- Description -

Nerve Core is a Type Text Based game mixed with old Dungeon Crawler controls.

Explore a mysterious place and fight cyber enemies by typing their token of auto destruction.

This game was made during the mixed media jam 2026 in 2 weeks.

/!\ This version is a short not finished one for the game jam, a bigger version will come soon  /!\

(yes there is an issue with the boss battle, fix come soon too...)


- Controls -

This game can be ONLY played with full keyboard commands.

- Move : WASD / ZQSD

- Rotate : QE / AE 


- Credits -

Timothée DRUGEON - Artist & Game Designer

Cloud Castle Audio - Compositor & Sound Designer

FélixVE- Programmer & Game Designer

Published 3 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorsFélixVE, CyberToasty, Cloud Castle Audio
GenreSurvival, Fighting
TagsBlack and White, Dungeon Crawler, First-Person, Horror, Robots, Two colors, Typing
ContentNo generative AI was used

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(1 edit) (+1)

Oh my god, this was amazing! The mixture of dungeon crawling controls with typing in black and white makes me think a little of Cryptmaster (Given that I liked this, maybe I should go give that a try...)

Firstly, the fact that you did this in just two weeks is incredible.

I loved the visual style, the mixture of halftone photobashed (or what appeared to be photobashed) enemies and entities, along with the color-inverted illustrations, and the simple, blocky, digital layout. A couple of times I thought "yknow, it'd be good if this game had-" and then the game would come along and do something similar right after I'd thought it (health crates, multi-word or number combinations that you needed to get right, etc). The sound design is excellent as well! Very textural and crunchy. The only issue I had with it is that, to exit typing mode, you have to press the Escape key - and as I was playing it fullscreen in browser, it kept kicking me out of full screen mode! >.< 

But aside from that small gripe - this is fantastic. Well done!

(+2)

This is so cool!

Incredible aesthetic, incredible twist on dungeon crawling combat, incredible characters! Give me 5 levels in different flavours and sell it for five bucks on steam! You're cooking so hard here!