Cozy and fun and cool and easy, for both beginners and seasoned level designers. Pixel Dungeon Dojo is cozy level design with the depth of a sophisticated framework. Make dungeon levels you can shareThe resulting project game can be played with keyboard and mouse, or a standard gamepad.Design. Create. Build. Play. Share.Pixel Dungeon Dojo is an essential tutorial project and framework for a casual 2D pixel art arcade game, where you get to make endless fantasy dungeon levels to share with friends. The level designer is YOU. (your name even appears in the credits)Make levels easily, experiment with level design, share the game featuring your own levels.Snap and Build: make levels easily, with tools that help and guide youPuzzles, Traps and Monsters: characters, items, and dynamics to make fun gameplayDesign Depth: make complex trigger systems with modular tools or extend with custom art or animationAnyone can learn Unity faster by working with the Pixel Dungeon Dojo, a safe place to practice your level designs.While placing dungeon tiles, placing monsters and hazards, hiding items and treasure, configuring levers and doors, you are learning Unity in a cozy way, where you do not need experience or knowledge with the engine. The Dojo Tools provide guidance, tips and helpful error correction as you work in the editor. It's like Unity Level Design with training wheels.For seasoned designers, the Pixel Dungeon Dojo takes the technical and tedium out of the way, so you can just create ... very quickly. Your practice becomes better with time, with experimentation and with the insight that comes from rapid cycles of playtesting and feedback.It's somehow deep and cozy, all at once.Tools in the editor help to configure your project, organize your levels and provide tips on proper Level Design. The provided Pixel Dungeon Dojo Level Design Guidebook begins with a comprehensive overview and quick start guide, has all the Dojo level elements defined, and follows up with best practices of Level Design and tips on how to extend with your own custom elements.Pixel Dungeon Dojo serves up the artwork, audio, combat system, characters, props and dynamic components so that you can focus on making dungeon levels that are fun, challenging and surprising for players.Side Note: This tutorial project provides a comfortable place to focus on 2D dungeon-crawling Level Design. It comes with all one needs to make exciting levels, but also allows for custom code to extend the experience. And, for a complete no-code solution to extend Pixel Dungeon Dojo gameplay, please go check out The Adventure Toolkit. :)Have fun!Pixel Dungeon Dojo uses music provided by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) with paid authorization of use in this product. Other assets are provided as original work by Hot Iron Productions or under Creative Commons Zero. See /Documents/Licensing/ documents for authorization and license details.Pixel art, music, sound effects, fonts, animation, plus composed systems for combat, enemy AI, potion effects, and various trigger system elements and level dynamics are provided as part of this framework for users to develop their own dungeons and dungeon levels.It is a complete game, but the point of the package is to be used as a platform for level design practice and sharing your level designs. So, many more features are seen only in the editor, including the sample dungeon and its in-editor Dojo Gizmo Tips highlighting areas to focus on, and the rationale behind the design decisions.Included is the Pixel Dungeon Dojo Level Design Guidebook for an overview of the framwork, including all the pieces to work with, as well as a comprehensive set of tips and challenges, guidelines and best practices of level design. A "dojo" is a place to practice the way, this is Pixel Dungeon Dojo.
