reverse-shell-demo

Sunlight through a broken roof. Wind in the grass that grew over the road. Somewhere in the green, a machine is still keeping watch.

Reverse Shell is a narrative RPG with tactical card combat, set in a beautiful world humanity is leaving behind.

Long ago, people found a way to live forever. Reverse Shell recorded a mind onto a Soul Card and placed it in a mechanical body built to outlast anything. Live once. Live on.

Now the cities are overgrown, and you wake alone beside a cracked capsule. You're a machine with a human's name that you can barely remember. Explore the ruins, meet the machines that outlived their makers, and face the guardian!

Every cArd iS a dEcISiOn!11!

• Plan, then press Go. Each fighter standing gives you 1 AP (action point), and moving cards around or playing a card costs 1 AP.
• Merge your cards! Organize your hand to match cards, upgrade them, and build up your soul card!
• Break their guards! Every enemy has a weakness, which you can exploit to stagger them--and do large amounts of damage.
• Read the field. Hold any card or unit to see more information.

In the demo

• Chapter One: Ruined City. Wake up alone, piece together records and memory fragments, follow a scanner trace through the ruins, face the Collector, and find what the guardian is protecting.
• Sandbox Mode: practice fights at any enemy level with the whole test crew, and explore demo areas of future chapters and scenes!
• Pack Mode: good luck gambling :3

Controls (settings -> tutorials)

Click the game once	gives it keyboard focus
WASD / arrows	walk (hold Shift to run)
F	talk, open, interact
Tab	cycle speed up
Esc or P	menu (in browser fullscreen, Esc leaves fullscreen, so use P)

Tips for the browser

• Saves are kept in your browser, so a reload keeps them. Clearing site data or using a private window loses them.
• Graphics start on Fast, which runs best in a browser. Switch to Pretty to blow up your computer!
• Chrome or Firefox on a desktop or laptop is best. Phones aren't supported.

Feedback

This is an early demo, and the numbers are first drafts. Bugs, balance, and "this confused me" are all welcome in the comments below!! 

For now, I'm leaving the GitHub as open-source, so please poke around and use it however you like! https://github.com/oliverpearce/reverse-shell

Credits

Made by Oliver Pearce. 

• Icons: Raven Fantasy Icons by Clockwork Raven Studios
• Effects: Super Pixel Effects Gigapack by Will Tice / unTied Games
• Font: monogram by datagoblin
• Machines and NPCs: Pixel RPG Prototype Characters by Snoblin; Tech Dungeon Roguelite by Trevor Pupkin
• Party colours: Lospec palettes AAP-64 (Adigun A. Polack), Rosy 42, Endesga 64 (ENDESGA), Cornsole2, Taffy 16, Fantasy 24
• Card packs: Free Card Packs by argametina
• Nature models: Stylized Nature MegaKit by Quaternius (CC0)