Deft Machine

Deft Machine is an exhilarating blend of a dynamic 2D platformer and a physics-based machine simulator. In this game, you take the wheel of an unconventional off-road vehicle, featuring a compact cabin, a three-axle motor drive, a vertical springy mechanism, a small turbo jet engine, and a heavy rotational mace as its primary weapon. The vehicle also comes equipped with a confined trunk for storing additional weaponry and supplies.

Navigate your way through various challenges as you combat enemy creatures, demolish obstacles, maintain balance on moving platforms, and collect guns and items. The gameplay is deeply rooted in a 2D physics engine, ensuring realistic interactions with game objects.

Key Game Features and Mechanics:

• Physics-Based Interactions: The game's environment is powered by a 2D physics engine, making almost all dynamic objects destructible, though broken platforms regenerate over time.
• Vehicle Durability: Your machine's health depletes when it's hit, falls from heights, or gets squeezed or overlapped by objects.
• Fuel Consumption: All control actions, except using the trunk, consume fuel, adding a strategic element to your gameplay.
• Time-Dependent Actions: The effectiveness of motor torque, jump force, turbo thrust, and gunfire varies over time.
• Temporal Abilities: Your machine can gain positive or negative temporal effects, enhancing or hindering performance temporarily.
• On-the-Fly Management: You can restore health, fuel, and time, and switch weapons during gameplay.
• Skill-Based Control: Mastering the vehicle's controls and balancing on moving platforms requires skill and precision.
• Controllable Bugs: Objects can get stuck in the vehicle's wheels, which you can clear using the mace.

Game Modes:

1. CAMPAIGN

Embark on a challenging journey to a distant planet to test both your driving skills and the vehicle's resilience. Break boxes to find keys, collect them to unlock exit doors, and complete levels to progress. This mode is recommended for seasoned players seeking a challenge reminiscent of old-school games.

Campaign-Specific Features and Mechanics:

• Gold-Based Economy: Pay gold to play levels and earn more upon completion.
• In-Game Store: Purchase weapons, health, fuel, time, and boosts before starting a level, and sell surplus items from your trunk.
• Mini-Game: Earn additional gold through the "Catch Gold" mini-game.
• Risk of Running Out: If you run out of gold with no means to earn more, you'll need to start a new campaign.
• Randomness and Luck: Some elements depend on chance, adding an extra layer of challenge.
• Automatic Saving: Game progress is saved automatically without manual save or load options.

2. SANDBOX

Unleash your creativity in the sandbox mode, where you can spawn objects from the factory menu almost anywhere on the map. Build structures, add enemies, and engage in battles, all tailored to your imagination.

Sandbox-Specific Features and Mechanics:

• Object Spawning: Select and place objects on the map using the factory menu.
• OverSpawn Feature: Enable "OverSpawn" in Options to spawn objects inside static ground, though this may occasionally lead to non-physical behavior.
• Enemy Customization: Choose enemy factions by selecting colors in the factory.
• Camera Controls: Pan, zoom, and toggle camera follow mode with the "F" button.
• Factory Management: Enable or disable factory abilities with the "P" button, and adjust the factory window's position, size, and opacity.

Deft Machine offers a unique and challenging 2D platforming experience combined with a robust physics simulator, providing players with a fresh and engaging gameplay experience.

What's New in the Latest Version 1.2.6

Last updated on Aug 3, 2024

• Bugs fixed

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