Runeblade puts fantasy role-playing on the back of your wrist

You’ll have time for this Watch role-playing game.

Everywear Games, a new developer made up of former Rovio (Angry Birds) and Remedy (Alan Wake) team members, took on the challenge of adapting fantasy role-playing to the Apple Watch last year. Role-playing games are known for being lengthy time-sinks, even on mobile devices, so the company had to distill core concepts down to something that players could enjoy on a tiny screen, in short play sessions. The team had to push through size constraints, battery limitations, and limited development tools to do so, but it managed to launch Runeblade last week, just in time for the release of the Apple Watch.