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2018/01

Popup Dungeon Lets You Create Your Own Papercraft Rogue-Like World

Humble Bundle and Triple.B. Titles have released a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming family-friendly papercrafting RPG, Popup Dungeon. The game is a neat little emergent title in the works that allows gamers to create their own dungeons, create their own heroes, create their own enemies, and create their own worlds.

The game is a long, long, long ways off from release but the developers wanted to start the hype train rolling early by giving potential consumers a heads-up as to what they can expect from the upcoming RPG.

You can check out the new gameplay video below.

You don’t necessarily have to spend all your time creating, the gameplay itself plays out like a mixture of a rogue-like dungeon crawler and a deckbuilding RPG, which is pretty cool.

Players will have their character that they trek through the environments with, and as enemies are encountered, the turn-based, card-focused gameplay kicks in. Players can utilize and wield their cards to exact magical status effects on enemies or utilize physical attacks to damage foes.

But beyond the adventuring and rogue-like elements, you can craft your own cards and features for Popup Dungeon. The trailer briefly showcases how you can choose a card, choose what sort of weight it has, its duration, its type, its placement, the amount of spaces it uses, and the damage it deals.

Popup Dungeon - Card Creation

Creating card logic and magic attacks are just a small part of the creation suite.

The game uses a cool little papercraft layout that allows gamers to craft and create their own enemies and heroes. Using the toolset, we see how one of the player-characters is a chainsaw-wielding cat, while another is decked out in some grimy clothes while holding two 9mm silver pistols.

But it doesn’t end there. We also see how the environments and levels can be created by players as well. We see some space-faring sci-fi settings, complete with spaceships and the galactic grim reaper, we see an Asian-themed map featuring a Chinese restaurant, we see an arcade parlor, a lounge, a dirty urban street, a medieval forest, and everything else in between.

This is sort of like the rogue-like version of Tabletop Simulator.

You’ll have to wait all the way until late 2018 if you want to get your hands on the game, though. It’s still heavy under development, but you can add it to your wishlist or follow the updates from the developers by visiting the Steam store page.

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