Paper App Dungeon

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Year

2024

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Description

A solo dungeon delve game where you adventure through a series of printed dungeons with you hero with the aid of a pencil and a die.

Encounter monsters, obstacles, and collect coins. Venture far and deep in this solo dungeon delve, roll and write, adventure.

The basics:

Each book is unique, because:
Each page is randomly generated
Play wherever, whenever

Gameplay is simple but entertaining: you roll a 6-sided die to determine how far you'll move each turn. Then pick a direction, draw a line, and interact with anything on that line, be it a monster (ouch!) some treasure (nice!) or a teleporter (cool!).

Customize your character, roll your way through each floor, and get items at the shops sprinkled throughout the game. There's even a page in the back to track stats like how many times you died -- so if you die, don't worry! It's all part of the adventure.

-description from Kickstarter Campaign

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Video IWscd4VuRCg Before You Play Discussion at 20:11 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

Very small package and price point
Unique concept and pencil dice mechanic
Generates unique maps
Good for casual play and travel

Cons

May be too casual for some solo gamers
No clear benchmark for how well you are doing
Pencil can wear down with extensive use

Thematic elements

Dungeon crawling and treasure hunting
Dungeon

Comparison games

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

map exploration — Each page of the notebook contains a unique dungeon map to explore.
Notebook Game — The game is played entirely within a notebook using a pencil.
Resource Management — Players aim to gain money while minimizing HP loss.
roll and move — Players roll a pencil (or die) to determine movement distance and direction within a dungeon map.

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we do hope to get uh going with reviews again soon
this is the castles of burgundy special edition
for anybody who missed the last campaign and were really interested in the special edition then it is available on game found
it is beautiful um they they did a really really good job with the component quality
I do appreciate something like this but I am an old timely homely kind of guy
there are different uh communities or populations of people that are sort of at odds in terms of this sort of uh game grandios Grand yeah gr grandiosity is that a word
the dice that we discussed are way easier to read
it is absolutely gorgeous uh but definitely deluxified
king of monster island
so if you're familiar with King of Tokyo this game features a lot of the same mechanics except instead of a sort of of a competitive battler game you have a fully Cooperative game
after turn after turn after turn it got it felt a little exhausting doing that over and over again
this game is definitely a bump up or two in complexity as compared to King of Tokyo
it's just not as simple as King of Tokyo which you know I enjoyed that world for its simplicity
faraway
technically a uh drafting Tableau building game where the game is played over the course of eight rounds
it becomes like a like a a crunch of like do I just want to get a lot of points like in the first three rounds that I that I played out or can I actually make something work out where I can just perfectly get everything uh in synergies
for you know for a game like this it is very simple but it's really neat I haven't played a game that has required me to think this way or plann this way yet in a 20-minute package
longboard
this is a card game where players are building surfboards surf theme game
it does sort of remind me of like a more casual version of L cities I wish it was a little bit more punishing
this one is a lot more casual than I think I would have liked
paper app dungeon
it's a very interesting concept actually the way that the game works is it comes with this pencil and the pencil is your writing utensil but it is also the die that you're going to be using in order to move around this dungeon
this is more of like a travel companion or people who just enjoy an activity on the bus or like at the airport because it's very very casual
there is no real like benchmark Mark to know how well you're doing it's more of just like a casual activity like just go explore this dungeon and try to get as much money as you can
those are some of the games that we have been playing recently

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Video ujTwy5wrm8Y The Board Game Garden Discussion at 8:13 sentiment: positive

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