Machina Mori - Pre Alpha

Welcome to the pre-alpha release of my game Machina Mori.
I’ve prototyped this game over the last month and would like you to give it a try.

Description

Machina Mori is a turn-based ‘dungeon crawler’ where you try to escape a sentient machine.

The focus of the game is on outmaneuvering your enemies by using their behaviour, the environment and your tinkering to your advantage. The goal of each level is to find the exit.

Feedback

I am mostly interested in how you experience the controls of the game.

This is hard for me to experience since I’ve been using the current control scheme for a month now. Right now there are buttons and keyboard shortcuts to select your actions, but I could also make a more integrated system where move, use and wait are used whenever you start your turn. I am looking forward to reading your thoughts

I am still figuring out what direction to take this game.

I personally think the stealth/sneaky angle is more interesting than a “kill all the monsters”-angle which has been done to death already. I’d love to hear what you think about this too, ideas are welcome.

Feedback can be posted here or on whatever digital channel you can find me.

If you are getting a crash error, please send me a picture of the crash :-)

PS: Enjoy the kill screens - there are 3 in the game 

Controls

During a turn you will have 5 actions at your disposal: move, run, wait, use and craft.

Move [M] : Move a single tile in a cardinal direction.
Run [R] : Move up to 3 tiles. If there is an enemy in the room, there is a 2 turn cooldown.
Wait [W]: Skip your turn.
Use [U]: Pull levers and break terminals.
Craft [C]: Craft items, this does not end your turn, but using an item does. Press RMB to close the Craft tab.
You can cancel a selected action with RMB.

Testing Controls

[Page Up] : skip level.
[D] : Toggle debug view
[Backspace] : Restart Level
[Home] : Regenerate Random Seed

Known Bugs

- The collision mask for the Sawblade tooltip is tiny
- Enemy FoV preview passes through walls (only the preview, line of sight should work).
- No door sprite
- Inventory/Materials are sometimes reset when a level is restarted.