Deus In Machina
A downloadable game for Windows
Set in a mesmerizing vaporwave-themed environment, this game will challenge you to become the ultimate deity of the machine, as you navigate through levels that are procedurally generated to keep you on your toes.
This game was made over the course of 7 days for Dungeon Crawler Jam 2023, with the bulk of the work being done over sleepless nights in the last three days. It's far from perfect, but we learned a lot making it.
Credits:
NekOz - 3D Assets / Textures
MemeMan - Programming / SFX
Trish<3 - Composer
Kimusabe - Composer / 3D Models
Asset Credits:
Kolen (Sketchfab) - Helios statue
Tedium Interactive (OpenGameArt) - Melee Weapons
pistachio (OpenGameArt) - Human Basemeshes
yughues (OpenGameArt) - Free Pillars models
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There are several frustrating bugs and problems in the game, one of the bugs actually completely breaks the game.
1.Usually when you are underlevelled and try to visit level 2 the design differs from level 1, and enemies have 400+ hp, however when you visit level 2 while overlevelled the HP of enemies is from Level 1 (40-90) and the design of the level is closer to the first level (It's missing the glitchy textures)
2.When you are overlevelled and try to visit Level 3 (Boss) you are just stuck in an infinite loading screen, making it impossible to fight the boss and/or see the ending.
3.The default weapon (hand) is faster than ANY of the weapons I've found so far. Even if I occasiaonally find an axe that has +14 DMG, it's so slow that the DPS is actually lower than the hand.
4. It's impossible to properly farm for weapons, because the spawn rate of the files is frustratingly low. And since you can't get to the item pool of Level 2 (if it exists), because of the problem #1 I mentioned above, the game becomes a tedious grind.
I know this would take a lot of time to fix and rebalance, but PLEASE at least fix problem #1 and #2. This would at least make the game beatable.
Good luck with your next projects!
Thanks for the feedback.
This was a game jam entry and definitely had some issues, we ran out of time before we could fix most of them, I believe there’s an unreleased patch fixing a lot of issues, I’ll see about uploading it.
Thanks for playing, there was a lot we wish we could’ve added/tweaked, I noticed basically no loot drops spawn at all which is a shame as it’s a core part of building your stats, something we may drop a fix for since the game jam is long over.
I only did a quick video because my Youtube wouldn't let me post anything longer than 15 min so I didn't get the chance to build them up but I still really like the game! (:
Awesome little project!