ArcanePact

Artist and Game Developer He / Him / 20 y.o. / mostly OCs

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Happy Valentine's Day!

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his ass is NOT listening!!

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Happy New Year ✨

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Brush Week day 7: Lovely Brush 💞

This week was a lot of fun! It was really interesting to see how many different design tropes people came up with while working with the same theme. Looking forward to doing this challenge again next year 🙏

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Brush Week day 6: Lagoon Brush 🐚

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Brush Week day 5: Wretched Brush 🕸

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Brush Week day 4: Clean Brush 🧼

With this brush he acquired an ability to see the future in soap bubbles

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Brush Week day 3: Garden Brush 🌼

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Brush Week day 2: Plushie Brush

I didn't have time to finish the reference for the original design yesterday, so I'm leaving it here:

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I decided to participate in @catmask’s Brush Week challenge ✨

The objective of the challenge is to redesign the same character based on today’s brush theme. I’ll be redesigning the Wizard from my card game Enchantland.

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OC art dump >:)

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Art for one of my old games — Living in the Light 🌟

This is my first published game, which I worked on about four years ago. Twenty puzzles, many secrets, two playable characters and boss fight are waiting for you ✨

Living in the light available for free on itch.io and you can also find browser build on GameJolt

Definitely, there are still some issues to be fixed and I feel like in all these years I learned enough to make a pretty good game out of it. Do you wanna see a remake? If you do, please leave your feedback in the comments or one of the game pages!

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A new boss joins the ranks — Miner.

His ability shuffles discarded viruses back into the players’ deck. So if you get infected with Miner, he will leech off your resources, reducing the number of useful cards you draw.

To get rid of the viruses (and win), players must find a special card that cleanses their deck.

The Miner punishes greed and rapid deck cycling. A common strategy — removing weak cards to play with a small but powerful deck — becomes much riskier. This makes Miner a huge threat, especially when paired with other bosses.

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The Prototype Will Be Ready Soon! 🔥 The game rules, four bosses, five player characters, and over 50 corresponding cards are fully drafted. (At this stage, it would be great to have a name for the game, but I can’t think of anything catchy)

I've decided to take a bold step and introduce a rule that limits player communication. Unless you have special cards that allow it, you cannot show your hand or tell another player which card to play. I want players to think independently rather than rely on hive mind. Plus, this perfectly captures the feel of how devices communicate in a computer network.

The core feature I’m aiming for is the ability to dynamically modify your deck during the game through card exchanges. Achieving this requires a lot of experimentation with card synergy. That’s why my main goal now is to finalize the prototype in Tabletop Simulator and conduct as many beta tests as possible.

And finally, here’s sneak peek at the next boss — the Trojan Horse!

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It's time to announce a new board game theme!

And it is... computer viruses! You and your friends will play as the good guys in this cooperative game. Your goal is to defeat one of the bosses. More details under the cut:

I’ll keep this brief since the mechanics are yet to be implemented. Here’s an overview of the core features:

• Viruses. These are penalty cards that players can draw from the deck. These cards will limit a player’s actions in some way. The player who draws a virus must not reveal which one they got—the rest of the team has to figure out its effect in order to cure it, just like in real life.

• Overheat. Players receive heat for every card they play. If you have too much heat, you can't play some of your cards. When all players run out of moves, they lose. To win, you’ll need to absorb heat and carefully manage your resources.

• Game Modes. I’m planning to add three different bosses, each with a unique virus set and abilities. (The first one — Adware — is shown in the artwork.) Each boss has three difficulty levels. If you're looking for a challenge, you can fight multiple bosses simultaneously or complete various achievements.

I’ll be sharing more details in the future. Let me know what you think in the comments!

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Boss Fight Idea I took a riddle I saw on the TED-Ed channel and turned it into a location.

My players needed to reach an ancient temple, but the only way across was a rope bridge guarded by a single enemy. Oh boy, they were stuck there for a long time!

The catch is that a player can't finish their movement unless they land on one of the nodes. Each piece of rope connecting two nodes is 30 feet long. To use Dash while on the net, a player must succeed on an Acrobatics check.

With these restrictions, the guard will always remain two ropes away from the players—unless they reach the final node (check the original video for a detailed explanation). Players can either solve the puzzle or take down the guard with ranged attacks.

The guard’s stats shouldn’t be too high, but he should have a ranged weapon (I used spears). I also recommend giving him a monk's ability to deflect projectiles. Alternatively, you can replace the guard with a spider or another fitting creature.

This fight works best at early levels when players don’t yet have spells that allow them to bypass the net easily.

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It's common for game characters to begin their journey in small towns and visit bigger cities as the story progresses. One such starting point could be the village named Hayloft. It is inhabited by living vegetables—whether it's a mandrake dreaming of becoming a bard or a scarecrow-pumpkin who, ironically, attracts birds instead of scaring them away.

Once players complete their first quest here, the village may bloom, or its appearance could change depending on the season. This approach allows the location to be revisited later in the story. Players will enjoy remembering their first adventure while experiencing the transformed village in a completely new way.