Hexamination

Hexamination is a Slay the Spire-inspired prototype for a turn-based deckbuilding rogue-lite about a student witch taking her final exam: a race to be the first to escape a labyrinthine magic library. It was made by a team of 3 for the 2-week final project for Code Coven's Introduction to Game Programming in Unity. It was collectively designed by Arka Tu (artist, additional programming), Jess Levine (lead programmer, combat designer, additional narrative designer), and Sunny Berry (character artist, UI designer, narrative designer, additional programming.)

How to play

Each turn, you draw until you have five cards in your hand and have three mana to spend. 

Cards can be used in two ways, both of which cost the same amount of mana (listed in the top left of the card):

• Cast: Use the card immediately, causing the effect listed on the card & then discard it.
• Ritualize: Power up the card, gaining the benefit that follows "Ritual" and keeping the card in your hand to use the next turn.

Deal damage to reduce your opponent's health to 0 before they reduce yours to 0!

Dispel can absorb damage, but be careful: you lose all your dispel at the beginning of each turn.

Who are we?

Members of our team are also seeking games work:

• Arka is a game artist and technical artist, currently working on Shards Between Us. They've done work for Flying Mollusk and Darrington Press. If you're interested in contacting them for work, feel free to reach out to them via LinkedIn, Twitter, or through other links on their website.
• Jess is seeking junior & associate roles in writing, narrative design, and game design, though she is also open to roles in engineering. Her tabletop games have won awards. She can be found on Twitter, her games on itch.io, and contacted on her website.
• Sunny is a game writer & narrative designer, currently working on Forge of the Fae. You can view more of her work here on her website. If you're interested in working with Sunny, you can find her on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Attributions:

Background image: Magic Pattern Vectors by Vecteezy