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Not everything has to fit the curriculum. Alongside the learning games, projects are made out of curiosity: a roguelike card game through the Egyptian underworld and five small editors for maps, pixel graphics, voxel models and music. Everything runs directly in the browser and only loads once it is started.

Khaibit cover in pixel-art style: two figures with sickle swords in front of an Egyptian temple with statues and blue fires.
Pixel Edition 1.4.3Roguelike card game

Khaibit

An Ancient Egypt Card Battler

A turn-based roguelike card game in pixel-art style: as the shadow of a damned soul through the twelve gates of the Egyptian underworld, to recover a stolen heart.

The game

  • Three acts, twelve gates: Desert of Oblivion, Necropolis of the Nameless, Heart of the Duat – at the end, Ammit with the scales of Ma'at, Seth and the serpent Apophis await.
  • Three souls: the Khaibit switches between blade and smoke form, plus the falcon warrior of Horus and the priestess of Isis. 159 cards, 40 relics, bazaar, oasis and events.
  • All home-made: pixel art from original drawings, a custom pixel font and eleven pieces of music in maqam scales with oud, ney and darbuka.

Controls

  • Play a card: tap the card, then the target – or drag the card onto the enemy. Tap cards without a target twice.
  • Explanations: long-press cards, enemies, status effects or relics.
  • Menu: Escape (the back button on a phone) closes menus and opens the settings. Progress is saved automatically.

Best played in landscape or in the player’s full-screen mode.

Tools for pixel art and music

Editors for maps, pixel graphics, voxel models and music – no installation, each tool only loads on click.

Pixel art

Map editor Finished

PixelDraft

Fantasy maps with a world generator
Pixel art editor Beta

PixelArt Studio

Sprites and animations with layers
Voxel editor Beta

Voxelwerk

3D figures made of voxels, with a creative mode

Music

Lo-fi · music editor Early beta

LofiKasette

Lo-fi music from nine moods
Music editor Early beta

PixelGroove+

Melodies and beats on a grid, export as WAV

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