PoweRL

PoweRL

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overall: 3.33
fun: 3.49
innovation: 3.12
theme: 3.50
graphics: 2.98
audio: 3.33
humor: 2.45
mood: 2.97
Navigate your robot through 8 dungeons, avoiding or destroying enemies and keeping your power supply topped up! A pocket-sized roguelike.

Includes an original song and various non-bfxr bleeps and bloops.

I was aiming for an 868-HACK gameplay vibe.

Postmortem

Tools


* Language: Swift
* Frameworks: SpriteKit, GameplayKit
* Tools: Pixelmator, Logic Pro

About those graphics


I really regret going for vector art because I'm so terrible at it, so I did a post-compo art update (v1.1) that looks like this:

There will not be Windows or Linux versions.

The compo version has a crash that some people ran into but I can't reproduce. If it happens to you, try v1.1, which has a possible fix.
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