Molkuran hybrid
</gallery>

== Obtainable Monsters ==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
!colspan="1"|Num
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|Sprite
!colspan="1"|Type
!colspan="1"|Color 1
!colspan="1"|Color 2
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|027
|[[Canite]]
|[[File:Old_Canite_Frostbite_sprite.png]]
|[[File:Brute icon.png]] Brute
| style="background:#cfe9ac; color:#9cb779; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#CFE9AC</div>
| style="background:#9cb779; color:#cfe9ac; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#9CB779</div>
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|060
|[[Taupsy]]
|[[File:Taupsy sprite.png]]
|[[File:Malicious icon.png]] Malicious
| style="background:#C3C3C3; color:#ED1C24; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#C3C3C3</div>
| style="background:#ED1C24; color:#C3C3C3; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#ED1C24</div>
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|076
|[[Frigidile]]
|[[File:Old_Frigidile_sprite.png]]
|[[File:Will icon.png]] Will
| style="background:#6a886c; color:#384739; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#6A886C</div>
| style="background:#384739; color:#6a886c; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#384739</div>
|-
|077
|[[Ix]]
|[[File:Ix sprite.png]]
|[[File:Relentless icon.png]] Relentless
| style="background:#C2E6ED; color:#CDB349; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#C2E6ED</div>
| style="background:#CDB349; color:#C2E6ED; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#CDB349</div>
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|079
|[[Stamlanche]]
|[[File:Stamlanche sprite.png]]
|[[File:Will icon.png]] Will
| style="background:#ADD6D9; color:#2BB1B9; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#ADD6D9</div>
| style="background:#2BB1B9; color:#ADD6D9; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#2BB1B9</div>
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|080
|[[Molkuran]]
|[[File:Molkuran sprite.png]]
|[[File:Unstable icon.png]] Unstable
| style="background:#DB9F71; color:#9C685C; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#DB9F71</div>
| style="background:#9C685C; color:#DB9F71; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#9C685C</div>
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== Other Monsters ==
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!colspan="1"|Num
!colspan="1"|Name
!colspan="1"|Sprite
!colspan="1"|Type
!colspan="1"|Color 1
!colspan="1"|Color 2
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|081
|[[Gridag]]
|[[File:Old_Gridag_sprite.png]]
|[[File:Brute icon.png]] Brute
| style="background:#8d7452; color:#60352e; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#8D7452</div>
| style="background:#60352e; color:#8d7452; font-family:monospace;" | <div style="text-align: center;">#60352E</div>
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|???
|???
| style="background:#b3d3dd;" | [[File:Frostbite_monster_sprite.png]]
|???
|<div style="text-align: center;">???</div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">???</div>
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