DUNGEON OF THE ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like

Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player

and their team of heroes must protect
the generator of their crashed ship while
exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all
while facing waves of monsters and special
events as they try to find their way out.
Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense ™
game for PC, Mac, iPad & Xbox One
Crafted by Amplitude Studios™
2013-2014
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BEHIND
THE
DOOR?
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 WE DIDN'T REALLY
MEAN TO DO THIS
It was going to be a companion game, a clever little rogue-like dungeon crawler
to link Endless Space and Endless Legend. A few months of dev, a handful
of people, free-to-play. Nothing much.

But fate had other ideas. It became a turn-based strategy game with lots
of resource management. And an RPG with lots of skills, items, and levels.
And a tower defense, with lots of modules and turrets, and a squad-based combat
game with lots of combinations. It morphed and grew, full of bouts of madness,
brilliant community ideas, and the occasional evening at the bar.

It became Dungeon of the Endless.

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CHARACTERS
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 CHEF NANOR
The youngest prodigy from a proud family of
galactically famous chefs, Nanor ended up disgraced
when he unwittingly purchased "black Andromedan
truffles" that turned out to be pellets of Velan rabbit
dung. Fighting to rebuild his reputation, he is a
ruthless and uncompromising opponent who can
turn anyone and anything into lunchmeat.
In an interesting twist of fate,
these are the character sketches
for Chef Nanor, done by our
chef and artist, Ronan.
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 From the initial brief, Elise went through
several iterations before finding her
bright red, door-busting self.

ELISE
Elise "Boom-Boom" Ness is a lawperson
who walks the ragged edge between justice
and vigilantism. Reasoning that the crime of
"Breaking and Entering" should be a two-way
street, she earned her nickname due to her
fondness for storming criminal hideouts with
heavy duty weaponry.

Her primary hobby: disorganizing crime.

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 Combining images and ideas from science fiction and
fantasy, with influences from medieval armor to modern
robotics, the Dungeon heroes are a mixed bag of misfits.

MORMISH
Mormish was a reclusive and largely invisible
personage before the crash, but now seems to
have come out of his shell. Instead of hiding and
giving orders through others, he is loud, present,
and pushy; people get the feeling that he is
trying to sell them something. Or, perhaps,
hide something…

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 G A M E TOWER I HAVE
DEFENCE WHAT YOU
ROLE PL
STRATEGY
AYING NEED
L I K E
I K E-
G E L O L D S C H O O L
ROU
SQU A D BA S E D
PIXEL A
R T
DU NGEON
THE FIRST NEO

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 02
MONSTERS
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 HORDES
The monsters are an arguably even
more mixed bag of misfits than the
heroes. With references to other
Amplitude games and pop culture
enriched by the fevered imaginations
of the design and art teams, the
various hungry horrors in the dungeon
are an eclectic tribute to the crossed
genres of the game itself.
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 Some of Ronan’s concept
art for the monsters in the
dungeon. Given that in the
lore the planet was one big
genetics experiment, they’re
actually not all that strange.

KEEPER
The game, in part, is a rogue-like, and
you are expected to die again and
again. This image gives you an idea of
why that happens so often…

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 HUNTER
The comments in the notebook: “No, seriously.
Giant, crazed, violent, dangerous. Call themselves
Hurna?? Who cares. Run away.”In fact this is one Major factions from Endless
of the crossovers; the Hurna are a minor faction Legend are also in Dungeon of
in Endless Legend. the Endless; here are images of
a few of them (except the rhino
—no idea where that came from).
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 SILICS
The Silics are death in the
dungeon, but also a minor faction in
Endless Legend who are related to a
playable major faction in the original
Endless Space: the Harmony.

More of the pointy and aggressive

ways to die in the dungeon.

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 BRACE HORDES
Opening a door in the game is not at all like its
metaphorical meaning (seeking new horizons, for
instance, and finding new opportunities). When
you open a door in the dungeon, you are seeking
only the exit and are most likely finding hordes of
ravenous monsters. Everything happens when a
door opens: resources increase, the denizens
awake, and heroes get heroic.

Woof. Woof.
C = SN (d1 ) - N (d2 ) Ke -rt

YOURSELF
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 03
THE PODS
NEED A HERO
IMAGE

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 1 2 5 6

ESCAPE POD INFIRMARY POD REFRIGERATOR POD DRILL POD

The pod is guaranteed to survive any crash; Dedicated to your Guaranteed to freeze food, people, or lava Maybe you had a life before.
we hope its occupants do as well. pharmaceutical well-being. in 30 seconds or less. Caution: Do not lick. Now, you have a dungeon!

3 4 7 8

LIBRARY POD ARMORY POD SANITARY POD ORGANIC POD

To avoid inciting prisoners, this pod only
contains data on meditation, graphic design,
and party planning.
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Whether you're liberating, policing, enforcing,
or just having fun, the Armory Pod is what
you need to impose your brand of freedom.
Kiloliters of bleach and ammonia solve
any problem! Caution: Chemical warfare
gear required.
This pod is an intellectual living creature,
so take care of her, like a member of
your crew. Remember, she likes red
wine, boiled shrimp with sauce,
classical music and pictures of kittens.
 Concept art for the refrigerator
pod. From the notebook: “Useful
for cryo work, storage. Good to
keep an eye on it.”

From the notebook:

“Armory—everyone’s favorite pod.
Eyeing it like kids in a candy store…”

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 “All those whose butts need
kicking please line up, facing
away from me.”

“Get me out of here! I promise

I kill everybody but you.
...Probably.”

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 04
ENVIRONMENTS
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 Weird question, but why does this
elevator only have one button?

THE ELEVATOR
The elevator is the only moment of peace for the heroes (and the player).
It is during these brief interludes that the heroes start talking about whatever
they feel like—including their own pasts. Be careful of who you team up with!

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 Concept art for the ice levels of the facility,
with relics of the Endless
Concept art for the lowest levels
of the facility—caves and slime.

Concept art for the hive levels of the facility,

breeding grounds for bugs and beasts.

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 This is the look of victory in Dungeon of the Endless
—the world of Auriga, not yet recovered from the internecine
wars of the Endless. It may not be home sweet home, but at
least the horrors of the dungeon are behind you.

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 “Seen those flesh-eating bugs?
Doubtless Drosophilae of the
phylum Porifera, order Rosidae.”
“Monsters to kill! Let’s go!”

The great variety of environments and

rooms, and the 2D style executed with
3D tools, makes for lovely and colorful
places in which to die prematurely.

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 ITEMS
This is the flotsam and jetsam of the dungeon,
a mix of junk from the Success and its
survivors, Endless relics, and any other odds
and ends that might have ended up in Auriga’s
forgotten basements. This includes everything
from the Hipster Scarf, that generates aggro,
to the Football Whistle, that makes monsters
fall down, grab an ankle, and cry.

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 CRYSTALS
Each time you manage to complete the
dungeon and have your heroes escape (under
certain conditions), you get access to another
type of escape pod from the Success (Medical,
Armory, Library, …). Each of these pods adds
bonuses and limitations to the game, and each
one also has their own unique crystal. The pods
may be different, but the crystals are all as
pretty and lethal as the original.

The figure above (the Drakken hero, Kreyang)

holds the single most important module of
the game, the Dust Crystal. It must be carried
from floor to floor in order to provide power to
other modules and light in the darkness. If it is
destroyed, it’s game over. As can be seen in the
picture, it’s good to give it to a fast hero to get
it to the elevator ASAP once that final, deadly
phase of a level begins.

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 MODULES
The heart of the tower defense part of the game
is the modules. For defense, attack, buffs, debuffs,
resource generation, and squad support there are
a total of around 130 modules in over 20 families,
all crafted in 2D/3D and doing their best to keep
your heroes alive.

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 THANK YOU
This is the most important part of this book.

We had this crazy idea and we threw it out there, but it took ten months
of Early Access and continual input from the community to make it what it was.
Without the patience and brilliance of all the players whose thoughts and hours
kept us going during the ten months of gestation, our little baby would
never have been so beautiful. Or weird.

So thank you to the players and to the community and to all the great people
out there who put faith in Amplitude and our games and the G2G process.

For us, you’re family.

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 BONUS
SPRITE SHEETS
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 DEENA RATCHET ELISE NESS

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 KEN MASSOQUI WARDEN MORMISH

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 CHEF NANOR SARA NUMAS

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 GOLGY PHURTIVER GORK COROSER

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 MAX O'KANE OPBOT DV8

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 RAKYA PULMONI TROE PEKENYO

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 JOSH N'TELLO LADY JOLERI

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 HIKENSHA MIZI KURTIZ

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 SKROIG KREYANG

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 DELL BRADFORD PAT BATES

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 MISHA CHERNY KASPAR HERAB

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 ROSETTA Q SASHA CHOKYO

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 WES DAVOUN ZUGMA WALKER

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 ESSEB TAROSHI AYAIRI WHAIRYDD

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