The Shadow From Below
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The Shadow From Below is a dice-placement game where you control an Antarctic expedition that has just uncovered an eldritch ruin far below the surface. Deal with the crises the dig has unearthed, recover artifacts from the city, and survive the 10 days for rescue to arrive. But be careful, each relic you obtain will drive you closer to insanity, making it harder and harder to fight off the terrors of below!
Instructions/How To Play:
At the end of the game, you need to have more money from relics than was lost on base repairs and the deaths of members of the expedition. Each crisis that isn't resolved adds $100 to your costs, and each death adds $100. Each relic gives you $100 in profit, or an additional $200 if you research it in the Dome.
To move, click on a character's card, and then click on a room in the base. Each room has a special ability, as does each character that may take specific dice and/or resources. Of particular focus is the digsite: this is where you acquire your relics, and the dome, where you learn what they do.
You can click and drag dice once you roll them using the button. Dice in the Dice Hold are not rerolled if you click the roll button again, and you can drag the dice to any of the glowing squares to use them there. Crises in rooms need a total value of dice added, and each die reduces it, while other abilities may require specific die values, or dice with a certain value, denoted with an arrow pointing up.
Tools used: Unity 2017.2, Visual Studio, Photoshop, Inkscape
The Shadow From Below is a dice-placement game where you control an Antarctic expedition that has just uncovered an eldritch ruin far below the surface. Deal with the crises the dig has unearthed, recover artifacts from the city, and survive the 10 days for rescue to arrive. But be careful, each relic you obtain will drive you closer to insanity, making it harder and harder to fight off the terrors of below!
Instructions/How To Play:
At the end of the game, you need to have more money from relics than was lost on base repairs and the deaths of members of the expedition. Each crisis that isn't resolved adds $100 to your costs, and each death adds $100. Each relic gives you $100 in profit, or an additional $200 if you research it in the Dome.
To move, click on a character's card, and then click on a room in the base. Each room has a special ability, as does each character that may take specific dice and/or resources. Of particular focus is the digsite: this is where you acquire your relics, and the dome, where you learn what they do.
You can click and drag dice once you roll them using the button. Dice in the Dice Hold are not rerolled if you click the roll button again, and you can drag the dice to any of the glowing squares to use them there. Crises in rooms need a total value of dice added, and each die reduces it, while other abilities may require specific die values, or dice with a certain value, denoted with an arrow pointing up.
Tools used: Unity 2017.2, Visual Studio, Photoshop, Inkscape