Pixelpond games

The Given

A moonlit hill at night. A black doorway stands under the hill, a cloaked walker stands below it, and masks hang on stakes down the slope to a single house with one lit window.

The Given is a dark-fantasy autobattler for Android and iOS. It is in development.

Walk down from the black door to the one lit window. Tap the dark for lightning.

The door

Every seven years the people paid a teind, an old word for a tithe, to the dark under the hill:

The walker

one of their own, chosen by lot, walked into it so the dark would leave the rest of the light alone.

The masks

The masks are the faces of those given before.

Tap the dark.

The last one given

The hero is the last one given. It came back out of the hill without a face, so it wears masks to have one.

Hands off the glass.

You prepare a hero, then watch it fight. The skill is building, not tapping. Everything that drops is kept for good.

The Given is a dark-fantasy autobattler for Android and iOS, played in landscape. Single-player, free to play.

Work in progress from an older build
A battle from an older build: a hooded figure carrying a light faces a crouched enemy across a campfire in a dark wood.
A battle in an older build. Names and art will change.

Seven places, by their working names.

  1. The Galemoor
  2. The White Hush
  3. The Long Procession
  4. The Glasswaste
  5. The Barred Cathedral
  6. The Ashen Tide
  7. The Far Dark

The Hearth

The Hearth is the fire of the house the hero was given from, the one place that remembers it as a person.

In development. There is no release date, no store page and nothing to join.

Keeping the window lit saves one mark in this browser, so the page knows you when you come back. Nothing is sent anywhere.