Out of the Dungeon

Out of the Dungeon

You've just defeated the boss and are trying to escape a collapsing dungeon with as much loot as your hirelings can carry. Protect them from waves of monsters as you escape a collapsing dungeon!

Prototype testing out how an "Into the Breach" style gameplay would work if every level was a train level, and there were multiple trains.

Technical lessons

• experimented with using ScriptableObjects in order to make abilities
  • very modular, and being in-editor means that it could be easy for designers to create new effects
• UI feedback using overlays and mouse-over events on details worked out well, but there are a number of edge cases which would need to be addressed for a more polished UI

Design lessons

• hirelings as units
  • being able to move hirelings using your push/pull abilities opens up some interesting possibilities to get them to safety, but is also a bit vague on what happens if they leave the path
  • there are some interesting risk/reward moments where having to move in front of a hireling in order to make a good plays leads to slowing them down, and therefore having to survive more turns until they escape
• character abilities
  • I generally tried to give characters more abilities and more powerful abilities than to what is similar with Into the Breach, I think in some ways it makes the game much easier/simpler, but they are kinda fun
  • map design feels a bit limited by the premise, but may have to try out other maps in the future
  • games do seem a bit long right now, and needs some balancing work - most runs either end up being trivial, or spiraling totally out of control in a single turn

Source code on Github