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The short videos made for TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels, rendered from the current build on every deploy (tools/promo). Every one is real play from the headless harness; Play live plays its script in the game here in the browser, frame for frame the same.
From square one
Meet Motes
I'm making a game where every pixel is drawn in code
27 s
Meet Motes: a cosy pixel-art roguelite where you mix elements in two hands to settle restless spirits. No sprites, no image files: every pixel is drawn in code.
- You're a little mage with two hands
- each one holds an element
- Wind can't hurt spirits...
- ...but the sea can
- Mix two elements at once
- fire + water = a geyser
- Freeze them solid...
- then blow them into each other
- Settle restless spirits across the islands
- and whatever lives under the sand
Outrun the tsunami | Motes
Run.
34 s
Some islands in Motes have a tsunami at your back: break each barrier with the right element before the wave catches you. A cosy pixel-art spellcasting roguelite, every pixel drawn in code.
- A rare island, in a storm...
- ...with something behind you
- barriers block the way
- burn the driftwood
- the wave flings its wreckage
- douse the burning wreck
- spirits keep coming from ahead
- smash the rocks
- and never stop running
Spell spotlights
Water | Motes spell spotlight
Water: the spell that hits at range
27 s
Water in Motes: hold it and the waves roll out, hitting hardest at range, and X sends a great wave out every way at once. A cosy pixel-art spellcasting roguelite, every pixel drawn in code.
- Water: hold the trigger
- the waves hit hardest at range
- X: a great wave every way
- and it peaks far out too
- keep them at a distance
- too close and they barely splash
New places
The Underworld | Motes
New land: the Underworld
15 s · loops
The Underworld is in: lava seas, trees of bone, skulls that watch you pass. A cosy pixel-art spellcasting roguelite, every pixel drawn in code.
- lava seas and trees of bone
- wind can't hurt them...
- ...but the lava can
Other
Motes | Coming soon
Motes
55 s
Islands crawling with monsters, fourteen spells to mix, bosses from a slime king to Cerberus himself. Motes is a cosy pixel-art spellcasting roguelite, every pixel drawn in code, and it's coming soon.
- Islands crawling with monsters
- and every spell to defeat them
- Mix the elements
- freeze them
- or boil them
- set the sky on fire
- or whip up a tornado
- Then unleash your ward
- The Drowned Captain
- The Kraken
- The Sandworm
- The Elder Briar
- Cerberus at the gates
- Outrun tsunamis
- Bring friends
- go shopping
- solve puzzles
- and stranger islands still
- Ready to play?