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Cards Against Dungeons is a roguelite CCG deck-building dungeon crawler where players control their character through card-based actions on a hexagonal grid.
The game blends strategic decision-making and deck progression within a humorous, low-poly fantasy setting.

• Card-driven Movement & Combat: Control your hero’s actions and fate through cards—each offers two possible moves: attack, movement, defense, or utility.

• Tactical Hex Grid Exploration: Explore dungeons step-by-step in turn-based fashion. Positioning is key, but there’s no time pressure!

• Roguelite Progression: Unlock new cards and deck-building options between runs. Each playthrough lets your card arsenal grow!

• Deck Optimization: Build and fine-tune your deck before runs. Every decision matters for your survival and success.

• Parodic Fantasy World: Encounter playful takes on classic fantasy tropes, with charmingly exaggerated enemies and artifacts.

• Runs Last 20-50 Minutes: Bite-sized dungeon adventures that invite replayability.

Knilchonauten 

/ˈknɪlçoˌnaʊtən/

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Programming

    

Art

    

Game  Design

    

Production

  

This is a second‑semester student endeavor produced in 8 weeks at Games Academy. 

It runs under the school’s Research-Project track where we experimentally test how AI can assist in game production. 

We used document & mesh based AI selectively for QA notes, documentation, mentoring and 2D Art & "experiments". 

All design and final decisions are human‑made (for better or worse) and some trials failed miserably but are documented as part of the research. 

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   • Select “Extract All” or use your preferred extraction tool to unpack the contents.

3. Run the application

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   • Locate the .exe file.

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   • Thanks for downloading Cards Against Dungeons!