Discrete Heart

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Discrete Heart is an emotion-building game in a 2D pixel style from a top-down perspective. Joy, trust, fear... Each initial emotion corresponds to different initial attributes and props. "Inject" and control the characters to build 8 basic emotions, looking for the answer named "Unintentionaler". ### Setting In a cyberpunk future world where societal order has collapsed, people must understand and process emotions at increasing speed. AlphaMood has developed the first-generation discrete heart emotion module to train participants' emotional adaptability through simulated consciousness. You play as emotionally numb characters participating in this training to become an "Unintentionaler" and complete the emotional module test. ### Core Gameplay Emotion-building is the core mechanic, inspired by the Plutchik emotion wheel. Emotions increase or decrease various abilities. After obtaining an empathy recipe, you can adjust your emotional combination. You must decide which emotions to obtain or retain based on situations you encounter, with occasional accidents that break your plans. ### Features - Restores emotion wheel theory including basic and combined emotions - NPC interaction with puzzle elements and branching plots - Simplified ARPG combat system with cold weapons - Mild roguelike mechanics: limited vision maps, randomly generated sub-maps, random attribute rewards, permanent character death - Trading system with NPCs - Item synthesis system - Freedom to decide the life and death of all NPCs - All units randomly generated and scale with player progression - Gameplay can be completed in approximately 30 minutes, suitable for fragmented play sessions

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