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Paper Apps: Dungeon

Clark Wimberly

May 26, 2023 — 1 min read

How it works: A paper-and-pencil dungeon crawler printed in a 3x5" inch memo pad. Create your character, roll the pencil dice, conquer the dungeon. Had a very sucessful Kickstarter run.

Why it's clever: Each level is programmatically generated with Python and Drawbot, so each one is unique. If you play multiple books, each one will be different. Also, instead of a dice, they offer a D6 pencil, which is pretty dang clever.

Price: $7.99 (plus a few bucks more for the pencil)

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