Runecrypt

Note: Runecrypt is very early in development! Please report bugs/issues in the comments, or here in this form: https://forms.gle/vxEkDUUPXndCRzRP7

Endless Procedural Magic

In Runecrypt, every card is procedurally generated using a deep yet intuitive rune system.

Each rune has its own basic effect as well as a chain condition tied to that effect. Any two or more runes can be combined together for endless variations!

This system has been carefully balanced to ensure that each effect is neither useless nor mindlessly overpowered. For example: healing doesn't become useless if the player's deck is already saturated with other healing cards. Instead, healing past maximum HP is used to power up other rune effects. Absurdly powerful combos come at the cost of requiring the player to carefully plan around them, encouraging deep strategic gameplay.

In the current version, there are only 6 types of runes to experiment with, but many more (60+) are planned for the full release.

Dynamic Combat

Combat takes place on a 9×9 grid. Use your arsenal of runes to take on waves of various enemies. Instead of being a simple stat block, each enemy type has its own unique traits and quirks. Carefully weave around goblins that can't wait their own turn to attack, or use thorns to punish them. Save your strongest attack to finish off an undead soldier so it can't come back. Even the low-level enemies get this treatment, ensuring every encounter is an interesting challenge.

Planned Features

This game is currently in early development. The full version is planned to include:

• Many more runes
• Many more enemies
• Complete runs, featuring three zones and a final boss (+ an endless mode)
• An undo button
• Alternative difficulties
• An alternative game mode where you can freely remove and insert runes into cards yourself
• More polish and QoL features
• A compendium to view runes and enemies
• Mac & Linux support
• Daily challenges?

Feel free to give any suggestions or feedback in the comments or in the feedback form here.

Credits

Composer: Irene Chan

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Sound Effects:

• Soundly
• Freesound
• Universal Sound FX - Imphenzia

Fonts:

• Lato
• Eirik Raude