DieNamic Engine

If 'Until Dawn' was stripped to its fundamentals, you'd get the DieNamic Engine; a choose-your-own-deadventure analog text horror whose first game is based on the 'Final Destination' franchise.

**DIENAMIC ENGINE: Death's Designs 💀**

A vision hits you (or a complete stranger!): a bridge collapsing, a mall escalator turning into a meat grinder, a stage failing under hundreds of people. Do you head for the exit alone? Or sound the alarm and look like a maniac?

You survived. You disrupted the order. And maybe you saved others, maybe not.

Either way, Death is correcting that — one name at a time, in order.

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⚡ A PROCEDURAL HORROR NIGHTMARE ⚡

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Powered by the DieNamic Engine, every run of Death's Designs generates a unique disaster, a unique cast, and a unique kill order. The people who survive with you, the order Death comes for them, the traps, the ending- everything changes.

🗣️ **THE LIST IS REAL**

The survivors have jobs across the city. Learn who's next and get there fast, BUT— go to the wrong workplace and the next on Death's List dies offscreen while you're out being wrong.

🦸 **INTERVENE, IF YOU CAN**

In the room when Death comes for someone else? You get a real-time shot to pull them clear — hesitate, and the list gets shorter without you.

🏃 **WITNESSES RUN**

Watch a death happen and realize you're next, and you won't stick around — you've got twelve turns to catch a bolting survivor before Death does.

🚗 **YOUR CAR IS YOUR HUB**

Between levels you return to the car. Finale components ride in the backseat. From here you choose — a survivor's workplace, Bludworth's house, the precinct.. decide before time runs out.

💀 **THE HAZARD ENGINE**

Hazards evolve, combine, spread — and some now hunt. Death's Breath drifts between rooms; rogue machinery rolls after you. By Acts 3 and 4, Death advances dormant traps in rooms you're not in — walk in and find them already wound up.

📍 **26 LOCATIONS**

Hospital. Precinct. Bludworth's House. Bowling alley. Carnival. Printing press. Lighthouse. Mall. Theater. And more — each procedurally assigned to a survivor on the list.

⚡ **QUICK TIME EVENTS**

Type the word. Draw the shape in time. Hold and release on beat. Button-mash your way through MRI-sealed doors.

🎭 **SIX CHARACTER CLASSES**

Citizen Detective. EMT. Journalist. Visionary. Mechanic. Athlete. Each changes what you notice, who listens to you, and how hard the traps hit.

🧠 **DEATH LEARNS**

A hidden entropy meter tracks your patterns. Play too safe — pressure builds. Dodge too much — the environment adjusts. By the endgame it's not reacting to you. It's ahead of you.

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📊 WHAT WILL BE IN v1.0 📊

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✦ Procedural disasters — plane crash, bridge collapse, carnival, mall escalator, cruise ship, and more

✦ Dynamic cast — unique names, jobs, archetypes, dialogue paths

✦ Investigation chain — find clues, unlock destinations, learn the order, race the clock

✦ Seven finale paths — each needs different items, companions, and choices made as far back as the premonition

✦ 150+ items — evidence unlocks backstories; craftable finale components are scattered across levels, stored in your car, combined when you have time and privacy

✦ Full epilogue — who you saved, who died while you were elsewhere, what you did to end it, whether you started a new list in the process

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⚠️ CONTENT WARNING ⚠️

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Graphic text descriptions of death, injury, and gore. Psychological horror. Mature language. Dark themes.

Rated 17+ — Not suitable for children.

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🌟 FROM THE DEVELOPER 🌟

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Death's Designs is a love letter to fans of the franchise. This isn't just a choose-your-own-adventure—it's a living, breathing trap I can't wait for you to fall into.

Thank you for playing.

Good luck.