Tendrils

   Tendrils is a role-playing game with rhythmic combat. Imagine a cross between Final Fantasy and Dance Dance Revolution. (It's like DDR plus RPG, so if you like, you can call it a DDRPG)

Kick, punch, it's all in the mind! In battle, swords and shields scroll by, and you must hit the arrow keys in synch with the beat. The better you match the beat of the music, the better your characters do at attacking (on swords) and dodging (on shields).

The four adventurers in your party correspond to the four arrow directions - when you hit the arrows, they attack and defend! You can also pause the battle (by pressing ESCAPE), and take time to cast spells and drink potions.

Fight!  Fight!  Fight!

During your quest, you'll explore a large dungeon filled with mazes, traps, puzzles, and many strange characters to talk to. Treasure chests are disarmed through a variety of mini-games, and there are a few more mini-games hidden in the dungeon as well, including a trivia battle TO THE DEATH... Will you manage to reach level 10?

Tunnels of Doom
Tendrils is a remix game made of 90% recycled material. The graphics, music, items and even dungeons are all "sampled" from other games. Many things will look very familiar to the hard-core gamers out there...

Tendrils is written in Python, using the Pygame modules. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. Tendrils is currently in beta. Future releases will squash lingering bugs, fix game balance and compatability, and spiff up the graphics. To get a better idea of what it looks like in action, check out some screenshots. Or, just download it already!