Dungeon Maker Deluxe

You and your fellow wizards have a bad habit of pilfering each other’s dungeons. However, this time you’re prepared! You’ve fortified your dungeon with a bestiary of nasty creatures. Imps. Dragons. Werewolves. Each with their own magical powers, ready to pounce.

You leave them on guard as you depart for your own dungeon-crawl, only to discover: your fellow wizards have done the same. And they have a cave troll.

The card-drafting tension of 7 Wonders meets the grid-coverage puzzle of Tapestry. But instead of building a civilization, you fortify your dungeon’s lairs with minions and fantastic beasts, then crawl an opponent’s dungeon. If you score the most points for fortifying and capturing lairs, you’ll earn a reputation of infamy as Dungeon Master!

Playtester Feedback

“I’ve never played anything like it.”

“We loved the replayability of this game.”

“This game blends the classic dungeon crawling aesthetic with puzzle solving and strategy!”

“It’s very fun and competitive.”

“I really like the scoring in the solo mode, how it incorporates both the volume of the dungeons fortified as well as the strength. I also really like the new advanced cards.”

“The artstyle is very nice and we hoped that is the last version of artstyle. You gave your board game a character!”

“The drawing part was fun and new to us.”

“It’s simple to learn and to play.”

“The dungeon exchanging is great.”

“It’s rare to find a game that incorporates a puzzle solving mechanic!”

“Replayability! Probably played it 5 times already!”

“It's like something between Munchkin and D&D. It’s a very fun game!”

“It is an interesting game that becomes a spatial puzzle and flip-and-write where you are able to build a better deck for the second half of the game.”

“This game is a fun and fast game of polyamino dungeon crawling and defense.”

“It's a combination of a legacy dungeon crawler with a puzzle game!”

“Be the DM that you always wanted to be!”

Artists/Acknowledgements

We created art by adapting miscellaneous Creative Commons and Public Domain work provided by the following people:

Alchemist – Arthur Rackham, Alchemist pot – Ashad Mallick, Artificery – Lorc, Banshee – R. Prowse, Beast du Genaudan – Ancalagon, Beast Summoner – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Blade Conjurer – Francesco Buoneri, Blade Conjurer stars – OpenClipart-Vectors, Cercopes – Arent van Bolten, Chimera – Frédéric Chassériau, Chupacabra – Alvin Padayachee, Clairvoyant – John R. Neill, Crone – Arthur Rackham, Dagger icon – Lorc, Dark Gnomes – Arthur Rackham, Dervish – Curzon Robert, Dervish tornado – AlexAntropov86, Donjon – Lorc, Dragon – Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch, Duendes – Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, Fire Mage – Min Zhen, Fire Mage flames – Dane Deaner, Fire Mage nuke mask – Lorc, Fire Pits / fire icon – sbed, Flaming Pegasus – Arthur Rackham, Gremlins – Pawel86, Griffin – Jerimee, Grunge texture – TheDigitalArtist, Hai Riyo – Charles Gould, Harpy – Melchior Lorch, Hellhound – Vasilios Markousis, Hippogriff – Wiseworm, Hobs – Arent van Bolten, Hydra – John Vinycomb, Ice Crypt / snowflake icon – Lorc, Ice Queen – Arthur Rackham, Ice Queen snowflakes – Darius Cotoi, Imps – John D. Batten, Jabberwock – Peter Newell, Kobolds – Jean-no, Kylin – Piotr Siedlecki, Labyrinth – Lorc, Lightning icon – sbed, Lord of Lightning – Vera Gentinetta, Mananangaal – Gian Bernal, Manticore – Johannes Jonston, Material for card frames – Ravenmore, Material for card ornament – Alyzah K, Material for card ornament – Carlos Felipe Ramírez Mesa, Material for card ornament – Donovan Reeves, Material for card ornament – ELG21, Material for card ornament – huangshunping, Material for card ornament – OpenClipart-Vectors, Material for card ornament – Ravit Sages, Mausoleum / necrotic icon – Lorc, Minotaur – LadyofHats, Mistress of Dreams – Thomas Nordwest, Muki – Arthur Rackham, Nagasnake – Dugald Stewart Walker, Necromancer – John R. Neill, Necromancer skull – Michael Förtsch, Oubliette – Delapouite, Pyramid – Delapouite, Redcaps – Armandeo64, Rulebook dragon illustration – Cbaile19, Rulebook wizard illustration – pendleburyannette, Salamander – Arthur Rackham, Sith Cat – Arthur Rackham, Spectre – Arthur Rackham, Star Chamber – Lorc, Stronghold – Delapouite, Subterranean Zoo – Lorc, The Sluice – Lorc, Thunderbird – LadyofHats, Time Bender – Nicholas Roerich, Time Bender hourglass – Nathan Dumlao, Troglodyte – Piotr Siedlecki, Troll – Arthur Rackham, Werewolf – Lew Delport, Wyvern – Piotr Siedlecki, and Zombie Master – Arthur Rackham

In addition, the cover art was adapted from commissioned work by Gibbs Santos. Although no art was used from the following sources, they heavily influenced our graphic design: Dungeons Of by El Guaja, and Fading Reign by Michael Prihoda. The heading font is Black Castle MF by Rick Mueller, and the body font is Barlow Condensed by Jeremy Tribby.

Although humans created the art used for this game, we adapted it using a filter that BeFunky has disclosed contains some AI functionality. BeFunky had not disclosed this fact prior to the creation of this game in 2023. In fact, we're not even sure that the filter truly did have AI in it when we used it in 2023, but we're just going to disclose the fact that it might have had AI just to be on the safe side as far as transparency.

Thank you to the dozens of people who playtested Dungeon Maker Deluxe in 2022-2023. Special thanks to those who played multiple times, including Monica, Daniel, Sam, Federico, Josiah, Becca and Jacob.