About
Spin is life.
Whirlware is a spinning top brawler roguelite set on a tea table. You are a little porcelain top, painted in cobalt blue. The arena is a dish. Your enemies are other tops: celadon dreidels, charging Imari bells, jade gyros, nesting tops that split when they break, firecrackers that blow up their friends, lodestones that pull you towards the lip, and a black basalt mirror that moves exactly opposite to you.
Ram them. Dash through them. Knock them over the rim and watch them shatter on the table below. Every clash costs spin, every broken top gives some back, and when your spin runs out you wobble, topple and break.
Unless you mend. In the Japanese art of kintsugi a broken bowl is repaired with gold and becomes more beautiful than before. Between dishes you choose kintsugi upgrades, and each one is painted onto your top as a golden seam.
Features
- A five course tea service: Morning Tea, the Willow Garden, the Dragon Kiln, the Imperial Banquet and the Cabinet
- 20 dishes, each hand decorated: blue and white Ming, Delft, iron red dragons, Imari gold panels and black tenmoku mended with gold
- 5 bosses: the Grand Teapot, the Two Doves, the Kiln Dragon, the Imari Empress and the Colossus
- 11 kinds of enemy tops, gilded elites, bumpers, slippery tea puddles and kiln vents
- 24 kintsugi upgrades in three rarities
- 6 playable tops from six ceramic traditions, each with its own twist
- An endless service after the last course
- Everything - every pot, every brush stroke, every clink and every note of music - is made in code
Controls
WASD or left stick to move. SPACE / left mouse / A to dash. SHIFT / right mouse / left trigger to wind up your spin. ESC to pause.
