Pocket roguelite builder template
A short-session survivors-like built for five-minute runs, with a build that comes together from a handful of upgrades.
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What a pocket roguelite builder is
Brotato (Blobfish, 2023) showed how much a small arena and a shop between waves can hold.
What the template starts with
The Pocket roguelite builder template starts with one arena, one weapon, waves of twenty seconds and a shop between them.
Five minutes, not thirty. One arena, one weapon, waves measured in seconds, and a shop between them, which is Brotato (Blobfish, 2023) rather than a vampire run that only ends when the clock does. The build should come together from a handful of upgrades. Start in 2D. A third weapon before the first shop is how the five minutes becomes a mess.
What to change first
Tune the shop so one upgrade changes the next twenty-second wave. If you need six upgrades to feel a build, the run is too long for this style. The AI roguelike maker is the death between runs. The shop is what you came here to fit into a coffee break.
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Describe your version in one sentence. The AI writes a brief from the template, and nothing is built until you approve it. Free for Windows and Mac.