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Tristram Tumble

A free game for Twitch chat

The cathedral bells have stopped. Chat is going down anyway.

A pixel cathedral at night. Torches burn either side of its gate, the portcullis is half raised over a fire, three small heroes walk in, and graves wait outside.

Viewers type !play, take up one of 31 hero styles across 10 classes, and race down the dungeon floors or settle grudges in the arena. You run it in OBS. They supply the bravery and most of the corpses.

Add it to your stream Sign in with Twitch

Sign in to keep your settings here and get your OBS link. The game still runs in your browser with your own game files.

How a round goes

Three steps, one staircase

  1. I

    Join from chat

    Type !play for a random class, or name one: !play rogue. No account, no download, no Channel Points. You stay in, round after round, until you type !leave or the dungeon decides for you.

  2. II

    Vote, then descend

    Chat votes on the next map with !vote 1-3, and one choice is always an arena. Heroes find their own way to the stairs, fighting whatever stands in the hall.

  3. III

    Win, wear it

    First to the stairs takes the round. Wins earn heavier armour, last round's winners stand on a burning pentagram in the lobby, and the Hall of Heroes keeps the score nobody asked it to keep.

Where they end up

Races and arenas

Races run several floors deep and end at a guarded boss room. Arenas are last hero standing, and every arena closes in on its own terms.

Races
  • Butcher's Hall the Butcher, cleaver in hand
  • Skeleton King's Lair Leoric's tomb
  • Halls of the Blind wall-to-wall Hiddens
  • The Hive the Defiler
  • Lazarus' Lair the Archbishop's fire
  • Diablo's Lair the Lord of Terror himself
Arenas
  • The King's Hall a wall of chain lightning
  • The Pentagram star walls, bone pentagram
  • The Hive Pit green fire
  • The Butcher's Chamber bodies fall, burst, drop loot
  • The Room of Bones three counter-spinning rings
  • The Lava Islands the floor is the problem

Dawdle and Uber Diablo arrives to end the round for everyone. He is never late.

The day's reckoning

Yesterday's best walk in an aura

Daily boards for wins, points and kills. Yesterday's leaders wear the glow all the next day: topaz for wins, sapphire for points, ruby for kills.

Wins

  1. ashenwolf14
  2. mudcrab4211
  3. lanternjaw9
  4. softboiledgoat8

Points

  1. quietbell3,420
  2. ashenwolf3,105
  3. mudcrab422,880
  4. gravelgrin2,410

Kills

  1. gravelgrin61
  2. softboiledgoat48
  3. ashenwolf44
  4. quietbell39

An example board with made-up names. Your chat writes the real one.

The gravedigger says

Fresh heroes. Fresh graves. Type !play.

Words of power
!play
enter as any hero
!play wwbarb
enter as one you name
!stats
count your wins, and your losses
!leave
flee while you can

Every command and style word

For streamers

Add it to your stream

Today: on your own PC

The game runs on your PC as an OBS browser source, drawing its heroes and dungeons from your own copy of the original game files. It reads your chat, keeps the stats in your browser, and you run it from a control panel beside OBS.

This site never hosts, uploads or stores any game files. Without them the game runs on plain placeholder art, which is honest, if less frightening.

Soon: from this site

Sign in with Twitch, keep your settings here and paste one OBS link. The game still runs in your browser with your own game files, and every channel gets a wins leaderboard.

Follow the roadmap for when, and the changelog for everything already done.