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[Spidi]

I’m Tamás Karsai (Spidi) a solo game developer forming "Magic Item Tech". I used to grind for magic items day and night, now I’m building games using technology fueled by them . I would like to present my third completed solo game project from start to finish .

I Am Overburdened is a silly roguelike with a fun twist to the tried and true classical formula. The player takes the role of an artifact hunter, who has a surprisingly large carrying capacity, embarking on a quest to search through dungeon after dungeon for mystical artifacts and answers, in a world where magic has long been forgotten…

• Run focused campaign, playable in short bursts.
• Fill a huge inventory having 20 slots.
• Find more than 100 crazy artifacts, all of them unique.
• Learn the ins and outs of an RPG system which feels approachable and fresh, but familiar and deep at the same time.
• Crawl in procedural dungeons generated from hand authored layouts.
• Collect details about monsters and artifacts in your journal.
• Unfold a funny story, packed with vicious evils, puns and jokes.
• Immortalize your best playthroughs in the “Hall of Fame”.

What is this 20 slots, 100+ unique artifacts RPG nonsense?
Simple, your “hero” does not get more powerful magically by beating some orcs to death and he is not a wizard either. In the world of I Am Overburdened the art of magic wielding was lost, but legendary artifacts and relics retained their power. If you equip these you become stronger, sometimes immeasurably, and you may even learn reactive skills and otherworldly abilities, but no sane person wears two pants…

The game will be sold primarily through Steam and itch.io for Windows PC initially.

It will cost 4.99$ (may vary based on store & region).

You can already wishlist the game on Steam to get an e-mail on release day:


Or you can follow my developer profile on itch.io to get a notification:


My website, the Steam store-page and the Steam Community Hub already has a lot more information about the features of the game and the release itself.

I'm also doing a little marketing "sprint" thingy up until the release day. I'm calling it the "Wishlist Release Calendar". I'm going to release an artifact from the game every day with its "fluff" text posting the new version of the following image here:

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Wishlist Release Calendar nr. 2:



If anyone is wondering these fluff texts are in the game! Not making them up now
I may went a little too far with silliness though

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Of course there is a non-super and non-mega belt in the game (just a "usual" one) and this one is clearly better than that

[wormius]

Greate aesthetics, horrible music.

[Spidi]

Hi wormius!

Thanks for the praise and the honest feedback !
I admit my defeat, many criticized the music and for a good reason . My week-point is audio and I'm pretty much a terrible musician . For my next game I'll make sure to improve my skills or outsource the music production.

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It's one of my favorites. The trailer has some footage of it in action .
+ A rubber duck also helps solving gamedev / programming problems .

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[Uplinked]

Sounds like a game a gamer were people like me, (those who feel the need to pick up and hold onto it because "I might need it later" ™ can have a ton of fun. I'll check it out soon.

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@Uplinked:
Thanks for the compliment, that is awesome to hear . I hope you pick it up and will indeed have a ton of fun. If the game feels/plays great, well, that would be a big achivement for me

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[quantumpotato]

This looks neat!

I like the attack squish animation hitting across the tiles.

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@quantumpotato
Hi! Thanks for the compliments, worked a lot on the animations . The game has simple looks but I think it feels good to play and bash the monsters due to these "squishy" movements 

[bombjack]

The game look very nice but the music in the video is unbearable. That's sad because I've no been able to hear correctly the sound effects.

[Spidi]

@bombjack

I'm really sorry about that . As I mentioned before, the soundtrack did not turn out good  , I'll make sure to never repeat this mistake ...
If you are interested in the audio/sound-effects of the game I even made a development b/v-log entry about how I recorded and integrated the sound effects of the game. It happened a while ago, so the game looks pretty old/prototype-like in the videos, but you can get a good idea how it sounds during play  .
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Thanks for the compliments about its looks .

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[M0ti]

It looks like fun. Will it have a demo? I would like to try it.