Dwarf Sweeper
Created during a 1-week internal Game Jam at Stray Fawn Studio
(+1 week post-jam for tweaking and polishing)
Minesweeper / Dragonsweeper inspired dungeon crawler rogue-like.
Assemble a squad of dwarfs, each with unique traits, and try to conquer the depths of the dangerous mines. Combine wits with strength to overcome the numerous foes, hidden in the rocks. Reach the bottom of the 3rd floor to win the game.
- Controls -
- Mouse-only. Click on a character to select it. Click on a tile to interact with the selected character.
- Keyboard: Press 0 - 9 and X to mark a tile with the indicated number.
- How to play -
- Click on a Character to select it.
- Click on the Start tile to begin your adventure.
- The number on each discovered tile shows the total strength of all still hidden monsters in the surrounding 8 tiles. Already discovered monsters are not counted.
- The monster's strength is also it's health.
- Monster and Hero attack at the same time.
- If you click on an undiscovered tile, you might encounter a monster and immediately engage in combat.
- If a monster's strength reaches 0, it dies and gives experience points to the hero who dealt the killing blow.
- You can either use the pen tool, or press any number key while hovering over a tile to add your own notes to it.
- Team -
- Philomena Schwab - Direction, game design, additional programming, audio
- Markus Rossé - Programming, effects
- Stephanie Stutz - Art, additional game design
- Notes -
Thanks a lot for playing!
If you beat the game, please share a screenshot with your score and assembled squad.
If you would like to see a bigger, full version of the prototype, please let us know in the comments or on Discord.
Comments
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This game is so much fun. I love the little joke about Lemmings. This would be so cool if there were a full game of this. I would be just as addicted.
Really enjoyed this, would love a full version!
Very funny game, has promising aspects for the future. How about making it available to mobile devices? Looking forward to see more of this!
awesome game, loved it! :D
Took me a couple tries until I understood the game mechanics, but it's really fun and addicting once you get into it!
Very fun game.
Very fun, I liked the Lemming a lot :)
Oh my god, I got through the first two missions not knowing you could interact with the start location to open up that area... I failed so many times at the second level thinking it was meant to be brutal.
After realizing that you could interact with the start location the first time that I got to the third level, I finally beat it. Also I killed a 100 enemy with a Juggernaut.
The lesson is to thoroughly read the gameplay instructions before playing.
10/10, and now I want a 4X version.
(I forgot to click the level up on my Juggernaut after killing the 100, so he could have been stronger. Woops!)
Also full clear. Scout proved to be useful for preparing level 3 monsters for healers.
Good game. Would be nice to have comparable scaling for all character classes.
3 squad full clear. Felt good to take out a 100point monster on level 2.
i love it
I want more levels! Full version! Full version pleeeeease !! :D
how do I go back to reselect my party?
I can't find a way either. I just refresh the website and start the app over from the beginning.
A little gameplay, a little critique ;)
I think the game could use a bit of balancing (everybody should have at least a lil scaling, late game enemy density is Very High), but a neat variation on how minesweeper normally works.
First run - I wasn't a fan of the scout, but had a really great time.
Second Run - I tried a three squad run. On the first map I focused on levelling up my lemming. Then from there on out it was trying to keep the warrior 1 shotting everything. Because the experience doesn't get diluted as much, I felt like I didn't have much difficulty in keeping my warrior alive in the later half of the game.
I'm a fiend for minesweeper adjacent games. I love this. I will 100% pay for a full version!
Cool small puzzle. I lost first time, but second I really cared to stock levels up and fed the juggernaut many levels. Finished with him being level 59, doing 62 damage. Tried to clear the whole room but could 'only' kill three 100 HP monsters :)
That was very fun! Love to see this fleshed out as a full game. Seeing tiles with a strength of 100 really threw me off but once I grasped the idea of leaving some enemies alone and using the weaker enemies to boost myself I fell into the nice groove.
The scout and healer felt a bit underpowered, even just a slight damage or health boost would have been nice, Idk if it'd even be possible to win without the warrior and juggernaut in your party
Also I played on mobile, android version 16. No problems really except when I died. You can't reset without pressing R and there didn't seem to be a button to replace that so I just needed to reload the whole game.