You enter a Tower, weak and frail. You have lived in darkness all your life. There are monsters, and they want to kill you. You find a blade. You are ready to do what needs to be done. The tower must be ascended. Only then can you be free.
Hello!
Me and a fellow developer are currently making a small real-time dungeon crawler where you hack and slash enemies, learn their patterns and dodge their attacks.
It's effectively first person; You attack in front of you, move in cardinal directions and you can rotate 90 degrees.
The game is currently in EARLY alpha; Only basic movement is implemented.
The movement scheme is inspired by games like Manamon 2, though the addition of rotation complicates the player's spatial awareness.
That's why we need feedback and testing; We need to figure out how to keep the player aware of their surroundings, even when the enemy changes position. But *any* other feedback is valuable as well like answering the question "does this game sound interesting to you?"
Because we want this game to be action focused, and allow the player to feel skillful in reflexes and execution.
Some practical info;
We use W. A. S. D for moving in cardinal directions, and Q. and E. to rotate.
That is all the gameplay in the game currently; There is no way to attack in this pre-alpha stage.
We will be updating this forum topic throughout April, and are hoping to have significant features implemented every week.
The download page will always be the same.
Please give it a try and feel free chastise us for being idiots and missing something obvious.
Your feedback will directly influence the development of the game.
Here is the download link;
https://stealcase.itch.io/codedungeon
The page is on Itch.io. There are no malicious download links on the page, and the download button is somewhere in the lower middle of the page.
(There are 2 fields called "download". one is just text, the other is an actual download button)
The download gives you a Zip folder you need to unzip. Inside is a folder with a Build Number. In THAT folder is CodeDungeon.exe.
Don't remove any files from the Build Number folder, or else the game might not run.
We are students writing a Thesis on designing inclusive games, and any and all feedback we get will help us make better games in the future.
Code Dungeon Download Link
Youtube Trailer and Tutorial