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Popup Dungeon is a roguelike dungeon crawler for PC, Mac, and Linux that lets players create any weapon, any ability, and any character they can imagine. Its a papercraft version of an enchanted board game with tactical, turn-based RPG gameplay in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics.
Visually, Popup Dungeon is an enchanted board game, sort of like a cross between Jumanji and a Dungeons and Dragons board game. The dungeon unfolds, sometimes literally, in front of your character as you explore. It is presented in a papercraft style, but our goal is to make it as lively as possible, with rich animations and particle effects.
The papercraft style makes user-created content much simpler. You only need to create a 2D rendering of a weapon, for instance, and the game will take care of the rest. Its also worth noting that these 2D images are not treated as flat sprites, but rather as cut-out pieces of paper with thickness.
Devs previously made the space combat game Ring Runner: Flight of The Sages
The game play is something like Final Fantasy Tactics or X-Com meets a Dungeons and Dragons board game. It's turn-based and the movement is handled on a simple grid. While Popup Dungeon will not be "twitch-based" or require lightning reflexes, we hope to make the action as lively as possible, with fast-paced, decisive combat.
It will feature all manners of game mechanics you can expect from games like these, and maybe even some you don't expect! The extensive customization and user-creation system will allow players to put nearly any strategy they can imagine into effect (within reason!)
The gear you'll find crawling the depths of our dungeons features a blend of handcrafted and procedural elements. For instance, a weapon's primary statistics and effects are determined by its creator, the potency is determined by its level, whether or not it includes its bonus is determined by its quality, and it also has a chance to include an extra, procedurally selected enhancement.
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