Dimwood is now available on Steam!
After 2 years of development I'm happy to announce that the video game @rupurtbunny and I made has been released from captivity and YOU can play it now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3590770/Dimwood/

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Dimwood is now available on Steam!
After 2 years of development I'm happy to announce that the video game @rupurtbunny and I made has been released from captivity and YOU can play it now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3590770/Dimwood/

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Dimwood uses a basic shader to keep the game 1-bit; anything above the threshold is white, and anything below is black. Used in combination with various gradients and overlays, we light backgrounds to give them some much needed life and depth, without use of color!
This footage shows what the game looks like without the shader forcing it to align with the palette, and then with.
Because of where the threshold is, everything has to be pretty grey for the slight changes is hue to effect the lighting as much as it does, which can be a pain to work around but the effect is worth it ahahaha
Dimwood is a very low resolution game; Especially for a card game. The whole thing runs at 288 x 216, and during combat we're using *every inch of it.* Cards have a lot of information on them! We've had to come up with creative solutions to a lot of problems to make this game intelligible ahahaha
Rather than having text, cards are written with strings of symbols. A lot of information in this game is compressed into these 5x5 icons, you can mouseover pretty much anything to learn what it means. Once you learn the visual language of the game, you can tell what cards do at a glance! Here's what it looks like when I open all the mouseover text at once :)
Dimwood releases on Steam in 2 weeks! I put together a little radio in-engine to play the soundtrack, so you can see all 15 tracks in the game.
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Dimwood is a roguelike deck builder with unique modal cards, written with strings of 'pips' that do things like One Damage or One Block. It's pretty cool because all the over 500 cards are made of bits and pieces, by the end of the game you'll have salvaged a dozen cards for scrap and turned your humble lightswitch into an effective damage card that poisons your enemies.
There are 19 pips in the game, a lot of them revolve around the light level, raising, lowering, settings, and locking it; changing the effect of other cards. Cards are written with 4 phrases, the top one always works and plays it's pips, but the other 3 are only active one-at-a-time depending on the light level. Which means that cards basically have 3 different effects each! You aren't only managing the amount of damage you can deal, or the amount of block you can stack, but also your control of the light level and how your cards effect each other, and even your opponents cards!
Dimwood was originally made as an entry to 1-bit jam, back in august. Since then, we've had a blast updating and polishing the thing, more than tripling the amount of cards, added entire new mechanics, unlocks, enemies, starting decks, and a whole 20 levels of ascension difficulty to overcome! Putting the versions next to each other is crazy, how much everything is the same while everything has changed.